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00:01:01.400 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show,

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00:01:12.980 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.

00:01:14.620 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show,

00:01:15.780 coming to you from Washington, D.C.

00:01:18.220 this afternoon.

00:01:19.300 Fireworks on Capitol Hill today,

00:01:21.240 where Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:01:22.920 made the case that he is the man,

00:01:26.380 I mean, indeed, truly,

00:01:27.560 like the only man,

00:01:28.900 to run the Department of Health and Human Services

00:01:31.240 in 2025 America,

00:01:33.200 and implement President Donald Trump's

00:01:35.620 Make America Healthy Again agenda.

00:01:38.020 His opponents didn't get it.

00:01:40.600 Even some of the Republicans didn't get it.

00:01:44.020 But for the most part,

00:01:45.180 they did well,

00:01:46.020 the Republican senators.

00:01:47.380 A couple,

00:01:48.260 which I'll go over,

00:01:49.380 were annoying.

00:01:50.640 But the Democrats,

00:01:51.820 once again,

00:01:52.320 made fools out of themselves.

00:01:53.680 They just,

00:01:54.260 they made fools out of themselves.

00:01:56.820 In the same way,

00:01:57.840 they keep looking at Trump

00:01:58.840 and saying,

00:01:59.780 Hitler,

00:02:00.540 Nazi,

00:02:01.440 fascist,

00:02:02.380 convicted felon,

00:02:03.280 and everybody's like,

00:02:04.600 screw you.

00:02:05.680 We have a country to save.

00:02:07.120 That's how I felt today,

00:02:08.080 watching them go after RFKJ.

00:02:09.800 They don't get it.

00:02:11.400 That audience was filled

00:02:12.820 with parents,

00:02:14.640 moms,

00:02:15.380 with infants,

00:02:16.340 with little kids with them,

00:02:17.760 trying to send a message

00:02:18.960 to these senators.

00:02:20.180 They're done playing

00:02:21.280 these ridiculous games.

00:02:22.980 Half these senators

00:02:23.800 are on the take

00:02:25.020 with Big Pharma,

00:02:26.920 or Big Ag,

00:02:27.740 for that matter,

00:02:28.540 and doing Big Pharma's bidding

00:02:30.120 live in the hearing.

00:02:31.600 They don't want RFKJ.

00:02:32.940 They don't want somebody

00:02:33.760 who's been suing Big Pharma

00:02:35.140 his entire career.

00:02:36.660 That's who pays

00:02:37.440 their re-election bills.

00:02:39.020 And it was very obvious,

00:02:40.300 as you watch them today,

00:02:42.060 they were smearing him.

00:02:43.600 I mean,

00:02:43.820 left and right,

00:02:44.360 those in the press,

00:02:45.320 those who are

00:02:45.840 on the left-hand side of the aisle,

00:02:47.760 in this hearing.

00:02:49.280 And,

00:02:50.060 you know,

00:02:51.660 they weren't even

00:02:52.280 trying to hide it,

00:02:53.020 basically.

00:02:53.420 They just wanted to make,

00:02:54.940 if half this stuff

00:02:55.940 had been said

00:02:56.520 outside of the U.S. Senate,

00:02:58.240 they could all be sued

00:02:58.940 for defamation.

00:02:59.840 I mean,

00:03:00.320 it was amazing.

00:03:01.780 Look,

00:03:02.060 I will say this,

00:03:02.940 they didn't go hard

00:03:03.740 personal on him

00:03:04.500 like they did

00:03:04.940 with Pete Hegseth.

00:03:06.060 They could have brought it up,

00:03:07.440 you know,

00:03:07.660 obviously,

00:03:08.220 Bobby Kennedy

00:03:09.060 is a recovering

00:03:09.760 heroin addict.

00:03:11.120 He said he's been sober

00:03:12.240 for 42 years.

00:03:14.140 They could have brought up

00:03:15.160 the personal behavior

00:03:16.260 with women.

00:03:17.620 It's not exactly stellar

00:03:18.980 on the history there.

00:03:20.320 They steer clear of that,

00:03:21.640 which was good,

00:03:22.720 but they,

00:03:23.600 man,

00:03:23.920 are obsessed

00:03:24.940 with his stance

00:03:26.100 on vaccines.

00:03:28.040 Obsessed.

