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It's a great day. As you said, it's looking good for RFK. And here's what Bill Cassidy said. As you know, as a Republican who voted to impeach Trump and many people thought, oh, he's going to get Trump back. He's going to vote against him, not get him out of committee.
Cut 37. The science is credible. Vaccines save lives. They are safe.
They do not cause autism. Mr. Kennedy has asked for my input into hiring decisions at HHS beyond Senate confirmed positions. He committed that they help committee chair, whether it's me or someone else, may choose a representative on any board or commission formed to review vaccine safety. These commitments and my expectation that we can have a great working relationship to make America healthy again is the basis of my support.
You OK with that, Kelly? Yeah, Brian, I think I think Senator Cassidy coming on board and RFK appearing to be, as you said, still under confirmation, I think this is the biggest cabinet pick of our lives. I mean, I think more people have been paying attention to this. And I think this is just a massive win for President Trump of really the grassroots going up against the most powerful industry in the country on Senator Cassidy specifically. I think you saw in the hearings they were speaking past each other. Senator Cassidy's been making Medicare, Medicaid policy has been deep in the public health policy for decades. And Bobby Kennedy isn't in the weeds on Medicare.
Medicare policy would be American America healthy again movement, which he's been talking about is it's it's much larger than the nuances of our Medicare Part D page 300. The problem is and the reason costs are going up and the reason human capital America is going down is because we're getting sick. And the reason we're getting sick isn't the policy intricacies, it's the fact that we're subsidizing ultra processed food for our kids. 60 to 70 percent snap is ultra processed food, 18 percent of soda food stamps. And then and then the system just fundamentally every gear of the system profits when somebody gets sick and stays sick with chronic disease.
And that's 95 percent of medical spending is managing chronic disease. So so Bobby talked about that higher level. And I think what happened in the conversation between Cassidy and Bobby is they actually realized they have a shared goal, which is health, trust and public health. And the trust in public health has not declined because of Bobby Kennedy.
It's declined because of the public health authorities. So, yeah, I think it's totally fine that they're going to work together. I think they both genuinely want the same thing and are actually come at it from different levels.
And I think they'll have a great working relationship. Here's what he said. I thought this was one of his finest moments on why he wants this job. Now, think about it. His family has abandoned him.
Caroline Kennedy saying the most horrific things possible about anybody, let alone somebody who's your cousin. But this is why he did it. Cut 39. The first thing I've done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic. I know how to fix it. And there's nobody who will fix it the way that I do, because I'm not scared of vested interests. I don't care.
I'm not here because I want a position or a job. I have a very good life and a happy family. So I think that resonated.
And what about you? I think it resonated because it's true. I think we're the Democrats. And let's be clear, I think the Democrats really disgrace themselves in this hearing. I think one of the one of the worst parts is when Ron White and Melisabeth Warren, they didn't just talk about the policy differences. They actually questioned his motivations.
They actually said, you want kids to be sick. And I think any American watching knows that Bobby Kennedy is in this for the right reasons. Whether you agree or disagree with the nuances of what he's saying.
This man has given up everything. He's put it all on the line, you know, in really marshaling Americans' conscience towards this idea of why the heck are we getting so sick? Why are 38 percent of American teens pre-diabetic? Why are 50 percent of teens overweight or obese?
And it's like three percent of Japan. I can tell you from from from being close to him over the past six months and watching really that the emotional conversations between him and Trump lead to the endorsement. This is not about politics. You know, what the what the Republicans are saying about healthy food and health. This is stuff liberals would have been saying 10 years ago. This is totally nonpartisan.
This is a this is a real legacy item that President Trump thinks he can achieve. I'm just just really getting back to science on why we're getting sick, re-establishing our medical guidelines. Right now, the American Medical Association recommends a zinc for 12 year olds. It recommends a stat.
And once it's once a six year old has high cholesterol, it recommends an SSRI when a 12 year old is a little bit sad. You know, we need to get back those codes. Those codes also say two year olds can have gender transition surgery. The U.S. government codes say that which we outsource the American Medical Association.
So that's what Bobby's passionate about. I always go, Brian, the Democrats said the word measles 25 times in the first hearing. They said the word chronic disease, diabetes, obesity, zero times.
Three hundred people a year died of measles before the invention of the vaccine. It's a problem. But but that's just not what Bobby's focused on. He's focused on these big issues.
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Absolutely. So the question is how to do it. How do you work inside that mammoth organization to question everything and make people prove that these things are right?
And, for example, when I was talking to a member of a staff yesterday that was trying to get him elected as independent, he said he was a journalist. And he was saying that instead of just saying a study said this, I asked myself, who did the study? When's the last time the study was done? How big was the focus group? How big was the test group?
And a lot of the answers were insufficient. You never question the study. You deal with its conclusions.
You never go back and say, how did they get those conclusions? That's what I think he's going to do. And he'll be smart to call up Cassidy and say, doctor, senator, this is what I found. Before you hear it in the Washington Post, this is what I found.
This has to disturb you. Do you think he's going to find that there's a lot of things that we've wrongly concluded by studies we didn't commission? Brian, 50 percent of FDA studies that require drug approval processes can't be replicated. I actually am totally fine with what Senator Cassidy said, because Bobby's not going in there with opinions.
