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  1. 0:00You have been placing nearly all the
  2. 0:02blame on the COVID pandemic and the way
  3. 0:06that the US responded to it squarely
  4. 0:08with Dr. Fauci. But of course, he worked
  5. 0:11for President Trump. Does President
  6. 0:13Trump also deserve some of the blame?
  7. 0:16>> Well, you know, President Trump, as you
  8. 0:18recall, wasn't into
  9. 0:21uh lockdowns. I think the
  10. 0:23the thing that did the most damage to
  11. 0:25our country was the lockdowns. The
  12. 0:27lockdowns that shut down
  13. 0:303.5 million businesses in our country
  14. 0:33with no due process, no just
  15. 0:34compensation. All of our churches
  16. 0:37closed, our schools, and our children
  17. 0:39are still paying the price for that.
  18. 0:42And yet we had the worst outcome of any
  19. 0:45country in the world.
  20. 0:47>> How so?
  21. 0:48>> We had the highest death rate from COVID
  22. 0:50of any nation on Earth.
  23. 0:51>> Well, let me just let me just say, cuz
  24. 0:52I've heard you say that before on the
  25. 0:54death rate from COVID, um it's not
  26. 0:57accurate because
  27. 1:00public health experts say that there is
  28. 1:02a combination of factors that went into
  29. 1:05that. Higher rates of chronic illnesses,
  30. 1:07which I know you would agree with, gaps
  31. 1:09to our health care system, and
  32. 1:10misinformation about vaccines.
  33. 1:12>> you just said what I said was
  34. 1:14inaccurate. What I said was accurate. We
  35. 1:16had the highest death rate from COVID of
  36. 1:18any
  37. 1:19>> There there are there are
  38. 1:20there are other countries that had
  39. 1:22higher but
  40. 1:23>> You can argue you
  41. 1:25about why we had that.
  42. 1:27But um you nobody can tell you I mean we
  43. 1:31have as you say we have the highest
  44. 1:33chronic disease burden in the world.
  45. 1:35And Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the
  46. 1:38COVID pandemic and he was doing it under
  47. 1:40the Biden administration. President
  48. 1:42Trump wanted to end the lockdowns. In a
  49. 1:45fact, in
  50. 1:46Anthony Fauci's diaries,
  51. 1:48he talks about how President Trump is
  52. 1:50calling him every day trying to get him
  53. 1:53to reopen the country.
  54. 1:54>> Yeah. Well, I
  55. 1:56the lockdowns were done by governors.
  56. 1:58I mean certainly Anthony Fauci and the
  57. 2:00president had opinions, but the
  58. 2:01lockdowns were done by governors and
  59. 2:03largely because and largely because
  60. 2:06largely because they were hearing they
  61. 2:08were hearing from hospitals saying that
  62. 2:11their ICUs were overrun and they needed
  63. 2:13some help while that was happening. But
  64. 2:15I want I want to
  65. 2:15>> just not true. What you're saying is not
  66. 2:18true. No, they were doing it because
  67. 2:20Anthony Fauci
  68. 2:21was telling them from the top you need
  69. 2:24to lock down. There were ICUs that were
  70. 2:26empty all over the country including in
  71. 2:28New York at the height.
  72. 2:30>> I I'm asking you
  73. 2:32I'm going to go back to what I asked you
  74. 2:33at the beginning.
  75. 2:34Which is President Trump. And he was the
  76. 2:38guy in charge. And he you tweeted back
  77. 2:41in 2024 that
  78. 2:44he let bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci
  79. 2:47shut down the entire country. Um
  80. 2:50Again, he the president was in charge.
  81. 2:52>> The president was trying to reopen the
  82. 2:54country when he left.
  83. 2:57The country was day was kept closed for
  84. 2:59another year almost a year and a half
  85. 3:01after that.
  86. 3:02>> Let's talk about how to prevent the next
  87. 3:05pandemic um because there's a lot of
  88. 3:07litigating and re-litigating that I
  89. 3:09don't think uh is really helpful to do
  90. 3:11uh with regard to COVID. And the
  91. 3:13question is about uh so-called gain of
  92. 3:16function.
