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Laura Coates Live

Republicans Criticize RFK Jr’s Health Moves In Fiery Hearing

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparred with senators today — and faced pointed questioning from some Republicans who confirmed him — on vaccine policy, recent CDC shake-ups and public health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, Appointment TV had a new home today.

0:04.9

It's called the Senate.

0:06.0

We have got to talk about that wild hearing with RFP Jr.

0:09.6

That questions science.

0:11.1

It questioned our sanity, his as well, and the fate of America's health.

0:15.9

We got the governor who saw this moment coming from a mile away.

0:19.3

Plus, the highest court dressed down.

0:22.3

Federal judges tell the Supreme Court to get it to act together

0:25.2

in a stunning critique that exposes a major concern

0:28.3

in the judiciary.

0:29.7

And later, big tech CEOs gave an audience with the president

0:33.7

as a Republican senator warns about AI

0:36.1

and about some of the people at that table, tonight on Laura Coates Live.

0:46.5

So look, if America was a patient on the exam table, it'd be trying to get the robe off and getting dressed again.

0:54.0

Why? Let's look at the chart.

0:56.1

You've got billions of dollars of health program cuts in just a matter of months. The CDC director

1:01.2

got fired after four weeks on the job. Oh, and don't forget every member of the CDC's vaccine

1:07.9

advisory committee as well. Well, they're also gone.

1:11.2

Multiple health agencies have been gutted by mass firings.

1:14.5

States are choosing their own adventure

1:17.0

when it comes to vaccines.

1:18.7

So that exam table?

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