Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez will come before the Senate on Wednesday for her first public appearance since she was pushed out of her position leading the nation's public health agency. Monarez plans to issue a detailed timeline of the events leading up to her firing, according to a copy of her prepared testimony viewed by ABC News, including a meeting in which she says Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told her to preemptively accept recommendations from a CDC vaccine advisory panel and to fire career officials overseeing vaccine policy. "He said if I was unwilling to do both, I should resign. I responded that I could not pre-approve recommendations without reviewing the evidence, and I had no basis to fire scientific exp

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