A health company CEO explained why she and other mothers nationwide have rallied behind Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the "MAHA" (Make America Healthy Again) movement, telling Fox News Wednesday that the former presidential candidate's promise of "radical transparency" in the health system is the key selling point to his supporters.

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"When you have rates of obesity at 74% of adults and then even worse is 38% of children being pre-diabetic, something is wrong and everyone knows it," Caroline Carralero, the founder and CEO of Daily Nouri, a probiotic supplement company focused on achieving optimal gut microbiome health, told "The Story."

With obesity, Carralero highlighted a health crisis that Kennedy has focused on several times in the past.

"I've spent the last 10 years in the food and beverage industry, now leading a company that's focused on gut microbiome health," she told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum. Carralero explained that her work has allowed her to be in close proximity to a lack of transparency present in the United States' food and health system that Kennedy has repeatedly called out.

RFK Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, was grilled by Democrats during a three-hour confirmation hearing Wednesday.

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Verbal jabs from Democrat senators were thrown at Kennedy, with many questioning his position on vaccines. Despite ongoing controversy over his stance on vaccines and other issues, Kennedy has repeatedly stated that he is not "anti-vaccine." He has been outspoken on the need for transparent data and information with regard to not just vaccines, but on a myriad of issues pertaining to American health.

During Kennedy's opening statements, he said, "News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine or anti-industry. I am neither. I am pro-safety." The HHS nominee also fired back at Democrat senators for pushing a "dishonest" narrative about him that he says he has repeatedly corrected on national television.

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Carralero argued that America is standing at a "fork in the road" with regard to health and the wrong decisions could lead the country away from achieving optimal health practices.

"Really what's at stake is American health," she said.

"We can either continue along the path that we've been on, which is to say, continue with the health care system, or as some like to say, the sick care system that we have," she said, highlighting how the American health system is the fastest growing industry in the country with the most "failed" results.

Carralero detailed how Kennedy's mission for health is to get to the "root causes" of the chronic disease epidemic that is affecting children. In order to dig into these root causes, the health and food system in America needs to be "radically transparent."

"That's what's really caught moms' attention and that's what has kind of swept across this grass-roots movement. When you look at what's happened, it's a uni-party movement," said Carralero.

The Daily Nouri CEO argued that many of the moms behind the MAHA movement were Democrats who voted for Trump.

"They were historically voting Democrat and have crossed party lines because they know that their children's health is at stake and everyone knows that something is not right," Carralero said. "It's why we're all very much so in support of RFK Jr., getting confirmed."

"Shark Tank" star Kevin O’Leary broke down what he calls President Donald Trump's "tariff signal" to different countries in an effort to bolster American manufacturing.

"The tariff signal, if you want to call it that, is a negotiating leverage tool because Trump commands the largest market on Earth," O’Leary told "The Story."

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Trump addressed the World Economic Forum (WEF) remotely on Thursday, threatening businesses that do not make their products in America with tariffs. He took questions afterward from five world leaders in investments and energy and criticized Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan for not doing business with conservative companies.  

O’Leary responded to this move as "just the way [Trump] is."

"We’ve been listening to Trump for 12 years," O’Leary said. "If you don’t understand that at this point, he's not gonna change. He'll pick someone out of a crowd, out of a sector, and he’ll say something like that. He’s trying to send a signal and yet there’s a lot of noise in it. But he’s bombastic, he's controversial. I've gotten used to it now. It doesn’t bother me anymore…It is what it is, everybody relax."

O’Leary said that Trump’s message is "different for different countries," such as Mexico and Canada, before explaining Trump’s main message.

"These messages are different for different countries. For example, Mexico, we’re gonna build a wall, but we also want you to make sure you stop sending illegal immigrants from yours and other countries, or you’re going to be tariffed." 

O’Leary added, "To the Canadians, start spending on security at the northern border and pay your two percent to NATO and stop sending fentanyl from China over the border into the United States or you’re going to face tariffs."

During Trump’s address to the WEF, he said, "My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America, and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth. But if you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply you will have to pay a tariff."

"He’s starting with a message that’s loud and clear," O’Leary said. "Get in line, do what you said you were going to do, or you’re going to face a wicked barrier to come into the world’s largest market. And it’s going to affect your economy. I heard it loud and clear."

During Trump’s second presidential campaign, he repeatedly threatened to tariff imports from China and the European Union, calling tariffs "the greatest thing ever invented." 

