Senator Tina Smith

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The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | RFK Jr. Faces the Senate in his Confirmation Hearing - January 29th, 2025 · 29 Jan 2025 podcast

I think it may be RFK Jr.

Uh-oh.

They're not talking about cable news.

Come on.

Senator Smith, Mr. Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair and ranking member and welcome, Mr. Kennedy.

So, Mr. Kennedy, I don't have a question for you on abortion.

I think that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have covered this, but I want to say I can respect people who have different views.

than mine on this issue, but it's hard for me to respect people who won't give a straight answer to what they think on this issue in particular.

Mr. Chair, I just want to note that I understand that anti choice advocates have said that in these hearings they were looking to hear Mr. Kennedy provide some reassurance that he is on their side, and I'm not hearing that.

And I think most Americans are looking for some hint that the decisions that people make about abortion should be personal and private, and they should be free to make those decisions without government interference.

And I'm not hearing that either to make it worse.

The answers that you have given tell me that the Trump administration is more than willing to restrict or even ban medication abortion without a single act of Congress and even in states where abortion is legal and what is cleared.

to me is that you and President Trump are dangerous to women's access to Mifepristone.

So having said that, I want to move to a different topic.

Mr. Kennedy, I appreciate Senator Cornyn's questions about mental and behavioral health, something that I care a lot about.

I know that you and your family have had personal experience with mental health challenges, as have I. And I agree that the mental health crisis in this country is a crisis.

So let me ask you in an interview in 2023 and again in 2024, you blamed school shootings on antidepressants, you said, and this is a quote.

There is no time in American history or human history that kids were going to shoot schools and shooting their classmates.

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