{"id":65817,"date":"2026-02-09T13:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/rfk-jr-misled-senate-during-confirmation-congress-members-and-hawaii-governor-say\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:56:35","slug":"rfk-jr-misled-senate-during-confirmation-congress-members-and-hawaii-governor-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/rfk-jr-misled-senate-during-confirmation-congress-members-and-hawaii-governor-say\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy\u2019s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak<\/p>\n<p>Three members of Congress say US health secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> lied during his Senate confirmation hearings in response to newly revealed emails that undermine his testimony that a trip he took to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/these-babies-should-not-have-died-how-the-measles-outbreak-took-hold-in-samoa\">outbreak<\/a> had \u201cnothing to do with vaccines\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of Hawaii, a medical doctor who responded to the crisis, also spoke out \u2013 saying that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/06\/rfk-jr-samoa-trip\">disclosure of the emails<\/a> by the Guardian and the Associated Press show Kennedy misled the Senate and that he should step down.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/rfk-jr-samoa-trip-senate-confirmation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy\u2019s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak Three members of Congress say US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr lied during his Senate confirmation hearings in response to newly revealed emails that undermine his testimony that a trip he took to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/rfk-jr-misled-senate-during-confirmation-congress-members-and-hawaii-governor-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}