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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

RFK Jr. faces bipartisan backlash at hearing

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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4.5539 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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RFK Jr. faces bipartisan backlash at hearing

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0:00.0

Do you agree, President, that the President deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warpspe?

0:06.5

Yeah, absolutely, Senator.

0:08.0

Let me ask you.

0:10.5

But you just told Senator Bennett that the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.

0:17.5

Would you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID? I don't know how many

0:23.0

died. You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You don't have any idea how many

0:29.1

Americans died from COVID? I don't think anybody knows that because there was so much data chaos

0:36.7

coming out of the CDC.

0:38.5

Secretary Kennedy, in your confirmation hearings, you promised to uphold the highest standards

0:43.1

for vaccines.

0:44.7

Since then, I've grown deeply concerned.

0:46.8

If we're going to make America healthy again, we can't allow public health to be undermined.

0:52.6

That was just a slice of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's bipartisan grilling yesterday on Capitol

0:58.7

Hill amid turmoil at the CDC and controversial changes to vaccine policies.

1:03.8

The question now is, will President Trump continue to support him?

1:07.5

Meanwhile, the president's reportedly going to keep the National Guard on the streets of

1:10.6

Washington, D.C. for much longer than 30 days. The question is, will Congress approve that extension?

1:16.6

Plus, today, the first job numbers will be released since President Trump fired the head of the Bureau

1:20.9

of Labor Statistics. The question is, can this new data be trusted? It's way too early for this.

1:40.1

Good morning and welcome to way too early. The show that may never eat shrimp again.

1:48.0

We're going to explain that story coming up in just a bit. I'm Ali Vitale on this Friday, September 5th, and we'll start with the news on Capitol Hill yesterday. We're going to explain that story coming up in just a bit. I'm Ali Vitale on this Friday, September 5th, and we'll start with the news on Capitol Hill yesterday,

1:50.8

where Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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