what samoa was experiencing was an epidemic of measles. and i say that because measles is a disease for which there has been an effective vaccine available for more than 60 years. that preventable disease outbreak in samoa in 2019 is now newly relevant because one of the factors that contributed to that outbreak was a sudden onset of hostility to vaccination on the island. and that hostility was stoked in large part by robert f. kennedy jr., who donald trump just tapped to lead the department of health and human services. kennedy's antivaccine organization children's health defense, very aggressively spread antivaccine propaganda, not only in the united states, but around the world. and in samoa, they claimed the measles vaccine itself was the cause of the outbreak and not the solution to it. rfk jr. personally lobbied the governor of samoa, telling the governor that vaccination was what caused the spread of measles, not what needed to be done to stop the spread of it. and that's insane. as journalist brian dear writes in a new op-ed for "

this outbreak in samoa killed more than 80 people, many young kids.nt had to order lockdowns to try to save people's lives. charities around the world shipped children's coffins to samoa to deal with a shortage there for all the kids and babies who were dying. what they were experiencing this in 2019 was an epidemic of measles. a preventible epidemic. i say that because measles is a disease for which there has been an effective vaccine available for more than 60 years. that entirely preventible disease outbreak in samoa in 2019 is newly relevant because one of the factors that contributed was a sudden on set of hostility to vaccination on the island and that was stoked in large part by robert f. kennedy jr. who donald trump just tapped to lead the department of health and human services. kennedy's anti-vaccine organization, children's health defense, aggressively spread anti-vaccine propaganda not only in the united states but around the world, and in samoa they claimed that the measles vaccine itself was the cause of the outbreak and not the solution

station reporting from samoa in 2019.familiar, it may look and sound like the kind of reports we saw from all over the world in 2020 during the covid pandemic. this was not covid. this happened before. this was 2019, this outbreak that killed more than 80 people. many of them young kids. the government had to order lockdowns to save lives. charities had to ship children's coffins to samoa to deal with the shortage of coffins for kids and babies what samoa was experiencing was an epidemic of measles. a preventable epidemic. i say that because measles is a disease for which there has been an effective vaccine for more than 60 years. that entirely preventable disease outbreak in 2019 is now newly relevant because one of the factors that contribute to that was a sudden onset of hostility to vaccination on the island. that hostility was stoked in large part by robert f kennedy junior who donald trump tapped to lead the department of health and human services. his anti-vaccine organization, children's health defense, very aggre

describes his trip to samoa himself on a post on his organization's website from 2021 looking back on this and 2019 in which he describes going to visit the samoan prime minister before this happened on a visit that he described or was it to discuss a medical informatics system to assess medical safety and efficacy of medical intervention there and he further on he calls it a mild outbreak and then later associates the deaths with it to coming after they started vaccinating folks with a new vaccine but to walk you through this timeline of what really happened with this outbreak, it is a real tragedy starting from the very beginning when there was a mistake in 2018 when two infants died who are given mmr vaccines improperly mixed with something that it shouldn't have been instead of water which was an accident . the country did pause the vaccinations and recalled the vaccine that lasted for nine months and then in june of 2019 rfk jr. visited samoa the visit he was talking about where as part of the visit he met with anti-vaccine activists and posts about this on social media. and then

in 2019, and entirely preventable outbreak on samoa killed 83 people. most of them children under the age of four. why? why was a preventable disease spreading like wildfire and killing so many children? one year prior to that outbreak, two infants in samoa died after nurses accidentally mixed their vaccine doses with another drug. it was a horrible tragedy. and it was one the american anti-vaccination movement sought to exploit. the anti-vaccine group, children's health defense, jumped on the incident to stoke skepticism about vaccines in samoa. during that time, measles vaccination rates for infants in samoa went from 92% in 2013, to just 40% by 2018. the man in charge of that anti- vaccination campaign, the leader of children's health defense, was robert f. kennedy jr. he personally traveled to samoa as an honored guest of the prime minister. kennedy told the local papers that the samoan prime minister shared kennedy's concerns about vaccines. right around that same time, the prime minister halted the country's infant measles vaccine program. all of