  93. 3:17Which uh
  94. 3:18for people who aren't entirely clear
  95. 3:20about it, it is it is a highly risky
  96. 3:23research process that includes
  97. 3:26manipulating a virus to study how it
  98. 3:28behaves as it evolves.
  99. 3:30Now, what scientists say is that
  100. 3:32although it's controversial, it's
  101. 3:34necessary to prepare for the next
  102. 3:37pandemic to get ahead of it to figure
  103. 3:39out what these viruses can do. Um
  104. 3:42What you want to end this gain of
  105. 3:44function research. Some scientists say
  106. 3:47isn't it better just to put better
  107. 3:49guardrails around it?
  108. 3:52>> People have been trying to put
  109. 3:53guardrails around it for generations and
  110. 3:56it hasn't worked. And clearly, COVID-19
  111. 3:59pandemic and many other global pandemics
  112. 4:02that we have have come from, you know,
  113. 4:04function research. The RSV
  114. 4:07epidemics that we have that is the
  115. 4:09biggest killer of kids in this country
  116. 4:11today
  117. 4:12came from these kind of experiments. The
  118. 4:15Lyme disease almost certainly came from
  119. 4:17this kind of research.
  120. 4:19So, who um
  121. 4:21and the scientists who you say are
  122. 4:24experts
  123. 4:25are making the argument that this is
  124. 4:27necessary for pandemic response
  125. 4:30cannot point to one instance in history
  126. 4:33where research that came out of this
  127. 4:35kind of experimentation
  128. 4:37has actually provided us something
  129. 4:41beneficial.
  130. 4:42>> So, how do you prepare then? How do you
  131. 4:44prepare for the next pandemic? I mean,
  132. 4:46that's literally part of your job now
  133. 4:48because experts think it's going to
  134. 4:49happen within the next 10 years, again.
  135. 4:51>> Yeah, I mean, I think we did virtually
  136. 4:53everything wrong the last time.
  137. 4:55>> So, but what about now?
  138. 4:56>> The principal thing that we need to do
  139. 4:58is we need to listen to what's happening
  140. 5:00to doctors on the ground.
  141. 5:02There are 15 million frontline
  142. 5:04physicians around the world.
  143. 5:06They're mainly now connected through the
  144. 5:09internet.
  145. 5:10We can tell on the front lines what's
  146. 5:12working and what's not.
  147. 5:14If we had listened to those doctors
  148. 5:16during the COVID pandemic, we would have
  149. 5:18saved potentially millions of lives.
  150. 5:21There were therapeutics out there that
  151. 5:23were working. There were doctors that
  152. 5:25were having no deaths from COVID and
  153. 5:27treating in some cases thousands of
  154. 5:29patients. And we weren't listening to
  155. 5:32them. Instead, we were doing the
  156. 5:33opposite.
  157. 5:34We were shutting them down. And then,
  158. 5:36Dana, the other thing that I would say
  159. 5:39is that um we need to protect our
  160. 5:41constitutional rights. That that is the
  161. 5:44primary obligation of our country.
  162. 5:47>> Well, during COVID we completely
  163. 5:49dismantled our constitutional rights. We
  164. 5:51began censoring people in violation of
  165. 5:53the First Amendment.
  166. 5:54>> I'm not You're You're saying what not to
  167. 5:56do. I'm asking what to do. Um but I but
  168. 5:58I want to talk about
  169. 5:59>> something to do. That's That is the
  170. 6:01number one priority.
  171. 6:03We protect the Constitution.
  172. 6:05The Constitution was written
  173. 6:07>> but you're just you're talking about
  174. 6:08rights and I'm asking about a potential
  175. 6:11public health crisis
  176. 6:13that is that is coming. But I do want to
  177. 6:15Let's I
  178. 6:15>> And one of the mistakes we made in the
  179. 6:17last time
  180. 6:19was suppressing those rights so people
  181. 6:21weren't being heard.
