Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drops out of the race to endorse Donald Trump, which could have implications for the rest of the Democratic primary race and could impact the outcome of the 2020 election in a big swing state like Pennsylvania and other key swing states in the presidential race. Also, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris continues to gain ground in the polls and is gaining ground in some swing states, including Michigan, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and is on pace to defeat Hillary Clinton in the primary election in November 2020, according to the latest CNN/ORC Polling Average and the latest Real ClearPolitics polling average, which puts her ahead of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump by a few points in the race for the Democratic nomination by a wide margin of 0.5 to 1 point in some polls and in some other polls by 0.3 to 0.4 points in others. The latest on Kennedy's decision to withdraw from the race and endorse Trump, and what it means for the other candidates in the Democratic presidential race and the impact it could have on the outcome. And more. More from the latest on the latest from CNN and CNN's breaking down the latest polling and analysis on the race, and the potential impact of Kennedy's withdrawal on the election and the other Democratic candidates. Further Reading: - CNN's latest on RFK Jr.'s decision to endorse Trump. - The New York Times article on the Trump campaign. (1:00:00) - What's next for Trump? (4:30) - Is it a done? (6:00): What will it take? (8: What does it mean for Hillary Clinton? (9:00 - Is he done?) - Is there any chance of winning the nomination now? (10:00). (11:15) - Does he have a shot at the nomination? (15:30): Is he staying in 2020? (16:00 Is he really running for president? (17:40) - Will he be a serious contender? (18:00?) - What will he endorse Trump? Does he really have a chance? (19:00 ) - What s the impact on the 2020 race? (20:00] - Is this a real shot at winning the election? (23:00.) - What is the impact of RFK s decision? (21:00), 22:10) - How will it affect the 2020 campaign?
00:00:28.000Now it's supposed to take place at 2.45.
00:00:30.000There had been a bit of speculation a little bit earlier that perhaps he would not, in fact, endorse Donald Trump.
00:00:36.000That speculation was added to by Nicole Shanahan, his vice presidential pick, who had gone on a podcast and suggested that unless Donald Trump walked back his support for Operation Warp Speed, which of course is the gigantic scientific project to push forward the vaccine for COVID, that unless he walked that back and acknowledged his mistakes that an endorsement would not take place, that appears not to have been true.
00:00:57.000Here was Nicole Shanahan a little bit earlier today trying to push this idea.
00:01:02.000The hesitation we have right now in joining forces with Trump is that he has not apologized or publicly come out and said Operation Warp Speed was my fault, it was a failure, and I let it happen.
00:01:18.000The lockdowns, letting Fauci and Francis Collins run the show, the firing of the other folks at the NIH and individuals at the CDC that were censored.
00:01:33.000I mean, there was a lot that happened under Donald Trump's watch that should not have happened and cannot happen again.
00:01:42.000And if we are going to Um, put our bet with him and we haven't, we have not confirmed anything, but we need absolute assurance that he, you know, it's, this is a tough one.
00:01:59.000Well, you know, obviously something changed, and possibly one of the reasons this has now been pushed back a few minutes is because there were ongoing negotiations with presumably the Trump campaign.
00:02:09.000We'll have to see if he receives some sort of slot in a prospective Trump administration for doing so, if Trump announces that he will put RFK in charge of some segment of his campaign, what concessions were made to RFK Jr.
00:02:22.000It would have been particularly foolish if RFK had in fact not endorsed Trump, because then you don't even get the effect of him dropping out.
00:02:29.000Presumably there would have been some voters of RFK who shifted over to Trump, but RFK full-scale endorsing Donald Trump means that the people who support RFK now, which is likely a disproportionately Trump-friendly base considering that most of the Democrats who supported RFK did so because they didn't like Joe Biden and have now gone back to Kamala Harris.
00:02:47.000It's not an insignificant thing that RFK Jr.
00:02:49.000will be dropping out of the race and presumably endorsing Donald Trump.
00:02:53.000It could have a significant impact on the race, in fact.
00:02:55.000Now, Nate Silver suggests that it may be less than one percentage point in the swing states, but that may be a lot in a race that is coming down to bare numbers of votes.
