“Then I went to a friend of mine that I knew when I lived in Baltimore years back, … Congressman Elijah Cummings.   Bobby Kennedy knew him as well. I gave him a call, and I was talking to him about the MMR vaccine and I said, ‘Are you aware that Dr. William Thompson, who is the senior lead scientist for the Center for Disease Control, works in the vaccine division, …he has admitted that he lied. And Mr. Cummings said, ‘Wait a minute, we just had him here.’

“I said, ‘Yeah, and he has hired the number one whistleblower attorney in this country.’

“And he was like, ‘Really?’

“’Elijah, we need you to look into this. And the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan and those of us who are concerned about what’s happening with these vaccines and our children. The American public deserves to know what lies Dr. William Thompson [told] in front of you and your committee.’

“And he said, ‘Oh brother, I’m going to get right on this.’

“…Two days later, he called me back with a crackling sound in his voice, saying, ‘Ah, ah, ah, Minister Tony, look, I’m pro-vaccine.’

“I said, ‘Okay, so what does that have to do with Dr. William Thompson and the lie he told?’

[Cummings:] ‘Well, I don’t know if I want to deal with that. There’s science out there that’s debunking what he said.’

“I said, ‘No, no one—there is no science out there against what Dr. Thompson has said. Dr. Thompson needs to talk himself, since they’re using what he's saying.’

[Cummings:] “‘I don’t know if I want to deal with this. …”

Min. Tony asked Rep Cummings if he was a sellout.

“’I’m not a sellout.’ And he hung up the phone.’

Min. Tony said that he had someone investigating Cummings' ties to the pharmaceutical industry. He was astonished at the response from Cummings.

“These people are so powerful. He ran into something that’s backing him down from even bringing Dr. Thompson who lied to his committee.

“I said, ‘Then we’ve got to move the people....’

“I tell you, not just African American politicians. There are many white politicians, Latino politicians, who are bought and paid for, and this needs to be brought to the American people’s attention....”

Min. Tony went on to describe the liability protection given to the vaccine makers as “heinous.” He said, “That is a crime against the American people. …If these vaccines are so safe, why doesn’t the vaccine maker who’s making billions of dollars stand behind his product? …”

Min. Tony ended by saying that our elected officials are selling us out to special interest groups. He called for “truth and transparency.”

“Dr. Thompson needs to be brought before Congress, and there needs to be transparency at the CDC, because many studies and many have said that the Centers for Disease Control is corrupted. This is an organization that gets federal funds to oversee the vaccine makers, but they’re taking money from the vaccine companies. That in and of itself is a crime. …

“We, as the American people, should want to know the truth. Any controversy about babies or any human being possibly being injured through vaccines, all of us should want to know the truth.”

This was the Sacramento Bee article that Min. Tony mentioned: Drug companies donated millions to California lawmakers before vaccine debate

"Receiving more than $95,000, the top recipient of industry campaign cash is Sen. Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat and doctor who is carrying the vaccine bill."

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"Leading pharmaceutical companies also spent nearly $3 million more during the 2013-2014 legislative session lobbying the Legislature, the governor, the state pharmacists’ board and other agencies, according to state filings."

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See the individual companies and how much they donated.

Anne Dachel is Media Editor for Age of Autism and author of  The Big Autism Cover-Up: How and Why the Media Is Lying to the American Public, which is on sale now from Skyhorse Publishing.