he personally traveled to samoa. he told the local papers the samoan prime minister shared his concerns about vaccines and right around that same time the prime minister halted the country's infant measles vaccine program. all of that created the conditions for samoa's deadliest measles outweak in generations which resulted in the tests of dozens of the -- deaths of the dozens of the island's children and the man who ran that deadly anti- vaccination campaign has just been named by donald trump to be the next secretary of health and human services. where he will oversee everything from vaccine and drug approvals to children's health to the centers for disease control and prevention. president trump already promised today give rfk jr. a broad mandate with america's health. >> robert f. kennedy cares more about human beings and health and the environment than anybody. i'm going to let him go wild on health. i'm going to let him go wilden the food and let him go wild on medicines. >> by now you have probably heard about

he personally traveled to samoa as an honored guest of the prime minister. he told the local papers that the prime minister shared kennedy's concerns about vaccines. and right around that same time, the prime minister halted the country's infant measles vaccine program. all of that created the conditions for samoa's deadliest measles outbreak in generations, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of the island's children. and the man who ran that deadly anti-vaccination campaign has just been named by donald trump to be the next secretary of health and human services, where he will oversee everything from vaccine and drug af -- approvals and more. >> robert f. kennedy cares more about human beings and health and the environment than anybody. >> i'm going to let him go wild on health. i'm going to let him go wild on the food. i'm going to let him go wild on medicines. >> by now you've probably heard all about rfk jr.'s vaccine skepticism. over the past year he's gone out of his way to claim he's not anti-vaccine while also saying things like that. >> you say

that measles vaccine was killing children in samoa. he went to samoa, he met with the president. he wrote letters. he met with anti-vaccine activists. immunization rates dropped precipitously the following year. there were 5600 cases of measles and 83 deaths, mostly in children less than four. that's what disinformation can do. and samoa is a small island nation of 200,000 people. we have a country of 300 million people. imagine what that kind of science denialism and disinformation can do on a much larger scale. >> many americans seem to be drawn to rfk jr.. s calls to reform food and drug standards. are there some parts of his broader message that you might agree with sure. >> no when he talks about kailey leinz or making sure that we diet and we eat better foods and that we exercise so we can decrease the rate of rates of obesity or type two diabetes in this country. and the consequences that follow those those disorders. fine. let's talk about that. i mean, i'm old enough to remember the president's council on physical fitness when i was younger. let's do that. but please sta

said that he quote, had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in samoa and he never told people not to vaccinate. i know you have a very different experience but he has denied those allegations. i want to bring in michael in this, because rfk jr. has said that no vaccines are safe and effective and also said that i'm not going to take away anybody's vaccine, trying to reconcile the two, perhaps would be had spitting but here's what trump's transition cochair says kennedy really wants. >> he wants the data so he can say, these things are unsafe, he says if you give me the data, all i want is the data and i will show that it's not safe and if you pull my ability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market, let's give him the data, i think it be cool to give him the data and see what he comes up with. i think it would be pretty fun. >> pretty fun? okay let him get the date, is the harm in doing that? >> first of all let me be really clear, the data that he's talking about is unclear to all of us because the data that you need to use to assess the safety of this is a

the outbreak was upon samoa, and he went and torpedoed confidence in the vaccination of that country. so thousands and thousands of cases were spreading. i was contacted by the prime minister of samoa to come in with a medical mission team, which we did. we came in with over 70 healthcare providers, myself included, and we did 36,997 vaccinations over two days. and the measles stopped. but what he did, by destroying the confidence in the nation's healthcare system, directly resulted in the deaths of up to 83 people. and like you said, almost all were children under the age of five. because when you scare people away from getting vaccinated or from other public health initiatives, they run for cover. and they expect to get good advice. they rely on good advice. but this person torpedoed and destroyed their confidence, and those individuals died. and we had to come in and save the situation. this is exactly what will happen if he is confirmed as hhs secretary. we already have some challenges in our nations to get vaccinations to committees, especially rural community's, underserved comm