00:03:06.000If you're looking at the polling statistic in virtually every swing state, every swing state is now within margin of error.
00:03:13.000Pennsylvania is effectively dead even.
00:03:15.000Michigan is about two points in favor of Harris.
00:03:17.000Wisconsin is within one point in favor of Harris, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.
00:03:22.000RFK, in many of these polls, is driving 2, 3, 4 percent.
00:03:26.000So it is not insignificant dropping out.
00:03:29.000And according to Nate Silver, he says, we've long thought the conventional wisdom RFK would hurt Democrats was a little backward.
00:03:35.000He says, maybe in the early going because of the Kennedy name, but his anti-establishment, sometimes verging on conspiratorial positions, were always a little Trumpy.
00:03:41.000And even when Biden was on the ballot and RFK served as a free parking space for voters who had concerns about Biden's age, we found him taking votes about evenly from both candidates.
00:03:49.000And he's not trying to outflank Democrats from the left.
00:03:52.000He's not Cornel West or Jill Stein, neither of whom are dropping out of the race.
00:03:55.000They're going to maintain in the race.
00:03:56.000That is going to be particularly true after Kamala Harris's comments at the DNC, in which she had some warm words for Israel before, of course, turning around and then having some very warm words about self-determination for Palestinians who, if given the vote, would immediately elect Hamas.
00:04:10.000According to Nate Silver's breakdown, he suggests that the polling averages will likely make a net difference of maybe 0.4 points.
00:04:17.000That may be plenty in some of these states.
00:04:19.000These states are extraordinarily tight.
00:04:21.000More than that, this also drives a feeling of momentum back into the Trump campaign.
00:04:26.000Trump has been effectively floundering in the water since Kamala Harris entered the race.
00:05:16.00016 months ago in April of 2023, I launched my campaign for President of the United States.
00:05:24.000I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.
00:05:36.000I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960.
00:05:44.000And back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights.
00:05:50.000The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars.
00:06:01.000We were the party of labor, of the working class.
00:06:06.000The Democrats were the party of government transparency, and the champion of the environment.
00:06:13.000Our party was a bulwark against big money interests and corporate power.
00:06:18.000True to its name, it was the party of democracy.
00:06:22.000As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with.
00:06:32.000It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money.
00:06:43.000When it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent.
00:06:56.000The mainstream of American politics and journalism derided my decision.
00:07:02.000Conventional wisdom said that it would be impossible even to get on the ballot as an independent because each state poses an insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures.
00:07:16.000I would need over a million signatures, something no presidential candidate in history had ever achieved.
00:07:23.000And then I'd need a team of attorneys and millions of dollars to handle all the legal challenges from the DNC.
00:07:32.000The naysayers told us that we were climbing a glass version of Mount Impossible.
00:07:39.000So the first thing I want to tell you is that we proved them wrong.
00:07:43.000We did it because beneath the radar of mainstream media organs, We inspired a massive independent political movement.
00:07:52.000More than 100,000 volunteers sprang into action, hopeful that they could reverse our nation's decline.
00:08:00.000Many worked 10-hour days, sometimes in blizzards and blazing heat.
00:08:04.000They sacrificed family time, personal commitments, and sleep month after month, energized by a shared vision of a nation Healed of its divisions, they set up tables at churches and farmers' markets.
00:08:23.000In Utah and in New Hampshire, volunteers collected signatures in snowstorms, convincing each supporter to stop in the frigid cold, to take off their gloves, and to sign legibly.
00:08:36.000During a heat wave in Nevada, I met a tall, athletic volunteer.
00:08:41.000Who cheerfully told me that he had lost 25 pounds collecting signatures in 117 degree heat.
00:08:49.000To finance this effort, young Americans donated their lunch money and senior citizens gave up part of their social security checks.
00:09:00.000Our 50-state organization collected those millions of signatures and more.
00:09:04.000No presidential campaign in American political history has ever done that.
00:09:10.000And so I want to thank all of those dedicated volunteers and congratulate the campaign staff who coordinated this enormous logistical feat.
00:09:23.000Your accomplishments were regarded as impossible.
00:09:28.000You carried me up that glass mountain.
