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DEL ADDRESSES THE RFK JR MEASLES OP-ED

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Del takes a candid look at Robert F Kennedy’s controversial Fox News op-ed about the measles outbreak, pointing out specific remarks he disagrees with, but also important facts about vaccines never before disclosed by a high ranking public health leader.

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0:00.0

Lots of conversations, obviously, this week about Robert Kennedy Jr.

0:05.0

He's now HHS secretary.

0:07.0

We're seeing this measles thing ramp up.

0:10.0

We covered it in depth last week.

0:12.0

I got into science that I don't think you've seen anywhere else.

0:16.0

But Robert Kennedy Jr. made some statements he put out an op-ed and a lot of people are panicking

0:21.2

about it, especially those that consider themselves in this medical freedom movement or

0:25.5

vaccine risk awareness movement.

0:27.1

This is that article.

0:28.3

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Measles outbreak is call to action for all of us.

0:32.8

The subheading MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease. I want to make one thing clear

0:40.2

before I even get started. I did not see that second line written anywhere in this article, right?

0:46.1

That is the editors, I guess, at Fox or somebody put the headlines on that, but I didn't see that.

0:52.4

Can we bring it back up? You can read the article yourself,

0:55.1

but I did not see anywhere where Robert Kennedy Jr. said the MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding

1:00.4

potentially deadly disease. Anyway, but I will talk about what he did say. Some of it that I approve

1:08.5

of. Some of it I don't necessarily.

1:12.7

I'm going to talk about why.

1:13.9

And for many of you watching, you know that I was a part of Robert Kennedy Jr.'s director

1:18.4

of communications.

1:19.5

That job ended the moment he put his hand in the Bible and went in as HHS secretary.

1:24.7

So I am no longer working for him.

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