‘Wow!’ Ex-Trump Vax Chief Stuns CNN Anchor — Flat-Out Declares RFK Jr. ‘Lied To Congress!’

Former Trump Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Dr. Demetre Daskalakis stunned CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins by bluntly declaring that Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “lied to Congress” at a trainwreck Senate hearing.

Kennedy spent several hours being bombarded with questions from both sides of the aisle at a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. The HHS secretary was defiant and combative throughout the hearing as senators grilled him about his fringe medical opinions and the policy decisions they have driven.

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the anchor interviewed Daskalakis, who was among a raft of senior officials who resigned in the wake of President Donald Trump’s disputed firing of CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez, about the hearing.

Collins was taken aback when Dr. Daskalakis accused Kennedy of perjuring himself repeatedly:

COLLINS: Have you heard from your former colleagues today, who were watching the incredibly combative hearing, what they have to say about it?

DASKALAKIS: I mean, yes, we definitely have been talking with each other. And I think, mainly, we were just stunned at the number of mistruths that we heard.

We heard that David Geier (ph) was not doing research. That’s not true. He is, in fact, doing research. He is looking at the vaccine safety data link. You can talk to my colleague, Dr. Jernigan, who can go into great detail on that. We heard that we briefed him. That is also untrue.

We heard that he never told Susan that she shouldn’t be involved in making any decisions for vaccine policy. That is also untrue.

We heard him evade the answer about how many people died of Covid. I think that he just doesn’t want to answer the question, because he wants to minimize the impact of vaccine.

So, we were sitting, listening to this, going, we can’t believe the state of our country, that the head of the health agency for the United States is actually standing before Congress, just continually making things up. He did not tell the truth.

COLLINS: So, you’re saying he lied to Congress?

DASKALAKIS: He lied to Congress.

COLLINS: Wow!

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, thank you for joining us tonight.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.