00:09:33.000You achieved what all the pundits said could never be done.
00:09:37.000You have my deepest gratitude and I'm never going to forget that.
00:09:41.000Not just for what you did for my campaign, but for the sacrifices you made because you love our country.
00:09:50.000You showed everyone that democracy is still possible here.
00:09:54.000It continues to survive in the press and in the idealistic human energies that still thrive beneath a canvas of neglect.
00:10:04.000And of official and institutional corruption.
00:10:08.000Today I'm here to tell you that I will not allow your efforts to go to waste.
00:10:14.000I'm here to tell you that I will leverage your tremendous accomplishments to serve the ideals that we share.
00:10:21.000The ideals of peace, of prosperity, of freedom, of health.
00:10:27.000All the ideals that motivated my campaign.
00:10:31.000I mean, here's a describe the path forward that you have opened with your commitment and with your hard labors.
00:10:39.000Now, in an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election.
00:10:46.000In a system that my father and my uncles thrived in, a system with open debates, with fair primaries, with regularly scheduled debates, with fair primaries, and with a truly independent media untainted by government propaganda and censorship, in a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards, Everything would be different.
00:11:13.000After all, the polls consistently showed me beating each of the other candidates, both in favorability and also in head-to-head match-ups.
00:11:24.000But I'm sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media, and for our government, and most sadly at all for me, for the Democratic Party.
00:11:42.000In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it.
00:11:48.000Lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.
00:12:04.000Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, The DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.
00:12:23.000It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.
00:12:33.000It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.
00:12:40.000Then when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.
00:12:56.000They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.
00:13:06.000My uncle and my father both relished debate.
00:13:10.000They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.
00:13:18.000They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days.
00:13:35.000How are people to choose And they don't know whom they are choosing.
00:13:41.000And how can this look to the rest of the world?
00:13:45.000My father and my uncle were always conscious of America's image abroad because of our nation's role as the template for democracy, a role model for democratic processes, and the leader of the free world.
00:14:00.000Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs I engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing.
00:14:14.000No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.
00:14:25.000There, in Chicago, is a string of Democratic speakers Mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day.
00:14:36.000Oh, who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate?
00:14:41.000In contrast, at the RNC convention, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.
00:15:47.000president colludes with or outright coerces Media companies to censor political speech.
00:15:53.000It's an attack on our most sacred right of free expression.
00:15:57.000And that's the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest.
00:16:04.000President Biden mocked Vladimir Putin's 88% landslide in the Russian elections, observing that Putin and his party controlled the Russian press.
00:16:17.000And that Putin prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot.
00:16:22.000But here in America, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot.
00:16:28.000And our television networks expose themselves as Democratic Party organs.
00:16:34.000Over the course of more than a year, in a campaign where my poll numbers reached at times in the high 20s, the DNC lied mainstream media networks Maintain a near-perfect embargo on interviews with me.
00:16:50.000During his 10-month presidential campaign in 1992, Ross Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks.
00:17:01.000In contrast, during the 16 months since I declared ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave only two live interviews from me.
00:17:17.000Those networks instead ran a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile, pejoratives and defamatory smears.
00:17:27.000Some of those same networks included with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage.
00:17:34.000Representatives of those networks are in this room right now, and I'll just take a moment to ask you to consider the many ways that your institutions have abdicated this really sacred responsibility, the duty of a free press to safeguard democracy and to challenge always the party in power.
00:17:56.000Instead of maintaining that posture of fierce skepticism toward authority, Your institutions have made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power.
00:18:12.000You didn't alone cause the devolution of American democracy, but you could have prevented it.
00:18:18.000The Democratic Party's censorship of social media was even more of a naked exercise of executive power.
00:18:27.000This week, a federal judge, Terry Doty, I've held my injunction against President Biden, calling the White House's censorship project, quote, the most egregious violation of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America.
00:18:43.000His previous 155 page decision details how just 37 hours after he took the oath of office, swearing to uphold the Constitution, President Biden And his White House opened up a portal and then invited the CIA, the FBI, CISA, which is a censorship agency, it's the center of the censorship industrial complex, DHS, the IRS, and other agencies to censor me and other political dissidents on social media.
