A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official is sounding the alarm about Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his policies after resigning from his post last week.
Former Director of the CDC's Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, resigned last Wednesday following the White House's firing of the agency's director, Susan Monarez. During a Sunday interview on ABC's "This Week," he slammed Kennedy and said he can "only see harm coming" as a result of his policies, noting that his leadership wants "to see the undoing of vaccination."
"I mean, from my vantage point as a doctor who's taken the Hippocratic oath, I only see harm coming," Daskalakis said. "I may be wrong. But…based on what I've heard with the new members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, or ACIP, they're really moving in an ideologic direction where they want to see the undoing of vaccination. They do want to see the undoing of mRNA vaccination." |
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he does not "connect" autism and vaccines in the wake of five top officials' exit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"The science has debunked links between autism and vaccines for more than 20 years," NBC News's Kristen Welker said on "Meet the Press."
"Oh no, I agree," Lankford cut in. "I don't — I don't connect those two. Yeah, I don't — I don't connect those two at all. But there are reasonable questions to say, 'Why do we have more cases of autism here? What is it?' But I don't think they're connected to vaccines." |
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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said that the Minneapolis shooting suspect "never should have had access or been able to possess a firearm" based on what we know about the shooter's mental health issues.
During an interview on ABC's "This Week," co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked Emmer about plans to prevent someone with mental health issues from enacting violence, to which he responded that the "mental health crisis in this country is one of the main problems that we are faced with today," adding that "we've got to figure out how to deal with it."
He added that if an individual identifies someone who might need help, it's important to report them "to the appropriate authorities." |
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he is "very confident" in the passage of his and Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) bill on files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"Congress left town early without voting on your bipartisan bill, which would basically call for the release of all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Do you think when Congress is back the bill will go to the floor and it will pass?" NBC News's Kristen Welker asked Khanna on "Meet the Press."
"I'm very confident it will," the California Democrat responded. "I spoke to Congressman Massie. You had us both on a few weeks ago. We will have the petition live on September 2nd. We have all 212 Democrats committed to signing it. He has 12 Republicans. Only six of them have to sign it." |
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