It's Tuesday, December 9th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show that will make you a promise.

This show will never make an AI version of a founding father just to spout things we would say anyway.

Take notes, Glenn Beck.

On today's show, the streaming wars go nuclear.

Paramount launches a massive hostile takeover bid to pry Warner Brothers' discovery from Ted Sarandos at Netflix.

And President Donald Trump saves American farmers from tariffs by using tariffs.

But let's start with vaccines.

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's

Committee on Immunization Practices voted to change a recommendation for children that's almost

older than I am, a move that could have a major impact on the health of Americans. In an 8-3

vote, the ACIP voted to end the universal recommendation that all newborns be immunized against

hepatitis B.

As we mentioned on the show yesterday, the ACIP, which has been newly stacked with people holding

anti-vaccine beliefs, instead recommended that women who test negative for hepatitis B discuss,

when or if their child should be vaccinated at birth.

The recommendation still needs to be approved by the acting director

of the CDC, Jim O'Neill, who has no medical expertise but was managing director of an

investment fund co-founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, a close ally of Vice President

J.D. Vance. O'Neill also previously served as director of Teal's private foundation, which is still not

medical expertise. But according to Dr. Joe Hilbin, who sits on the ACIP, no medical expertise

or data showed the vaccine caused any harm ahead of the decision, and it didn't matter.

Here he is on CNN on Monday.

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