Lie after lie, Senate committee dismantles RFK Jr., often using his own words against him

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Senate Finance Committee was not gentle with Donald Trump's HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., grilling him on his perspectives on vaccines and often catching him in contradictions. Jen Psaki shares highlights of some of Kennedy's more frustrating lies, and the efforts of senators to call him out.

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0:00.0	Today, Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. showed the country once again
0:05.0	that he is not just a raving conspiracy theorist, and he definitely is one of those.
0:10.2	He is also a pathological liar.
0:13.0	Take this exchange, for instance.
0:16.1	Just last week, in the days after the tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in my home
0:22.1	state of Minnesota, you went on Fox News blaming school shootings on antidepressants.
0:29.0	You have no evidence of that because you have no evidence of a connection.
0:33.1	And you want to talk about...
0:34.7	You're just saying something. You're just making stuff up.
0:37.4	You know,
0:37.6	this is what you say, right? Secretary Kennedy, when someone presents you with information that does not fit...
0:42.8	I did not blame that shooting. I have no idea whether... I have no idea, and I never said that. You're making it up.
0:51.2	You're twisting. Yeah, you are. You are being dishonest right now.
0:56.1	Okay. So to recap quickly, Minnesota Senator Tina Smith asked RFK Jr.
1:02.0	A very reasonable question, which was why he went on TV after a horrific shooting that took place in her state of Minnesota that left 21 people wounded two children dead
1:11.6	and entertained the completely baseless conspiracy that antidepressants and not guns
1:17.7	are the culprit behind America's mass shooting problem. And Secretary Kennedy's response was,
1:23.0	you just heard him do it repeatedly, was that isn't true. Senator Smith is just making it up.
1:26.9	She's being dishonest.
1:28.8	Roll the tape, please.
1:32.1	We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other
1:43.6	psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.
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