  182. 6:23Doctors who were saying, "You're doing
  183. 6:25it wrong."
  184. 6:26were being marginalized and vilified and
  185. 6:30>> because again, I really want to move on.
  186. 6:33But
  187. 6:33>> Yeah, but you were part of the problem.
  188. 6:35>> Yes, I do
  189. 6:37I wasn't part of the problem.
  190. 6:38>> absolute press malpractice. You weren't
  191. 6:41allowing your
  192. 6:42>> Mr. Secretary
  193. 6:43>> Your job
  194. 6:44>> Your job
  195. 6:45>> is a fearless skepticism toward
  196. 6:47authority. And you weren't doing that.
  197. 6:49You were leading people toward this
  198. 6:52insanity.
  199. 6:53>> No. Okay, are you going to You want to
  200. 6:54sit here and attack me or do you want to
  201. 6:56have conversation about public health?
  202. 6:58>> me.
  203. 6:58>> I'm not attacking you. I'm asking
  204. 7:00questions about how to prevent the next
  205. 7:01pandemic.
  206. 7:02>> I'll tell you.
  207. 7:03>> That's what I'm trying to do. But I also
  208. 7:05don't want to use this
  209. 7:08interview to allow you to say things
  210. 7:10that aren't entirely true. You're
  211. 7:12talking about therapeutics, fine. It is
  212. 7:14also factually true that the COVID
  213. 7:17vaccine worked. The COVID vaccine
  214. 7:19prevented deaths. There is data upon
  215. 7:22data upon data. Let's talk about the
  216. 7:24measles, please, because this is
  217. 7:26something that is happening as as we
  218. 7:28speak. The cases
  219. 7:30>> The COVID vaccine protected children?
  220. 7:33>> I think that what I have to talk to
  221. 7:36scientists and doctors about
  222. 7:38>> Can you look Can you show me one study?
  223. 7:40>> Yes, I can.
  224. 7:41>> That shows that
  225. 7:42>> I can.
  226. 7:43>> children who are protected by the COVID
  227. 7:45vaccine.
  228. 7:45>> I I can tell you that there are
  229. 7:47>> has more good than harm to children. Can
  230. 7:50you show me one study that shows that?
  231. 7:52>> I can tell you that when it comes to the
  232. 7:54vaccine, there have been studies that
  233. 7:56show that because of vaccine
  234. 7:58disinformation, disinformation, there
  235. 8:01could have been 100 to 200,000 lives in
  236. 8:04the US saved. But because people didn't
  237. 8:07get the vaccine, that's why I'm not
  238. 8:09saying that it entire
  239. 8:10>> You are saying nonsense. You are saying
  240. 8:13something that you cannot show me a
  241. 8:15single study
  242. 8:16>> I am not saying nonsense.
  243. 8:17>> You are talking with
  244. 8:19>> Excuse me.
  245. 8:20>> Somebody told you.
  246. 8:20>> Excuse me.
  247. 8:21>> And you show show me the study. You know
  248. 8:24what study?
  249. 8:25>> No, what studies are you talking about?
  250. 8:26You're talking about studies that
  251. 8:28actually don't exist. I want to talk
  252. 8:30about
  253. 8:30>> Show me the study that you're talking
  254. 8:32about. You're saying you're saying the
  255. 8:33study. Show me the study.
  256. 8:36>> This is not productive. I'm not here to
  257. 8:38defend all of the Let me Let me finish.
  258. 8:40>> You're talking nonsense. You're making
  259. 8:41assertions you can't support. And then
  260. 8:43when I call you on it, you're telling me
  261. 8:45that I'm arguing
  262. 8:46>> do you want to talk about You want to
  263. 8:48talk about assertions that you can't
  264. 8:49support? I'll get there in a second.
  265. 8:51Let me just say, for the record, that I
  266. 8:54am not saying that the entire way that
  267. 8:56the COVID reaction was accurate. It was
  268. 8:59a scary time, and people made mistakes.
  269. 9:02Absolutely. Let me
  270. 9:03>> scaring people.
