'A six resignation kind of day' at DOJ following Trump's sketchy deal with NYC mayor Eric Adams
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It is one of those days. We are watching so many different stories and there's so much to report on tonight. On the day that they swore in a new U.S. health secretary who has spent his whole adult life railing against vaccines, we now have word of a new outbreak of measles in the United States. In Texas, at least 22 children infected and two adults. Measles, of course, is an illness that can be prevented by If you are vaccinated against it. But the Texas Department of State Health Services says none of the 24 people infected in Texas have been vaccinated. Now, nine of them have been hospitalized. And Texas is saying that they expect this outbreak to grow. Measles, of course, can kill you. Measles was all but eradicated in our country by the year 2000. But now in this era of rampant conspiracy theories and lies about vaccines promoted by influential people, this county in Texas where this measles outbreak is occurring, Gaines County, Texas, it has one of the lowest childhood vaccination rates in that state.
The CDC also today belatedly published new data that shows human beings, specifically veterinarians, are getting bird flu now, apparently from contact not with birds, but with infected cattle. A multi-species outbreak now. This is data the CDC had and had ready to publish three weeks ago. It was supposed to be published then. So among other things, people who work with cattle could start taking steps to protect themselves. But the Trump administration shut down scientific publications from the government, including the CDC. So we did not get this crucial and worrying news until today. We did, though, today get the swearing in of new health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said that who said, you know, as he was getting ready to take the helm of America's health system, he said publicly that we should take an eight year long break as a nation from any work at all on infectious diseases. Right. So there's that.
I should tell you tomorrow we're expecting a fairly large scale protest starting at 8 a.m. Eastern at the headquarters of the Health and Human Services Department in Washington as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. starts his first full day on the job. So keep an eye on that in tomorrow's headlines. Today, there were disruptive protests at the confirmation hearing for Trump's education secretary nominee, Linda McMahon. She does not have much of a background in education. She did run a pro wrestling company. Protesters at her confirmation hearing today used wrestling slogans to interrupt her testimony and shout about the Trump administration's evident plans to get rid of the whole Department of Education. Under sharp questioning from Democratic senators today, Linda McMahon said at one point that she did not know if it should be legal or if it is legal, in her view, for a school in America to offer a class on black history.
She said today at her confirmation hearing that she was, quote, not quite certain whether teaching a black history class or taking a black history class might be illegal now in her eyes. today at a school in Belgium that the U.S. military operates for families of U.S. service members serving abroad. The New York Times reports that teachers scrambled to remove, quote, Harriet Tubman posters, origami paper cranes, and depictions of rainbows in the classroom. That was ahead of an expected visit from the wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was traveling with her husband on his thus far disastrous first trip abroad in his new job as the head of the Pentagon. According to The Times tonight, quote, teachers were worried that the poster, the origami cranes and the rainbows would be seen as signs of black, Japanese or gay culture. And therefore what? Contraband. So the teachers took them down. Pete Hegseth's wife did not come visit that classroom anyway. But still, Mr. Hegseth on his first overseas trip has been a bit of a dud.
Headline, Hegseth stumbles out of the gate. Headline, Hegseth softens stance. Quote, the clarification appeared designed to address the backlash in Washington and in Europe ignited by his remarks. Pete Hegseth having essentially told the world that Ukraine was giving needed to give away all of its leverage in any potential peace negotiations with Russia ahead of those peace negotiations starting.
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