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Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Atlantic<\/em> staff writer Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America\u2019s public-health system. Scherer joined Washington Week With The Atlantic<\/em> to discuss his story, and what the Health and Human Services secretary may be after.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we do know about RFK is the caricature he\u2019s caught in\u2014this daily battle between people who think he\u2019s destroying science or people who think he\u2019s taking on the establishment,\u201d Scherer said last night. Less known, however, is how \u201che got from being at the edge of the Democratic Party\u201d to becoming HHS secretary in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the answer is he\u2019s a fiercely determined person who is on a quest,\u201d Scherer continued. \u201cHe has been able to plow through enormous obstacles and enormous detractors to really not lose faith in his own vision of what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic<\/em>, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Scherer, a staff writer at The Atlantic<\/em>; Dan Diamond, a White House reporter for The Washington Post<\/em>; and Julie Rovner, the chief Washington correspondent and host of the podcast What the Health<\/em> at KFF Health News<\/em>.<\/p>\n Watch the full episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America\u2019s public-health system. Scherer joined Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss his story, and what the Health and Human Services secretary may be after. \u201cWhat we do know about RFK is the caricature he\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[789],"class_list":{"0":"post-35700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-rfk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}