It's time for a very special high wire sponsored by I can legislate, which allows me to have a little bit more freedom to talk about what's happening here in Washington, D.C., and especially the Kennedy hearings, the HHS Secretary hearings, both the Finance Committee and today, the Health Committee, these last two days.

I'm here inside of the Heritage Foundation's headquarters.

I want to thank Heritage Foundation for giving us this beautiful podcasting studio.

We've been working on some workarounds trying to get their studio with our studio to all meld together,

which is why we're a little bit late today.

But I want to thank my team for, as always, making miracles happen.

And we're here for this very special moment in time, really, moment in history.

I've got Jeffrey Tucker coming up in just a little while from Brownstone Institute to talk about what he's seen in these hearings.

That's going to be very exciting and interesting to get his perspective.

But first, you know, lots of fireworks, a lot of interesting things happened yesterday in the Finance Committee.

And this is what that looked like.

I thank my colleagues and Mr. Kennedy for being here today. Mr. Kennedy, congratulations on your nomination.

Your commitment to combating chronic conditions that drive health care costs will be critical to our success.

Prioritizing disease prevention will save lives, reduce costs, and build a healthier, stronger

country.

I'm humbled to be sitting here today as President Trump's nominee, oversee the U.S. Department

of Health and Human Services.

I want to thank President Trump for entrusting me to

deliver on his promise to make America healthy again. In recent years, particularly during the COVID

pandemic, there's been a lot of skepticism about our public health institutions. If confirmed, Mr.

Kenny, how will you work to regain the public's trust?

Through radical transparency, the reason people don't trust the public health agencies

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