It does not matter what Bobby's opinions are. And he said this. He's going in to get money to the best scientists. So I actually think it's very simple. The principles of MAHA are that the American people want to be healthy. The incentives are in the way. So let's fix the incentives. And this idea of informed consent and patient choice.
So let's just go real quick what Bobby can do in the next year and go by the agency. So the NIH right now, 85 percent of the research is pharmaceutical R&D. It's a revolving door for the pharmaceutical industry. He's going to work with Jay Bhattacharya and fulfill President Trump's mandate to get back to foundational science.
And I truly mean this, Brian. The people on the left won't believe this. But when Bobby and Kennedy and President Trump talk about the NIH, they have zero ideology. They literally just want to get money back to scientists right now. So that's a big actually win for the NIH, because that science then underlies our standard of care.
As I said, right now, heart disease is seen as a statin deficiency, obesity is seen as a zip deficiency. There's been zero research on why we're getting Alzheimer's. There's billions of dollars of research on Band-Aids for Alzheimer's, which are ineffective. So the NIH is very important. The FDA right now, 75 percent of it's funded by pharma for drug approvals. We simply need to deregulate and have better incentives that we're going to get approvals to the best and most innovative therapeutics to prevent and reverse disease. Right now, 90 percent of drugs coming out of the FDA are for management of disease, not curing management, which is profitable for the industry. It costs $3 billion to get a drug through, which is a big pharma ploy to basically only have non-innovative management techniques come through.
And the last, Brian, is the CMS. What the research and the FDA approval processes do is they get to the big kahuna, which is our CMS codes. These underlie 20 percent of the U.S. economy in every single medical decision we make. And when you have better research and have a better FDA, you can actually have CMS codes that prevent and reverse disease. I mean, why, for obesity, aren't we working on better food for our kids? That could be a medical code. Why, when somebody's depressed, do we drug them right away and not have more personalized therapeutics? Why aren't we doing more personalized blood testing to figure out nutrient deficiencies? These could all be incentivized by our system.
So taking on the American Medical Association, which makes those codes, that's the framework. And I think we can get these things done quickly, Brian. Callie means, by the way, you don't have any issue that resonates with more people than the ones you and your sister brought up in your book. Is it, I have more people talking about those interviews I do with you than any other interview, including breaking news. But are you thinking about joining him?
Would there be something in there for you? Well, I've been working every day to make sure we get the great appointments in and do whatever I can to help Bobby. Casey and I are right now planning to stay on, help however we can from the outside.
And I think we have an incredible team with Marty Makary, Jay Bhattacharya, Mehmet Oz, that we're going to do whatever we possibly can to help from the outside, Brian. Okay. Couple of things. There's another issue, and that's this whole trans issue and puberty blockers and gender dysphoria. In New York City, not only are they not on board with what Trump's talking about, they're protesting that he's even saying that you should wait till you're 18 to change your gender.
Listen to, listen to Cynthia Nixon, she actually ran for mayor, cut 48. I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man. I am here today as the aunt of a proud trans man. My best friend's kid is trans, and my kid's best friend is trans. Congratulations.
Is anyone sticking to their same gender at all in her life? I've never seen a roster like that, but she's saying she's protesting the fact that teens will not be able to get their gender switched. Where does that fall in his things to do list? Because that's going to go to HHS, too.
Oh, Brian, it's top of the list. As I said, the American Medical Association, which we outsource our codes to, they actually say two year olds, two year olds. They don't actually have a limitation on gender transition surgery age, not just gender affirming care.
This is evil. And I think the gender transition and gender affirming care is actually a great example of what Bobby's been talking about, which is the total corporate capture and moral depravity of our health care incentives. You have to understand the pharmaceutical companies are the largest funders right now of civil rights groups and LGBT groups like the Human Rights Campaign. They're funded dark money by the pharma industry to berate anyone as a bigot for questioning whether a child should be getting gender affirming care, because there's millions and millions of dollars to be made, excuse me, billions of dollars to be made from these surgeries. So you have Europe and very progressive countries outright banning these barbaric surgeries. And you still in our system where the pharmaceutical industry is the biggest funder of politicians, the biggest funder of regulatory agencies, the biggest funder of many of our information sources, they've been able to create this narrative where you're a bigot for opposing this.
I mean, thank God for President Trump. I mean, already the HHS website, the word birthing person has been changed back to mother. Yes, they took the word mother off some parts of government websites.
Harvard Medical School still doesn't allow people to use the word mother. I mean, this is a spiritual, dark issue. I think, Brian, if you really sum up what Bobby Kennedy and what President Trump said, we sum up why, you know, frankly, our interviews have been so impactful, why this issue has been so impactful. It's because of this message of stay the heck away from kids. I actually think it's a unifying theory of President Trump. And really what Bobby Kennedy is talking about.
So this is a great example of this. It's just so weird to say to someone, I think girls should play against girls and trans athletes. It's not fair. It's dangerous.
Why that's even a debate, but it is. And it really worked for this election because common sense played a role. Kelly, that's what you have.
I don't see a conservative or a liberal. I just see somebody who sees a huge problem in America that's correctable. And maybe we're on our way to doing that. I'll believe it when the whole Senate votes, but it's going to happen. He's going to get through. Kelly Means, thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. You got it. And also pick up his book, Good Energy. Your turn.
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