Text: Senator Roger Marshall on “Confronting the Nation with Margaret Brennan”, September 7, 2025

Below is an interview with Senator Roger Marshall, the Republican in Kansas, which was broadcast on “confronting the nation with Margaret Brennan” on September 7, 2025.

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Margaret Brennan: Welcome to the nation. We are now moving to the Republican Senator Roger Marshall, who joins us this morning from Whitchita, Kansas. Welcome to the nation.

Senator Roger Marshall: Margaret, great to be with you. I know it will be a great discussion.

Margaret Brennan: I know that you were from OB-Gyn in practice for decades before running to office. Last week, the HHS secretary underwent a severe interrogation of both Democratic lawmakers, and some of your Republican colleagues, who were also doctors. I listen.

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Senator John Paraso: In your confirmation session, you promised to support the highest vaccine standards. Since then, you have been very anxious.

Senator Bill Cassidy: I ​​would like to say, effectively, we deny the people’s vaccine.

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Margaret Brennan: This is the Republican whip, and this is the chairman of the committee, Bill Cassidy. Why do you think they are outside the base and are worried?

Sen. Marshall: Look, President Trump Robert F. chose. Kennedy Junior is tantamount to a disorder of the Center for Disease Control, and this is exactly what he does. He focused on making the Center for Disease Control more transparent, to make it more worthy of confidence at the present time. Currently, Americans do not trust the center of diseases, so it runs this place upside down. I respect what my colleagues say, but I think, as you know, this issue is the entirety today, or in this meeting, it was about vaccines. In my humble opinion, not everyone needs every vaccine. I do not think there are many children who need 76 strikes by time when they are two caffeine to vote. But before you describe me as a non -Fox, look, I raised money to vaccinate polio. MMR is a great vaccine. Save thousands of lives. The vaccines, in general, saved hundreds of millions of lives, but not everyone needs every vaccine. We just want to enable parents and doctors to make great decisions.

Margaret Brennan: Well, I just want to empty some of the things I said there, and because we want to be very careful in this very hot environment. When you say you have a problem with the center of diseases control, that was just a few weeks ago, armed went to the CDC campus in Atlanta and shot the place. Do you care about responding to that? Do you think that we need to be careful when we discuss the center of diseases and public health controls at the present time?

Sen. Marshall: Well, see, of course, this shooting was condemned. But the lack of confidence in the Center for Disease Control is due to what the Disease Control Center did during Covid. We have gone astray, may even lied to us, about Covid’s origins, and how to treat them as well. And the vaccine, excessively presented what the vaccine could do as well. This is where he does not trust. And now, there is Bobby Kennedy there, in an attempt to clean this lack of confidence, and try to give American parents and doctors correct information, and transparent information, to make good decisions.

Margaret Brennan: Well, before we talk directly about other vaccines, especially Covid, and what you just said with the Center for Disease Control; It was- the epidemic was during the Trump administration. It started during the Trump administration, and the speed of the warp process was a presidential guidance by Trump, which some of your Republican colleagues say he deserved the Nobel Prize because he stopped the epidemic. So, do you trust the speed of the center of control and deformation during the era of President Trump, or do you say that you do not think that the president deserves the award for that shot?

Sen. Marshall: See President Trump fully deserves the Nobel Prize. The vaccine saved millions of lives –

Margaret Brennan: – Well, but you just said something that seemed very contradictory to that. –

Sen. Marshall: I do not agree. I think it is different time today than it was five years ago. Five years ago, we had a new virus. None of us had any immunity. It was a strange virus made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. But today, on average, the Americans had five times. We now have natural immunity for that, and not everyone needs a vaccine. So both things can be correct, and for this reason, when you have people who do not understand science, do not understand medicine, and why they do not get it. It was a different day after that day.

Margaret Brennan: Well, but people understand that when they go to the pharmacy and face a problem with a snapshot. Because in many states, they were now told that they need to return and get a prescription, and that the effect here, for Kennedy’s policies makes it more difficult, even if they fall into categories where they should be able to get a snapshot. Do you acknowledge this?

Sen. Marshall: Yes. Yes, I think you are making this way, a very complex way. This-vaccines are a drug, and just as you need a prescription to get GLP-1-

Margaret Brennan: – Right. I said he was disrupted. However, effectively, what you heard by Republican John Paraso, and Republican Senator Bill Cassidi is talking about it is the availability of the vaccine. Cassidy said, I would like to say, effectively, we are deprived of people’s vaccines. This is not Margaret Brennan, this is Bill Cassidy.

