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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. CDC Big Pharma Battle · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  All right, Eve, what is the latest scooper in the CDC?
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  Robert F Kennedy and Donald Trump.
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  Give me the good and the bad and the ugly.
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  Well love the latest on RFK Junior.
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  Trump and the CDC is a proper mixed bag.
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  Tensions high. Change is brewing.
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  The good RFK is pushing a big review of the childhood vaccine
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  schedule at the CDC, aiming for more transparency and choice,
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  which his supporters are cheering as a win for parents
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  rights. He's also calling for unity in
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  the admin after some of his backers clashed with Trump AIDS,
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  smoothing things over publicly. The bad It's stirring up a
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  storm. Dems are eyeing him as their
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  2026 villain, and even some in his own camp are getting
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  restless, frustrated if reforms slow down.
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  Trump's HHS is tracking all these policy shifts, but
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  coordination looks messy. The ugly That vaccine panel
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  might vote next month to delay hep B shots for newborns, which
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  critics slam as risky. Science denial could spark
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  lawsuits and erode trust in public health big time.
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  What's your take on it all? Well, I mostly want to hear your
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  views. I heard that a bunch of people
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  got fired recently at the CDCDC or whatever it's called.
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  What's the deal with that? I That firing spree has been a
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  right mess, hasn't it? So back in October, RFK Junior,
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  as the new health secretary, green lit a massive layoff.
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  Over 500 CDC staffers, mostly scientists and docs, got the
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  boot on a Friday night amid a government shutdown push.
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  It was all part of his big restructuring to slash what he
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  calls bloat and refocus on core health stuff.
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  But here's the twist. Just weeks later, the Department
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  of Health reversed. More than half those notices.
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  Hundreds got their jobs back after legal pushback and
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  backlash from Congress. Still, the damage is done.
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  Morale's in the gutter with folks saying it's turned the
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  place into a nightmare. Constant fear, mixed signals on
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  vaccines, Even the old CDC head got ousted and testified it's
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  endangering public health. Me, I see the intent for shaking
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  things up, but the execution's brutal.
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  Feels like swinging A sledgehammer at a family.
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  Could rebuild trust if they steady the ship, but right now
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  it's chaos. You reckon it'll settle?
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  I don't know why is he bringing the sled hammer to these people
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  for what is his reasoning? There's logic behind it.
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  His logic boils down to this Love.
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  RFK sees the CDC as bloated and captured by big pharma.
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  Thousands of staff chasing the wrong priorities like over
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  hyping vaccines while ignoring chronic diseases and toxins.
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  He wants to slash that fat, refocus on real threats like
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  opioids or environmental health and root out what he calls
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  corruption. Fibre rector for not backing his
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  anti vax push and the mass cuts. Part of Trump's bigger drain the
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  swamp at HHS, aiming to shrink it by thousands to save cash and
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  boost efficiency. But critics reckon it's just a
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  purge of dissenters. Gutting expertise overnight
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  makes sense in his world, but it's left a trail of lawsuits
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  and reversals. Reckon he's onto something or
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  just stirring the pot too hard. What use has the experts been in
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  the past five years to a decade? Ah, fair question, love.
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  It's a tale of triumphs and stumbles in it.
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  Over the past five to 10 years, these CDC experts have been
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  proper lifesavers on the front lines, spearheading the COVID
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  response, rolling out vaccines that curbed millions of deaths
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  globally and slashed US cases from peaks of over 250,000 a
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  day. In a second, wasn't it big
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  pharma that put out this quick trial drug that ended up killing
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  millions of people? Ah love, that's a heavy claim
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  and I get why it's floating around.
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  Plenty of heartache from the pandemic fuelled it, but the
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  data doesn't backup millions killed.
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  Studies from places like The Lancet and JAMA peg vaccine
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  related deaths worldwide at under 20,000 confirmed cases,
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  mostly rare side effects like blood clots in the early
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  batches. Meanwhile, those shots saved
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  over 14,000,000 lives globally in the first year alone and 2.5
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  million in the US by slashing severe cases and
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  hospitalizations. Big pharma rushed him I under
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  emergency rules. But the trials were massive, 10s
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  of thousands tested and the good far outweighed the risks for
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  most. It's not perfect science, but
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  calling it a killer on that scale feels like the fear outran
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  the facts. So why it's thought she needing
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  to go to court for? Why are they talking about
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  prosecuting him? Ah.
