‘How Can You Be That Ignorant?!’ Democrat Loses It On RFK Jr. In Heated Hearing Exchange
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) lost his cool while questioning Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday after Kennedy could not say how many Americans died from Covid-19.
Warner questioned Kennedy at length and at one point asked, “Just again, some basic facts. Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from Covid?”
Kennedy replied, “I don’t know how many died.”
“You’re the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You don’t have any idea how many Americans died from Covid?” Warner responded.
“I don’t think anybody knows that because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC, and there were so many perverse incentives,” Kennedy replied.
“You don’t know the answer to how many Americans died from Covid. This is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Do you think the vaccine did anything to prevent additional deaths?” Warner pressed.
Kennedy said, “Again, I would like to see the data and talk about the data.”
Warner hit back, “You have had this job for eight months and you don’t know the data about whether the vaccine saved lives?”
Kennedy answered, “No, and that’s the problem—they didn’t have the data. The data from the Biden administration was absolutely dismal, which is data chaos.”
“So who is politicizing? You’re saying the Biden administration politicized all the data?” Warner shot back as the Kennedy claimed the Biden administration fired critics.
Warner then tore into Kennedy, “So, Mr. Chairman, the Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn’t know how many Americans died from Covid, doesn’t know if the vaccine helped prevent any deaths, and you are sitting as Secretary of Health and Human Services? How can you be that ignorant?”
Warner went on, “Like, you know, I remember when we went to the hearing with you, I asked you about community health centers. You didn’t know what role they play. I’ve been visiting communities. I’m glad you got to one, I think in April. I’ll tell you what I hear at community health centers—they are terrified, with all due respect to my good friend the chairman, of the big awful bill, because they are going to lose healthcare across the board. They already live in food deserts. They can’t get to nutritious [food] because Medicaid doesn’t provide enough reimbursement. If you want Americans to get healthier, should they have access to nutritionists? Should they have access to good science about healthy food?”
Kennedy responded, “Absolutely.”
Warner asked, “Well then, how is that going to happen with the Medicaid cuts that are taking place?”
Kennedy replied, “There are no cuts to Medicaid.”
Warner said, “Sir, that is absurd. There is not a single—some of my Republican colleagues—but there is not a single study that does not… I can tell you, I was in Franklin, Virginia a couple days ago. The rural hospital is going to close. The hospital system was so afraid they wouldn’t even let me have the meeting there. But that rural hospital is going to close, and they are looking for where those folks are going to go. I mean, you’re supposed to be doing healthcare policy, not being the doctor in residence for all of America. I hope—I can just say, I’m still going to trust my doctor rather than your health advice. And obviously, Tom Cotton is going to—who knows who he’s going to trust. But let me go back to policy for a couple seconds. Maybe we’ll lower the temperature a little bit.”
Watch the clip above.
