What Is RFK Jr. After?
In numerous interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Atlantic Editor Michael Scherer explains how he plans to remake America’s public health system. Scherer joined Washington Week with the Atlantic to discuss its history and what the Secretary of Health and Human Services might be looking for.
“What we know about RFK is the caricature that he is caught in – this daily battle between those who think he is destroying science and those who think he is attacking the establishment,” Scherer said last night. Less well known, however, is how “he went from Democratic Party outsider” to HHS Secretary in the Trump administration.
“I think the answer is that it’s a fiercely determined person who is on a quest,” Scherer continued. “He was able to overcome enormous obstacles and enormous detractors to really not lose confidence in his own vision of what he does.”
Join the editor-in-chief of The AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Scherer, editor at The Atlantic; Dan Diamond, White House reporter for The Washington Post; and Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent and podcast host What is health has KFF Health News.
Watch the full episode here.
