RFK Jr. Grilled by Senate Democrats Who Want him Fired and Republicans He Lied To
We begin today’s contentious hearing before the Senate Finance Committee where HHS Secretary RFK Jr. was grilled by Democrats who want him fired and Republicans he had lied to in his confirmation when he promised not to mess with vaccines. Joining us is Thomas Bollyky, director of the global health program and senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a professor of law at Georgetown University. Bollyky is the author of Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways and the founder and managing editor of Think Global Health, an online magazine that examines the ways health shapes economies, societies, and everyday lives around the world. He has a recent article at Foreign Affairs, “America’s Pill Problem: Tariffs Won’t Fix the Country’s Reliance on Foreign Medicines.”
A Congressional Reporter on the Women Abused And Trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell as Trump, the DOJ and the House Speaker Fight to Keep the Epstein Files From the Public
Then we speak with a congressional reporter who covered yesterday’s press conference in front of the Capitol where women who had been sexually abused and trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell spoke at a bipartisan event organized by Congressmen Ro Khanna and Tom Massie aimed at pressuring the House Speaker into releasing all of the Epstein files the DOJ and Trump are fighting to keep from the public. Joining us is Juliegrace Brufke, a congressional reporter covering the Washington landscape for 24Sight News whose work has appeared in the Washington Examiner, the Daily Beast, the New York Post and the Hill and she has appeared as a political commentator on CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN and Fox News.
The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East
Then finally we speak with Jonathan Guyer, program director at the Institute for Global Affairs at the Eurasia Group. A reporter and editor focused on foreign policy, national security, and the Middle East, he is an Arabic and Hebrew speaker and spent 5 years as a correspondent in Egypt. He is regular contributor at The New Republic, New York Magazine, and The Guardian among others, and we discuss his latest article at The New Republic, “America’s Gaza Policy Is a Bipartisan Catastrophe”