# Documents contradict RFK Jr.’s Senate testimony that Samoa trip had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’

https://mins.news/en/video/34444

- The Associated Press, 2026-08-27 13:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKOZiRKTFsE

> Documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian contradict statements Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made at two 2025 congressional hearings. He told senators his 2019 Samoa trip before a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines,” but a letter shows he wanted his team to examine what happened with the MMR vaccine there.

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