this is before the senate finance committee. ons from people asking why the finance committee, if this is a health position. among the numerous agencies that hhs oversees it includes the centers for medicare and medicaid services. a large portion of the budget. looks like senators here are getting in their places for the start of this hearing. this is a colossal job and the senators want to make sure robert f kennedy junior is ready to take it on. he wants to dispel misunderstandings with his position. they want clarification on vaccines, abortion and some of the financials that he has incurred with the work he has done at law firms that have gone after vaccine makers. there is a lot of that we'll be hearing today, questioning on statements he ha

finance committee. he'll also be in front of the senate health, education labor committee. ng to be focusing on with him in the finance committee? >> well, what i always talk about is, you know, bringing the receipts. and we've been looking at the tapes and the material. i mean, he said point blank, there is no vaccine that has been effective. now, you say that to parents, for example, in oregon or any part of the country, and they're going to say, but we've had 2 or 3 generations vaccinated and we've been healthy. >> you're going to have to have the videotape ready to roll. because what he does, we've seen this is when you confront him with his actual words. he says, he didn't say that. >> well, and he always says something along the lines of, not only did he not say it, but he's going to study it in the future. that's what he said repeatedly with respect to vaccines. but the reality is the past is prelude. i mean, he's got these statements, these outlandish statements on the record. that's where he's going to put his attention. >> what is at stake for americans when you ha

caroline kennedy addressed her letter to the top democrat and republican on the senate finance committee and the senate health, education, labor and pensions committee since robert kennedy jr will have confirmation hearings in each one of those committees beginning tomorrow. because each committee has some jurisdiction over the health and human services department. caroline kennedy also released a video of her own reading of that letter to the senate. this was yet another day of sadness for caroline kennedy, but her emotional control in reading that letter was strict and unflinching. if you know the kennedy history, you wouldn't be able to read her words without crying. but she did. this is what caroline kennedy, daughter of president kennedy, who would be so proud to know that she became ambassador kennedy, said to the united states senate today. >> dear senators, throughout the past year, people have asked for my thoughts about my cousin, robert f kennedy jr and his presidential campaign. i did not comment, not only because i was serving in a government position as united states ambass

senate finance committee. the day after that. >> he will have. >> a confirmation hearing in the senate labor, health, education. >> and. >> pensions committee. that committee was chaired by his uncle, ted kennedy, who today. caroline kennedy said would be disgusted by this nomination. joining us now is e.j. dionne, an opinion columnist for the washington post and a senior fellow at the brookings institution, also with us congressional historian norm ornstein. he's an emeritus scholar at the american enterprise institute. and. >> e.j, i just. >> wanted to just open this to. your reaction. >> to what you heard from caroline. >> kennedy today. >> well, i was very moved when you began your your segment by talking about the decade of. >> assassinations and remembering. >> that time and the tragedy. >> that. >> has befallen. >> particularly all the kids. >> in this family. >> i'll never. forget the day that martin luther king was. >> killed. >> april 4th, 1968. and bobby kennedy was campaigning in indianapolis, and h

to get the senate finance committee in 2021 to go where it had never been. you know, the senate finance committee, you cover this stuff with the wall street journal, you know, in charge of taxes and the like the tax code as it related to energy with just a jerry built math it was all about something called extenders. yeah. and you'd have them for months and basically their shelf life was, you know, not much than a carton of eggs. and so you couldn't have any predictability in, the certainty and the like. and so after cap and trade went in 2010, i spent well over a year kind of studying to go. and one of the major developments just got finalized this week, what's called technological neutrality, so that we could promote a variety of different, you know, energy sources. and we'd say the more you reduce carbon, the bigger your tax savings. and it struck a chord with joe manchin, but it also struck a chord with, you know, progressives wanted to break the gridlock and what we did is we took the long view and i'm telling you was really long because a lot of you wer

