Tonight, President Trump tripling down on his efforts to overhaul America's childhood vaccine schedule after previous efforts were blocked in federal court, signing an order lowering the number of recommended vaccines for children, which would put the US in line with European countries like Denmark. >> Parents can still choose to give their children all of the vaccinations if they wish. Uh it's up to the parents.We're making recommendations that are strong, but it's up to the parents if they wish. The order ...

Tonight, President Trump tripling down on his efforts to overhaul America's childhood vaccine schedule after previous efforts were blocked in federal court, signing an order lowering the number of recommended vaccines for children, which would put the US in line with European countries like Denmark. >> Parents can still choose to give their children all of the vaccinations if they wish. Uh it's up to the parents.We're making recommendations that are strong, but it's up to the parents if they wish. The order ...

What is the impact of news like we just heard of changing this vaccine schedule of deterring young kids from getting a flu vaccine of breaking up the MMR vaccine which by the way it's not broken up right now. So they're going to have to reinvent the wheel on that one. >> They're going to have to reinvent the wheel.And you know I'll tell you why I'm concerned as a as a physician is because when we have patients where we tell them you know if we break up the vaccines, for example, as Erica mentioned, you know ...

I want to bring in Monica Alba, our White House correspondent, who's been monitoring it all. And let's start with the news of the executive order itself. Monica, because it's significant, basically overhauling the federal recommendations, the guidelines now for childhood vaccine schedules.And this is something that the president has really been previewing since almost his first day in the second term. >> Exactly, Hie. This is something that the president has also tried to take action on before.There have be ...

AT THE WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A L WHITE HOUSE RIGHT NOW GOING TO THE OVAL OFFICE. TODD BLANCH HAS JUST BEEN CONFIRMED AS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. DONALD TRUMP IS ALSO SO SIGNING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON CHILDHOOD VACCINES, THIS WOULD UPEND THE NATION'S CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE.THE EO IS CALLED THE GOLD STANDARD childhood vaccine recommendations, and the White House would divide vaccines into three categories and direct federal agencies to take steps to advance them to the maximum extent IT'S NOT FEASIBLE, IT SAYS ...

This does in effect upend the childhood vaccine schedule and it comes from President Trump and several others in this uh event just now making claims uh without evidence continuing to link autism potentially with childhood vaccines that again there is no scientific evidence to connect those two things. And in this executive order, in the text of it, there isn't anything about autism specifically. And the president was asked about that.And he did say uh that they are still looking into that. This is somethin ...

Effective immediately. My administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up. You have the MMR we wanted in three separate vaccinations. ...