‘They Deserve The Truth!’: RFK Jr. Squares Off With Colorado Senator In Testy Hearing

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tore into Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) after the latter repeatedly called Kennedy a liar during a heated hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Kennedy had already fielded a series of clearly antagonistic questions about vaccines and recent shake-ups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from several senators before Bennet started in, accusing him of reconfiguring the panel tasked with recommend vaccines and filling the seats with vaccine skeptics. Kennedy conceded that some — including Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the mRNA technology used in the COVID-19 vaccine — were skeptical of the long-term impact of mRNA vaccines, but said that he did not anticipate changes in the recommended vaccines for school children.

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.@SecKennedy says the Trump Administration’s @HHSGov answers to the American people, not the pharmaceutical companies, for the first time in history — sending @SenatorBennet into a deluded fit of rage.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 4, 2025

“I think it’s critical for you to share the evidence that this panel will rely on. Will you give the American people … six weeks in advance, the record that they’re going to rely on to make these decisions? Will you make it transparent for the American people?” Bennet demanded to know.

“All the evidence is transparent,” Kennedy replied.

“Will you make it in advance, transparent for the American people so they can comment?” Bennet asked again.

“On all the evidence? It’s transparent for the first time in history, and you were never there complaining when the pharmaceutical companies were picking those people and then running their products through with no safety …” Kennedy objected.

“You can … characterize it any way you want. I quoted them today. What I said was accurate. What you said were lies!” Bennet claimed.

“Senator, are you saying the mRNA vaccine has never been associated with myocarditis and pericarditis?” Kennedy asked, referring to Bennet’s earlier claim that he had lied about there being risks associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.

“I am saying, I am simply trying to say that the people that you have put on that panel, after firing the entire —” Bennet attempted to interrupt.

“You are evading the question!” Kennedy pointed out.

Bennet, incensed, shouted back, “No, I’m asking the questions here! I’m asking the questions, Mr. Kennedy, on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership. That’s what this conversation is about.”

Kennedy had the last word in response, saying, “They deserve the truth. And that’s what we’re going to give them. For the first time in the history of that agency!”