President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will investigate for any potential links between childhood vaccines and autism, he told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker in a Friday interview which aired Sunday.
Welker pressed Trump on Kennedy’s stances on childhood vaccines and asked Trump if he’d like to see them eliminated.
“If they’re dangerous for the children,” Trump responded. “When you look at some of the problems, when you look at what’s going on with disease and sickness in our country, something’s wrong.”
“Are you talking about autism?” Welker asked.
“Well, if you take a look at autism — go back 25 years — autism was almost non-existent, it was one out of 100,000. And now it’s close to one out of 100. I mean, what’s happening?” Trump asked.
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