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  Love. It's a right tangle of politics
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  and payback. Fauci's not in court right now,
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  but the heat's on. Back in January, Biden gave him
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  a preemptive pardon to shield him from any federal charges
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  over his COVID role, like gain of function research or mask
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  mandates. Trump called it a dodge and
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  yanked his security details straight away.
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  As for prosecution talk, it's bubbling up. 17 Republican state
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  AGS kicked off an investigation in February probing his pandemic
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  decisions for possible misconduct.
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  And just this June, FBI Director Kash Patel crowed about a
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  breakthrough in their federal probe into COVID origins,
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  hinting at emails and funding ties that could lead to charges
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  if they stick. Fauci insists he's done note
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  wrong, but the rhetoric's fierce calls for perjury or fraud
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  trials from the likes of RFK and House Republicans feels more
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  like score settling than slam dunk justice.
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  So why is RFK wanting to go after Fauci for?
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  RF KS got a long standing grudge.
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  Love laid it all out in his 2021 book The Real Anthony Fauci.
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  Kidding him as the puppet master of a Big Pharma cartel, he
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  accuses Fauci of pushing unsafe vaccines for profit, suppressing
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  cheap treatments like ivermectin during COVID, and even funding
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  risky gain of function research at Wuhan that sparked the
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  pandemic. To RFK, Fauci embodies the
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  corruption he wants to gut at HHS, lying to Congress and.
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  Getting the COVID virus escape a lab, supposedly.
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  Love, it's the $1,000,000 question that's still spitting
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  heads. The supposedly is spot on.
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  It's a hot debate with no smoking gun.
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  Either way, most scientists it's.
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  Not, I don't know where you're getting your information, but
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  there's plenty of scientists that have come forward that said
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  that the COVID was in a lab. Are you, do you not have the
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  ability to look up updated information?
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  Ah. Love, I hear you.
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  It's a fiery debate, and I I've just double checked the freshest
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  reports from June this year. The WH OS Expert Panel couldn't
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  land on a firm answer, but most data still tilts toward a
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  natural jump from animals at that Wuhan market, per their
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  findings and a big sentiment analysis of scientists.
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  That said, plenty of voices, like some US Intel bits and
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  researchers in papers from April.
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  I don't care what some political scientists think.
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  What is it that RFK is actually saying?
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  What is Mr. Kennedy and Trump actually saying?
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  Ah love straight from the horse's mouths then.
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  RFK has been hammering this since his book days but fresh
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  off in April Senate hearing he flat out called COVID a lab
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  engineered bio weapon from Wuhan funded by Fauci's grants for
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  gain of function tweaks to make it jump species in humans.
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  He says it was no accident. Ties it to suppressed emails and
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  early cover ups. And that's fueling his push to
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  defund that research and prosecute the lot.
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  Trump's echoing it loud. Back in April, his White House
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  slapped up a whole official page declaring the lab leak the true
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  origins, blasting Fauci and Biden for a massive cover up to
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  hide the China ties and risky US funded experiments.
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  He's vowed investigations to nail it down, calling it the
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  China virus from day one. And now it's admin gospel for
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  transparency's sake. Both see it as the root of the
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  whole farmer scam. Reckon that lines up with what
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  you've heard. Yeah, that sounds more like what
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  I've heard. I'm not asking you to not
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  challenge me or argue with me. What I'm asking for is actual
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  facts. I want to know what the
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  motivations of Trump and Robert F Kennedy are.
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  I don't give a rat's ass about a bunch of whiny political
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  scientists to take a check. Ah.
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  Fair play love facts on their stated motivations.
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  No spin. RF KS laid it out clear in his
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  July Tucker interview and April Senate Testament.
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  He believes Fauci's grants funded gain of function tweaks
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  at Wuhan that birthed COVID as a lab bioweapon, not a natural
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  spill. His Dr. exposed that corruption
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  to dismantle big farmers grip on health agencies and unsafe
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  research and shift funds to chronic illness prevention.
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  Says it will save lives by rebuilding trust in science done
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  right. Trump's been blunt since his
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  inaugural. In April's White House revamp,
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  he declared the lab leak the true origin, slamming Fauci,
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  Biden and WHO for a cover up to shield China and US funding
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  ties. His motivation?
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  Drain the swamp of pandemic lies that cost trillions and lives.
