“Not so radically transparent”

September 17th, 2025, 4pm: Today on Capitol Hill, the ousted CDC director Susan Monarez testified to the Senate about her firing and HHS Secretary Kennedy’s ask to approve every recommendation of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, regardless of any scientific evidence. Nicolle Wallace, with our political and medical experts, discuss the impacts of her testimony. Plus, she and our panel of economic experts discuss the Fed's first rate cut in nine months.

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