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We can add a few names like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

He came in.

And he's going to help make America healthy again.

And now he's a great guy, and he really means it. He wants to do some things, and we're going to let him go to it.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated one of the nation's most prominent vaccine skeptics, Robert of Kennedy Jr.

to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Watchdog Group Public Citizen calls Kennedy a clear and present danger to the nation's

health.

We'll get response.

Then we look at Trump's pick to head the Department of Defense.

Fox News host Pete Hegsef.

Pete Hegsef in his book, The War on Warriors, outlining a plan for what sounds like total war on the American people here at home, the deployment of the U.S. military domestically in service of his idea of what he calls an American crusade.

We'll speak with Dartmouth professor Jeff Charlotte, author of The Undertoe, scenes from a

slow civil war. And we'll talk to Cornell professor Enzo Traverso, author of the new book,

Gaza Faces History. All that and more coming out.

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I'm Amy Goodman.

President-elect Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,

to lead the Health and Human Services Department. Kennedy's the son of the former senator and

attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy, and an environmental lawyer known for his vaccine's skepticism.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, he encouraged people not to get vaccinated and has instead promoted

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