Face The Nation’s Margaret Brennan challenged Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) — a trained physician — about why so many prominent Republicans have been denouncing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent answers on vaccines during last week’s contentious Senate hearing.

Brennan played video of Republican Whip Sen. John Barrasso (WY) and the chair of the Senate Finance Committee Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — both of whom are also physicians — denouncing RFK Jr.’s record as Health and Human Services Secretary.

During the hearing, Barrasso addressed Kennedy, saying, “In your confirmation hearings you promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines. Since then, I’ve grown deeply concerned. The public has seen measles outbreaks, leadership of the National Institute of Health questioning the use of mRNA vaccines, the recently confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired. Americans don’t know who to rely on.”

Brennan asked, “Why do you think they’re off-base in their concern?”

“Look, President Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be a disrupter to the CDC, and that’s exactly what he’s doing,” Marshall answered. “He’s focused on making the CDC more transparent, to make it more trustworthy right now. Right now, Americans don’t trust the CDC. So, he is literally turning that place upside down.”

Since taking the helm at HHS, Kennedy has fired the head of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, which caused a cascade of other top employees to quit. In addition, more than 1,000 HHS employees have called on Kennedy to resign for “endangering the nation’s health.”

Marshall continued:

I respect what my colleagues are saying. But this whole issue…in that meeting was about vaccines. In my humble opinion not every person needs every vaccine. And I don’t think there are many children out there who need 76 jabs by the time they’re old enough to vote.

But before you label me a non-vaxxer person, look, I’ve raised money for polio vaccinations. The MMR is a great vaccines, it’s saved thousands of lives. Vaccines, overall, have saved hundreds of millions of lives but not every person needs every vaccine and we just want to empower parents and the doctors to make great decisions.

Watch the clip above via CBS News.

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