00:03:28.560 And like,

00:03:29.840 either unwilling

00:03:30.620 or unable

00:03:31.320 to see

00:03:32.400 what he really

00:03:33.280 feels about them.

00:03:34.740 I mean,

00:03:35.020 look,

00:03:35.380 he's not a huge proponent.

00:03:36.800 I think that's fair.

00:03:37.740 But they just want

00:03:38.660 to paint him

00:03:39.120 as somebody

00:03:39.440 who wants to ban

00:03:40.180 all vaccines.

00:03:40.820 And he doesn't talk

00:03:41.620 about banning

00:03:42.200 at all.

00:03:43.020 He's very against

00:03:44.200 vaccine mandates.

00:03:45.840 And in some cases,

00:03:46.760 he wants more research

00:03:47.680 being done

00:03:48.120 before we push

00:03:48.720 these vaccines

00:03:49.380 on kids

00:03:50.080 and has joined

00:03:51.420 as a lawyer

00:03:52.060 in some lawsuits

00:03:53.660 against the manufacturers.

00:03:56.300 Look,

00:03:57.120 here's one of the

00:03:59.340 lowlights of the day.

00:04:00.120 It was actually

00:04:00.440 very funny,

00:04:01.300 so I enjoyed the moment.

00:04:02.500 But this is what we,

00:04:03.540 instead of talking

00:04:04.360 about what he's

00:04:05.440 going to do

00:04:06.300 to try to get

00:04:08.560 the chemicals

00:04:09.080 out of our food supply,

00:04:10.920 try to work

00:04:11.620 with farmers

00:04:12.060 and ranchers

00:04:12.680 to help them

00:04:13.500 avoid these toxic

00:04:14.700 pesticides

00:04:15.200 in the way

00:04:16.340 that they're using

00:04:16.940 them now

00:04:17.740 and to the measure

00:04:18.540 that they're using

00:04:19.280 them now.

00:04:19.600 Instead of talking

00:04:20.420 about that

00:04:20.960 and exactly how

00:04:22.660 he plans to get

00:04:23.440 all of these

00:04:24.460 ultra-processed foods

00:04:25.480 out of our food supply

00:04:26.680 or make them

00:04:27.100 just a minor offering

00:04:28.740 as opposed to

00:04:29.240 the dominant thing

00:04:29.960 you see on yourselves

00:04:30.780 and at your school lunches.

00:04:32.240 Instead of spending

00:04:33.220 time on that,

00:04:34.880 the Democrats

00:04:35.560 wanted to talk

00:04:37.480 about baby clothes

00:04:38.840 like Bernie Sanders

00:04:41.060 who decided

00:04:42.540 to bring up

00:04:43.220 this onesie,

00:04:44.720 which we're putting

00:04:45.200 on the screen now,

00:04:46.560 put out by

00:04:47.640 RFKJ's

00:04:49.060 non-profit

00:04:50.060 Children's Health

00:04:51.140 Defense Fund,

00:04:52.320 which he's now

00:04:52.960 had to leave

00:04:53.760 because of this

00:04:54.640 appointment.

00:04:55.820 And Bernie Sanders

00:04:57.500 was really upset

00:04:58.480 that there's a baby

00:04:59.420 onesie

00:05:00.020 that reads

00:05:00.960 unvaxxed

00:05:01.800 and unafraid.

00:05:03.640 Watch this.

00:05:04.940 You're coming

00:05:05.360 before this committee

00:05:06.360 and you say

00:05:07.420 you're pro-vaccine.

00:05:09.000 Just want to ask

00:05:09.640 some questions.

00:05:10.440 And yet your

00:05:10.920 organization

00:05:11.520 is making money

00:05:13.380 selling a child's

00:05:15.560 product

00:05:15.960 to parents

00:05:17.380 for $26

00:05:18.460 which casts

00:05:19.620 fundamental doubt

00:05:20.940 on the usefulness

00:05:22.700 of vaccines.

00:05:24.020 Can you tell us

00:05:24.980 now that you will,

00:05:26.600 now that you are

00:05:27.540 pro-vaccine,

00:05:30.060 that you're going

00:05:30.500 to have your

00:05:31.020 organization

00:05:31.620 take these products

00:05:32.760 off the market?

00:05:33.820 Senator,

00:05:34.300 I have no power

00:05:34.940 over that organization.

00:05:36.200 I'm not part of it.

00:05:37.120 I resigned from the board.