he's responsible for a terrible situation that occurred in samoa. i would like to quickly read from the annenberg public policy center, a few episodes from that episode. this is what's in store to scale in the united states if kennedy was to become secretary of h.h.s. or f.d.a. or some other agency. kennedy also played a part in one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory. in 2018, two instances in american samoa started when a nurse accidentally prepared the combine m.m.r. vaccine with expired muscle rec lance ant rather than water. the samoan government temporarily suspended the vaccine program, and anti-vaccine advocates, including kennedy and his nonprofit, flood the area with misinformation. the vaccine rate dropped to a dangerously low level. the next year, measles was on the island, the disease tore through the population, sicking more than 5,700 people and killing 83 children. host: jeff, did you happen to see r.f.k. on -- i think it was on msnbc yesterday. he gave an interview. here's the headline from that interview. after as a 75-

was live last night and here's what he said about his role in that. >> at a terrible experience in samoawho went and rallied that country against vaccinations when there was a measles outbreak resulting in the deaths of 83 innocent children and if he is confirmed as the hhs secretary, what he will do is cast doubt on vaccination programs across america which means thousands and millions of people will consider not been vaccinated and we won't have herd immunity and physicians like myself and pediatricians and all sorts of other healthcare providers will see cataclysmic spread of disease. >> now, rfk junior denies discouraging people in samoa to get vaccinated but public health experts are very concerned that we already even see some of the impacts of this skepticism about vaccines in the united states and they are warning about seeing the rise of diseases like measles and mumps, chickenpox and even polio again here in the united states. >> thank you for that report. our panel is back here in the room and you are on the campaign trail a lot with trump and rfk jr. and how committed is trum

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what is it about the measles outbreak in samoa that you think is so important when it comes to rfk jr.? for people to consider well firstly, the important thing to understand is that year, 2019 was a measles year and there was a tremendous amount of measles around the world. >> and that was encouraged by mr. kennedy and his supporters at the time, who were trying to promote fear of vaccines with suggestions that somehow american scientists weren't playing it straight. so there's there's that aspect to it. and the way the measles virus then got to samoa was by transition through new zealand, auckland, where there had been the worst measles outbreak in decades. the virus then got on a plane and got into the pacific islands of samoa, where it caused the deaths of 80 people overwhelmingly small children and the thing that really moved me was spending a great deal of time, like, i think almost a whole week of the time i was there simply talking to the parents of children who had died. and it was a deeply, deeply shocking experience because here was an example where you could see very, very

s anti-vaccine rhetoric may have led to several deaths in samoa. don't go anywhere. anywhere. >>> in 2019, before covid ravaged the world, the tiny, polynesian island nation of samoa, home to only about 200,000 people, faced a different deadly epidemic. many thousands fell sick. nearly 2000 people were hospitalized, and at least 83 died. many of them, young children. the cause? a measles outbreak, an entirely preventable disease, for which there has been a vaccine, going back to the 1960s. the year prior, two infants died after receiving the vaccine due to a medical error. nothing to do with the safety of the vaccine itself. but, as that investigation was underway, it opened up the door to a wave of vaccine misinformation, to spread across the tiny island. and just four months before the outbreak -- who should visit, to meet with the anti-vaccine advocates? robert f kennedy junior, that nebo baby kennedy zion and accused sex pest has picked to lead the department of health and human services. i should note, he denied groping to then 23-year-old babysitter. kennedy th

