Wednesday, January 29. 2025
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, confirmation hearing confrontations. President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services grilled on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:09.2 | It's time to make sure that we blow the whistle on actually what your views are. |
| 0:14.0 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. firing back over claims he opposes vaccines. |
| 0:19.3 | I support the measles vaccine. I support the polio vaccine. |
| 0:23.2 | Does he have the votes to be confirmed? About face from the White House, resending that |
| 0:27.6 | controversial memo freezing federal spending, and President Trump's new move to prepare |
| 0:32.7 | Guantanamo Bay to hold thousands of detained migrants. Former Senator Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in |
| 0:39.6 | prison after being convicted of taking bribes. The gold bars, cash, and luxury car that led to his fate. |
| 0:47.0 | The military jets spinning out of control landing in a fiery crash, the pilot ejecting and parachuting to safety. |
| 1:00.0 | Breaking news in the Middle East, Hamas naming the new group of hostages sent for release tomorrow. President Trump's special envoy meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. |
| 1:05.0 | AI accusations, open AI, one of the top leaders in artificial intelligence, |
| 1:10.0 | prize foul over the new China-based |
| 1:13.0 | AI program, Deep Sea. And the good news tonight, Gotti Schwartz, on an important mission to save |
| 1:19.2 | the steelhead. This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. |
| 1:27.1 | Good evening and welcome. |
| 1:28.9 | Vaccines, conspiracy theories, and abortion rights made for some heated exchanges with Senate Democrats today as RFK Jr. |
| 1:37.0 | face his first Senate confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary, a job that would put him in charge of more than a dozen |
| 1:44.9 | agencies focused on the health of Americans. Armed for the inevitable questions about his past |
| 1:50.7 | statements opposing vaccines, Kennedy told the panel right from the top that he was not |
| 1:55.7 | anti-vaccine. Nonetheless, Democrats drilled the controversial Trump nominee over his previous claim that no vaccine is safe and effective. |
| 2:05.2 | Kennedy vowing, if confirmed, he would not dissuade Americans from receiving certain vaccinations. |
| 2:10.7 | But some of the sharper clashes came over his changing positions on abortion. |
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