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00:03:09.780HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday sitting for two of seven oversight hearings set
00:03:18.540to take place over the next week, defending the Trump administration's annual budget proposal.
00:03:23.820The plan aiming to cut costs and restructure federal health spending,
00:03:27.740Secretary Kennedy framing the changes as a return to gold standard science,
00:03:31.900while Democrats continue to push back on his agenda,
00:03:34.940including proposed changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.
00:03:38.400The hearings turning combative, with repeated clashes over vaccine policy, research funding, and staffing across the agency.
00:03:45.760At the first hearing, in front of the Ways and Means Committee, Democrat and Ranking Member Richard Neal's opening remarks, setting the tone for the day.
00:03:52.860We watch daily as the threats to this health care system that we have constructed, whether it's talking about measles and vaccinations, we remember what it was like before Dr. Salk's polio vaccine.
00:04:06.480My mom, who was a devotee of the Kennedy family, she said the way we prevented polio in the 50s was to stay out of fresh water in August.
00:04:16.920Nothing has changed about the science of vaccines.
00:04:20.600We need people not to be preyed upon by demagoguery, and there should not be a politicization of these very issues.
00:04:29.500Secretary Kennedy avoiding mention of vaccines in his opening statement,
00:04:33.600highlighting positive change within the agency since last January,
00:04:37.440echoing a warning from his uncle, JFK.
00:04:40.180We're ending the era of federal policies that fueled the chronic disease epidemic
00:04:44.940and replacing them with policies that put the health of Americans first.
00:04:50.340This year, HHS and USDA issued new dietary guidelines
00:04:54.440that put real whole food at the center of the American plate.
00:04:57.700More than 40 percent of the food industry is committed to phase out petroleum-based dyes by year-end, and many have already eliminated them.
00:05:07.040At HHS, we are prioritizing patients with ultra-rare diseases and their families.
00:05:12.720We're protecting children from sex-rejecting procedures that expose them to irreversible harm.
00:05:19.260The president's budget puts all these priorities in action.
00:05:22.180It invests in prevention because preventing disease costs less and delivers better outcomes
00:05:27.600than treating it. As my uncle President John F. Kennedy said, progress is a nice word,
00:05:33.880but change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
00:05:38.280Significant portions of the hearing centering on vaccine policy. Prior to taking office,
00:05:43.180Secretary Kennedy working as one of the leading vaccine safety advocates,
00:05:46.840challenging pharmaceutical companies and government agencies in court through his
00:05:51.580organization, Children's Health Defense. Since taking office, RFKJ repeatedly emphasizing that
00:05:57.460the best way to prevent measles is through vaccination. Congresswoman Linda Sanchez,
00:06:02.600a Democrat from California, questioning the secretary about a measles outbreak that began
00:06:07.320in January 2025. The anti-vaccine rhetoric you ran on and the anti-vaccine actions you have taken
00:06:15.200over the last year clearly correlates with the dramatic increases again in preventable diseases
00:06:21.360you've got a lot of misinformation there there's a global measles epidemic we've done better in
00:06:27.060preventing it than any country in the world no country that has seen a bigger percentage
00:06:32.320that's not true mexico has three times more measles and they have one eighth of our population
00:06:37.480your decision to end the cdc's pro-vaccine public message Canada has doubled the measles
00:06:43.640and they have one-eighth of our population.
00:07:10.800there were 62,000 down from 82,000. We are now at 72,000, and we're hiring 12,000 new employees.
00:07:19.780We will have made up all the employees that we lost. We've replaced them with a better group
00:07:25.580of people who are actually going to address chronic health. Your judgment is that the other
00:07:31.54020,000 that were reduced were not capable, were not motivated? It's not my judgment. It's the
00:07:39.120record. They presided over the biggest decline in health in the history of the world. They did
00:07:46.180nothing to prevent the food ties, the bad food, all the things that are making us sick. They failed
00:07:52.720at their job. We did what we had to do to change the culture at these agencies so they're now
00:07:59.200doing what they can do to protect what they were hired to do, which is to protect the health of
00:08:05.600our country and restore us once again to the healthiest country. Toward the end of the hearing,
00:08:10.940ranking member and Democrat Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut making clear Democrats on the
00:08:16.020committee have no intention of backing the proposed budget cuts. The Trump administration
00:08:20.900and Republicans in the Congress passed a law last year to cut Medicaid and nutrition assistance by
00:08:26.9601.2 trillion dollars. The president's budget is proposing to cut funding for health agencies by
00:08:32.580$16 billion next year. Public health programs by $3 billion. Energy assistance by $4 billion.
00:08:40.980Mental health services by $500 million. Workforce training programs, including nurses training,
00:08:46.900by more than $600 billion. And I said to you, and I think it was very clear,
00:08:53.320Mr. Secretary, we're not going to do that. And maybe that's what you are relying on,
00:08:58.260But we're not going to do that. We can't in good conscience do that. This is an agency that has an enormous portfolio, all of it geared toward saving lives. I believe you want to do that. I believe that this budget is contrary to doing that.
00:10:48.080Hear audio of the dispatcher communicating with police arriving on scene.
00:10:52.900Clark's thinking that his dad might have stabbed his mom,
00:10:55.760saying that she's laying on the ground bleeding, can see holes in her shirt.
00:10:59.700I think this is going to be our subject.
00:11:00.960He's got a firearm with himself inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
00:11:05.600The Fairfaxes, married in 2006, were separated in 2024 and going through divorce proceedings at the time of the murder-suicide,
00:11:13.540according to Fairfax County Chief of Police Kevin Davis.
00:11:17.060The couple both living in the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home, staying in separate bedrooms.
00:11:22.300Chief Davis at a press conference describing what is known so far about the incident.
00:11:26.640From what I understand, in this early stage, former Lieutenant Governor Fairfax was recently served some paperwork associated with an upcoming court proceeding that apparently led to this incident last night.
00:11:41.800It seems like the murder took place in the basement.
00:11:46.560It's described to me as a finished, unfinished basement in the home.
00:11:51.600At some point after Justin shot and killed his wife, he runs upstairs in the home and into the primary bedroom, apparently, and shoots and kills himself.
00:17:23.920In a statement last Friday, Principal Moore thanking the community for, quote,
00:17:27.480an outpouring of love and support, adding, quote,
00:17:30.740I am grateful that my instincts and training, as well as God's hand, were available to me.
00:17:36.280Two seniors at Paul's Valley High praising their beloved principal on KFOR last week.
00:17:41.840He's a good guy. He helps a lot of students. He's very face-to-face with everything. He doesn't just kind of tell you what to do. He helps you through everything, even if it's not school-related.
00:17:54.480He saved a lot of people today, and he's a good man.
00:17:58.600The president of New York City's Santa Khan Pub Crawl arrested Wednesday, charged in a wire fraud scheme allegedly targeting participants and host venues.
00:18:09.780Federal prosecutors out of the Southern District of New York say 50-year-old
00:18:13.820Stephan Pildes raised at least $2.7 million for charity between 2019 and 2024,
00:18:21.420then diverted more than half of the proceeds to a slush fund,
00:18:25.000spending hundreds of thousands more of the remaining money on personal expenses.