Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has used his platform to spread misleading and false claims about vaccine safety, is expected to play a significant public health role in the next Trump administration. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Dr. Richard Besser, the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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• Amna Nawaz:

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has used his prominent platform to spread misleading and false claims about vaccine safety, is expected to play a big public health role in the next Trump administration.

  When asked about vaccines in a podcast interview last July, Kennedy said this:

• Question:

  Can you name any vaccines that you think are good?

• Robert F. Kennedy JR., Former Presidential Candidate:

  I think some of the live virus vaccines are probably — solve — averting more problems than they're causing. There's no vaccine that is safe and effective.

• Amna Nawaz:

  But, yesterday, the former Democrat who ran for president as an independent before endorsing Donald Trump said this in an interview with NBC:

• Robert F. Kennedy:

  If vaccines are working for somebody, I'm not going to take them away. People ought to have a choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information. So I'm going to make sure the scientific safety studies and efficacies are out there, and people can make individual assessments...

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