  271. 9:05>> Why are you saying that?
  272. 9:06>> Because that was the job of CNN.
  273. 9:08>> Okay.
  274. 9:09>> It was the thyroid.
  275. 9:09>> Thyroid up.
  276. 9:11>> But how many people are talking
  277. 9:12>> We were trying to
  278. 9:13We were listening to the leaders in this
  279. 9:16country, including the president who had
  280. 9:18a daily press conference explaining what
  281. 9:21was going on and trying to listen.
  282. 9:22>> Were you listening to the CDC
  283. 9:24facts? Were you reading the CDC facts
  284. 9:26yourself?
  285. 9:27>> The measles cases in the US just reached
  286. 9:29a 35-year high.
  287. 9:32The second uh
  288. 9:33record-breaking year in a row, 93% of
  289. 9:36these cases are among the unvaccinated.
  290. 9:39The outbreak is happening on your watch.
  291. 9:41And even be before becoming HHS
  292. 9:44Secretary, for years you have been one
  293. 9:46of the leading voices questioning the
  294. 9:48efficacy of vaccines. Do you accept some
  295. 9:52responsibility for this measles
  296. 9:53outbreak?
  297. 9:54>> Absolutely not.
  298. 9:57First of all, this is an international
  299. 9:58outbreak.
  300. 9:59So,
  301. 10:01and we're doing better at handling it
  302. 10:02than any country in the world. Mexico
  303. 10:05has 15 times the amount of measles per
  304. 10:08capita than we have.
  305. 10:10Canada has four times the amount of
  306. 10:12measles.
  307. 10:13England has two times the amount of
  308. 10:14measles. Did I cause those measles
  309. 10:16outbreaks?
  310. 10:17>> You're the most famous
  311. 10:18>> Did I cause 137,000
  312. 10:21cases?
  313. 10:21>> You're the most famous vaccine skeptic
  314. 10:23on the planet.
  315. 10:24>> Let me tell you because actually Anthony
  316. 10:26Fauci in his diaries
  317. 10:28answers the question about why we're
  318. 10:30having a measles outbreak right now.
  319. 10:32The reason we're having a measles
  320. 10:34outbreak because of the COVID lockdowns,
  321. 10:36because people didn't like children
  322. 10:38during that period did not get
  323. 10:40vaccinated.
  324. 10:41And in his diaries he says this is going
  325. 10:44to cause massive outbreaks of measles
  326. 10:47and more children. He says this are
  327. 10:49going to die. Let me finish cuz you
  328. 10:51accused me of something. Now, let me
  329. 10:53>> No, I didn't. I asked you a question.
  330. 10:55>> Yeah, let me give you the answer. He
  331. 10:57says in his diaries more children are
  332. 10:59going to die from measles because of
  333. 11:01these lockdowns than COVID.
  334. 11:04So, if you want to know in that age
  335. 11:06group that should have got the MMR when
  336. 11:09they're 18 months and didn't get it,
  337. 11:11they're the ones being infected. The
  338. 11:13people in this country, and we have
  339. 11:15stopped the outbreaks at record speed in
  340. 11:17South Carolina, in Texas, in Utah, in
  341. 11:20Virginia.
  342. 11:22We've done better than any country in
  343. 11:23the world. I dispatch immediately the
  344. 11:25epidemic intelligence services
  345. 11:27to those states. I get on the phone with
  346. 11:29the governor and we stop them in their
  347. 11:31tracks. Nobody else has able to do that.
  348. 11:33>> You have a bully pulpit.
  349. 11:33>> Let me tell you just one one last thing.
  350. 11:36>> Go ahead.
  351. 11:37>> The
  352. 11:37The communities that are suffering
  353. 11:40from measles are almost all religious
  354. 11:43communities that just don't vaccinate.
  355. 11:45The The Mennonites have not vaccinated
  356. 11:48since 1796 since Edward Jenner
  357. 11:51invented the smallpox vaccine. You It's
  358. 11:54hard to blame that. I mean, as much as
  359. 11:55you want to blame them.
