Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Interview With Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI)

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I think that what's -- well, I think what's so upsetting about my Republican colleagues is that they are giving a platform to an individual who is spewing conspiracy theories that are based on quasi-science, on false information, who is trying to get individuals pitted against one another, who is trying to deny people life-saving information.

We know that his group, his Children's Defense Group were the ones who spread information in Minnesota, which led to a rash of measles outbreak among a Somali community, because they believe that those vaccines were in fact harmful to them.

These are the kinds of things that Robert F Kennedy, Jr is doing and he is using his family's name as a shield to be able to reach him and let individuals know that this is not who his father was, this is not who his uncles were and we need to stop giving him the credibility that they had because this guy is not -- he is not safe for the American people, the things that he says is going to get us all in trouble.

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Sure. Well, we know that Chairman Jordan, my colleague, who I sit next to, the chairman, gets his marching orders from Mark Meadows, from Donald Trump, potentially from Speaker McCarthy, I don't think he has much say in what happens in his conference. But those are the individuals who are determining that this committee should be used to test run every conspiracy theory that's going to be used in the 2024 presidential race.

So having an individual who they believe is going to hurt President Biden is something that they're going to amplify and elevate. We gave information that this individual, there's a super PAC associated with him that is the same super PAC organizers, who have been the super PAC for Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos and the failed campaign of Herschel Walker.

So he is pushing issues that are going to support the Republican Party and what's even more frightening is their whole notion that social media companies which are private companies, private platforms that are open to public use, should not be checked, should not be looked at, should not be -- information should not be looked at them, and it has a chilling effect on these social media companies.

And we know that in the run up to 2024 elections that Russian trolls, the Chinese, the Iranians are going to be trying to push voter disinformation, trying to suppress the American people from voting.

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Thank you.

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