'Don't make that claim!' CNN anchor shuts down RFK Jr. aide who tries to hijack interview

CNN's Pamela Brown shut down "healthy food advocate" and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advisor Calley Means Wednesday after he tried to hijack her interview segment Wednesday that included infectious disease specialist Dr. Paul Offit.

Means exclaimed, "Pamela, with respect, why aren't you asking me about the fact that 50% of teens have obesity? Why aren't there — "

"I have other questions for you, but we're talking about this, " Brown interjected, trying to ask her guest about the Texas measles outbreak before again being cut off.

"Day after day after day, Pamela, it's breathless coverage of five measles cases. Why aren't we asking why 16% of COVID deaths worldwide were Americans when we're only 4% of the world's population, because the CDC said our immune system — no, it is related, Pamela, let me say why. Because the entire coverage of Bobby Kennedy is around measles...Bobby Kennedy has said one thing about vaccines and one thing only: that they should be studied like any other product."

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Means claimed that Kennedy "has written multiple books, not about being anti-vax, but about having good science, and doctor Offit is calling him anti-vaccine for literally just saying we need studies."

Brown interjected, "I think it is fair to say, given his history and his past remarks, though, that he is at the very least, a vaccine skeptic. All right? A vaccine skeptic, it's fair to say. But honestly ... "

"I think he's a pro-science advocate," Means interrupted.

Brown continued, "And again, Dr. Offit, I want you to respond to some of those claims. And Calley, look, we can talk about all of this, and I do want to talk about obesity. So, don't make that claim that I'm not asking about important things because I've covered that on this show. I've covered the movement about what Kellogg's — what they're trying to do with Kellogg's, and trying to take food coloring out of Kellogg's. I've actually been on the forefront of covering a lot of these issues, so, please don't make that claim that I'm not asking the right questions."

Means responded, "I will say during COVID, CNN covered this as a pharmaceutical deficiency and did not talk about the metabolic links to COVID and how this really was a warning sign for our immune system. I agree, Pamela, you have covered this issue more than most, but there is a massive slant to talking about measles rather than chronic conditions."

Toward the end of the interview, Brown called out Means for having been a "pharmaceutical rep" before his health conversion. When he protested, Brown corrected herself: "So, you were a lobbyist for pharmaceuticals. Okay."

Watch the clip below via CNN.