  360. 11:56>> don't want to blame you. I'm asking you
  361. 11:58because you have a very powerful voice
  362. 12:00on these issues for people who are
  363. 12:02skeptical that Let me finish. Let me
  364. 12:03finish.
  365. 12:04>> never questioned the efficacy of the MMR
  366. 12:06vaccine.
  367. 12:07>> Okay, let me let me finish.
  368. 12:09>> I've questioned
  369. 12:09>> What I want you to do is, please, use
  370. 12:12your bully pulpit to right now, as we're
  371. 12:14getting close to back to school, say,
  372. 12:17are you willing to say to parents who
  373. 12:20have not vaccinated their kids that they
  374. 12:21should vaccinate their kids for measles
  375. 12:24because it is safe and it will help them
  376. 12:26save their children's lives?
  377. 12:28>> I I We tell people on my websites, my
  378. 12:31public presentations, I'll say it again
  379. 12:33now
  380. 12:33>> that people parents should get their
  381. 12:35children vaccinated for measles.
  382. 12:38A measles vaccine is effective. It It
  383. 12:41stops measles in about 97% of the cases.
  384. 12:44Uh people should get vaccinated.
  385. 12:46>> Can I ask you, the Wall Street Journal
  386. 12:48reported that the president is
  387. 12:49pressuring you to conduct studies
  388. 12:52probing the link between vaccines and
  389. 12:53autism. Is that true?
  390. 12:56>> Did you say probing the link?
  391. 12:58>> The what what the wall I'm just quoting
  392. 13:00the Wall Street Journal that they that
  393. 13:02the president wants you to go further to
  394. 13:05probe the link between autism and
  395. 13:07vaccines.
  396. 13:08>> He certainly does.
  397. 13:09>> Okay. Now,
  398. 13:12have you talked to him about medical
  399. 13:14research that have studied this for 25
  400. 13:16years and found no link between autism
  401. 13:19and vaccines? And and and just that this
  402. 13:22is my question here cuz I don't want to
  403. 13:23litigate that. My question is,
  404. 13:26why not, cuz you are HHS secretary now?
  405. 13:30Why not study what could cause autism,
  406. 13:33which scientists do believe starts with
  407. 13:36fetal brain development? Why not do some
  408. 13:39studies on that, whether there is an
  409. 13:41you're an environmental lawyer, whether
  410. 13:42there are environmental factors that go
  411. 13:45into contributing to a predisposed
  412. 13:47genetic situation?
  413. 13:48>> Well, let me say this first.
  414. 13:51We're doing all those things and that's
  415. 13:52one of the ways that we found Tylenol.
  416. 13:54There's 73 studies out there
  417. 13:57and link Tylenol exposure during later
  418. 13:59pregnancy and during the perinatal
  419. 14:01period to on to autism onset.
  420. 14:05But
  421. 14:06um you are wrong when you say that this
  422. 14:09issue has been studied.
  423. 14:12It has been studied and you're rolling
  424. 14:13your eyes saying but this
  425. 14:14>> I am because I I don't want I don't want
  426. 14:17to have you use our air to say this.
  427. 14:19There have been more than 40 studies
  428. 14:20involving 5.6 million people to conclude
  429. 14:24there is no link between vaccines and
  430. 14:26autism. This is the head of the
  431. 14:28committee of infectious diseases for the
  432. 14:30American Academy of Pediatrics.
  433. 14:32>> let me tell you what the Institute of
  434. 14:33Medicine has
  435. 14:35says,
  436. 14:36which is the National Academy of
  437. 14:37Sciences,
  438. 14:39which is the ultimate arbiter on vaccine
  439. 14:41safety and which it does not have an
  440. 14:43interest in this debate.
  441. 14:45It says that none of the eight vaccines
  442. 14:49that are administered during the first 6
  443. 14:51months of life
  444. 14:52have ever been [clears throat] studied
  445. 14:54for a relationship to autism. It found
  446. 14:56two studies, one on the DTP vaccine
  447. 15:00that showed that it does cause autism
  448. 15:03and one on the hepatitis B vaccine
  449. 15:06that again suggests that it does cause
  450. 15:08autism.