has a specific example, for example, the island of samoa who, where he decided, he went to the island of samoa when there was an outbreak of measles because there had been a circumstance where poorly administered vaccines had caused deaths. he then said it was because of the vaccines that these erroneous deaths occurred which led to an outbreak of measles where thousands of individuals ended up getting amazeles because he told them the vaccines had erroneously killed these two people. and then many more scores of people died of measles. you cannot lie about vaccines and not have people believe it to some degree and then have really- life consequences. people will die if this kind of spokesmanship is elevated to chief of staff health department in the united states of manager. and by the way, that's not to mention, the research that he's going to defund for infectious disease and viruses is what he has said he would defund. there are real consequences. i think this is potentially the most impactful and potentially dangerous decisions that donald trump has made in his nine days of being

rfk gmac has a specific example, the island of samoa where he decided, he went to the island of samoa and there was an outbreak of measles because there have been a circumstance where poorly administered vaccines had caused deaths, he then said it was because of the vaccines that these deaths occurred, which led to an outbreak of measles with thousands of individuals got measles because they were told that the vaccine had killed people. and many scores of people died of measles. you can't lie about vaccines and not have people believe it, to some degree and have real-life consequences. people will die if this kind of spokesman ship is elevated to the chief health department in the united states of america. by the way, not to mention the research he's going to define for infectious diseases and viruses, that's what he said, he will stop it temporarily for eight years. there are real consequences. i think this is one of the most impactful and potentially dangerous decisions that donald trump has made in his nine days of being president elect. >> scott, okay, this has to go through the s

so peace corps currently has volunteers present on the count in to tonga, samoa and fiji, so we're very proud to have those countries back up and running in a post covid environment, as i mentioned, we've had engagement with the solomon islands, with the federation of micronesia and both of those countries have been assessed for reentry and then marshall islands and carabas we haven't had an opportunity to assess yet. every time we assess a country for a country it raises expectations what we're able to do. with a limited budget we want to follow up and those places that we've assessed. >> it's interesting to note assessing what countries, some of our viewers, maybe not all of those are not, there was peace corps presence when there was not governmental presence. and before, peace corps was there providing continuity for the united states even though they're not big-a ambassadors of the u.s. as you've said. can you talk about, because the needs of the pacific island region are different. each place around the world are unique. what are some of the particular challenges you face when you

let me please share what we saw in samoa. we would go into villages were a baby had just died.still warm, and we would then have a funeral service for the child, and then vaccinate his or her six or seven other siblings and move on to another village where we would see the same thing, a baby had just passed away. again. this is very real. this is not a joke. this is not kind of a reality tv show for trump and kennedy. this is our children's lives. this was an international health crisis i had to jump in on, because i was close as the governor of hawaii, but we will not be able to prevent large brakes if they are behaving the way they are describing. i would ask the president to pull back on this pick and put kennedy on some environmental position, which frankly he likes. kennedy is a pretty wild leftist and has a lot of different ideas that have already been debunked, but they have tended to be on the left flank of everyone. and frankly when mr. trump realizes the mayhem that this gentleman will cause he will fire him anyway, but not before he has cast doubt on these programs,

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for misinformation after it played a role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens of people in samoa in 2019 many of them children. good work rfk. and this is what kennedy says he will be in charge of if trump returns to power. >> i think that president trump is promised me is control of the public health agencies which are hhs and subagencies. cdc, fda and nih and a few others. >> whoa, whoa, whoa antisacks crank is going to be in charge of nhih, hhs, cdc and fda? okay. maybe you think this guy is just blowing smoke if you think it's crazy listen to one trump himself had to say about his plans for rfk jr. >> having him is such a great honor. i've been friends of his for long time. and, i am going to let him go wild on health. i am going to let him go wild on the food. i am going to let him go wild on medicines. >> oh, yeah, let rfk go wild on health and food. and than there's actual cochair of the trump vance transition team. this is the guy i been around transition he what as important role shepherding the transition on bens he said he spoke to rfk jr. for 2 and half hours and said