00:19:21.000Even today, users who try to post my campaign videos to Facebook or YouTube get messages that this content violates community standards.
00:19:30.000Two days after Judge Odie rendered his decision this week, Facebook was still attaching warning labels to an online petition Calling on ABC to include me in the upcoming debate.
00:19:44.000They said that violates community standards, their community standards.
00:19:50.000The mainstream media was once the guardian of the first amendment and democratic principles.
00:19:56.000And it's joined this systemic attack on democracy.
00:20:01.000It also, the media justifies their censorship on the grounds of combating misinformation.
00:20:08.000But governments and oppressors don't censor lies.
00:20:22.000And I don't want any of this to sound like a personal complaint, because it's not.
00:20:27.000For me, It's all part of a journey and it's a journey that I signed up with.
00:20:36.000But I need to make these observations because I think they're critical for us doing the thing that we need to do as citizens in a democracy to assess where we are in this country and what our democracy still looks like and the assumptions about U.S.
00:21:10.000While mainstream outlets denied me a critical platform, they didn't shut down my ideas which have especially flourished among young voters and independent voters thanks to the alternative media.
00:21:24.000Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler.
00:21:30.000A spoiler is someone who will alter the outcome of the election but has no chance of winning.
00:21:36.000In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of this relentless systematic censorship and media control.
00:21:48.000So I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to keep working their long hours or ask my donors to keep giving when I cannot honestly tell them that I have a real path to the White House.
00:22:02.000Furthermore, our polling consistently showed By staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats with whom I disagree on the most existential issues.
00:22:57.000And if enough of you do vote for me, and neither of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is quite possible, in fact, Today our polling shows them tying at 269 to 269.
00:23:10.000And I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.
00:23:17.000But in about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler, I'm going to remove my name.
00:23:27.000And I've already started that process and urge voters not to vote for me.
00:23:35.000And not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities.
00:23:40.000Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, we changed the national political conversation forever.
00:23:48.000Chronic disease, free speech, government corruption, breaking our addiction to war, have moved to the center of politics.
00:23:57.000I can say to all who have worked so hard the last year and a half, thank you for a job well done.
00:24:05.000Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place, primarily.
00:24:11.000And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent.
00:24:20.000And now, to throw my support to President Trump, the causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine, I've already described some of my personal experiences and struggles with the government's censorship-industrial complex.
00:24:41.000I want to say a word about the Ukraine war.
00:24:43.000The military-industrial complex has provided us with a familiar comic book justification, like they do on every war, that this one is a noble effort to stop a supervillain, Vladimir Putin, I'm invading Ukraine and then to thwart his Hitler-like march across Europe.
00:25:05.000In fact, tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of the U.S.
00:25:35.000The credulous media rarely explain to Americans that we unilaterally walked away from two intermediate nuclear weapons treaties with Russia and then put nuclear-ready Aegis missile systems in Romania and Poland.
00:25:56.000And that the Biden White House repeatedly spurned Russia's offer to settle this war peacefully.
00:26:03.000The Ukraine war began in 2014 when U.S.
00:26:07.000agencies overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine.
00:26:12.000and installed a hand-picked pro-Western government that launched a deadly civil war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
00:26:22.000In 2019, America walked away from a peace treaty, the Minsk Agreement, that had been negotiated between Russia and Ukraine by European nations.
00:26:32.000And then in April of 2022, we wanted the war.
00:26:33.000In April of 2022, President Biden sent Boris Johnson to Ukraine.
00:26:42.000to force President Zelensky to tear up a peace agreement that he and the Russians had already signed and the Russians were withdrawing troops from Kiev and Donbass and Lugansk.
00:26:54.000And that peace agreement would have brought peace to the region and would have allowed Donbass and Lugansk to remain part of Ukraine.
00:27:02.000President Biden stated that month that his objective in the war was regime change in Russia.
00:27:10.000His Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, simultaneously explained that America's purpose in the war was to exhaust the Russian army, to degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else in the world.
00:27:23.000These objectives, of course, have nothing to do with what they were telling Americans about protecting Ukraine's sovereignty.
00:27:32.000Ukraine is a victim in this war, and it's a victim of the West.
