Will Senators Let A Vaccine Skeptic Run Public Health?
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started making the rounds on Capitol Hill Monday to lobby Senators on his nomination to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services. There are plenty of reasons why he could face an uphill battle to confirmation, from his prior support for abortion access and background as an environmental lawyer to his hostility toward industrial agriculture. However, chief among the reasons why Senators may be hesitant to confirm RFK Jr. is that he's been one of the most prominent and pernicious sources of vaccine misinformation in the last decade. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, health officer for Wayne County, Michigan, and host of the podcast 'America Dissected,' explains the risks RFK Jr. poses to public health.
Later in the show, Rachel Donadio, a Paris-based journalist and contributing writer at The Atlantic, explains the chaos engulfing France's government.
And in headlines. A New York judge rejected President-elect Donald Trump's bid to get his hush money conviction overturned, a teen killed a teacher and a student in a school shooting in Wisconsin, and Amazon workers threaten to strike right before the holidays.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 17th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Water Day. |
| 0:06.5 | The show that does not think May Musk, Elon's mom, has her finger on the pulse of what |
| 0:11.6 | everyday Americans are worried about when it comes to having kids. |
| 0:15.0 | But people, you know, you don't have to go to the movies. You don't have to go out for dinner. |
| 0:20.2 | You can just spend time with your, the most wonderful gifts you can ever have. |
| 0:26.5 | Look, I do not know why some people are deciding not to have kids. |
| 0:30.5 | You'd have to ask them. |
| 0:32.1 | But getting concerned trolled by the mother of the richest man on earth with, |
| 0:35.6 | You don't need to go out for dinner, boys. |
| 0:38.4 | It's probably not going to help. |
| 0:45.4 | On today's show, Trump is still a convicted felon, |
| 0:48.9 | and Amazon workers threatened to strike right before the holidays. |
| 0:52.6 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:56.1 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started making the rounds on Capitol Hill Monday. He's scheduled to meet with around two dozen senators this week |
| 1:00.6 | to lobby them on his nomination to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. |
| 1:05.3 | It's hard to know what senators might find most distasteful about him. Frankly, there's a little |
| 1:10.6 | something for everyone to hate. |
| 1:12.4 | Will Republicans balk at the fact that RFK Jr. is a former Democrat whose voice support for |
| 1:16.5 | abortion access? Or the fact that he used to be a big name in the environmental movement, |
| 1:21.3 | and built his career as an environmental lawyer who believes big oil executives are criminals? |
| 1:26.1 | What about the fact that he's hostile to industrialized agriculture? |
| 1:29.8 | Farm state senators from red and blue states alike can't be too excited about that. |
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