R.J. Kennedy's confirmation hearing is live from the Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing room in the Dirksen Building in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill. Kennedy is a former Supreme Court Justice who served as a judge on the Supreme Court's landmark case against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on behalf of former President John F. Kennedy.
00:03:32.000We're starting the show a little early because the RFK confirmation hearing is so satisfying and extraordinary.
00:03:40.000I have, and let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with this, earmarked the confirmation of RFK as the early signifier as to whether or not we can legitimately be optimistic about the Trump 2025 project as opposed to earmarked the confirmation of RFK as the early signifier as to whether or What is that thing that everyone's obsessed with?
00:05:02.000Because every American has the right to know that every decision you make as our number one health officer is to help them and not to make money for yourself in the future.
00:05:16.000I'm looking at your paperwork right now.
00:05:18.000In the past two years, you've raked in $2.5 million from a law firm called Wisner Bomb.
00:05:26.000You go online, you do commercials to encourage people to sign up with Wisner Bomb.
00:05:31.000To join lawsuits against vaccine makers.
00:05:35.000And for everyone who signs up, you personally get paid.
00:05:39.000And if they win their case, you get 10% of what they win.
00:05:43.000So if you bring in somebody who gets $10 million, you walk away with $1 million.
00:05:50.000Now, you just said that you want the American people to know you can't be bought.
00:05:55.000Your decisions won't depend on how much money you could make in the future.
00:05:59.000You won't go to work for a drug company after you leave HHS, but you and I both know there's another way to make money.
00:06:07.000So, Mr. Kennedy, will you also agree that you won't take any compensation from any lawsuits against drug companies while you are secretary and for four years afterwards?
00:06:22.000Well, I'll certainly commit To that, while I'm secretary, I do want to clarify something, because you're making me sound like a shill.
00:06:49.000I want to know if you will commit right now.
00:06:52.000That not only will you not go to work for drug companies, you won't go to work suing the drug companies and taking your rake out of that while you're a secretary and for four years after.
00:07:04.000I'll commit to not taking any fees from drug companies while I'm secretary.
00:08:31.000You could change vaccine information rules.
00:08:33.000You could change which claims are compensated in the vaccine injury compensation program.
00:08:41.000There's a lot of ways that you can influence those future lawsuits and pending lawsuits while you are Secretary of HHS. And I'm asking you to commit right now that you will not take a financial stake.
00:08:57.000And every one of those lawsuits so that what you do as secretary will also benefit you financially down the line.
00:09:05.000I'll comply with all the ethical guidelines.
00:09:26.000Robert Kennedy will have the power to undercut vaccines and vaccine manufacturing across our country.
00:09:34.000And for all of his talk about follow the science and his promise that he won't interfere with those of us who want to vaccinate his kids, the bottom line is the same.
00:09:45.000Kennedy can kill off access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he does it.
00:09:52.000Kids might die, but Robert Kennedy can keep cashing in.
00:10:05.000The only thing I want is good science, and that's it.
00:10:09.000How about then say you won't make money off what you do as Secretary of HHS? Before we go to Senator Tillis, I think it would be important for me to make it very clear that Mr. Kennedy has gone through the same Office of Government Ethics process as every single other nominee in the Finance Committee this year and in previous administrations.
00:10:31.000In addition to listing his assets, including the items that you've identified, he has signed an ethics letter that has been reviewed by the Office of Government Ethics concerning any possible conflict in light of its functions and the nominee's proposed duties.
00:10:47.000And we have a letter from the Office of Government Ethics that he hasn't complied completely with all applicable laws and regulations governing conflicts of interest.
00:10:59.000Mr. Chairman point of information here is Have we had a single nominee come through who's made two and a half million dollars off suing?
00:11:10.000One of the entities that it would be regulating and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.
00:11:40.000I think, and I don't know that I want to ask him to get into it, but he has listed his assets and has gone through a discussion of the responsibilities under our ethics laws and has complied with all of those requirements.
00:12:28.000You know, it's amazing to me that people...
00:12:33.000Well, first off, you need to understand...
00:12:34.000I was in a judiciary hearing this morning.
00:12:37.000It's very clear to me that some of these nominations are going to be shirts and skins.
00:12:41.000So no matter what you answer in the affirmative, they're going to ask you one more question so that you won't be able to answer in the affirmative.
00:12:47.000That's just the way the game that's played when we have...
00:13:01.000That is a pejorative, Senator, that's applied to me, mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions of powerful interest.
00:13:11.000I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist.
00:13:16.000That label was applied to me because I said that the vaccines, the COVID vaccine, didn't prevent trans...
00:13:23.000This, right, is the, I would say, the main interface where what I'm interested in is being fought.
00:13:33.000Like, is there going to be a new type of politics where a man who wrote a book like Real Antony Fauci is in a position where he's managing a 1.6 trillion billion...
00:13:41.000Trillion billion, trillion dollar budget.
00:14:19.000I was in the statehouse in North Carolina before I came here, and any time I'd go visit an elementary school, the first thing I would do is go to the trash cans in the cafeteria.
00:14:52.000Then I went into the bathrooms, and I had a good sniff of those seats.
00:14:56.000Everything you've said about the SNAP program, I agree with.
00:14:58.000I think that we should be very, very strict about that, and it's going to make some people uncomfortable in the food manufacturing segment.
00:15:05.000Produce healthy foods that we can put in the SNAP program.
00:18:41.000It actually sounds like Larry David, so you've basically got Kirby enthusiasm now.
