'Yes or no?' Senator forces Dr. Oz to confirm a product he pushed on TV was a sham

During his Senate confirmation hearing Friday, Dr. Mehmet Oz was pushed to agree that a "weight loss miracle" he once pushed on his widely-viewed television show was a sham.

Dr. Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon who was "once known as America's Doctor," according to CNN's Dana Bash. He is President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees health coverage to more than 100 million people, according to the government website.

The department sits within the Department of Health and Human Services, now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) asked him, "In 2012, you enthusiastically recommended several supplements for weight loss on your television show, including a substance called green coffee extract, which we now know was fraudulently marketed. For the record today, can you confirm that you no longer believe that green coffee extract is a miracle weight loss drug?"

Dr. Oz began, "I never said that that medication was a miracle weight loss drug. But I am very —"

Hassan interrupted to repeat, "Can you confirm that this was fraudulently marketed, and green coffee extract is not a miracle weight loss drug — yes or no?"

"Yes," Dr. Oz answered.

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CNN medical correspondent Meg Tirrell followed-up that it was Dr. Oz's history on the show that inspired Donald Trump to nominate him.

Tirrell added, "I talked with Andy Slavitt, who was in the same position in the Obama administration. He said he was a little skeptical before Dr. Oz called him after he was nominated. They now talk several times a week, Slavitt told me this morning. and he's really been won over by how he says, dr. oz is approaching this from a thoughtful, sort of humble position, trying to learn and coming into it in what Slavitt describes as really an apolitical, non-partisan position."

Dr. Oz ran as a Trump-backed Republican for one of Pennsylvania's Senate seats in 2022, but lost to now Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA).

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