"I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large scale purchase of our oil and gas," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Dec. 20. "Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!"

Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital will be your home for wall-to-wall coverage of the 60th Presidential Inauguration – the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Start your day with "Fox & Friends First" at 5AM ET when hosts Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus will preview the events of the day, including the latest updates since Trump ordered most inaugural events be held indoors due to the Arctic chill forecasted to overtake the District of Columbia on Monday.

Follow up with "Fox & Friends" at 6 AM ET.

Hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt will have up-to-the-minute coverage of the lead-up to Trump’s inauguration.

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Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer take the reins at 9 AM ET for "America’s Newsroom."

Hemmer will broadcast live from Capitol Hill and Perino will co-host from elsewhere in the District.

Fox News Channel’s Washington, DC-based coverage will continue at 11 AM ET when Harris Faulkner hosts "The Faulkner Focus" – with last-minute news and updates ahead of the constitutionally prescribed 12 NOON ET inauguration.

At 11:30 AM ET, Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier and anchor Martha MacCallum will begin Fox News Channel’s main inauguration coverage.

They will be joined by Faulkner and Hemmer as well as Sandra Smith and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn.

Trump will be inaugurated from inside the Capitol, a rare occurrence over the past few decades.

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Only Presidents Ronald Reagan – for his second inaugural – and John F. Kennedy had their oath of office administered indoors in the contemporary era.

Ford and his regular colleagues will host "The Five" at 5PM ET with the latest reaction to the historic events of the day.

Baier anchors "Special Report" from Washington at 6 PM ET and hands off to Laura Ingraham at 7PM ET.

Ingraham’s "The Ingraham Angle" will broadcast live from the Commander-in-Chief Ball, as will "Jesse Watters Primetime," and its eponymous host, at 8PM ET.

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At 9PM, Sean Hannity will take over Fox News Channel coverage and offer both his own and his guests’ reaction and analysis from inside the Liberty Ball.

Greg Gutfeld will host "Gutfeld!" at 10PM ET from the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall just southwest of the White House at 10PM ET.

Anchor Trace Gallagher wraps up Fox News Channel’s live coverage of Trump’s Second Inauguration at 11PM ET – broadcasting from Washington instead of Los Angeles.

Speaker-designate Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected to lead the House of Representatives on Friday despite losing one fellow Republican in the final vote tally.

Ultimately, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the only Republican to vote against Johnson, but it could have been worse for the House speaker. Reps. Keith Self, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., were initially voting against Johnson, but switched their votes to support him.

Norman told Fox News he changed his vote after he got some assurances from Johnson.

"I said, ‘Mike, are you going to give us specific examples of fighting for the things we mentioned? Will you give us your word?' He said, ‘Yes.’ So I said, 'OK, we'll take you at your word.' That's why I changed my vote," Norman explained Friday on "The Story."

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Johnson's future appeared uncertain at one point on Friday afternoon when Norman, Massie and Self voted for someone other than him for speaker, putting the gavel seemingly out of reach. 

Johnson then huddled with Self, Norman and other lawmakers behind closed doors before the vote was called to an end. Both later emerged and switched their votes to support Johnson.

Norman shared his initial opposition was rooted in concern as to whether Johnson had the "willingness to fight for Trump's agenda."

"We had met with Speaker Johnson yesterday for an extended period of time, and I just didn't come away with the feeling that the oomph or the willingness to fight for Trump's agenda was there," he said on "The Story." 

Norman stood behind his initial decision to vote against Johnson, reasoning it was "the only way I had to let my voice be heard."

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Ultimately, the Louisiana Republican won along party lines during the first round of voting, a stark contrast to his predecessor Kevin McCarthy's drawn-out, 15-round battle in 2023.

Johnson's re-election victory comes despite saber-rattling by some conservatives who threatened to withhold support from Johnson in protest of his handling of government funding and several other issues in the 118th Congress.

"I think now he understands the fact that no more suspension votes, where we allow more Democrat votes than Republicans — that's what's killing the country," Norman said. "If we're going to do the same thing over and over again as we have done for the last 14 months, we're going to be in the same position. I'm just not willing to go along with that, and I didn't."

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"Mike has got a tremendous opportunity to show the American people that not only he's just going to say it, he's going to fight it. He's going to have Trump backing him up, which is all a good thing."

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.