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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. On Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The only Republican to vote no was Mitch McConnell, who issued a powerful statement citing

RFK's anti-vax conspiracy theories and crediting vaccines for saving millions of lives

around the world. That prompted two unhinged angry rants from Trump to reporters in which he

savaged McConnell as a loser and a failure and suggested he had subjugated McConnell to his will.

We think this Trump-McConnell rift captures a whole lot of uncomfortable truths about the GOP and the Trump era, and about where we're

headed next. We're going to get deep into this with Norm Ornstein, a longtime congressional observer

who probably understands McConnell and today's GOP better than just about

anyone else alive. Norm, thanks for coming back on. Always a pleasure, break. What a day.

What a day. So McConnell's statement on RFK was quite powerful. McConnell ripped RFK's record of

trafficking and dangerous conspiracy theories and his success

in eroding trust in public health institutions.

McConnell described vaccines as scientific miracles and warned that RFK's ascension will lead to

the relitigation of proven cures. Norm, this is a catastrophe. You know McConnell as well as anyone. Can you talk about

where this is really coming from in him? Here's what we know about Mitch McConnell. One of the

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