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you've talked about samoa, where there was already vaccine hesitancy, as we see in various parts of theoup and the result of an unvaccinated population, as you said, was a massive outbreak . 83 deaths, most of them young children, and they immediately conducted an emergency vaccination campaign to try and shut it out. but, my grandson would be very, very vulnerable to people wandering around the united states right now who are not vaccinated, who carry measles contagion. having somebody in health and human services who says every day don't take the vaccine, it is not safe and effective, with will give you information and you can make your own minds, i can tell you there are hundreds of documented studies, clinical trials in the comparative issues in what bobby kennedy is promoting has been debunked over and over and over again. but, that doesn't stop him from saying it. >> let me ask you before i let you go, you referenced this, the partnership with state and local communities. we already saw, i referenced this one florida city that announced plans to remove fluoride from its taking wat

we saw what happened in samoa in 2019, when rfk did that.ied from measles, a preventable disease. most of them were children proportionately, there'd be more than 100,000 americans. should that happen here in the united states and we know how to stop that. it's vaccines. but rfk doesn't believe in them. >> yeah, i'm curious how your family background influences your own views on this and what conversations are happening within some of those in those circles. i mean, for many who don't know, your mother laurie glimcher, is a prominent physician immunologist and a biotech board member. and i'm wondering what you're hearing from her about how some of those communities are, um, are preparing for this real possibility balance for me is i actually really don't talk about politics with my parents or my family members but i did grow up in a family of medical scientists. >> my father, my stepfather my my mother, as you indicated and i was taught to take seriously evidence and to look at curiosity driven, peer reviewed research as the gold standard th

all of a sudden -- there's a situation where this happened and children died in samoa.o trump should not mean we all get measles. sumi: i guess the broader picture, donald trump, republicans, they waon decisively. they won also to put in place people who would implement that agenda, including people like matt gaetz and rfk, jr. do you think this is the message of what voters said they wanted? rep. landsman: no. not at all. i think voters, 65% of americans said the country was moving in the wrong direction. trump got about 51%, so it was not a big number. i believe most people voted for trump because they either like trump or, in terms of the difference makers, they voted for trump because they are frustrated with the status quo. the fact he didn't get 65% even though 65% of americans are frustrated with the economy, politics. a lot of those folks said we would vote for trump because maybe he will change things but we don't like the chaos, the extremism. i think all of this stuff backfire, but not until it actually causes chaos and hurts people. and picks like these, whi

charles is still receiving cancer treatment, but just completed a whirlwind tour of australia and samoaare honoring our nation's heroes with veterans day. in middletown, connecticut, the community came together to place over 13,000 flags at a veterans cemetery. the organizers encourage families to bring their kids. a navy reservist spoke about how meaningful it was to have his son there for the first time. >> that changed and feel more respectful to the military and getting the younger generation involved means an awful lot. >> later this morning president biden will speak at a veterans day ceremony at arlington national cemetery. >>> coming up on "today," an exclusive live interview with team usa's jordan chiles. she is opening up about the controversial decision that stripped her of a bronze medal at the paris olympics. >>> and here is dylan dreyer with what else is ahead. >> this morning on the third hour of "today," actor aldus hodge is live to tell us about his new series. plus, a new strength training workout that you can do at home. and josh turner performs live in studio 1a. tha

during the time in samoa where they paused all vaccinations, 83 people died, many of them children.ization coverage, that is where we start with some of our favorite experts, former white house covid-19 response coordinator under president biden and the dean of brown university school of public health. also joining us, republican congressman, david jolly is here, plus special correspondent for abc studios, and at the table, democratic strategist and professor at columbia university, msnbc political analyst. your reaction to rfk junior to hhs? >> thank you for having me back, this is an extraordinarily bad choice. as you laid out, this is not just about vaccines, this is about medicare and what is medicare going to cover and what kind of health insurance are americans going to have because hhs has profound effects on those and what we know is that when we have used evidence and science and analysis to make those decisions, americans are better off, robert kennedy has been piling in conspiracy theories that aren't antithetical to good evidence in science and if he brings that to a who

