The Highwire with Del Bigtree - RFK TAKES AIM AT BROKEN VACCINE COURT

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

With Susan Monarez in at CDC and Vinay Prasad out at FDA, change is underway at HHS. Meanwhile, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling out the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as “a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption,” where injured families are stonewalled instead of supported. Del breaks down how victims face a court with no judge, no jury, and no real science. Could this be the administration that finally fixes it?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Each week we spend probably at least one segment talking about the movements and the battles within health regulatory agencies in the United States. And so let's jump into this now because it's moving very fast. So we do have now a new CDC director at Susan Monterez. She has been finally confirmed by the Senate. So the CDC, as we know, has a long way to go to build integrity and trust if it is even possible with the public after the failed COVID response on their end. So she's going to take the helm here.

She is an expert or her space of expertise is artificial intelligence. So there's a lot of hope there. There's also some concern there about how deep that's going to go. But that's going on. And also I want to just say just because I know there's a lot of conversations about this. And what I can say is I did have a conversation with Robert Kennedy Jr. Well over a month ago before I was on vacation about Susan. And I will say this, he really liked her a lot.

It was a favorite choice for him because I know a lot. A lot of people will debate. Well, is she being forced on him? Is he not, you know, there's a lot of questions. I don't have a lot of the answers. But I can say on this one, he really liked her background. He felt like she was open-minded in how she could do studies using new technologies, which he thought were going to be important for some of the work that he wanted to do.

So take that as you will. You know, if you're going to judge somebody, I think in this case, you judge Robert Kennedy, Jr. on this choice because this is one that he wanted to make. And so I look forward to seeing, because I know him. I know what his goals are. I look forward to seeing what she can accomplish and hopefully he's made the right choice there. Absolutely. And so we also have at the FDA, Vinay Prasad is out. Remember, he took over Peter Mark's old position as the head vaccine regulator, among other things. He's left his position after less

than four months. Not a lot of real solid information going back and forth about what's going on. There's a little murky there. So just know that he's out. That position's open. We're very interested to see who steps into that position now because there's a lot of sway, at least for our audience and the public that has the same ideology as us for medical freedom. There's a lot of leeway there, so we need someone in that position that can make some movements. Now, one of the things HHS Secretary Kennedy has been really banging the drone about over the past month is the vaccine injury compensation program, or I should say, the broken vaccine injury compensation program. And he put out an ex post here. Literally, it's, it's, it's,

five large paragraphs of issues. He didn't just say there's an issue with the program needs to be fixed. Five large paragraphs going in depth of the issues. And just one of the paragraphs here, he says, the VICP has devolved into a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption as government lawyers and the special masters who serve as vaccine court judges prioritize the solvency of the HHS trust fund over their duty to compensate victims.

The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it. I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine injured individuals. So again, these programs are here as a safety net. So taking the stance of someone that would be extremely pro-vaccine, you would want these programs to work really well. So the public and public health works, people would trust vaccination and get vaccinated. You don't want the public going.

I don't want to get vaccinated because on the back end, I'm going to be left hanging in the wind. Well, that's been happening for decades. Well, let's remind you, this is at the heart of the liability of protection. You don't have the ability to go sue if this product injures you. You can't sue Merck. You can't see Pfizer. This VICP program is basically you sue HHS Secretary, you know, through it. HRSA is the department that handles it.

But you bring the case, and it's supposed to be a no-fault case basically saying, you know what? We see that, we know that these are side effects that are written on the label. You've had that side effect. It's supposed to be an easy court where you get paid because we know you're a casualty of this war against nature, but it's been become anything but which he lays out very clearly. Everyone should read that. And of course, there's just the many things.

If you're on our newsletter, you can have the entire, you know, tweet that he put out, every article. I just want to point out to people that that's how this works. You want to read the whole thing. We're going to touch on it. But it's really he's right. This is a, there you go. Just go to the highwire.com. I want you to go down right now because you've got to be utilizing the tools that we're building for you.

