RFK Jr. Grilled, Europeans Pledge Troops to Ukraine, DC Sues Trump Admin
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has defended his actions on vaccines in a contentious Senate hearing. European leaders have finalized a commitment to provide post-war security guarantees for Ukraine, including troops. And, the Attorney General for the District of Columbia has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration calling the use of the National Guard in the District illegal.
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| 0:00.0 | Health and Human Services Secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr. |
| 0:05.0 | defended his position on vaccines in a contentious Senate hearing. |
| 0:08.8 | Now parents who decide that they do want their children down. |
| 0:11.6 | You're just making stuff up, Senator. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm not making stuff up. |
| 0:16.1 | So what do you have to say about who can get vaccines? |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Michelle Martin. That's A. Martinez. |
| 0:20.3 | And this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:24.9 | European countries have finalized a commitment to provide post-war security guarantees for Ukraine, |
| 0:30.1 | including troops on the ground in the sea and in the air. Now the plan heads to the U.S. |
| 0:34.4 | You could see the U.S. providing capabilities that the Europeans do not have. |
| 0:39.1 | Will President Trump give it his support? |
| 0:41.2 | And the Attorney General for the District of Columbia suing the Trump administration over its |
| 0:45.0 | deployment of the National Guard of the city, calling it a military occupation. |
| 0:49.4 | Stay with us. |
| 0:50.1 | We've got all the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:05.9 | For decades, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. built his reputation and fortune as an anti-vaccine activist. That concerned many senators who were considering his nomination to serve as Health and Human Services Secretary, |
| 1:12.3 | so he made promises not to prevent people who want them from getting vaccines. |
| 1:16.6 | Since he's gotten the job, many of those senators have come to believe he's taken actions that taken together have broken that promise. |
| 1:23.0 | So in a Senate hearing on Thursday, they demanded that he explained himself. |
| 1:26.9 | NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin |
| 1:28.5 | watched the hearing yesterday and it's here to explain. So that was a must-see TV, Selena. What questions |
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