Ousted CDC Director details why she was fired by RFK Jr.
September 17, 2025
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2:46Now PlayingOusted CDC Director details why she was fired by RFK Jr.
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as posted by the channel"Regarding trustworthiness, I cannot define that word for Secretary Kennedy.” Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, details what Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed her to do before she was fired. Monarez said she refused to approve vaccine recommendations without evidence or fire career officials without cause, but "was never misaligned with the administration priorities." Monarez gave her account of the conversation today: “I told the secretary that if he believed he could not trust me, he could fire me.”
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