Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmed as HHS Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate as the Director of Health and Human Services with a final vote of 52 to 48. Senator Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to vote against the appointment. The confirmation follows significant public debate regarding Kennedy's stance on the pharmaceutical industry and public health.
robert f. kennedy jr· hhs· mitch mcconnell· big pharma· senate confirmation
00:00 Please send help! Good morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where there's now a Kennedy in the Republican administration! What? That's right, breaking news at this hour! Alright the presidents pick for director of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr has officially just been confirmed The final tally was 52 to 48 it fell pretty much down party lines as expected Yeah...it wasn't expected There were a lot of consternation People like I don't know Big Pharma won't let him in
00:58 Well, Big Pharma something happened. They screwed the pooch! The only one of course who voted against him is voted against every Trump appointee as Mitch McConnell the turtle Why do you think he voted against all of the nominees? He's a jerk...He always has been Yeah I guess What else could it be? I don't know. Not much of a Republican. Kentucky should have voted him out and he's got brain freeze, he has something wrong with him. Brain damage There is a brain freeze moment of him almost every single day Can you dig up the three clips that i asked for the other day The Kennedy clips and this is one thing...I'm gonna write this as one of my columns Because I wanted..He's okay He got in
01:48 Big talker, you know. He's gonna do this and he's gonna do that and everybody is jacked up about it I mean people who care about health Yeah And the big pharma and all the issues we have in this country Mm-hmm So he made some promises Do ya wanna start with the first one? Yes, and I just want to mention that We documented this sometime ago I am now going to...I think we should hold him accountable and make sure these promises are noted! Yes, promise is made, promise is kept The first one, pharma advertising. I'm not intimidated by the agencies. I know how they work and i know how to change them and most of those changes you do not need congress for the president president trump could have done it had the power to do it himself and president biden has the power to do it himself and i'll give you an example with a stroke of the pen You can change back the rule
02:42 that allows pharmaceutical advertisers to do direct-to-consumer ads on television. That's one of the big problems, that's why one of the reasons we have this entrenched agency capture not only of Congress because they control the airwaves they control evening news 75% of their revenues for those evening news shows are you know Anderson Cooper is coming from Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies so And those companies are dictating content on those shows and they dictate the official narratives. And they're able then to exercise huge control over Congress, so Congress is terrified of them but with a stroke in the pen you can say this is not good for the health of our country which it isn't we spend three times more than any other country for pharmaceutical drugs because all this advertising. Stroke of the Pen! I should mention something that he was thinking about
03:35 which is that these, you know how they make a big deal? You can't give medical advice. You can't do this because it's like I don't know if it's illegal or I don't what the deal is but you can be like a podcaster saying and then when you do that you shouldn't be, medical advice. You can't with the stock market for example, you can't... I think it's you shouldn't. I don't know if you can to say that you shouldn't. I think there is some rule or law or some code violation if you do it but these advertisers that's all they do! I would say in this administration you can do pretty much whatever you want
04:14 You can say what you want. You can have your kid picking his nose on TV and rubbing it on the Resolute desk, I mean you could do anything these days! Great! What a time to be alive did you not see that? Yeah i didn't see the nose-picking thing but this is a surprise. And he rubbed it on the desk! Oh that kid... X Is that the ex-kid? That's x yeah All right. Okay, so that's what Kennedy would okay That has to go and I agree with that because that will change the media landscape completely Oh it would bankrupt him What will they do? Well, I think a lot of we'll know that well What will they do they'll have to actually do their job and get real advertisers They have to do this do it the old-fashioned way Yeah back to back sitting there taking orders over the phone back to beer boobs and bikinis come on people
