MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace and Dr. Jeremy Faust, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard University, agreed that something isn't right with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy appeared before the Senate on Thursday morning to address questions about his firing of top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and removal of the entire vaccine advisory board.
Calling Kennedy "Donald Trump's leading public health official," Wallace noted that Kennedy was "unable to defend his own conspiracy theories in front of Democrats and Republicans in the United States Senate."
"It was disturbing, frankly, to have a health secretary mouth breathing through the whole thing. I spent the whole time wondering what his ailment is in terms of a respiratory, or I don't know, the whole thing was distracting," criticized Wallace. "It was rude. It was non-linear, in terms of his responses. Within one question and answer, he seemed to take multiple positions. What happened today in the United States Senate?"
Faust said he saw the country's top health official was unable to answer "in a clear way that vaccines save lives. That all the vaccines in the pediatric series that have long been recommended by the CDC and other expert groups are safe and effective."
The reason, Faust said, is that Kennedy has spent his "entire career undermining vaccines and now that he's in control, he's spending the time that he has to make the vaccine apparatus that has kept this country safe for decades disintegrate."
He also sounded the alarm about the new appointees to the vaccine board who share Kennedy's anti-vaccine views and who have already "made recommendations that aren't scientific."
However, Faust predicted that the recommendations they will provide in the upcoming weeks will be far worse.
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