because the uk foreign secretary at the recent commonwealth summit in samoa said that it is not, quoteash." i just wonder whether you, as a government minister injamaica, think very clearly it is about the transfer of cash? well, i don't... personally, and this is not a government position, personally, i don't think it is necessarily about transfer of cash. i think it is a lot more about a recognition that a wrong has been done and a determination to right that wrong. now, the mechanisms for righting that wrong is still up for discussion, whether it is about cash transfers or it is about creating institutional support mechanisms to build technical support for individuals, educational development or other social development. but what has to be done is some reparatory activity. a cynic might say that the british government, by saying it wants to continue the discussion, but saying that, you know, there's no prospect of cash being transferred, it wants to kick the whole issue into the long grass. do you believe from the perspective of jamaica, the perspective of the caribbean, that it can

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king charles is still receiving cancer treatment but just completed a whirlwind tour of australia and samoall join prince william to lay a wreath at the remembrance day ceremony. and jose, the palace has confirmed that the princess of wales will be in attendance alongside other senior members of the royal family. jose? >> meagan fitzgerald in london. thank you. >>> still ahead, the future of health care. the new way doctors are beaming into exam rooms from hundreds of miles away. >>> and are you ready for the >>> and are you ready for the nothing comes close to this place in the morning. i'm so glad i can still come here. you see, i was diagnosed with obstructive hcm. and there were some days i was so short of breath. i thought i'd have to settle for never stepping foot on this trail again. i became great at making excuses. but i have people who count on me so i talked to my cardiologist. i said there must be more we can do for my symptoms. he told me about a medication called camzyos. he said camzyos works by targeting what's causing my obstructive hcm. so he prescribed it and i'm really g

the queen who is 77, fell ill after a long haul trip to australia and samoa with the king.cess of wales will be at events this weekend, as she slowly returns to public duties, following cancer treatment. earlier the prince of wales said it had been the hardest year of his wife, adding that he was so proud of his wife and fought for the way they have handled things. it has been a difficult and upsetting year for the royals, who like millions have faced serious illness and uncertainty. one of cycling's greatest sprinters, sir mark cavendish, has announced his retirement from the sport, confirming on social media that his final race as a professional will be in singapore this weekend. it will bring to an end a career that saw him claim more stages of the tour de france than anyone else, as well as four world titles on the track and road. stay with us here on bbc news. something a bit brighter with some sunshine. finally the back of this loom and a grey weather. it is remembrance sunday, the change of scotland and northern ireland but for most it is going to be pretty cloudy wi

the queen who is 77, fell ill after a long haul trip to australia and samoa with the king. this weekend, as she slowly returns to public duties, following cancer treatment. earlier the prince of wales said it had been the hardest year of his wife, adding that he was so proud of his wife and fought for the way they have handled things. it has been a difficult and upsetting year for the royals, who like millions have faced serious illness and uncertainty. just before a recap of our headlines. officials in italy are introducing a daily cap on the number of tourists allowed to visit the ancient roman city of pompeii. from next week, officials will almost halve the number of daily visitors to try to protect its fragile heritage and encourage people to explore other attractions. last year, a record four million people visited— with daily crowds as high as 36,000. the new limit follows attempts by other italian cities, including venice and rome, to control tourist numbers. headlines on the way. stay with us here on bbc news. good evening. it has for the majority been a cloudy, gre

the queen who is 77, fell ill after a long haul trip to australia and samoa with the king.ublic duties, following cancer treatment. earlier the prince of wales said it had been the hardest year of his wife, adding that he was so proud of his wife and fought for the way they have handled things. it has been a difficult and upsetting year for the royals, who like millions have faced serious illness and uncertainty. that is all for now. stayed with us here on bbc news. hello there. we're finally expecting to see a bit of a change to the weather. something a bit brighter with some sunshine. finally seeing the back of this gloom and grey weather. so remembrance sunday marks a change, i think, for scotland and northern ireland. but for most again it's going to be pretty cloudy with outbreaks of rain. and that's because we've got these weather fronts moving in from the west. it's this area of low pressure and the high pressure behind it that will be the game changer. so we start the day grey for many rather gloomy. these weather fronts pushing in from the west will bring some spot