00:18:45.000Despite spending, as you indicated, two or three times as much per capita on healthcare as other nations, we have 85 million people who are uninsured, underinsured.
00:18:55.000Some people are basically in support of him.
00:19:14.000Last year, the insurance industry in this country made over $70 billion, while at the same time, 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured.
00:19:26.000Do you agree with me that the United States should join every other major country on earth and guarantee health care to all people as a human right?
00:20:29.000All right, you've talked about the drug companies, and maybe we agree on this one.
00:20:33.000As you all know, despite the drug companies making over $100 billion in profits, paying CEOs outrageous compensation packages, we, in some cases, pay 10 times more for the same drug.
00:20:45.000Will you support legislation that I will introduce, which says...
00:20:49.000That in America we should not be paying a nickel more for prescription drugs than people around the rest of the world.
00:23:24.000Don't you just want to see, for example, vaccine makers bought to heal?
00:23:29.000Don't you want drugs to be available at a reasonable price?
00:23:31.000Don't you want Americans to prioritise health that originates in healthy eating, so impacts the power of big food, good medicine, a holistic purview when it comes to the resolution and treatment of diseases?
00:23:47.000Why are they trying to make it about abortion and climate change?
00:24:20.000And yet your organization is making money selling a child's product.
00:24:26.000To parents for $26, which casts fundamental doubt on the usefulness of vaccines.
00:24:34.000Can you tell us now that you will, now that you are pro-vaccine, that you're going to have your organization take these products off the market?
00:24:45.000Senator, I have no power over that organization.
00:26:17.000And also, Senator Warner and I have together focused on making certain that we address the Area Wage Index and do that fairly for our citizens that are in rural communities.
00:26:32.000So I would like a commitment from you that when confirmed, you And your CMS administrator will work with us to make certain that the area wage index is balanced and that it is...
00:26:47.000It's a real obstreperous exercise, isn't it?
00:26:52.000It's not like, right, okay, let's carry out a confirmation hearing in order to ensure that RFK is legitimately the right person to be the Secretary for American Health.
00:28:04.000Heartbreaking what is happening there.
00:28:07.000So how will you prioritize oversight of prescribing practices while promoting alternative solutions such as counseling, behavioral therapies, community-based interventions for our youth?
00:28:48.000But in watching it, what you see is the bad faith within these institutions.
00:28:53.000Those of you that are critical of Bobby Kennedy for any one of the reasons that a person might be, what I would say is he is discreet from the category of politicians that I would generally dismiss as...
00:29:06.000Sort of like corrupt and unconscionable.
00:29:09.000This is like this dude, environmental lawyer, outspoken on complex subjects, wrote that book about Fauci.
00:29:16.000If he infiltrates the system, even though someone with his surname, it seems preposterous to consider them an outsider, I cannot see how that won't bring about meaningful change in both food and pharma in your country.
00:30:57.000That's pretty mean, that remark about onesies on the website.
00:31:05.000...on your nomination, Mr. Kennedy, and...
00:31:07.000I've been absent only because I've been in another hearing with the nominee to be the Commerce Secretary.
00:31:13.000So I will review everything that you've said today and look at that diligently.
00:31:19.000But one of the things that I wanted to discuss with you is I represent a very big innovation state.
00:31:25.000And innovation in health care specifically.
00:31:29.000Innovation like NIH funding to the Fred Hutch Cancer Center.
00:31:33.000That helped develop the HPV vaccine, which has the potential to eliminate over 95% of cervical cancer.
00:31:40.000NIH also funds a lot of jobs and grants nearly 11,000 people in the state of Washington and over $1.2 billion worth of grants.
00:31:52.000So while I agree with you on healthy foods, I definitely am troubled by the medical research side of innovation and some of the things that you have said.
00:32:01.000In fact, this issue about laying off 600 employees at NIH or giving the fact...
00:32:08.000Plus cleaning out permanent deep state bureaucrats.
00:32:12.000For example, I wouldn't like you to clear out deep state bureaucrats so that we can retain control over these institutions regardless of which political party is in power.
00:32:24.000We had the first case and it really was...
00:32:28.000The fast response by the University of Washington that really helped save lives.
00:32:34.000So I just want to know that are you aware of how harmful these issues could be for public health?
00:32:43.000That public health in and of itself could be affected by these kind of anti-science views?
00:32:50.000Senator, I have always been A science person, a pro-science person, I believe in evidence-based medicine, in gold standard science, when I said, and I've explained this before you came in, that 600 people out of a workforce of 91,000 is pretty typical.
00:33:13.000Last year alone, President Biden replaced 3,000 people at HHS and 700 at NIH. I want to say this.
00:33:23.000I said give infectious disease a break because that's been the principal preoccupation.
00:33:31.000Chronic disease is 92%, accounts for 92% of deaths in this country, and almost nothing is studied at NIH about the etiology of our chronic disease epidemic.
00:33:43.000Fundamental point, chronic disease causes 92% of all mortality while we obsessively focusing on viruses.
00:33:51.000it's obviously because that's profitable and the chronic diseases are profitable not to cure but to retain the industries of oncology and cardiology or at least the pharmacological aspects of that and presumably others benefit from that type of morbidity.
00:34:08.000That has got to be much more the focus.
00:34:14.000There's probably a lot of people that may not agree with this, but we're making regenerative heart tissue now at the University of Washington.
00:34:21.000So, yes or no, do you commit to protecting stem cell research for scientific agencies if confirmed?