in his hearing before senate finance committee to become secretary of health and human services, people on left and right have taken pot shots at mr. kennedy over his past statements down through the years. one respected conservative editorial page spend most of his time attacking mr. kennedy for his climate change views argue he prevented new york from drilling oil and gas in his days as an environmental lawyer, it may be true. it has nothing to do with duties and responsibilities of hhs. here is where i come out on rfk nomination, i support it. why? because president trump wants him to run it. mr. trump won the election. convincingly, he has a right to his own nominees, barring any clear personal legal problems. mr. kennedy has said time and again that he will execute president trump's policies at hhs. now this may be an old fashion point of view, but that is the way that system is supposed to work mr. trump won the election, not mr. kennedy, trump tells kennedy what me wants at h hs and kennedy is there to implement mr. trump's vision, thing he's said years ago, and now backed off, a

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i am the son of the late senator robert f. kennedy is basically members of the senate finance committee and he's also and i had spoken critic, a farmer house chief on 25 g. i'm a vaccine this can take you talk about. i am for president trump as promised to restore americans global strength and to restore the american dream. but he understands how we can be a strong nation on our people or so it's a healthy person has a 1000 dreams. a sick person has only on a over half of our country, men and women are chronically ill. when i met with president trump last summer, i discovered that he has boards and just concerned for this tragic situation. but genuine care was in trump is committed to restoring the american dream and 77000000 americans delivered. i'm and a to him to, to just add that is associate people have been killed and 60 have been injured in this town, paid at a hindu religious festival. in northern india, the home is believed to be the world's largest gathering is taking place in the state of auto for dash about 400000000 people are expected to attend during the coming weeks. chi

stern the senate finance committee hearing on c-span2 the senate returnst noon to continue work on the ninion of leeeldin done to be epa administrator. final vote scheduled later in the day. and ern c-span 3 at 10:30 the senateomrce science and transportation committee will begin nomination hearing for howard l udnik, and then at 3:30 the senate small business and entreenrship hearing will hold nination of kelly lefler. >> democracy, it isn't just an idea, it's a process, a process shaped by leaders elect today the highest offices and entrusted to a select few regarding its basic principles, it's where debates unfold, decisions are made and the nation's course is chartered. democracy in realtime. this is your government at work. this is c-span giving you your democracy unfiltered.

that's the subject of the rift. >> all eyes ons hearing for the senate finance committee to become secretary of health and human ser services and the leftd right have taken shots at mr. kennedy over his past statements through the years and going to have a conservative editorial page and going for climate change and arguing that he prevent it had all from drilling ail and gas in his days as environmental lawyer and you know what, that may be true. but it has nothing to do with the duties and responsibilities of hhs. here's where i come out on rfk nomination. i support it. why? because president trump wants him to run it. mr. trump won the election convincingly. he has a right to his own nominees and barring any clear personal legal plans of course. and mr. kennedy said time and again he'll execute mr. trump's policies at hhs. this may be an old fashioned point of view, but that's the way the system is supposed to work. mr. trump won the election and not mr. d kennedy. mr. trump tells him what he wants and mr. kennedy is there to implement mr. trump's vision. things he said years ago and now

he and his staff spent countless hours with senate finance committee members going over all of these allegations and all of these claimed failures to pay taxes. he has gone further by not only divesting all of his business tides which is no small task. but by publicly committing that if there is any change in the law in the future on these policy arguments that he would comply with those changes in the law. let me state this again as clearly as it can be said. scott paid his taxes. he did not pay his taxes. experts have gone over his tax returns and he has complied prevailing interpretations of the tax code every time. the issue here is that the irs wants to change the interpretation of the tax code. the irs does not get to decide what our tax code says, congress does. congress has not made the changes that the irs wants to see. even in the face of that, arguing that he should have done what the irs wanted them to do. in fact, they did not even say they wanted him to do it. taking the irs to court over this issue. he has said if the irs prevails and changes the tax code, the interpre