and some of the stuff he has peddled has gotten kids killed in samoa with the measles stuff want it'sirresponsible. >> it could backfire. if you're a mom who knows though get your kid vaccinated when they go to school every fall, this is ridiculous. >> there's a little bit of the other side as well. and maybe not specifically the fluoride but one issue, but when you look at america, we're the fattest and sickest and most medicated than we have been ever and when you're a mom, and you're looking at that, why? what is causing this? i travel europe all the time and other places and you don't see that in other countries, some of the issues that we have here, but maybe not the specific issues, the fluoride but some of the things that he's bringing up to some folks around the country is that. he's bringing up what other folks don't. >> jones was bringing that up last night and it's a valid one when you talk about health at large, but he, rfk jr. is the absolute last person to talk about this stuff and running anything in the government. >> i understand why donald trump is going towards rfk

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media for misinformation after played a role in a measles outbreak that killed dozens of people in samoa in 2019, many of them children. good work, rfk. this is what kennedy says he will be in charge of if trump returns to power. >> former president trump has promised me his control of the public health agencies which are hhs and sub agencies. cdc, fda, nih and a few others. >> the nt vacs crank will be in charge of nih, fda, cdc? maybe you think is blowing smoke. if you think it's crazy, listen to what trump himself had to say about his plans for rfk jr. >> having him is such a great our a. i have been friends of his very long time. am going to let him go wild on health. i will let him go wild on food. i will let him go wild on medicine. >> let rfk go wild on health and food. then there is howard, the actual cochair of the trump transition team. this is an important role. he shepherding the transition. wednesday, he said he spoke to rfk jr. for 2.5 hours. i guess eight job interview and added, quote, it would be pretty cool to give the nt vacs crackpot the power to review vaccines in a

we have seen in parts of the world famously in samoa several years ago when the vaccine rates dropped and the virus will start infecting people. you need about a 94% or above 94% vaccination rate in the community to have heard immunity against that virus. it is dropping below that. in florida it is 93%. if we start removing these requirements for school aged kids to be vaccinated, we will see the return of things like polio and measles and other completely preventable sometimes potentially fatal childhood illnesses. >> we listed some of the bizarre conspiracy theories earlier, but i do want to play video of what rfk jr. has said about covid-19 if you could play some of that and talk about it on the other side. >> covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people who are most facing those issues in chinese and you don't know if they are deliberately targeted or not. >> is there any science behind what he is saying there? >> no. this is what mr. kennedy does. with a very authoritative voice and by using sometimes complicated jargon, he propagates these just wild con

he's responsible for a terrible situation that occurred in samoa. i would like to quickly read from the annenberg public policy center, a few episodes from that episode. this is what's in store to scale in the united states if kennedy was to become secretary of h.h.s. or f.d.a. or some other agency. kennedy also played a part in one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory. in 2018, two instances in american samoa started when a nurse accidentally prepared the combine m.m.r. vaccine with expired muscle rec lance ant rather than water. the samoan government temporarily suspended the vaccine program, and anti-vaccine advocates, including kennedy and his nonprofit, flood the area with misinformation. the vaccine rate dropped to a dangerously low level. the next year, measles was on the island, the disease tore through the population, sicking more than 5,700 people and killing 83 children. host: jeff, did you happen to see r.f.k. on -- i think it was on msnbc yesterday. he gave an interview. here's the headline from that interview. after trump wi

