RFK Jr. rips CNN’s Dana Bash: ‘All you know how to do is repeat things people told you’

Published August 2, 2026 12:01pm ET | Updated August 2, 2026 5:49pm ET



Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted CNN’s Dana Bash over the U.S. government’s COVID-19 response, saying, “All you know how to do is repeat things people told you.”

“I’ve actually read the science,” Kennedy said. “You’re repeating things like a parrot. All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say ‘trust the experts,’ that’s what you did during COVID. Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the ‘expert,’ was lying about everything,” Kennedy said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.

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