i was a new member of the senate finance committee when president obama made health care reform his top priority. i was excited to be involved in every part of passing the affordable care act, making sure that maternity care and mental health services and addiction treatment were all part of the new law. i spent a tremendous amount of time focused on the afford pability of the new health care system and was successful in bringing down the amount that individuals would have to pay for coverage. i considered it a badge of honor during the final vote in committee when then-chairman baucus and said here we have senator affordability. my first viral moment as an elected official on social media happened during the debate on the affordable care act. my friend april my klobuchar often told this story. when senator kyl argued against maternity care as basic coverage by stating he did not need maternity care, i told him yes, but i bet your mom did. the public outcry that happened after that ensured to this day that maternity care is part of the affordable care act. there has been no health care

stifies at a senate finance committee confirmation hear he eventually withdrew from the race to endorse donald trump. you can watch the hearing on c-span. thursday, mr. kennturns to take questrom the senate health committee. thats at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3. you can watch both hearings on c-span now or online at c-span.org. in his inaugural address, new west virginia republican governor patrick morrissey pledged to put more money in west virginians pockets by cutting taxes and talked about his administration's focus on cutting edge technology. governor morrissey succeeded former governor jim justice, now represents the state in the u.s. senate. >> he will administer the oath of office. >> raise your right hand and repeat after me. >> i solemnly swear that i will support the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of west virginia and that i will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of governor of the state of west virginia to the best of my skill and judgment so help me god. >> congratulations, governor. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, governor morriss

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we'll hear from the senate finance committee chairman here, senator crapo, in just a moment. let's listen in. >> i thank my. >> colleagues and mister kennedy for being here today. mr. kennedy, congratulations on your nomination. >> throughout this process. >> mr. kennedy, you have been accessible to members and staff on both sides of the aisle and have demonstrated strong commitment to fulfilling. >> the responsibilities of this role. >> the department of health and human services oversees our nation's largest health care programs, providing coverage for nearly two in every five americans. improving medicare, medicaid, and chip, among other initiatives, presents challenges, especially in the face of a rapidly aging population, stubbornly high costs, and persistent barriers to access. >> however, this also. >> provides us an opportunity to deliver bold, transformative solutions. >> as a committee, we share a commitment. >> to advancing. common sense, bipartisan policies that improve the delivery of health care in this country. this committee has. >> worked. >> to realign incen

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senator murkowski of alaska, and the chairman of that committee is senator bill cassidy. the only committee, though, jake, that will actually vote to advance it to the floor is the senate finance committee that had the hearing today. cassidy, not saying how he would come down. and if he decides to go one way or the other, it could determine whether kennedy has enough votes to be favorably approved and sent to the senate floor. >> all right, manu raju, thanks so much. appreciate it. cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta's here. sanjay, good to see you. as we look to the possibility of rfk jr. leaving hhs, the department of health and human services, how are parents attitudes changing about vaccines and what does that tell you? >> yeah, you know, it's there's a consequence to misinformation. so if you look about four years ago and say how likely were parents to get their kids vaccinated, about 90% of parents said no problem with that, which was down, by the way, a little bit even from years prior. now it's closer to 82%. so to give you a little context there, for something like measles, which is really contagious, you need to get about 95% of the population vaccinated

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appearing before the senate finance committee, robert f. kennedy jr.sibly frustrated at times as he repeatedly denied accusations by democrats that he's anti-vaccine. the 71-year-old faced a bruising series of questions from lawmakers, stumbling in a long exchange about medicaid policy and repeatedly confusing us with the medicare program. proceedings were also interrupted twice by protesters. >> are you lying to congress today when you say you're pro-vaccine? or did you lie on all those podcasts? we have all of this on tape, by the way. >> yeah, senator, as you know, because it's been repeatedly debunked, that statement that i made on the podcast was a fragment of the statement. he asked me and anybody who looks at that podcast will see this. he asks are there vaccines that are safe and effective and i said to him, some of the live virus vaccines are. and i said, there are no vaccines that are safe and effective and i was going to continue for every person, every medicine has people who are sensitive to them. caitriona: i didn't think hearings could g