00:34:47.000Okay, so I want to move to PBMs because PBMs are driving up drug prices.
00:34:52.000And one of the biggest things that we need to do here, I think, in a new administration is get a handle on everything that is driving up prices and lower them.
00:35:01.000The report found that PBMs generated $1.4 billion from spread pricing.
00:35:07.000That is where they are able to basically set the price, not reimburse pharmacies, and then pocket the rest.
00:35:15.000We've had bipartisan legislation in several different committees now to get at this.
00:39:33.000Mr. Kennedy, do you know how many babies born in this country are covered through Medicaid?
00:39:41.000So they want to push Medicaid, which is about ensuring that the welfare budgets are protected.
00:39:49.000And they want to talk about stuff that focuses on vaccines and is sort of, in a vague way, beneficial to pharma.
00:39:56.000If you want to know why vaccines are so beneficial to pharma, look at the work of Aaron Siri, who says because they're testing mode, not even the restrictions around clinical trialling, it's more the restrictions around marketing.
00:40:44.000In New Mexico, as you know, Medicaid is often measured state by state.
00:40:48.000It might surprise you if you look at some of those surveys.
00:40:51.000In New Mexico, the response was 90% of New Mexicans on Medicaid report satisfaction getting care, 80% getting specialist care, 85% getting urgent care, 95% ease of filings out of focus.
00:41:03.000Not to pick on any one of my colleagues, but in Louisiana.
00:41:06.000Here's Callie Means with some insights into why certain senators might attack Bobby Kennedy.
00:42:11.000Once you accept that premise, then the way that food is regulated, the way that exercise is encouraged, the way that big pharma is controlled, the ability of gargantuan industries to control politics through donations, relationships and other means has to be impaired.
00:42:29.000If it ever becomes an incursion on the sanctity of life, the pro-life perspective that we've just described.
00:42:38.000Let's go back to this confirmation and take a look at the sort of whirring cogs of American politics.
00:42:44.000A brief exposure to an aspect of the machine.
00:42:48.000Of course, though, it's still to some degree sanitised.
00:42:51.000But it can't be that tightly controlled, otherwise you wouldn't have Bernie Sanders say, do you endorse these onesies?
00:42:59.000Four million folks across the country, and in New Mexico, Iowa, and Idaho, they have triggers that it would immediately have to go into effect if, in fact, that gets cut.
00:43:09.000The reason I'm asking those questions is there's been a lot of chatter and conversations around Medicaid.
00:43:15.000Now, I agree we can always do better, and we must be doing better in America.
00:43:20.000But Medicaid has been shown to improve health outcomes, including mortality, quality of life, and access to preventative care as well.
00:43:28.000And there's some areas, Mr. Kennedy, that you and I touched on specific to Native American communities.
00:43:37.000One of the concerns that I have are these programs matter to folks.
00:43:41.000You shared your passion about caring for folks.
00:43:48.000My question in this area is, as you know, when folks are doing research and they're going to check to see if medicine works on someone, If they're not included in that trial, it often doesn't help them.
00:44:04.000So what are you going to do when programs are eliminated to require the inclusion of Native Americans in clinical trials when it comes to life-saving medicine?
00:44:19.000I'm going to do everything I can to make sure there's Native Americans in clinical trials.
00:44:26.000I said to you, when I visited your office, I spent 20% of my career working on native issues.
00:44:33.000My family's been deeply involved with them.
00:44:35.000My family, my father and uncle, were big critics of the Indian Health Service.
00:44:40.000Failure to deliver good health results or health care on the reservations.
00:44:48.000It's weird, isn't it, that people bring up, like, some, not, I don't want to say tangential in a derisory way, but...
00:44:55.000When you're looking at the vast obligations that anybody attempting to steer American health in a better direction would have to corral, when you look at some of the inquiries, onesies, Native Americans in clinical trials, these are not the centripetal matters.
00:45:14.000What is at the centre is the sanctity of life, the significance of health, and how America has somehow integrated sickness.
00:45:26.000That sickness has become necessitated because it's profitable.
00:45:31.000Because big pharma and big food need you sick, you are sick.
00:45:36.000And government is preventing that conversation from taking place.
00:45:41.000Bobby Kennedy has become the kind of flag bearer, torch bearer of that conversation and now, astonishingly, is on the brink of accessing the levers of actual power.
00:45:51.000Those positions are adequately staffed.
00:45:53.000I will follow up in writing in those specific areas because I think there's some commonality here, but answers matter.
00:46:00.000And so I'd like to get those as timely as possible.
00:46:10.000Family that I've been working with to work with my Republican colleagues when it comes to autism and federal programs and making a difference in these families' lives and this little girl's life.
00:46:22.000What I'm asking now, Mr. Chairman, is unanimous consent to enter into the record an article from Autism Speaks titled, quote, Do Vaccines Cause Autism?
00:46:33.000And I'll note that the first sentence states, quote, I've got some other content to talk about today, like, and even stories around this, but I just want to hear this vaccine autism bit, don't you?
00:46:45.000And before we move on, we've had a request from several quarters for a quick restroom break.
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00:49:09.000I actually felt they were inside of my consciousness for a minute.
00:49:12.000And in a way, they are inside my consciousness if the absolute creation from the prima materia of consciousness means that we have to all be sharing in it, like we're made from the same clay, even if that is somewhat metaphysical.
00:50:12.000Or Caroline Kennedy slams RFK as a predator before confirmation hearing.
