NEWS: Linda Sánchez Clashes With RFK Jr., Brings Up Shirtless Kid Rock Video

[0:00] Sam Chess. Thank you, Secretary Kennedy. We appreciate your appearance here today. [0:05] To win the support of skeptical senators during your confirmation hearings, [0:09] you claimed, and I'm quoting here, I support vaccines, I support the childhood vaccine schedule. [0:16] I was skeptical about those comments because prior to your nomination, you espoused numerous [0:21] disproven theories that childhood vaccines, including the measles vaccines, were linked to [0:26] autism, death, and other adverse effects. Not surprisingly, we were right to be skeptical [0:31] of your promise to support the childhood vaccine schedule because at your direction, [0:36] the CDC removed its universal vaccine recommendations for children, covering seven immunizations, [0:43] including things like flu, COVID, hepatitis A, hepatitis V, and rotavirus. On Fox News last year, [0:49] you stated, and I'm quoting you again here, there are adverse effects from the vaccine. It does cause [0:55] deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself causes. A deadly measles outbreak [1:02] in Texas killed an unvaccinated six-year-old, the first such death in a decade. So simple yes or no [1:10] question. It's not that we don't want to let you answer. It's that we all have limited time and you [1:14] have plenty of time to answer questions and you have plenty of time to give testimony at the beginning. [1:19] So simple yes or no answer will do here. Do you agree with the majority of doctors that the measles [1:24] vaccine could have saved that child's life in Texas? It's possible, certainly. Okay, thank you. [1:33] I want to look at some very important data. In 2024, under the Biden administration, which apparently [1:39] seems to be responsible for every ill in the world, in 2024, under the Biden administration, there were 258 [1:47] cases of measles. And in 2025, under your leadership at HHS, it ballooned to over 2,000. That's a 675% [1:58] increase. And we are now on track to surpass that this year with over 1,600 confirmed cases in just [2:07] three and a half months. If we project those numbers out for all of 2026, we can expect a whopping 6,400 [2:15] cases of measles. That's a 2,380% increase in a preventable disease. CDC data also shows that about [2:25] 80% of children who died from flu this season were not vaccinated. The anti-vaccine rhetoric you ran on [2:33] and the anti-vaccine actions you have taken over the last year clearly correlates with the dramatic [2:40] increases again in preventable diseases. As a mother, this horrifies me. Stopping the spread of [2:46] communicable diseases is one of HHS's primary responsibilities. And a strong public health [2:52] messaging campaign on the importance of vaccines could have stopped this surge of measles cases [2:59] as it had in past outbreaks. But I was appalled to learn that the CDC suspended public health messaging [3:06] on vaccines last February. It ended a successful flu vaccine campaign as well. [3:13] My question is, did President Trump approve your decision to end CDC's pro-vaccine public [3:18] messaging campaign? You've got a lot of misinformation there, first of all. [3:23] No, I'm asking you a question. I appreciate a response to the question. [3:26] Let me respond to the misstatements that you've made. [3:28] No, you have other opportunities. I have limited time. [3:31] Please answer my question. Did President Trump approve your decision to end CDC's [3:39] pro-vaccine public messaging campaign? Allow me to answer to respond to a lot of the [3:43] misinformation. No, answer my question, please, sir. I have limited time. [3:48] There's a global measles epidemic. We've done better in preventing it than any country in the world. [3:53] There is no country that has seen a bigger percentage increase. That's not true. [3:57] Mexico has three times our measles and they have one-eighth of our population. [4:01] Did President Trump approve your decision to end the CDC's pro-vaccine public messaging campaign? [4:05] Canada has doubled the measles and they have one-eighth of our population. [4:10] Did he approve that? [4:12] We've done better at preventing measles than any country in the world. [4:15] Did President Trump approve your decision to end the CDC's pro-vaccine public messaging campaign? [4:22] We've done better at preventing measles. [4:23] That's not answering my question, sir. That is not answering my question. [4:28] And I think you don't want to answer the question because I think you know that you are making [4:34] terrible decisions that impact very real lives, especially the lives of children. [4:42] Now, one thing that I find incredible is that you suspended this pro-vaccine messaging campaign, [4:48] but somehow you're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock, [4:55] and somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about [5:00] the importance of vaccines? [5:01] General Lady's time has expired. [5:03] Really? I yield back. [5:05] You don't have anything to yield, uh–