Robert F. Kennedy Jr. entered the room for his Senate confirmation hearing to loud applause, which CNN anchors noted was unusual.
Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services has attracted strong support from the president's MAGA base, and a gaggle of those admirers cheered and shouted, "we love you, Bobby," in the audience of the hearing room for the Senate Finance Committee.
"We hear some clapping there in the room there, we see RFK Jr.," said CNN's Pamela Brown. "I believe I saw his wife, Cheryl Hines."
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"That's not normal," interjected CNN's Phil Mattingly.
"I was going to say that's not normal," Brown agreed. "We don't know who's clapping."
"That's not normal," Mattingly added, "and it also underscores what you guys were just talking about, that the elements of this, that people have really locked into, is extraordinarily popular. It's not just the MAGA folks that would be upset if there were 'no' votes. There's a coalition that was brought together – that online influencers, there's a bunch of them that came down. I think a lot of them are at the hearing right now that have very significant followings exactly on the issue of health, on chronic disease, that is very, very popular and resonant in the United States right now."
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