  451. 15:09The Institute of Medicine dismissed
  452. 15:11those two studies because they were
  453. 15:13based on CDC's database.
  454. 15:16The studies that you're referring to are
  455. 15:18all from one vaccine, MMR vaccine or one
  456. 15:21ingredient, thimerosal.
  457. 15:22>> So, so you are using you are actually
  458. 15:25looking at you're starting new studies
  459. 15:27to try to link autism, but you're also
  460. 15:29telling me
  461. 15:30>> to link autism to anything. I'm trying
  462. 15:32to find out why is autism going up so
  463. 15:35fast?
  464. 15:35>> to Are you also trying to find out how
  465. 15:38it interacts with people's DNA, what's
  466. 15:41predisposed to to to have an autistic
  467. 15:44child? Are you doing both?
  468. 15:46>> Yeah, but but you know, you probably
  469. 15:48don't understand this because you're not
  470. 15:50a scientist, but genes don't cause
  471. 15:52autism.
  472. 15:53>> Genes don't cause autism.
  473. 15:55>> genes epidemic
  474. 15:57>> have a vulnerability,
  475. 15:58but you need
  476. 15:59environmental
  477. 16:00>> that's what I'm asking. Are you studying
  478. 16:02the environmental factors?
  479. 16:03>> the different environmental exposures,
  480. 16:05but
  481. 16:06your statement, you have been fooled.
  482. 16:09Your statement that this has been
  483. 16:10studied is not true. It's categorically
  484. 16:13not true for
  485. 16:14any of this stuff.
  486. 16:15>> It is considered
  487. 16:18>> Considered by who?
  488. 16:19>> By every scientist who has studied this
  489. 16:22>> That is not true. I can give you
  490. 16:24hundreds of scientists who have looked
  491. 16:26at this and said that
  492. 16:27>> you are Do you understand why people
  493. 16:28aren't getting
  494. 16:29>> of Sciences. What greater authority do
  495. 16:32you
  496. 16:32>> understand why people are not getting
  497. 16:33measles vaccines? Cuz they're hearing
  498. 16:35you say that it could cause autism.
  499. 16:37>> to change the subject.
  500. 16:38>> I'm not. It's very much related.
  501. 16:40>> me one of the studies that's been done
  502. 16:42on the first eight the vaccines during
  503. 16:45the first 6 months of life. You will not
  504. 16:47find them.
  505. 16:48The National Academy of Sciences
  506. 16:49>> If that's the case, then why are you
  507. 16:51telling people to get the measles
  508. 16:52vaccine?
  509. 16:53>> because that is one of the vaccines that
  510. 16:55has been studied.
  511. 16:58>> Okay.
  512. 16:58>> It is the only one that has been
  513. 17:00studied.
  514. 17:01>> Do you want people to get the the MMR
  515. 17:04vaccine?
  516. 17:05>> Yeah, I said that already.
  517. 17:06>> Okay. So,
  518. 17:07>> I know you're flustered now, and it is
  519. 17:09it is
  520. 17:10flustered because people want an honest
  521. 17:13answer.
  522. 17:14>> I'm frustrated is because I you are the
  523. 17:16HHH
  524. 17:18you are the HHS secretary and you are
  525. 17:21talking about things that that that lead
  526. 17:24to vaccine hesitancy in this country.
  527. 17:28And and it is something that causes
  528. 17:32problems for people when there is not
  529. 17:34anything
  530. 17:35>> ask you something. Do you see your job
  531. 17:39as an vaccine hesitancy or do you see
  532. 17:41your job as telling the truth to the
  533. 17:43American people?
  534. 17:44>> I see my job as telling the truth and
  535. 17:46the truth is that there is is study
  536. 17:50after study after study. It's one of the
  537. 17:51most studied things out there in science
  538. 17:54>> it like a parrot.
  539. 17:56You're repeating it like a parrot.
