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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., gets grilled on Capitol Hill by both Democrats and Republicans,

concerned about whether he's undermining vaccines amid an ouster of the head of the Centers for Disease

Control after only 29 days on the job.

Meantime, Florida officials say they will push to end all state immunization mandates, including for

children attending public schools. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues on the editorial page,

columnists Kim Strassel and Alicia Finley. If you heard a strange noise Thursday morning coming from the

direction of Washington, D.C. It might have been all the yelling in the Capitol Hill hearing room,

where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was testifying before the Senate. The proceeding got heated at times

and not always only under Democratic questioning. Let's listen to a clip of Louisiana's Republican

Senator and physician Bill Cassidy.

Mr. Secretary, do you agree with me that the president, that the president deserves a Nobel

Prize for Operation

Warpscrew? Yeah, absolutely. Senator. Let me ask you. But you just told Senator Bennett that the

COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID. Wait. That was a statement. I did not say that.

Okay. Then let me ask because you also are- Senator, I just want to a statement. I did not say that. Okay, then let me ask because you also...

Senator, I just want to make clear.

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