Morning Joe 12/18/24
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I walk into my meeting with Mr. Kennedy with an open mind. |
| 0:04.4 | I can tell you this. |
| 0:06.2 | I have reached one conclusion. |
| 0:08.8 | He should fire his lawyer, the one that petitioned the FDA to get rid of the polio vaccine. He should call him up. His lawyer calls his lawyer up and saying, look, man, stop dipping into your ketamine stash. |
| 0:29.6 | The polio vaccine has saved hundreds and hundreds of millions of lives in the world. |
| 0:35.6 | His lawyer didn't want to just study the vaccine. |
| 0:38.0 | He wanted to get rid of the polio vaccine. |
| 0:41.5 | And that's bone deep down to the mare as far as I'm concerned. |
| 0:48.1 | There you go. |
| 0:48.8 | That's one way of putting it. |
| 0:50.1 | Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana criticizing a lawyer who works for RFK Jr. |
| 0:56.1 | who has asked the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. |
| 1:01.3 | We'll have more from Capitol Hill on RFK Jr.'s bid to become the leader of HHS. |
| 1:07.7 | I've got to say that, Willie, it is fascinating. |
| 1:09.9 | We talked about this before, that you're going to have |
| 1:12.2 | senator, some of whom you may not expect, have different issues with different nominees. And with |
| 1:22.6 | the margin so small, that can make all the difference in the world. And it's going to be very interesting to see |
| 1:28.5 | if RFK Jr. is going to back off his autism claim on autism and vaccines. He hasn't done |
| 1:37.1 | that yet. And there are a lot of people like Senator Kennedy that grew up in states in the deep south that saw just sort of, |
| 1:49.4 | just the extraordinary difference in southern states and poorer states, like a lot of them |
| 1:55.6 | that I grew up in, the difference that vaccines made over the years. |
| 2:00.7 | Yeah, we've seen some suggestive criticism of some of the nominees, that they have more questions, |
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