Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that a 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had ” nothing to do with vaccines.” New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian refute that testimony.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed the U.S. is doing “a better job than any country in the world” at curbing measles.

From the daily newsletter: assessing Kennedy’s war on immunization.