KRISTEN WELKER: Let's talk about President Elect Trump's pick for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Of course, he has said he believes that no vaccine is safe and effective. You have been on the record defending the efficacy of vaccines. Are RFK's views on vaccines a deal breaker for you, Senator?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No. I absolutely -- appreciate Bobby Kennedy taking a hard look at the vaccine. There's some questions that have to be made. And I appreciate some of the scrutiny that's going through there. I think Bobby can answer all those. I’ve had multiple conversations with him- I have sat down and had -- long conversations with him and I actually find the guy extremely intelligent when it comes to this stuff. And some of the stuff does raise a lot of questions but I do got a question for you. The Democrats are spending so much time talking about the scrutiny of President Trump's picks and yet, we didn't spend -- spend this amount of time scrutinizing Biden's pick? I mean, we can talk about Rachel, the Assistant Secretary of HHS. I think that's a pretty controversial pick from whatever pronoun he or she decides to use. We talk about Sam, the assistant secretary for -- or executive underneath Energy of -- the Secretary of Energy and the individual was -- was arrested multiple times for stealing luggage off of conveyor belts inside airports. ANd I didn't see this same type of scrutiny the Democrats used on these individuals' picks. There's been a lot of picks. I mean, we can talk about Pete Buttigieg.
WELKER: Wait. Hold on. Senator, let’s
MULLIN: Is he really qualified to lead the Department of Transportation? But I don’t see the same people giving the scrutiny here.
WELKER: Let’s- we…we scrutinized all of those picks robustly.
