CDC Leadership Turmoil: Top Officials Resign Over RFK Jr. Vax Policies, Sarah Kendzior Joins 8/28/25

The White House fired CDC Director Susan Monarez after about a month on the job. The reason? Her attorney says it’s because Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and would not fire dedicated health experts. A White House spokesperson says it’s because she refused to resign and is “not aligned with the President's agenda of Making America Healthy Again.” After her firing yesterday, at least four other CDC officials turned in their resignations too, citing the political weaponizing of science and the spread of misinformation hurting public health, The shake up comes amid new strict CDC Covid vaccine regulations. We’ll check in with Emergency Medicine specialist, Dr. Michael Daignault, to see what impact the new CDC Covid vaccine recommendations and the upheaval at a key federal agency might have on public health. We are very excited to welcome author Sarah Kendzior back to The Mark Thompson Show. We’ve loved talking about her books so much that we invited her back to talk politics. Former Federal Prosecutor David Katz joins. We will ask him about Trump’s executive order banning U.S. flag burning and whether that’s going to withstand upcoming legal tests.