Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy, who ended his independent bid for president in August and endorsed Trump, is a longtime environmental and public health activist whose views on vaccines and other healthcare issues have run counter to the medical establishment. If confirmed by the Senate, he would lead the largest health agency in the U.S., made up of organizations like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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| 1:01.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. |
| 1:20.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get |
| 1:26.7 | views from across the political |
| 1:27.8 | spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, |
| 1:33.0 | and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his nomination |
| 1:39.3 | as the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, We're going to break down some views about |
| 1:47.1 | RFK Jr's perspectives on things like vaccines and all that controversial stuff, what this nomination |
| 1:53.0 | means. Some of the interesting kind of complications, I guess you could say, he raises for |
| 1:59.2 | Republicans in the Senate. And of course, we're going to share |
| 2:02.7 | it all with some views from the right and the left and then my take. Before we jump into the main |
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