Senate Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said at the end of Thursday's hearing he is “struggling” with whether to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary.

Cassidy, a physician, pleaded multiple times for Kennedy to publicly declare that vaccines don’t cause autism.

“That would have an incredible impact,” Cassidy said.

But Kennedy wouldn’t do it, saying only that if the evidence proved otherwise, he would apologize for past comments suggesting a link.

Cassidy noted that Kennedy has a "megaphone" and chastised him for using it to sow doubt about........

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