i m under oath, in my entire life i have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-semitic. i have spent my life fighting, my professional career fighting for israel. reporter: but the ceo of the american jewish committee called his prior remarks deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous. kennedy repeatedly claimed he didn t say things that are, in fact, on camera. i ve never tiss any vaccin have never told the public avoid vaccination. but kennedy has attacked safe vaccines, including the covid-19 vaccine and promoted false claims like childhood vaccines can lead to autism and that hiv was caused by vaccine research. even saying this on a 2021 podcast. i seen somebody on a hiking
claims i m under oath. in my entire life, i have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-semitic. i have spent my life fighting my professional career, fighting for israel. reporter: but the ceo of the american jewish committee called his prior remarks deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous. kennedy repeatedly claimed that he didn t say things that are in fact on camera. i ve never been anti-vaccine, but everybody in this room probably believes that i have been because that is the prevailing narrative. i have never told the public avoid vaccination. reporter: but kennedy has attacked safe vaccines. including the covid-19 vaccine. and promoted false claims like childhood vaccines can lead to autism and that hiv was by vaccine research. even saying this
i have spent my life fighting my professional career fighting for israel. but the ceo of the american jewish committee called his prior remarks deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous. kennedy repeatedly claim he didn t say things that are, in fact, on camera. i ve never been anti-vaccine everybody in the room probably believes i have been. i have never told the public avoid vaccination. reporter: but kennedy has attacked safe vaccines. including the covid-19 vaccine and promoted false claims like childhood vaccines can lead to autism. even saying this on a 2021 podcast. you seen somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and i said, better not get him vaccinated. reporter: another key driver for the gop led hearing is to call out what they deem was
twice, i either didn t get the benefit or someone lied to me about my heritage. those are blatant, racist tropes. he also compared the protocols for vaccines and covid to nazi germany and enslavement and he is very free and easy with those kinds of phrases and he s become the darling of conspiracy theorists and afficionados of those and of the far right. you know, he got a very warm welcome today from jim jordan. he s been embraced by tucker carlson and others for those reasons and his anti-corporate populism and for opposing our support for ukraine and a lot of his support comes from these theories which are dangerous because if you tell parents, for example, that childhood vaccines create are linked to autism, some number of them are going to
Adult immunization is needed for adults whose mandatory childhood vaccines were either missed out or offer less protection, and to guard against new diseases.