NewsNation host Chris Cuomo accused Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday of hypocrisy during her questioning of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his confirmation hearing.
Warren pressed Kennedy to “commit” to not accepting compensation for any lawsuits against drug companies during his potential tenure at HHS and for four years after, leading to a heated exchange. Cuomo, on “CUOMO,” suggested that Warren’s record, which includes becoming substantially wealthier while in office and misrepresenting her Native American heritage, should have disqualified her from such questioning of Kennedy.
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“There have been questions about her, how much money she was worth when she came in. Now she’s worth a lot more. How’d that happen? How’d that happen? So, you know, I was there when Elizabeth Warren was first introduced to the national audience,” Cuomo said. “I was at ABC. She was brought in as a fair broker in the recession of 2008 about the bail outs and the big shots and TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program] and TALF [Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility]. And she was great at that. But now she’s just playing the game.”
“Here’s why I say that: how can she be so angry at Kennedy for parsing a position on something as common as making money after when he’s done serving when she has a history of fudging on a position that actually mattered?” he asked.
Cuomo then played a clip of Warren touting her Native American heritage in 2012 followed by another clip from 2019 where she apologized for it. The senator has admitted to identifying as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory from 1986-1994, but has insisted that she did not do so for career advancement.
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Warren also admitted in December 2018 that she is “not a person of color” after striving to verify that she has Native American ancestry. She had published a DNA test in October 2018 in an effort to counter President Donald Trump’s attacks on her alleged ancestry, but the test results only demonstrated that she has a Native American ancestor “in the range of 6–10 generations ago.”
“She was exaggerating. I got high cheekbones too. I’m not Indian. This is why Trump mocked her as Pocahontas, which was classless by the way. But the point remains she’s no one to come at Kennedy for like kind of saying something at one thing when it worked and then changing,” Cuomo said. “It’s called politics, let alone in this high dudgeon. Have some shame. But of course she won’t. Why? Because, there’s no shame in the game.”
“The senator was going for her moment and guess what, I just gave to her. I just hope the moment stands for what we need less of … Look, here’s the truth,” he continued. “Energy is being spent on the wrong things, because it’s what they’ve been rewarded for.”
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