On Capitol Hill this week, health reporter Lauren Weber will be watching a crucial confirmation battle.

It'll play out over two days of hearings, and it will put all eyes on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Yeah, so Robert F. Kennedy Jr., obviously a member of the Kennedy political family,

he did run for president this past year, originally ran as a Democrat, ended up changing

to an independent.

And so I've come here today to declare our independence from the tyranny of corruption,

which robs us of affordable lives.

And then joined forces with Donald Trump and started what's called the Maha movement,

or make America healthy again.

It was my baby boom generation that unleashed the epidemic of chronic disease that as many

America had made America the sickest country in the world.

And he's going to help make America healthy again.

And then Trump picked him to be his nominee for the head of HHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, which is a massive, sprawling bureaucracy that has 80,000 employees to it, that regulates everything from Medicare to Medicaid,

to your food, to your drugs, to your vaccines.

They'd be in the middle of pandemic preparedness.

They touch so many facets of American health care.

But when Lauren started calling around, a dozen top medical and vaccine experts and public health officials raised red flags, especially about Kennedy's past statements on vaccines.

They said that they were very alarmed that the potential head of the Department of Health and Human Services for the United States

could hold any of these beliefs, much less several of them, considering the reams of scientific

evidence that contradict him. They said they could not believe that he continued to push the

false claim that vaccines cause autism. They said they were alarmed at his ability to undertake scientific reasoning.

They said many of the statements he made jumped to conclusions that were not based in science.

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