CNN's Dana Bash clashes with RFK Jr. during interview about COVID, Fauci, measles

“Trump, as you recall, wanted to end the lockdowns. I think the thing that did the most damage to our country was the lockdowns,” Kennedy says

Published: August 2, 2026 2:29pm

CNN's Dana Bash clashed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during an interview related to the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines.

"You tweeted back in 2024 that [President Trump] let bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci shut down the entire country. Again, the president was in charge," Bash said to Kennedy.

“Trump, as you recall, wanted to end the lockdowns. I think the thing that did the most damage to our country was the lockdowns,” he said.

"Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the COID pandemic and he was doing it under the Biden Administration. President Trump wanted to end the lockdowns. And in fact, in Anthony Fauci's diaries, he talks about how President Trump was calling him every day, trying to get him to reopen the country," he added.

Bash pressed Kennedy on the measles outbreak, which led to a heated back-and-forth.

"Do you accept some responsibility for this measles outbreak?" Bash asked.

"Absolutely not…Did I cause those measles outbreaks?" Kennedy said.

"You're the most famous vaccine skeptic on the planet," Bash replied.

 



 

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