Former CDC director Susan Menares gave her first detailed account of her high-profile firing during a Senate hearing today.

Menares was ousted less than a month into the job, making her the shortest-lived director in the agency's history.

Two other top officials resigned in protest, including the CDC's then-Chief medical officer who testified alongside

Manares today. Questions about the future of vaccine policy were front and center. Congressional

correspondent Lisa Desjardin has our report. A remarkable hearing. I could have kept the office,

the title, but I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced,

my integrity. Two recent Trump CDC officials, former director Susan Monares, and former chief

medical officer Deborah Howley, raising sharp questions about sitting cabinet secretary and their

former boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,

Jr.

Secretary Kennedy censored CDC science, politicized its processes, and stripped leaders of

independence.

I could not, and good conscience, remain under those conditions.

How we resigned after Monares was fired last month, that firing and its relationship

to vaccine policy were the key foci today. Monarez told senators that days before her firing,

Kennedy gave her orders regarding ASIP, the key vaccine advisory board he had just replaced.

He directed me to commit in advance to approving every

ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss

career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause. I told the secretary that if he

believed he could not trust me, he could fire me. You had an employee. A far cry from Secretary

Kennedy's account in a hearing earlier this month. I told her that she had to resign because I asked

her, are you a trustworthy person? And she said no.

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