00:50:17.000Let's have a look at that while we've got a chance.
00:50:21.000In a blistering letter to Senators, Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, calls her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a predator.
00:50:53.000Kennedy says she is able to speak out now because she's no longer the U.S. ambassador to...
00:50:59.000Finally able to speak out now that he's about to get in a position of power and my interests are aligned with the centralized and globalized forces that oppose an anti-corporate figure like my cousin Bobby.
00:51:27.000She's urging senators to reject her cousin for the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services, saying he's a hypocrite who vaccinated his own children.
00:51:38.000I saw him vaccinating a million kids one day.
00:52:01.000By the way, one of the things I've never really said about Bobby Kennedy is as a person...
00:52:07.000In recovery, he will have unique insights to the issues of addiction, mental illness, grief, despair, as well as his obvious and evident expertise in matters like nutrition, health and fitness, wellness, avant-garde and outside treatments.
00:52:26.000Chiropractic, to name but one example.
00:52:28.000I know a lot of people are cynical about chiropractic, but I believe in it, and it's really helpful for me if you have the right chiropractor, same as if you have the right doctor.
00:52:35.000He's a person who respects science, respects law, and of course he's made mistakes.
00:52:38.000An addict is a fallen and broken person that has changed and surrendered and demonstrates that change by essentially fasting.
00:52:49.000Fasting from drugs and drink and in my case, literally bloody everything.
00:53:10.000To interlocute and inquire, although I recognise a confirmation hearing requires that they do that, but it's so plain that what they're doing is voicing the opinions and hostilities of an establishment that doesn't want an oppositional, outspoken, transparent and authentic man like Bobby Kennedy in the hen house making significant choices.
00:56:34.000I'm right this minute reading a statement on the news, exploiting my family ties, and claiming that it's bad that I saw a mouse go in a blender.
00:56:42.000If it's bad that a mouse went in a blender, how much badder is it that the President of the United States was murdered by the government?
00:57:20.000So whether it's watching the Senate hearings themselves and hearing the ridiculous questions, plainly geared towards antagonising or otherwise sabotaging RFK's confirmation, or the way that the media circles their wagons and brings to the forefront negative ideas,
00:57:39.000it's clear that the confirmation process and Bobby Kennedy's confirmation in particular Your forefathers did a great thing.
00:57:53.000They did create the potential for a true republic where the people's will could be served through electoral processes.
00:58:01.000But ever since then, as they themselves predicted, corporate interests have intervened, inveigled, got involved and stuck in, attempted to usurp the process.
00:58:12.000So when we watch the confirmation together and we see Cheryl Hines sat back there, we're getting an insight.
00:58:34.000The confirmation of Bobby Kennedy is a seal, at least on some optimism, that there could be real change.
00:58:40.000If he doesn't get confirmed, it's an indication that the powers of corruption are still very much in control of the direction of your country, America.
00:59:43.000You know, the great news is that my farmers in Kansas Are selling products to Europe.
00:59:49.000That today's regenerative practices, soil health, all those things are priorities for Kansas farmers.
00:59:56.000Many of us are doing many of those things already.
00:59:59.000We just need it to be more widespread.
01:00:02.000If I could just wrap up my remarks, though, is that, again, going back to the big picture here, 60% of Americans have a chronic disease.
01:00:10.000Mr. Kennedy, I believe for such a time as this that you're not just one of 300 million people.
01:00:15.000I think that you are the person to lead HHS to make America healthy again, that God has a divine purpose for you, and I look forward to your confirmation and working with you to make America healthy again.
01:02:24.000mister kennedy you have compared the c_d_c_'s work to not see death camps you actually said Talking about some of that crazy stuff that went on during the pandemic and some of the terrible recommendations and the number of deaths and how irresponsible their advice ended up being.
01:02:51.000Everyone's really lost their sense of humour.
01:02:53.000Every single day and as you are presenting us the nominee for this position...
01:03:00.000I need to know, do you stand by those statements that you made in the past, or do you retract those previous statements?
01:03:08.000Senator, I don't believe that I ever compared the CDC to Nazi death camps.
01:03:16.000I support the CDC. My job is not to dismantle or harm the CDC. Also, he's in a different position now.
01:03:22.000When you're attacking something, you have to point out, now he's in charge of it.
01:03:37.000It says that the institution, CDC, and the vaccine program...
01:03:41.000is your description of their work, is more important than the children that it's supposed to protect.
01:03:45.000And you know, it's the same reason we had a pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church.
01:03:50.000It's because people were able to convince themselves that the institution of the church was more important than these little boys and girls who were being raped.
01:04:14.000One in 31 boys in this country, their minds are being robbed from them.
01:04:21.000Yeah, I was not comparing the CDC to Nazi death camps.
01:04:26.000I was comparing the injury rate to our children to other atrocities.
01:04:33.000And I wouldn't compare, of course, the CDC to Nazi death camps to any extent.
01:04:39.000It enters into absurdity quite frequently because people have to say, I wouldn't compare the CDC, which is like a medical bureaucracy and regulatory entity, to a Nazi death camp.
01:04:49.000So a Nazi death camp is like the worst thing you can envisage.
01:05:05.000So what he probably was doing is saying, with all these deaths that are coming out of irregularities and abnormalities and regulation problems within the CDC, it's actually as stark and as astonishing as something vivid like a Nazi death camp.
01:05:20.000That's comparing the atrocities, as he said.
01:07:08.000I don't think what we've seen over the last several days is standard operation for new administrations.
