KAITLAN COLLINS: A few minutes ago, President-elect Donald Trump concluded while speaking at the Mar-a-Lago Club; here the room was filled with several people with whom he had just named his incoming cabinet; The latest and most controversial pick is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump chose to be the nation’s Surgeon General despite the vaccine skeptic having no medical degree or public health experience.

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DONALD TRUMP: I nominated him today, I think, if you like health care and if you like people living long periods of time, this is the most important position. RFK Jr.

And now I looked at the news. People love you, Bobby. Don’t be too popular, Bobby. Don’t do that. (Laughter)

TRUMP: You know, you’ve reached this level now. We want you to uncover the things and ideas you’ve been talking about for a long time.

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COLLINS: With this pick, Trump is tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services.

If confirmed by the Senate, which is still the case tonight, Kennedy would oversee the operations of agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the CDC, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, which provides health care. He cares for millions of Americans, to name a few of the responsibilities he will have.

And to say that RFK Jr. is a vaccine skeptic is truly understating the matter. He has pushed conspiracy theories and lied about science on many occasions.

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., TRUMP’S HEALTH SECRETARY’S CHOICE: Very small amounts of mercury, as little as one part per billion, will cause profound neurological damage in children. It comes from our own vaccine.

COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people with the most immunity are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.

The capacity of these chemicals that we are now showering on our children to trigger these very profound sexual changes in them is something that we need to think about as a society.

Even in Hitler’s Germany, you can cross the Alps to Switzerland and hide in the attic like Anne Frank did.

Today, mechanisms are being put into effect to ensure that none of us can escape and none of us can hide. They use 5G to collect our data and control our behavior.

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COLLINS: Needless to say, that’s not true.

But tonight I’ll tell you how we got here. RFK Jr. of course, he had launched his own presidential run. He later resigned to help Trump get 270 delegate votes and later formed a tight-knit relationship with the Republican candidate, who promised on the campaign trail that he would let Kennedy run wild on health policy if he won. Now Kennedy might get that chance.

Just a few days ago we heard from RFK that he was threatening the FDA with mass layoffs. “The FDA’s war on public health is about to end… Protect your records and… Pack your bags,” he said.

Tonight, he said in a slightly different tone: “I look forward to working with the more than 80,000 employees at HHS to unleash agency… so they can pursue their mission of making Americans once again the healthiest people on earth.”