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Essentially, you get injured or your child gets injured by the vaccine. You go to this court that has no jury. It doesn't even have a judge. It has a special master. And in that court, you've got to prove that this injury happened to your child. It used to be all they had to do was be listed on the, you know, and that every year they're putting new side effects that they're finding new adverse events. They've stopped doing that. There's no new ones. Even the COVID vaccine, we can barely find any listed side effects so you can't sue on anything that's not there. And then they fight you on it now.

And then they say to you, you have to provide the science. You have to. You're not a scientist. You're not a doctor. And what science do they rely upon? They won't take a science by Dr. Mawson or other people that have proven that autism can be. caused by a vaccine. Now the science has to have been done basically by HHS themselves and they're refusing to do the science. And so here you are in a court system where the defendant is HHS and you

have to get HHS to do the science to prove your case that they're refusing to do. I say it's like this. This court is essentially like, you know, having a murderer, you know, a defendant in a murder case. And the murderer in this case is the one doing all the forensics for the case. And you're wondering why you cannot win this case. That is what's been happening to all of these families that are stuck in this court that goes on six, ten years. They don't pay your lawyers. They try to make this as painful as possible and try not to pay you. It is everything but what it was supposed to be. And thank God Robert Kennedy Jr. is finally going to do something about this. I think if you start fixing that, you really start getting into the heart of the problem around this. You've got to take care

of people that are injured and you've got to admit they are being injured. And from I understand, he's brought in legal experts, and he also has enrolled Attorney General Pam Bondi, because this is really a legal operation housed within the U.S. government, the special masters, and you are going to court at that stage. So he's bringing in some big guns. It's going to be interesting to see there's a lot of untangling to do there. But speaking of untangling, let's go back to the AAP because they're in the firestorm. You're going to talk about this more I know with Aaron Siri.

But American Academy of Pediatrics, they just can't seem to help themselves. because after that ex post by that tweet by by secretary kennedy they took to x and and gave a rebuttal and they said this uh threatening to fix v iCP is just the latest example of a larger ongoing effort to erode confidence in childhood vaccines and the public health infrastructure designed to keep kids safe and healthy it's literally none of that it's it's completely inverted to that It's actually trying to help that infrastructure. So people have trust again. But that's AAP for you, always on the wrong side of the debate.

And just for a second, I want to look at AAP's funding because AAPE enjoys a lot of money. They're supposed to be a nonpartisan trade group. They're just right down the middle. But you can see there, they're literally fighting the HHS secretary. They're fighting the government in which they are serving under, essentially. And you can see the funds, HHS, Health and Human Services, they receive over almost 35 million. dollars from them according to their expenditures of federal awards in 2024. This is from June 30th, 20204.

So that's their internal papers. They've been known to take money from the vaccine industry. And you know, this is, this is, I don't know how long that's going to last, but you know, maybe it won't have to last very long because maybe vaccines won't have to be mandated anymore. Maybe they'll go into the free market and people can just decide to buy them if they want in the form of dental floss. So it's our next study here.

Scientists use dental floss to deliver vaccines without needles. All right, get ready for this. So they have floss laced with vaccine components like proteins and inactive viruses, and they apply it to, they apply it to the gum lines, not of people, but of mice. So in this experiment, these researchers floss 50 mice every two weeks for 28 days. And that's a job. I mean, this is in there with putting vaccines in plants and vegetables, which they're working on, spraying it from airplanes aerosolized.

I mean, you know, the only funny part about this is trying to imagine a bunch of scientists flossing mice. And by the way, I guess that's a job. AI and robots probably can't do, so you're probably safe there if you go ahead and get a job as a mouse flosser. Lots of mice business. You can't beat it. Absolutely amazing. Well, Jeffrey, you know, once again, amazing reporting. these are, you know, the issues of our time, and I love that we bring some humor to it, but it really is quite scary what we're up against. When you see AAP, I'm about to talk to, you know, Aaron Siri, ACLU is fighting us trying to force facts to say people. What are they doing in this game? Where is all this funding come from? You see the stories about, you know, the George Soros of the

world. It isn't just political. It's literally a battle for our lives, organ donations. How many these things are really a part of eugenics and all the questions that we keep asking. No one does it better than you, Jeffrey. I've missed you. It's great to be back. I look forward to talking to you next week.