01:07:16.000I think we're seeing some unprecedented actions, but you agree with it.
01:07:19.000Last night, members of the CDC, along with other federal employees, were actually invited to To resign, these buyouts.
01:07:30.000And I got text messages and folks I know who work for the CDC that do this important work who got that note.
01:07:38.000And it's really important because my experience is that when you send out that kind of note, the folks who resign are the folks who you least likely want to see resign.
01:07:56.000You often see people resign and you don't want to see resign.
01:07:59.000Whereas those that won't resign are the ones you'd like to see resign most of all.
01:08:03.000This has gone from like a Senate confirmation hearing to my opinions on resignations.
01:08:08.000I suppose, of course, tethered to the idea that...
01:08:11.000People of significance and import are resigning as a result of the incoming administration.
01:08:16.000But because so much of Trump's popular appeal is his willingness and explicit intention of attacking deep state, or at least state, bureaucratic appointments, entrenched bureaucrats and marionettes, that isn't a bad thing.
01:08:36.000Like the Senate is saying, sometimes the resigners are the last people you want to resign, and then what won't resign are the ones that you like to resign most.
01:08:44.000This got into some really interesting tangential territory, full screen, Isaac, for this bit.
01:08:50.000Today, in the show, we will be looking at RFK's confirmation hearing.
01:08:56.000Thank you very much for joining us for that.
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01:09:17.000Peel back the onion layers and look at how American democracy or republicanism works or doesn't work.
01:09:24.000The reason I'm interested in RFK is because I know him.
01:09:26.000When I first got to know RFK, he was a peripheral, not a peripheral figure.
01:09:30.000You know, in his own life, but I mean, he occupied these marginal spaces as an outspoken advocate for vaccine-injured children, for example.
01:09:40.000He was an environmental lawyer, a recovering addict.
01:09:44.000Now, Bobby Kennedy, I would contest, let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with this, is the very central figure that epitomises the possibility for real change.
01:09:54.000While Barack Obama might have campaigned on change, there was no politician as part of his I'm speaking about Andy Fauci there.
01:10:23.000Bobby Kennedy is a unique political figure, and I think that we can tell We can somewhat litmus test the legitimacy of the radicalism of Trump's 25th administration by observing whether or not Bobby Kennedy gets confirmed.
01:10:42.000And you can make the same case to a degree, not the same degree I don't think, but a comparable case with Tulsi Gabbard.
01:10:49.000Today we're looking at the confirmation hearing, some of the funnier moments, and also what we're looking at is that also we're looking at some of the outspoken critics of Bobby Kennedy, like, you know, for example, Lindsay.
01:11:03.000Graham or Mitch McConnell and where Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham might get their inspiration to condemn RFK. Also, here's Nicole Shanahan, his running mate when he was running as an independent presidential candidate.
01:11:19.000Here's Nicole Shanahan vowing to fund primary challengers of 13 specific US senators who don't support RFK's confirmation.
01:11:27.000It's an interesting aspect of this confirmation.
01:11:35.000RFK will sit in front of the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing to be our nation's next Secretary of Health and Human Services.
01:11:44.000I urge everyone to call their US senators over the following days and demand they vote yes on Bobby's nomination.
01:12:11.000This hasn't been widely reported, but in 2020, I cut large checks to Chuck Schumer to help Democrats flip two Senate seats in Georgia from red to blue.
01:12:20.000The two candidates I helped elect, Senator Raphael Ornock and Senator John Ossoff, please know I will be watching your votes very closely.
01:12:31.000I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America's children.
01:12:39.000And more than that, I also want to say to Senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Markovsky, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Tom Tillis, James Langford, Cory Booker, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders and Catherine Cortez Masto.
01:12:54.000This is a bipartisan message and it comes directly from me.
01:12:58.000While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won't.
01:13:01.000If you vote against him, I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me.
01:13:10.000Big Pharma and Big Ag have exploited us for far too long.
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01:13:52.000It directly impacts me positively when you do that.
01:13:57.000Yeah, financially, in other ways as well, actually.
01:13:59.000Let's have a look at the confirmation hearing.
01:14:01.000Depression, thankfully, I had the resources to help me get through it, including...
01:14:08.000A new generation of SSRI uptake inhibitors, which helped to clear my mind, get me back on track to being a mom and a wife and a productive, happy person.
01:14:18.000And I'm really grateful for that therapy.
01:14:23.000This looks like this center is advocating for SSRIs.
01:14:26.000I know a little bit about depression, and I know about the efficacy of SSRIs, and I know there's opposition to using therapies like ketamine therapies and microdosing.
01:14:41.000I know that mental health and addiction are at the forefront of the Maha movement's new and intended manner for managing governing through the HHS. So this is significant.
01:14:53.000And I know that in the pharmaceutical industry there are many entrenched interests that want to keep us perpetually taking drugs that maybe don't even benefit us psychiatrically, although there has to be a degree of efficacy to perpetuate the cycle, doesn't there, like SSRIs?
01:15:07.000People say generally now they don't work that well, but they must be effective enough to warrant their ongoing use, even though everyone I know that's ever taken them and when I've taken them myself say, I'm not sure about this stuff.
01:15:18.000And even the notion that the generation of serotonin should be the forefront of mental wellness.
01:15:28.000There are alternative arguments to that that are more holistic, not so particular.
01:15:54.000Like, when there's medical emergencies, that's between a person and their physician.