00:27:37.000Since then, we have since tearing up that agreement, forcing Zelensky to tear up the agreement, we've squandered the flower of Ukrainian youth, as many as 600,000 Ukrainian kids, and over 100,000 Russian kids, none of whom, all of whom we should be mourning, have died, and Ukraine's infrastructure is destroyed.
00:28:07.000The war has been a disaster for our country as well.
00:28:14.000And these are badly needed dollars in our communities, suffering communities all over our country.
00:28:21.000The Nord Stream Pipeline sabotage and the sanctions have destroyed Europe's industrial base, which formed the bulwark of US national security.
00:28:31.000A strong Germany with a strong industry is a much, much stronger deterrent to Russia And a Germany that is de-industrialized and turned into just an extension of U.S.
00:28:46.000We've pushed Russia into a disastrous alliance with China and Iran.
00:28:52.000We're closer to the brink of nuclear exchange than at any time since 1962.
00:28:59.000And the neocons and the White House don't seem to care at all.
00:29:03.000Our moral authority and our economy are in shambles.
00:29:07.000And the war gave rise to the emergence of BRICS, which now threatens to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.
00:29:14.000This is a first-class calamity for our country.
00:29:19.000Judging by her bellicose belligerent speech last night in Chicago, we can assume that President Harris will be an enthusiastic advocate for this and other neocon military adventures.
00:29:34.000And President Trump says that he will reopen negotiations with President Putin and end the war overnight as soon as he becomes president.
00:29:44.000This alone would justify my support for his campaign.
00:29:49.000Last summer it looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end to the Ukraine war, to tackle chronic disease epidemic, to protect free speech, our constitutional freedoms, to clean corporate influence out of our government, or to defy the neocons and their agenda of endless military adventurism.
00:30:10.000But now one of the two candidates has adopted these issues as his own.
00:30:16.000To the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration.
00:30:21.000I'm speaking, of course, of Donald Trump.
00:30:25.000Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, Callie Means called me on my cell phone.
00:30:37.000Callie is arguably the leading advocate for food safety, for soil regeneration, And for ending the chronic disease epidemic that is destroying America's health and ruining our economy.
00:30:50.000Gali has exposed the insidious corruption at the FDA, the NIH, the HHS, and the USDA that has caused the epidemic.
00:31:00.000Allie had been working on and off for my campaign, advising me on those subjects since the beginning, and those subjects have been my primary focus for the last 20 years.
00:31:13.000I was delighted when Callie told me that day that he had also been advising President Trump.
00:31:20.000He told me President Trump was anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects, and to explore avenues of cooperation.
00:31:30.000He asked if I would take a call from the president.
00:31:33.000President Trump telephoned me a few minutes later and I met with him the following day.
00:31:39.000A few weeks later, I met again with President Trump and his family members and close advisors in Florida.
00:31:48.000In a series of long, intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues.
00:31:57.000In those meetings, he suggested that we join forces as a unity party.
00:32:02.000We talked about Abraham Lincoln's team of rivals.
00:32:06.000That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and fiercely if need be on issues over which we differ while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance.
00:32:23.000I was a ferocious critic of many of the policies during his first administration and there are still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences.
00:32:41.000We are aligned with each other on other key issues like ending the forever wars, ending the childhood disease epidemic, securing the border.
00:32:51.000Protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans and interfering with our elections.
00:33:09.000Following my first discussion with President Trump.
00:33:13.000I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris.
00:33:19.000Vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me.
00:33:25.000Suspending my candidacy is a hard-rending decision for me, but I'm convinced that it's the best hope for ending the Ukraine war and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nation's vitality from the inside, and for finally protecting free speech.
00:33:43.000I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children, above all things.
00:33:52.000In case some of you don't realize how dire the condition is of our children's health and chronic disease in general, I would urge you to view Dr. Carlson's recent interview with Callie Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, who is the top graduate of her class at Stanford Medical School.
00:34:13.000This is an issue that affects all of us far more directly and urgently than any culture war issue and all the other issues that we obsess on and that are tearing apart our country.
00:36:21.000Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes.
00:36:25.000When my uncle was president, I was a boy, juvenile diabetes was effectively non-existent.
