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Nov 2024
47m 40s

Make America Healthy Again?

CNN
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On the same day Republicans officially score a governing trifecta - president, House, Senate - Donald Trump names infamous vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health & Human Services. Meanwhile, the timing of Matt Gaetz's resignation from the House immediately following his selection as Attorney General raises serious questions. And Dems continue their post-election soul searching as they try to determine what went wrong. 

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