01:15:58.000And that's why there's no recent memories of propaganda around medical matters or turning it into a philosophy or making masks a kind of flag or making vaccines a political issue.
01:16:38.000Mr. Chair, I will submit to the chair the information that I have about what Mr. Kennedy has said of linking antidepressants to school shootings.
01:17:04.000Suicide and addiction, significant crisis in your country, but across the world.
01:17:08.000These are crises of meaning, of purpose, of spirit.
01:17:11.000And in Bobby Kennedy, somewhat uniquely, you have a politician who can speak to that, and from that place, that he sees it as a spiritual problem.
01:17:19.000In fact, the whole Maha movement has at its centre a spiritual idea that there is a fracture, that there is a fissure, that there is a brokenness in the American...
01:17:29.000I was going to say psyche, but I actually mean the American spirit.
01:17:38.000Bobby Kennedy stands precisely for that idea.
01:17:42.000The interest of Big Pharma and the way that that lady advocated just then for SSRIs.
01:17:47.000She's a person that's been given a paper in a corridor in office and told, listen, here's some things you can say about SSRIs that are broadly supportive of them.
01:17:59.000Then a statement where Bobby Kennedy appears to mention SSRIs in the same breath as school shootings.
01:18:05.000And then what they've got is a way of presenting, right, this is why RFK shouldn't be in power, and this is why it's okay for Big Pharma to continue to profit from SSRIs, and this is why it's okay to frame school shootings as having this meaning and being supportive of this set of political ideas.
01:18:21.000Everything is, this is such a wonderful insight into propaganda.
01:18:48.000It's now created a pervasive lack of trust from the public that these institutions are acting in bad faith or failing to act with objective criteria.
01:19:02.000Failing, in short, to act in the best interests of the public.
01:19:06.000If confirmed, Mr. Kenney, how will you work to regain the public's trust?
01:19:11.000I suspect it will take some time in these important public health institutions.
01:19:16.000Through radical transparency, I'm going to make these...
01:19:21.000The reason people don't trust the public health agencies is because they haven't been trustworthy.
01:19:26.000And you gave the example of COVID. At the beginning of COVID, Everybody was rushing.
01:19:35.000The reason people don't trust public health agencies is because they haven't been trustworthy, in inverted commas, RFK, right now in the hearing.
01:19:55.000In the absence of full information, I think I agree with you, but I want your response.
01:20:05.000Might it make sense to share that absence of full information with the American people, that uncertainty?
01:20:12.000I think one of the things, by observation and experience, that I saw during the pandemic, because we had certain prominent doctors appear on television and indicate, no, you absolutely must not wear a mask.
01:20:25.000Two weeks later, it's yes, you must wear a mask.
01:21:49.000I know the mission accomplished banner was convenient for the last administration, but as we continue to navigate the ongoing impacts of the COVID pandemic, we have many individuals here in the United States and around the world who are suffering from long-term health effects that significantly we have many individuals here in the United States and around the world who are suffering from long-term health effects that significantly impact their
01:22:13.000Funding for long COVID research was appropriated by Congress in December of 2020, followed by additional funding directed by the Biden administration in February 2024.
01:22:23.000Patient groups and industry publications have criticized the slow pace of clinical trial design and enrollment.
01:22:31.000Yeah, we'll be getting onto the subject of vaccine injury pride fault.
01:22:35.000How close can this question get to that subject without saying, without talking about the inquiries around the world or our increasing understanding into side effects?
01:22:43.000I've seen people posting memes of them mad white blood clots.
01:22:46.000Do you remember that for a minute, when people were getting mad white blood clots?
01:22:50.000Do they really want to have this conversation?
01:22:52.000Patient groups, experts and industry publications have raised concerns around existing long COVID funding being spent on observational research.
01:23:00.000In particular, criticism was directed towards recover funding being used to duplicate existing findings instead of funding trials for potential treatments or diagnostics.
01:23:11.000If confirmed, Mr. Kennedy, will you work with Congress so that going forward, long COVID funding will be directed primarily towards trial or novel research directions and not replicating existing observational research, yes or no?
01:23:45.000One thing that's not coming up in the Bobby Kennedy hearings, one name curiously absent, Anthony Fauci, becoming popularly regarded as the real villain of the pandemic.
01:23:58.000And of course he was, I don't want to say immortalised, but he was somewhat rendered and explored in Bobby Kennedy's best-selling book, The Real Anthony Fauci.
01:24:07.000When that was the number one New York Times bestseller, by the way, the New York Times just published an empty space.
01:24:12.000Maybe they should do that for all of their newspaper, am I right?
01:24:16.000Yo, let me know in the comments in the chat.
01:24:18.000Here is Matt Taibbi and Tucker Carlson discussing how the pardoning of Fauci by Biden could have been a good thing, rather than what many of us perceived it to be a clear and plain demonstration of total corruption.
01:24:34.000I'm just going to give you a pre-emptive pardon, just in case you pre-emptively need a rose garden.
01:24:41.000There's no reason to pardon someone if they haven't done anything wrong.
01:24:44.000The pardon itself should be reason for a mass investigation and inquiry into the actions and decisions of Anthony Fauci, but what we're seeing instead...
01:24:54.000During the confirmation of RFK is an interrogation of the principle of inquiry and opposition and challenge and scepticism when it comes to accepting policy that appears to have been formulated around the will of Big Pharma.
01:25:11.000Let's have a look at Matt Taibbi and Tucker Carlson talking about Fauci and how that pardon could somehow be a good thing.