and faced questions from the senate finance committee about his nomination the next secretary of health and hervices. watch the full confirmation on c-span.night at 9:00 eastern it is alsoilable to watch on the free c-span now video app or online at c-span.org. announcer: c-span's "washington journal," our live forum involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics, and public policy, from washington, d.c. and across the country. coming up thursday morning, the center for american progress will discuss the trump administration rescinding a federal aid freeze and then we review the top health care priorities for the trump administration. c-span's "washington journal." join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. announcer: democracy. it isn't just an idea, it's a process, a process shaped by leaders elected to the highest offices and entrusted to a select few with guarding its basic principles. it's where debates unfold, decisions are made, and the nation's course is charted. democrac

democrats on the senate finance committee also grilled bessent on trump's tariff threats against canada, mexico, china and europe. that clobbers people of modest means oregon senator ron wyden said workers and small businesses would have to pay more taxes all through the campaign. we heard they were at the foreign countries were going to pay it. i think baloney. but bessent disagreed saying foreign countries will continue cutting prices to maintain market share. democrats also accused bessent of avoiding paying roughly 1 million dollars in taxes related to his hedge fund. >> besson told the committee it's a lower number and the matter is currently in litigation. if confirmed, i have agreed to shutter my from republicans signaled they're ready to support his confirmation in washington. i'm jessi tenure. we have just learned former speaker of the house nancy pelosi will not be attending president-elect donald trump's inauguration on monday. >> a spokesperson for pelosi confirming this to kron 4 pelosi joins former first lady michelle obama has the second high profile figure on the democra

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the senate who you just saw there, ron wyden of oregon, he is the ranking member of the senate finance committee. his new book, it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change. it came out this week. and senator, big congratulations on this new book. i have a copy myself. we're going to get to all that in a moment. but let's begin with scott. best defense of trump's potential tariff increases. we heard the response. were you satisfied with it? >> absolutely not. and look, all this week the trump people were talking mumbo jumbo about this tariff issue all through the campaign. trump was making it up. he kept saying foreigners are going to pay no, our workers are going to pay, our small businesses are going to pay. and it sure looks to me like those tariffs are going to be used as money to pay for more tax cuts for the people at the top. to give you an idea how ridiculous they've been, earlier this week they proposed something called an external revenue service, which was somehow going to pretend that money was going to be raised from foreigners. at the end of the day, the reality

te nomination hearings, today's for rfk jr., live wednesday a10:00 will of people for the senate finance committeecan see that on ma channeled is the ny he will go back to capitol hill to take russians from the senate health committee. c-span3 is where you see that as well as the.org. a tulsi gabbard, the e to become director of national intelligence, heirmaon set for 10:00 thursday. the main channel where you can skip, thus platform there as well. you can always go to the website for more information. let's hear from dave in this open forum. they've joined us from ohio, independent line. caller: good morning. i was just calling about the birth rate citizens where something wants to send a lot of the immigrants back to their countries saying that just because they were born of the united states they are not a citizen. saying that illegal immigrants over here committed felonies that he wants to send them back to their countries. so he is an illegal immigrant and he did commit felonies. so are we going to send him back they a country he is born from? host: sue is in west virginia, democrats line, he

senate. >> finance committee. >> for his. >> first confirmation. hearing today. now ahead of that. >> his cousin caroline kennedy is speaking out, warning. senators that. >> while rfk. >> jr is family. he is not. the right choice. for this job. >> in a video posted to social media, caroline kennedy. >> accuses rfk jr. >> of being. >> a. >> quote. predator who should be rejected by the senate. >> now that bobby has been nominated by president trump to be secretary of health and human services, a position that would put him in charge of the health of the american people, i feel an obligation to speak out overseeing the fda, the nih, the cdc and centers for medicare and medicaid services, agencies that are charged with protecting the most vulnerable among us is an enormous responsibility, and one that bobby is unqualified to fill. he lacks any relevant government, financial management or medical experience. his views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. these facts alone should be disqualifying. i've known bobby my whole life. we grew up together. it'