  540. 17:58>> So I've actually read the science. Let's
  541. 18:01you and I
  542. 18:02come back here and debate the science.
  543. 18:04I'm not debating this video.
  544. 18:05>> Of course you are.
  545. 18:06>> No, cuz I'm not debating this
  546. 18:07>> to do is repeat things that people told
  547. 18:10you and say trust the experts. That's
  548. 18:12what you did during COVID.
  549. 18:15Now we know that it is Fauci who was the
  550. 18:17expert was lying about everything about
  551. 18:20mass about social distancing about
  552. 18:22natural immunity about the transmission
  553. 18:24from the vaccine
  554. 18:26about the source of COVID. He was lying
  555. 18:29and you were punishing people for not
  556. 18:32trusting the experts and now you're
  557. 18:33rolling out the experts again to talk
  558. 18:36about something that you have no
  559. 18:38personal knowledge of.
  560. 18:39>> Okay, well, guess what?
  561. 18:41That is my job to talk to people
  562. 18:43>> Your job is TO TELL THE TRUTH
  563. 18:45>> JOB YES, YES, and my job is to get as
  564. 18:48much information as I can and what we
  565. 18:50are doing What we are doing
  566. 18:53What we are doing in COVID and and still
  567. 18:58with regard to these vaccines is getting
  568. 18:59the best information the best science
  569. 19:01that we can and putting it out there.
  570. 19:03And sir, you what you are doing is
  571. 19:06causing information to be out there that
  572. 19:09is not accurate.
  573. 19:11>> Who was lying to you?
  574. 19:12>> National Academy of Sciences which you
  575. 19:13just cited in November
  576. 19:16said we support the statement that
  577. 19:18vaccines do not cause autism. This is
  578. 19:21the National Academy of Sciences that
  579. 19:23you just talked about.
  580. 19:24>> Look at the National Academy of Sciences
  581. 19:27most recent report.
  582. 19:28>> Okay.
  583. 19:29>> And you'll see
  584. 19:30>> I I I I want to ask you one other
  585. 19:31question cuz it's something that really
  586. 19:33did help Donald Trump get elected and
  587. 19:35that is the Maha movement and
  588. 19:37specifically the question of processed
  589. 19:39foods.
  590. 19:40>> Of what?
  591. 19:41>> Processed foods and the fact that people
  592. 19:45want to feel that their food is safe.
  593. 19:47My understanding is that you're pushing
  594. 19:48for reforms on food safety and
  595. 19:51ultra-processed foods that have been
  596. 19:52slowed and in some cases blocked by
  597. 19:55people in the administration who are
  598. 19:56working on behalf of the industry. Is
  599. 19:58that true?
  600. 20:01>> No, that is not true.
  601. 20:03>> So you feel that you'll be able to get
  602. 20:05these reforms done without any problems?
  603. 20:07>> I think the grass the two big reforms
  604. 20:10that you're probably talking about is
  605. 20:12ultra-processed food definition.
  606. 20:14>> Mhm. Exactly.
  607. 20:15>> And the grass standards and they've both
  608. 20:16gone through extensive interagency
  609. 20:18process. I'm very confident that we will
  610. 20:21get them both out there within probably
  611. 20:23a month.
  612. 20:24>> Well, I'm sorry that this
  613. 20:26that's good news for people who are
  614. 20:28burying moms
  615. 20:29and I'm one of them who are very worried
  616. 20:31about making sure that our kids eat food
  617. 20:33and we eat food that is that is healthy.
  618. 20:36I'm sorry that this turned into
  619. 20:39a very contentious conversation and my
  620. 20:43job is
  621. 20:44to try to get the best information out
  622. 20:46there and it does concern me when
  623. 20:50you come in and say things that have I I
  624. 20:54>> And you're actually
  625. 20:55arguing with me.
  626. 20:56>> Yeah, people who have science scientific
  627. 20:58backgrounds. And who I know have tried
  628. 21:01to talk to you as well. Thank you for
  629. 21:03coming in.

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