Sen. Marshall: Look, I do not agree, I do not agree with respect. Think about this, what the Disease Control Center says now is if you are over 65, you can get the vaccine. It is interesting that the United Kingdom and France have set 75 and 80 years of age. Therefore, all you have to do is email or contact your doctor’s nurse and get a prescription, and you should be able to get it. If you are over 6 months old, it may be good to talk to your doctor. All your nurses should take a look at the graph and say, oh, Little Johnny gets asthma, certainly needs to be vaccinated as well. So I think we are making this way very complicated. Why everyone loses their minds when it comes to Covid vaccine? Why do we not let the doctor and parents decide? Let the patients decide. There are a lot of important things that we should talk about: chronic diseases, 20 % of our teenagers suffer from obesity, and mental health problems in prescribed medications. There are a lot of things that must be talked about more than just the Kofid vaccines.

Margaret Brennan: No, but I think we are mixing some things, including the operational aspect of this. I think people are frustrated by their insurance companies. I think people are frustrated by their pharmacies and the implementation of health policy. And you know this is more complicated than just saying that we change some things here. There are great traces, and I want to talk to you about this topic because you said that you love a mmr vaccine. You love DPT, polio, smallpox. You do not like hepatitis B, which is liver infection, and do not think that newborns need to be vaccinated against it. Senator Cassidy, a liver doctor, said he treated patients with lack of services, and that he could be a state of life change for the rest of your life. So why is it not convincing intermediate, that this is available?

Sen. Marshall: I gave a child- she gave birth to a child every day for 25 years. We conducted hepatitis test on each of the patients ’time. If that mother suffers from a negative hepatitis test, she is in a stable mono -marriage relationship, she does not take venous medications, she does not allow her child to play in a sand box full of used needles, there is a zero opportunity to suffer from hepatitis. Now, there are other mothers- or other children they need, well. We need to be more specific. We cannot be excessively accessible. If that mother does not have prenatal care, if she is in intravenous drugs, if she is not in a stable relationship, she is great reasons, but we need to choose. Each child does not need hepatitis vaccine, especially on the first day. What do these vaccines do to tamper with the immune system of this particular child? So, this is my anxiety. It is not every child needs a hepatitis vaccine B.

Margaret Brennan: I understand that it can also spread in a tooth member or blades, for example, if her partner is not unilateral, the pregnant woman, for example. But I hear your point of view here that you want to be more perceived, like more choice and choice. But others may argue, here, to do this, you will reduce fortification rates in general, if you create a doubt about the vaccines, and that it is a slippery slope, here. Are you concerned at all that this will be ready -made meals?

Sen. Marshall: Look, Anthony Fossi did more to create a vaccine frequency than Bobby Kennedy would do within four years, or eight years, no matter how much he has a secretary. This is where the problem is. Therefore, Bobby Kennedy does not blame the problems created by Anthony Fushi. But this- but I just tell me-

Margaret Brennan:-I ask you what I said about the hepatitis B vaccine.

Sen. Marshall: I’m sorry. Help yourself.

Margaret Brennan: I was not talking about Bobby Kennedy, or Kennedy’s secretary. I was talking about you, and what I said about the hepatitis B vaccine, and are you worried about choosing these things and choosing such, this dedicated concept of giving more options, and that it also has the effect of undermining confidence in vaccines?

Sen. Marshall: I think this is a big difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats want a prescription for everyone to suit everyone. I tell you, not everyone reads- the book reads exactly like this. I have confidence in doctors, nurses, parents and grandparents to make these decisions. I don’t think we must have one government policy dictating each of these vaccines. I think local policy and local schools, if they want to obtain requirements, what Florida did was a very far bridge. But what about a little good sense? Just a little good sense would go a long way here.

Margaret Brennan: Well, because President Trump said he had some doubts about the statement of Florida that I just mentioned there as well, and that he loves a lot of vaccines. Before I allowed you to leave, Secretary Kennedy founded this group that argues that women who take Tilanol or acetaminophen may endanger their children. They claim that there is a link to nervous growth disorders. Will you tell a pregnant woman to take Tilanol and do not be concerned about it?

Sen. Marshall: See, Tilanol is the Class B. I gave it to many patients. It is included in the approved list. However, however, I try to tell my patients- a pregnant woman, not to take anything, because we do not know what we do not know. I am very careful. As you know, why- why did 20 % of our children have a kind of mental health disease now? Why do we have a lot of peanut allergies? Why do we have a lot of people with autoimmune diseases? We- so we do not know. What we do not know, we do not know, and I want golden studies to help us discover this and sort it. But to my knowledge, Tilanol is fine in pregnancy.

Margaret Brennan: Thank you, Senator, we will leave it there for this day. We will return.