RFK heads to confirmation.

USAID is on the chopping block, and CDC data disappears.

This is America Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al-Said.

And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jadalina.

Caitlin. Dr. Abdul, I'll say it. And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jadalina. Caitlin, I don't know how many times more I can say it, but what a week.

This is, it feels like it gets more and more unhinged.

That's the strategy, right?

The strategy is to overwhelm and flood the system so people can't

organize. They can't get behind one topic. And I think that we can't lose that this is a tactic.

We and we have to figure out how to, I don't know, process this fire hose of information.

It was a famous podcast interview with Steve Bannon from the first Trump administration where he said that the tactic should be to flood the zone with shit.

Yep.

And the zone is definitely being flooded and it's all shit.

And, you know, the interesting thing about it is that, like, once they shake the ship of state, the insecurity that comes out of that is so debilitating that they expect that we're just going to roll over

and take it.

And what's maybe the worst of all is that a lot of folks who know better are just kind of

going along with it, right?

And I think that's the thing to me that's just the most disheartening,

which kind of takes us to our first story of the week, which is the fact that, well,

RFK had his hearing before the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health Health Committee.

And I want to play a clip for you here from Senator Elizabeth Warren from his questioning.

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