00:36:31.000A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career, a 40 or 50 year career.
00:36:38.000Today, one out of every three kids who walks through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic, and the mitochondrial disorder caused diabetes, also causing Alzheimer's, which is now classified as diabetes, and it's causing this country more than our military budget every year.
00:36:59.000There's been an explosion of neurological illnesses that I never saw as a kid.
00:39:44.000Laboratory scientists, many of whom formerly worked for the cigarette industry, which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s, deployed thousands of scientists to figure out chemicals, new chemicals, to make the food more addictive.
00:40:03.000And these ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago.
00:40:08.000Humans aren't biologically adapted to eat them.
00:40:12.000Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe, but ubiquitous in American processed foods.
00:40:19.000The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment.
00:40:25.000Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies.
00:40:33.000The assault on our children's cells and hormones is unrelenting.
00:40:39.000Many of these chemicals increase estrogen.
00:40:43.000Because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors, America's puberty rate is now occurring at age 10 to 13, which is six years earlier than girls were reaching puberty in 1900.
00:41:02.000Our country has the earliest puberty rates of any continent on the earth.
00:41:08.000And no, this isn't because of better nutrition.
00:41:13.000Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven, and it now strikes one in eight women.
00:41:18.000We are mass poisoning all of our children and our adults.
00:41:24.000Considering the grievous human cause of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost crass to mention the damage it does to our economy.
00:41:33.000But I'll say, It is crippling the nation's finances.
00:41:37.000When my uncle was president, our country spent $0 on chronic disease.
00:41:43.000Today, government health care spending is almost all for chronic disease.
00:42:27.000We are systematically poisoning minorities across this country.
00:42:33.000The industry lobbyists have made sure that most of the food stamp launch program about 70% of food stamps and 70 or 77% of school lunches are processed foods.
00:42:47.000There's nothing that you would want to eat.
00:42:50.000We are just poisoning the poor citizens and that's why they have the highest chronic disease burden of anybody, any demographic in our country and the highest in the world.
00:43:02.000The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies go to commodity crops that are the feedstock of processed
00:43:45.000To do that, we need to do three things.
00:43:48.000First, we need to root out the corruption in our health agencies.
00:43:53.000Second, we need to change incentives in our health care system.
00:43:56.000And third, We need to inspire Americans to get healthy again.
00:44:01.00080% of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest.
00:44:06.000These, these are the people, virtually everybody who says Joe Biden just appointed a new panel to NIH to decide.
00:44:22.000The food recommendations, and they're all people who are from the industry.
00:44:26.000They're all people who are from the processed food companies.
00:44:30.000They're deciding what Americans, you know, hear is healthy.
00:44:35.000And the recommendations on the food pyramid, and what goes to our school lunch programs, which go to the Swiss program, the food stamp programs, they're all corrupted and conflicted individuals.
00:44:52.000These agencies, the FDA, USDA, CDC, all of them are controlled by giant for-profit corporations.
00:44:58.00075% of the FDA's funding doesn't come from taxpayer, it comes from pharma.
00:45:04.000And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies with President Trump's backing.
00:45:13.000We're going to staff these agencies with honored scientists and doctors who are free from industry funding.
00:45:21.000We're going to make sure the decisions of consumers, doctors, and patients are informed by unbiased science.
00:45:29.000A sick child is the best thing for the pharmaceutical industry when American children Or adults get sick with a chronic condition.
00:45:38.000They're put on medication for their entire life.
00:45:42.000Imagine what will happen when Medicare starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $1,500 a month, and it's being recommended for children as young as six.
00:45:53.000All for a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable, and barely even existed 100 years ago.
00:46:03.000The cost, if all of them took their ozempic prescription, is $3 trillion a year.
00:46:10.000This is a drug that is made by Novo Nordisk, the biggest company in Europe.
00:46:17.000It's a Danish company, and the Danish government does not recommend it.
00:46:22.000It recommends change in diet to treat obesity and exercise.
00:46:27.000And in our country, the recommendation now is for Ozempic to children at age six.
00:46:33.000Novo Nord is the biggest company in Europe and virtually its entire value is based upon its projections of what it's going to sell, of the Ozempic it's going to sell to America.
