Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., laid into the top man in U.S. public health on Thursday after he suggested that antidepressants might be a root cause of a recent mass shooting in Minneapolis.

Two children were killed and 20 other people were injured on Wednesday when a shooter fired through the windows of Annunciation Catholic School during morning Mass. During a visit to “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, Kennedy was asked whether he thought the assailant was on a regimen of prescription drugs that could have led to the deadly attack.

“You are dealing with a person who is trans, who was transitioning. Are you going to be examining it all, some of the drugs that are used in order to make that transition happen, to see if it plays a role?” host Brian Kilmeade asked.

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