Senators appear to be coming around on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services now that they are speaking with him, Mike Huckabee, the nominee for ambassador of Israel, said on Newsmax Wednesday.
"The Senate has every right to ask questions and to fully vet him," Huckabee told "Newsline." "It appears that the more they ask, the more they actually get information and not just stuff from the internet. They find that they're much more comfortable with RFK, as they should be."
Kennedy, who was on Capitol Hill Tuesday to meet with lawmakers, told Newsmax that he thinks his meetings with lawmakers are going "very well."
Huckabee said that Kennedy's primary focus is to make health decisions that are not based on junk science, but real science and evidence-based data, so "why would anyone be against that?"
Huckabee will be going through confirmation proceedings of his own as a nominee, and he said he welcomes that.
"I think it's a good part of our constitutional process," he said. "The president has a right to put his own team on the field and that's what he's doing with people like RFK."
Huckabee also discussed the ongoing talks to release hostages being held in Gaza, and said that he wishes President Joe Biden and his administration had taken the tough stance on their release that President-elect Donald Trump has been using.
"That's the way you deal with these people, and I wish that that had been the approach that the Biden administration had taken," said Huckabee. "Instead, they've spent most of these 400-plus days lecturing Israel how to prosecute the war and a lot less time trying to demand of Hamas and their Iranian checkbook writers to let these hostages go."
But he added that he doesn't care who takes credit for the hostages being freed, as long as they are.
"These families need their loved ones back and it should have already happened," said Huckabee. "But let's pray it happens today."
Huckabee also said on Newsmax Wednesday that he's spoken with Jack Lew, the current ambassador, and that their phone call was "very warm and kind."
"I could not have asked for him to be more helpful and accommodating," he said. "He didn't have to do that. But it's very clear that he wants there to be a very smooth transition."
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