00:46:44.000And we have the food lobbyists have a bill in front of Congress today that is backed by the White House, backed by Vice President Harris and President Biden, to allow this to happen.
00:46:58.000This $3 trillion cost is going to bankrupt our country.
00:47:03.000For a fraction of that amount, we could buy organic food for every American family, three meals a day and eliminate diabetes altogether.
00:47:11.000We're going to bring healthy food back to school lunches.
00:47:17.000We're going to stop subsidizing the worst foods with our agricultural subsidies.
00:47:23.000We're going to get toxic chemicals out of our food.
00:47:25.000We're going to reform the entire food system.
00:47:27.000And for that, we need new leadership in Washington.
00:47:31.000Because unfortunately, both the Democrats and the Republican parties are in cahoots with the big food producers, Big Pharma and Big Ag, which are among the DNC's major donors.
00:47:43.000Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue.
00:47:48.000Four more years of democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and neocon power, and our children will be the ones who suffer most.
00:47:57.000I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose to or wanted to.
00:48:13.000It was widely ignored by all the institutions, including the NGOs, who should have been protecting our kids against toxins.
00:48:22.000It was an orphaned issue, and I had a weakness for orphans.
00:48:26.000I watched generations of children get sicker and sicker.
00:48:29.000I had 11 siblings, and I had 7 kids myself.
00:48:33.000I was conscious of what was happening in their classrooms and to their friends.
00:48:37.000And I watched these sick kids, these damaged kids.
00:48:41.000In that generation, almost all of them are damaged.
00:48:45.000And nobody in power seemed to care or to even notice.
00:48:49.000For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity.
00:48:58.000The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president.
00:49:04.000Along with ending censorship in the Ukraine war.
00:49:07.000It's the reason I've made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump.
00:49:15.000This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife and my children and my friends.
00:49:24.000But I have the certainty that this is what I'm meant to do.
00:49:28.000And that certainty gives me internal peace, even in storms.
00:49:35.000If I'm given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years, we will watch chronic disease burden lift dramatically.
00:50:01.000Ultimately, the future, however it happens, is in God's hands and in the hands of the American voters and those of President Trump.
00:50:11.000If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country will disappear.
00:50:25.000I reached my decision through deep prayer, through hard-nosed logic, and I asked myself, what choices must I make to maximize my chances to save America's children and restore national health?
00:50:40.000I felt that if I refused this opportunity, I would not be able to look myself in the mirror, knowing that I could have saved lives of countless children and reversed this country's chronic disease epidemic.
00:50:59.000I can't imagine that President Harris would allow me or anyone to solve these dire problems.
00:51:08.000After eight years of President Harris, any opportunity for me to fix the problem will be out of my reach forever.
00:51:16.000President Trump has told me that he wants this to be his legacy.
00:51:21.000I'm choosing to believe that this time he will follow through.
00:51:25.000His son, his biggest donors, his closest friends, and all support this objective.
00:51:32.000My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children, but worthwhile if there's even a small chance of saving these kids.
00:51:45.000Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children Is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.
00:51:57.000That's why I launched my campaign to unify America.
00:52:01.000My dad and my uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation.
00:52:07.000Not so much because of any particular policies that they promoted, but because they were able to inspire profound love for our country.
00:52:17.000And to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by ideals.
00:52:24.000They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans.
00:52:30.000And to unify a national populist movement of Americans, blacks and whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans, inspired affection and love and high hopes and a culture of kindness That continue to radiate among Americans from their memory.
00:52:53.000That's the spirit on which I ran my campaign and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump.
00:53:00.000Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us.
00:53:06.000The goals that we could achieve if only we weren't at each other's throats.
00:53:11.000The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children.
00:53:18.000If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health, and the future that they deserve.
00:53:55.000The single most cohesive statement against the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris and the media of this entire campaign from anyone, that includes President Trump, that includes J.D.
00:54:02.000Vance, it was a full-scale attack on the Democratic Party for rigging their primary process in order to cover the senility of Joe Biden, then elevating a person who's never won a primary vote, Kamala Harris, to a position of power.
