Senator Says Meeting Between Kennedy and His C.D.C. Director Was Recorded, Then Backtracks

The senator, Markwayne Mullin, quickly backtracked after pressing the now former director, Susan Monarez, on an exchange with the health secretary.Senator Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma, asserted that Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was not correctly describing an exchange she had with the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.