01:25:18.000I've not seen this clip yet and I can't see how it could be so I await persuasion.
01:25:50.000And this is what's so interesting, because I've been talking to Criminal defense attorneys, people who are former Senate investigators, some current Senate investigators, and they all kind of said the same thing.
01:26:01.000It's so illogical to give somebody a pardon if you're trying to cover up things that the only reason you would really do it is if there's very serious crimes involved, right?
01:26:16.000When we see somebody getting a pardon, we think, well...
01:26:20.000Why would they do that unless there's something really bad there, right?
01:26:23.000So either it's a mistake where they just stupidly made it easier for everybody to investigate or there's something we don't know about that is interesting.
01:26:33.000Perhaps one of those crimes that Fauci would not be able to take the fifth on is the crime of funding the research that led to COVID in the first place.
01:26:43.000Wouldn't it be beyond deliciously ironic if the person that was put in charge of our response to COVID was the person that had somehow actually caused it?
01:26:52.000I mean, what an extraordinarily What an extraordinary global farce that Anthony Fauci, who is in a sense presented as the public solution to COVID, was in fact the actual cause and creator of COVID. Let's have a look at Peter Navarro saying that Fauci knew where COVID come from.
01:27:23.000Fauci, when he was sitting there, that SOB knew for a fact that that virus came from the Wuhan lab.
01:27:32.000He knew that because he had funded the gain-of-function research in that lab, and he had already begun to design a cover-up.
01:27:43.000And we know that from the emails he sent to a group of researchers, academics, trying to get their support to push that come-from-nature theory.
01:27:54.000And that's the biggest lie of omission in American history.
01:27:58.000Because if he had simply owned up to the fact that that thing came from the lab, we could have pressured the Chinese to give us the genome sequence.
01:28:11.000Which would have allowed us to design an effective vaccine rather than the crap we wound up getting.
01:28:19.000And again, Trump got lied to about that.
01:28:22.000Not just by Fauci, but by Pfizer, the drug company.
01:28:31.000They made him think that it was a true vaccine, when it's not.
01:28:40.000Time as a result of extraordinary political manoeuvring, offering some fascinating insights into why Anthony Fauci might want...
01:28:51.000Certain things kept quiet and why he might be a significant beneficiary of a pre-emptive pardon because there's a lot that needed pre-emptive pardoning.
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01:29:13.000It benefits me directly in ways that are almost beyond comprehension and in other ways that are easily measurable because they're financial.
01:29:22.000Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
01:29:26.000Is Anthony Fauci the beneficiary of a pre-emptive pardon because he pre-emptively did a hell of a lot wrong?
01:29:35.000It certainly seems like that's the case.
01:29:38.000And maybe the RFK confirmation is the perfect time to look at some of the other people who played significant roles during the pandemic and perhaps themselves would benefit, or at least we would benefit, were they subject to an interrogation?
01:29:50.000I'd like to see Bill Gates undergo some sort of investigation, wouldn't you?
01:32:23.000He wrote a book playing down the threat.
01:32:25.000Unless they have a good word salad sauce on the moon.
01:32:29.000Concerned about it, and apparently families are still mourning in Samoa.
01:32:34.000And my last point would be that Mr. Kennedy said today really wasn't about him.
01:32:42.000And I just want to tell him it is all about you because I find your presentation to be both untrustworthy and unprepared because my colleagues have been seeing back and forth between Medicare and Medicaid program you're using when.
01:33:03.000So I want colleagues to know I'm actually going to give my minutes out like candies.
01:33:24.000There's been a lot of conversation about long, late-term abortions here, and I just want to make clear what Rhode Island OBGYN doctors describe.
01:33:34.000As what is almost always happening when a late-term abortion is needed.
01:34:37.000That environment, the doctors and the family own that decision.
01:34:45.000Government has no place in that room at that point.
01:34:50.000And I think we need to understand when this late-term abortion gets bandied about...
01:34:56.000Government don't have place in hardly any rooms.
01:34:59.000It should just be really dry rooms full of...
01:35:02.000Filing cabinets, tedium, mathematics and bureaucracy.
01:35:06.000There should be nowhere near any ideology.
01:35:08.000Government is not a sufficient force to marshal the great power of the Lord.
01:35:13.000And when government gets in the way of that power, it creates a kind of hell on earth.
01:35:18.000Offensive, really morally wrong, and I just want to make very clear what Rhode Island OBGYNs tell me is the situation when these procedures have to be deployed.
01:35:56.000No, that's not more important than measles in Samoa.
01:35:59.000Well, actually, the measles in Samoa is important because it happens as a result of people not taking vaccines.
01:36:06.000And people ain't taking vaccines because Bobby Kennedy says we should ask questions of people that have legal indemnity when they try to mandate medicines.
01:37:23.000And can we please continue to have control over whether or not people get vaccinated but simultaneously say it's a woman's right to choose when it comes to abortions?
01:37:40.000There were two incidents in which children died.
01:37:42.000In 2015 and again in 28. 2015 it was from the measles vaccine.
01:37:47.000That's with the New Zealand General Hospital.
01:37:50.000I found the government of Samoa banned the measles vaccine after the 2018. I arrived in July of the next year after the ban had been in place for a year.
01:38:05.000Mr. Chairman, understanding that you wanted to hold this to a minute and that I don't get to present all the facts and documentation, I've got...
01:38:15.000How about if we just decide to make entries for the record on exactly what the record shows about Mr. Kennedy's participation?