00:54:14.000He ripped on Kamala Harris for being smoke and mirrors, for not providing a single policy position.
00:54:19.000He ripped on the media for denying not only him access to the airwaves, but also for hiding all of the things from Joe Biden's infirmity to Kamala Harris's lack of policy positions.
00:54:31.000It was a frontal assault on that triumvirate.
00:54:34.000The Democratic Party, the media, and the Democratic Party, the media, as well as the Institutional structures of the judiciary, for example, that he says have the governmental structures that have been used against him social media tech and all the rest.
00:54:56.000Obviously, I disagree with many of the things that RFK says.
00:54:58.000You can watch the interview that I did with RFK Jr.
00:55:02.000just a few months back, and we talked about many of the things that he talked about right there.
00:55:05.000He obviously has a passion for children's health when he is talking about the uncleanliness of the food supply, when he's talking about the generalized bad standards of health and safety in the United States.
00:55:17.000However, here he was speaking with me.
00:55:19.000Here was his critique of Joe Biden at the time.
00:55:23.000I think there's a tremendous reason to hope in this country if we have the right leadership.
00:55:28.000And I don't, the reason I'm running is because I just don't believe that President Biden, who I've known for many years and like personally, that he has any capacity to even see, you know, over the horizon and see which direction and provide the kind of leadership that we're going to need to make this transition.
00:55:49.000He laid out several reasons in his speech why he believes that Donald Trump is a better pick for him than Kamala Harris.
00:55:55.000Obviously, one of those reasons that the Democratic Party legitimately forced him out of the race very, very early.
00:56:00.000They wouldn't even allow him on the primary ballot.
00:56:03.000He suggested that his top priorities are protecting freedom of speech, That was a big priority for him and that meant not allowing the vitiation of the borderline between the government and the media that has happened under the Biden administration.
00:56:16.000He mentioned bringing back manufacturing and protecting the dollar and of course his health priorities.
00:56:22.000Now obviously he and I disagree very strenuously on the Ukraine-Russia war I think that his narrative is not in line with the facts about what Russia's actual ambitions are in Ukraine or why that war broke out.
00:56:33.000But his generalized idea, which is that Donald Trump is better for peace in the world than Kamala Harris, is obviously and certainly true, and that is empirically true.
00:56:42.000So he has stepped out of the race, he has endorsed Donald Trump, and he is going to be an attack dog, for sure, against Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party that are doing their best to avoid any and all scrutiny.
00:56:52.000For his part, President Trump has made quick comment about RFK's endorsement.
00:57:28.000Okay, well, CNN, for its part, cut directly out of that speech, so we played you the whole speech.
00:57:32.000CNN, about 10 minutes in, when they realized that he was going to turn his guns on CNN and the mainstream media and the legacy media's cover-up of the Kamala Harris campaign, their cover-up of Joe Biden's senility, they tuned out of that almost immediately because, again, they could not risk the exposure of The democratic media human centipede that has been created for this campaign.
00:57:53.000I think that RFK Jr., for all of his flaws in my thinking with regard to some of his policy prescriptions, I think what he does bring is independence, obviously.
00:58:03.000There are a bunch of independents who like RFK Jr.
00:58:06.000He's somebody who obviously has high levels of name recognition.
00:58:10.000And he just moved some momentum back into Donald Trump's camp, particularly in the swing states.
00:58:15.000And frankly, his plan is pretty smart, right?
00:58:17.000His plan is that he's going to take his name off the ballot in the 10 most competitive states and leave it on the ballot in all the other states.
00:58:23.000In the other states, he says it's not going to make a difference, and it will signify how many people are dissatisfied with both parties.
00:58:28.000And that's a smart move moving forward for him.
00:58:30.000And in the swing states, he says, I'm not going to be the spoiler.
00:58:33.000So he is stepping out of the race, obviously.
00:59:14.000did the same thing I've been doing on the show.
00:59:15.000He literally named the number of days she has not done a sit-down press conference, she has not done a sit-down interview, she has not explicated any of her policies.
00:59:23.000It is time to force her to actually answer questions about what she is going to be as president.
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00:59:58.000Man, this election season is moving fast and taking no prisoners.