samoa remembers the deadly measles outbreak and a visit from rfk junior fr months before the outbreakn019. kennedy traveled to samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a significant disinformation campaign. the week before hethree children diedshe and her husband took them for a sm in a river flowing behi their house in the samoan village. the next day, they went to the hospital. i will scroll down. in that sml island country of samoa, lives have been altered by an outbreak of the diseasen 19 thataused at least 83 deaths and 1867 hospitalizations, mostly of babies and young children. thousands more fell sick. the preventable lness s able to spread through the closely net population due to a record low vaccination rate stemming from a medical vaccination error here this moment government's public-health mismanagement, and fueled by anti-vaccine sentiment, includingy donald trump's pick to lead the u.s. health department, robert f. kennedy, jr.. this is the story that i guess you are referenng, david? caller: can i make one last closing state

kennedy might do to america what he did to samoa, as part of his anti-vax road trip and what happenedly is predictable. measle his an outbreak, thousands died and 83 -- sorry, thousands were infected and 83 died, the majority of whom were children, and it was kennedy's fault. if we do that in the united states it could be hundreds of thousands. >> are there guardrails in place to prevent kennedy from doing that if he is confirmed? >> those guardrails are best known as republicans in congress, and alex, you and i both know that the storybook with chapters of republican courage against donald trump in congress has very, very few episodes in it. so we need senator bill cassidy who is the chairman of the help committee in the senate which would be vetting robert f. kennedy to make sure an antivaxxer, someone who has improved water to help children and high-speed internet is causing leaky brain syndrome, somebody who thinks it's not a virus and someone like this does not belong anywhere near the levers of health and human services. >> congressman jake auchincloss, come and see me any time.

recently completed his first long haul overseas trip since his cancer diagnosis of visiting australia and samoaattend the annual room birthday service think wreaths. dignitaries include prime minister will also be in attendance. teddy's event will include a parade of veterans national two minutes silence at 11:00 a.m. jon: stephanie bennett and london thanks. here are some other headlines from around the globe. in odesa, ukraine a russian drone attack kills at least one person and injures more than a dozen others including two children. the strike marks the second day in a row russia targeted that city. in the southwestern pakistan a suicide bomber kills at least 26 people waiting for a train. more than 60 others were hurt in the blast. officials say the suspect was disguised as a passenger. a separatist group claims responsibility. and china, pres president she's jinping host admitting with the president of indonesia. the pair assigned to several economic cooperation agreements worth reportedly $10 billion. in berlin, germans or celebrate the 35th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. th

in that small island country of samoa, lives have been altered by an outbreak of the disease in 2019t caused at least 83 deaths and 1867 hospitalizations, mostly of babies and young children. thousands more fell sick. the preventable illness was able to spread through the closely net population due to a record low vaccination rate stemming from a medical vaccination error here this moment government's public-health mismanagement, and fueled by anti-vaccine sentiment, including by donald trump's pick to lead the u.s. health department, robert f. kennedy, jr.. this is the story that i guess you are referencing, david? caller: can i make one last closing statement? trump's endorsement of this quackery, this snake oil treatment, anti-vaccine partisans like robert f. kennedy, jr. makes him a threat to the public. i want to tell your trump supporters who voted for trump, you got what you asked for. host: mary is in lincoln, nebraska on our line for democrats. good morning, mary. caller: good morning. i want to mention that i have a degree in health care science. what i learned 40 years ago

that measles and this sort of thing considering what happened in samoa.may not know what he's talking about. cox i am not going to say i agree with him on everything there are several things i do not agree with him on things like direct consumer advertising which has no place in the u.s. is one of the things we do agree upon for this is a disrupter a healthy disruptor of what's going on we do not blatantly believe everything we have been told. sadly enough i'm going to go back to the pandemic destroyed trusted doctors it destroyed the american belief in our healthcare system. it's okay to shake it back up again to help restore that trust in american medicine. >> is talked about cutting research in half at the nih. is this helpful how do we fight new drugs, vaccines, this sort of thing if it's not research? >> i agree we need to have research. i look to the last 30 years and have exploded for healthier lives that said there is a lot of fraud i'm sorry there's a lot of weights that was on in american research. again it's okay to question that can bring us b