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he'll be before the senate finance committee. that's where we'll go after this program today. if you stick here on c-span. mike davis, you talked about dr. do you think presidential uses of pardon is something that can be used as law fair? lawfare? guest: the president has very broad power to pardon anyone he wants for the most part for federal crimes. and it is an important safeguard for presidents to have this pardon power because it's supposed to correct injustices. the president has every right to pardon the -- president biden had every right to pardon tony fauci and his family. he had every legal right to do it. i think politically it was disastrous for joe biden to pardon his family. they said when president trump was doing pardons the democrats said when president trump was doing pardons that you only pardon people who are guilty of crimes. he -- biden preemptively pardoned his family. and it is probably because his family took over $23 million from our worst enemies into their bank accounts. that's just not speculation. there are bank statements that house oversight ch

that means, meanwhile, 11 democrat senators sent a letter to majority leader john thune senate finance committeer mike crapo, joining me texas congressman ronny jackson member how is armies severs foreign affairs, gop doctors caucus former white house physician great to see you this morning. thanks for being here. >> thanks, maria, appreciate you having me. mike lawler told me yesterday he will not vote why on -- tax extensions unless a salt tax deduction increased is in that bill. your thoughts? >> well, i think in a position to negotiate unfortunately i mean we can't do anything with one seat majority we are trying to use reconciliation to get some items on trump agenda legislate codify them if going to do that we have to have ever single vote including members in new york new jersey, california. that have been talking about the salt issue for a long time now. in a position to negotiate on this, i am in palm beach right now here last few days i haven't been part of the -- here for meetings i was in congress when president trump -- working on transition issues i am responsible for, but i was th

bobby kennedy jr., the former democrat gets face two senate panels today before the finance committeend tomorrow before the senate health committee. and that hearing gets underway this morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern, guys. keep it right here on the fox news channel for live coverage. guys? >> steve: that's right. lucas, every one of the senators in both those panels received, yesterday, a letter from caroline kennedy. his cousin and it was was saying don't confirm him and new among other things is he a predator. have you heard any reaction from anybody who is going to do some voting? >> not right now on capitol hill. it's still a little early, steve, but there is no question that robert f. kennedy jr. does not have all the support from his family. remember that big picture, with then president biden at the white house some months ago. there's no question that the former democrat is going to face some criticism, including from his own family. >> steve: all right. lucas, thank you very much for getting up early and turning on the lights. >> lawrence: some family. they are willing to stan

we'll see if that changes when it comes time to have his hearings, he'll have two before the senate finance committee and senate health committee in the coming days. jim. >> yeah. how he answers those questions will be critical in all of this. manu raju up on capitol hill, thank you so much. and one week out from trump's second inauguration, the president elect is fighting to stop the release of special counsel jack smith's final report on his investigation. smith resigned from the justice department, according to a court filing. cnn's paula reid joins us now. paula, are we going to see this report on january 6th? what do we think? >> i don't know, jim. i mean, right now the justice department is under a deadline. it doesn't expire until later today. they have to wait until then before they release this. we're waiting to hear from a federal appeals court, the 11th circuit. we might hear from the trump appointed judge, aileen cannon. there's a lot of unknowns, but there's not going to be a lot of news in this report. we already had the committee investigation into january 6th. there was the trump indi

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but ultimately, though, the key vote in the committee will come in the senate finance committee, the committee that heard the testimony today, cassidy, if he votes no on that nomination gym in committee, could be enough to block that nomination from going forward. >> we'll watch closely. we know you will. manu raju on the hill. thanks so much. joining me now is one of the lawmakers who questioned rfk jr. during today's hearing. she is democratic senator maggie hassan. thanks so much, senator, for for taking the time this evening. >> jim. thanks for having. me on. >> so i want to begin on his position on vaccines, because he said there in his testimony. news reports claim. but the fact is the public record is quite clear. his many years of questioning the effectiveness of vaccines in public on a number of fronts. did you hear anything today from him in that hearing that convinced you that he is not anti-vaccine, as he claimed? inside the chamber today? >> no. robert f kennedy has a long record of misinformation and half truths about vaccines. in order to feed this narrative and gain th