Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. entered office with the stated goal of making America healthy again.

We cannot have a strong country if we have six citizens.

He said that means restoring public trust in vaccines.

And I'll tell you how to start taking vaccine safety seriously.

Consider the best science available, even when the science contradicts established paradigms.

To do so, he fired all the members of a key group that recommends vaccines,

the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP.

And we're going to be bringing people onto the ACIP panel, not any vacciners.

We're bringing people on who are credentialed scientists, who are highly

credentialed physicians, who are going to do evidence-based medicine. Kennedy handpicked

seven new members for the committee, which included Dr. Robert Malone, who has spread

vaccine misinformation before. And when the new committee members met at the end of June to discuss the vaccine schedule

for kids, things got pretty contentious.

Frankly, if he'll forgive the coaching, the slide that lists a series of...

That's Dr. Robert Malone, a newly appointed member of ACIP.

It would be preferable if that was structured in a way that we really knew what all of those

65 analyses were.

He was questioning CDC medical officer, Dr. Sarah Meyer, who was giving a presentation on

how the agency is continuing to make sure that COVID vaccines are safe.

We have looked at their data a number of different ways, and I'll try to walk through some of that.

It was a highly unusual moment that highlighted the tension between longtime vaccine experts like Dr. Meyer

and Kennedy's New Guard, many without that deep expertise, who question whether

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