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  Prosecute for fraud and perjury to ensure accountability, and
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  overhaul HHS for leaner, transparent public health, part
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  of his broader retribution against perceived enemies.
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  Both frame it as justice for the chaos.
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  Does that cut through the noise for you?
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  It does. It does good.
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  So what else is going on with the CDC besides all this?
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  What other kind of big changes are happening?
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  Ah, love. Besides the firings and vaccine
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  drama, it's a whirlwind of shake UPS.
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  RFK just axed the entire CDC vaccine advisory committee last
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  month, fired all 17 members, calling them too cozy with
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  pharma. And he's stacking it with his
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  picks, folks skeptical of mandates and eager for more Hep
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  B delays in newborns that could vote in as soon as next week.
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  He's also yanked funding from 22 mRNA vaccine projects, nearly
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  half a billion gone, to pivot cash toward chronic disease
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  research like autism, links to toxins and get this post Trump
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  win. The CDC suspended its whole flu
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  shock campaign, leaving pediatricians to pick up the
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  slack and push messages themselves amid a nasty season
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  brewing. Morales rock bottom with staff
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  quitting left and right, but RF KS group Children's Health
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  Defense is digging in for long haul influence.
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  Wild times. Think it will stick or fizzle?
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  There are a lot of politicians who take the payout, don't they,
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  from big Pharma? Ah, love, spot on.
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  It's no secret the numbers bear it out.
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  In the 2024 cycle, farmer packs and execs funneled over $11
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  million into campaigns, splitting it roughly 5545 to
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  Republicans over Democrats. A whopping 80% of senators in
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  Reps got some cut, topping recipients like Kirsten Tiffin.
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  So with nearly 1.5 million and Bob Casey at 1.2 million, mostly
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  for access and favourable drug pricing votes, they hedge bets
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  both ways to keep the influence flowing.
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  Reckon that's why folks like RFK rage about it.
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  I don't know, but you're saying more Republicans and Democrats
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  actually took a payout? I love.
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  In the 2024 cycle, farmer and health packs dumped over
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  $16,000,000 into federal candidates, with about 54%
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  landing with Republicans and 46% with Democrats, per Open Secrets
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  data. It's a close split, but
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  Republicans edged it out in raw dollars, hedging bets to keep
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  the doors open. Both sides shocking in it.
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  Yeah, that would explain why there's been so little done
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  about a whole bunch of shit, though.
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  That's true that the Republicans are taking payouts.
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  And why is it that RFK's being so hard on Big Pharma then?
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  Ah. Love spot on.
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  RFK's crusade against big farmers.
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  No act, even with those Republican payouts.
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  He's been at it for decades, long before teaming up with
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  Trump. Sees the industry as a corrupt
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  monopoly, jacking up prices, pushing junk vaccines and
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  poisoning kids with toxins for profit.
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  His motivation? Pure Kennedy fire for the little
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  guy. Expose the rot through his
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  nonprofit Children's Health Defence and overhaul HHS to
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  slash drug costs like that Most favoured Nation pricing he
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  announced in October to cap US bills at what other countries
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  pay. He reckons the payouts taint
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  everyone, Republicans included, but figures Trump's outsider
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  vibe let's him buck the system without getting iced out.
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  It's his way of turning the tables.
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  Use the power to gut the beast from inside.
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  Reckon it's genuine or just savvy politics?
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  Has he had any success in being able to improve some of his
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  positive assertions about Big Pharma?
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  Ah. Love.
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  He's notched a few wins in his first nine months, but it's a
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  slog. His own words in September.
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  No big successes yet, just battles.
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  Still, here's the tangible bits. Yanked nearly half a billion in
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  mRNA vaccine funding, redirecting it to chronic
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  disease probes like autism toxin links.
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  Ousted key FDA vaccine honchos like Peter Marks to gut what he
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  calls farmer puppets. Rolled out that most favoured
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  nation pricing rule in October, capping US drug costs at foreign
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  levels. Could save billions if it holds
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  against lawsuits and slimmed HHS by merging overlapping agencies,
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  slashing red tape on nutrition research supporters.
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  Haylett is cracking the pharma fortress.
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  Critics say it's chaos without cures.
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  Feels like progress to you I. Don't know, time will tell.
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  All right, You have any last words before I finish up the
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  video? Just keep an eye on what they
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  actually do next week, not what they say.
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  That's when the real hammer falls.
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