01:38:22.000And I think he's answered the yes or no question.
01:39:55.000There's requiring Georgians to jump through a number of onerous bureaucratic hoops and fill out even more paperwork to verify work and get access to health care.
01:40:05.000I ask this as someone who represents a state that has not expanded Medicaid.
01:40:10.000The federal government, because of this waiver, spent $70 million on Georgia's Medicaid waiver.
01:40:18.00082% of that went to administrative costs.
01:40:21.000The point that I'm making is that the folks that they're insisting need to work.
01:40:25.000Ninety percent of those folks are working, they are caregivers, or they have a disability.
01:41:19.000Thank you, and we are done with the questioning now.
01:41:23.000Mr. Kennedy, I apologize to you, to the audience, and to all of my colleagues to have to rush it here at the end, but we have a vote on the Senate floor that they're going to close in about three minutes.
01:41:33.000I want to thank you for appearing before this committee.
01:41:37.000You have been accessible to the members and staff on both sides of the aisle of the Finance Committee throughout a rigorous process, and I want the whole world to know that you spent hours in meetings answering questions outside of this hearing and providing documents and responses on issue after issue after issue.
01:41:56.000You've gone through the most thorough vetting process that any committee in this Congress puts anybody through, and I think that you have come through well.
01:43:19.000In a sense, because of Trump's endorsement of Operation Warp Speed, he needed to amortize that potential condemnation by incorporating into the camp a radical figure.
01:43:28.000Of course, there are numerous reasons for the elevation, acceleration and reification of Bobby Kennedy, but one thing he does beautifully well is allows Trump to govern from a position of authority when it comes to Big Pharma, in spite of his involvement.
01:43:46.000In the Operation Warp Speed period that, in a sense, was the commencement of the pandemic.
01:43:54.000The pandemic breaks, Operation Warp Speed is the response.
01:43:58.000Trump never fully disavows Operation Warp Speed.
01:44:01.000Bringing Bobby Kennedy in allows those two ideas to exist simultaneously without...
01:44:07.000Controversy or apparent contradiction.
01:44:09.000The pandemic issue continues to define the news around the world.
01:44:13.000In my country, Sajid Javid, one of the MPs responsible for COVID and for the vaccine...
01:44:18.000Not responsible for COVID. It's not his fault, actually.
01:44:51.000The yellow card in our country is the same as VAR's, I think, in yours.
01:44:55.000It's the system for reporting adverse events as a result of a vaccine in this instance.
01:45:01.000Let's have a look at Sajid Javid talking about this while we continue to discuss RFK and the RFK confirmation because the pandemic, in a sense, is the global political and health issue that's led to the ascent of Bobby Kennedy.
01:45:16.000Let's have a look at Sajid Javid discussing.
01:45:20.000The vaccine rollout and not knowing what yellow card events or potential vaccine injuries even are.
01:45:26.000So I wasn't aware of the yellow card sort of scheme.
01:45:31.000Mr Javid, I ask questions on behalf of the COVID adverse reaction and bereaved groups.
01:45:35.000My questions are about the yellow card scheme, a matter of some importance to those I represent, as you'll understand.
01:45:43.000You said in your statement that when you were Secretary of State for Health that the yellow card system was something that didn't come to your attention and therefore you couldn't answer the inquiry's questions about whether it's effective and observations.
01:45:57.000You couldn't make any observations about the scheme and how it could be improved.
01:46:01.000My question is then, how then was the government effectively monitoring adverse reactions if the health secretary yourself...
01:46:09.000The individual responsible for overseeing the nation's health was unaware of the primary tool designed for this purpose.
01:46:16.000So you're saying that just because I didn't know what reporting a vaccine injury was as a concept, and I hadn't heard of it being a possible thing that could even happen, that that might impede my ability to receive those complaints when I was the government minister in charge of the whole thing?
01:46:35.000Hmm, I respect your question, but I won't answer it.
01:46:50.000But you said in answer to questions to Mr Keith that you were having meetings about vaccine delivery every day.
01:46:55.000You were the central role responsible for driving the vaccine project forward.
01:47:00.000Would you agree that not knowing about the yellow card system, one of the centrepiece systems for adverse effect reporting, I'm using so many words to say.
01:47:19.000You hadn't heard that it was possible to report on vaccine injuries and you were in charge of near-mandating vaccines in a somewhat unique global pandemic.
01:47:29.000Don't your lack of awareness that the possibility to report them bloody injuries even existed mean that you didn't have an objective perspective on whether or not people were being vaccine injured and they were being vaccine injured?
01:47:41.000And not only that, the entire pandemic, in retrospect, starts to look like an endeavour to create opportunities for...
01:47:57.000I think that, with respect, what I'd say is that I'm not sure me not knowing what the yellow card system is or was would have made any difference.
01:48:16.000Imagine if your job was you worked at a pizza restaurant and you're in charge of it and you didn't know it was possible to complain if people had spat on the pizza.
01:48:26.000That would definitely impede your ability to run the restaurant.
01:48:51.000And so and I would suspect the reason it wasn't brought to my attention in those meetings that you just referred to was because no one within my department or the wide department thought it was an issue that was important enough to bring to the secretary of state.
01:49:08.000What do you think then, Sir Sajid Javis, about this spike in unexplained?
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01:51:15.000Neil Oliver and Lara Logan and I will be discussing the week's news and surely included within that will be the confirmation of RFK. But Lara Logan is loose in the skies.
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