00:05:38.280 That was just a few months ago.

00:05:39.820 You founded that.

00:05:41.160 You certainly have power.

00:05:42.820 You can make that.

00:05:43.760 Are you supportive

00:05:44.820 of this?

00:05:45.840 I've had nothing

00:05:46.740 to do with leadership.

00:05:47.620 Are you supportive

00:05:47.900 of these onesies?

00:05:49.080 I'm supportive

00:05:49.620 of vaccines.

00:05:50.680 Are you supportive

00:05:51.500 of this clothing

00:05:53.000 which is militantly

00:05:54.620 anti-vaccine?

00:05:55.680 I am supportive

00:05:57.080 of vaccines.

00:05:58.260 I will.

00:05:59.460 I want good science

00:06:01.120 and I want to protect

00:06:02.080 the vaccines.

00:06:02.340 But you will not tell

00:06:03.220 the organization

00:06:04.000 you founded

00:06:04.640 not to continue

00:06:06.080 selling that product.

00:06:07.620 Thank you,

00:06:07.980 Mr. Chairman.

00:06:08.360 We spent actual time

00:06:11.700 on a baby onesie

00:06:12.960 in today's HHS

00:06:14.740 confirmation hearing.

00:06:15.960 Are you supportive

00:06:16.680 of these onesies?

00:06:18.360 America wants the truth.

00:06:20.740 I mean,

00:06:20.960 to be perfectly honest,

00:06:21.720 I prefer the little

00:06:22.680 footy onesies.

00:06:24.760 Keeps the little

00:06:25.680 tootsies warm

00:06:26.360 when you put them in.

00:06:27.140 What?

00:06:27.440 This is ridiculous.

00:06:29.000 Meanwhile,

00:06:29.840 guarantee you

00:06:30.560 those onesies

00:06:31.460 are selling out

00:06:32.680 like wildfire

00:06:34.220 right now

00:06:34.820 on the Children's

00:06:35.940 Health Defense.

00:06:36.720 Defense website.

00:06:39.420 By the way,

00:06:40.060 what does it even mean?

00:06:41.280 Unvaxxed,

00:06:41.780 you know,

00:06:42.000 and unafraid.

00:06:42.500 It could be about

00:06:42.980 the COVID vaccine,

00:06:44.080 which actually

00:06:44.860 they were telling us

00:06:46.260 should be given

00:06:46.980 to babies

00:06:47.580 and young people.

00:06:49.240 And it's basically

00:06:50.080 just the parents

00:06:50.740 way of saying,

00:06:51.640 you know what?

00:06:52.680 I refuse your mandates

00:06:54.020 and I will make

00:06:54.620 my own decisions

00:06:55.240 for my children.

00:06:56.140 Or maybe it is about

00:06:57.000 the full vaccine schedule

00:06:58.460 that they push on us

00:06:59.460 to give our little kids

00:07:00.320 because there are

00:07:01.200 a lot of parents out there,

00:07:02.160 millions of them,

00:07:02.820 in fact,

00:07:03.400 that think it's

00:07:04.180 too much too soon.

00:07:05.160 Why are we giving

00:07:05.820 the Hep C vaccine

00:07:06.900 to babies,

00:07:07.660 which prevents STDs?

00:07:10.160 Not a lot of babies

00:07:11.200 in need of that.

00:07:12.660 So,

00:07:13.460 whatever.

00:07:14.380 He tried to make this

00:07:15.200 into like some federal case

00:07:16.420 against the evil

00:07:17.200 Bobby Kennedy

00:07:17.880 and you heard

00:07:18.860 Kennedy's response there.

00:07:20.640 Another big moment came

00:07:21.960 when Nevada Senator

00:07:23.740 Catherine Cortez Masto,

00:07:25.080 she's a Dem,

00:07:25.800 and I got news for you,

00:07:27.780 madam,

00:07:28.440 okay?

00:07:29.060 Your state

00:07:30.180 is getting redder

00:07:31.340 by the second,

00:07:32.080 so I would tread carefully

00:07:33.360 if I were you.

00:07:34.340 And you know what else?

00:07:35.980 It tends to be that

00:07:37.140 the further west

00:07:38.900 the state is,

00:07:40.640 the more Maha

00:07:41.440 is popular.

00:07:43.960 My California friends

00:07:45.160 who have been voting

00:07:45.740 Democrat,

00:07:46.300 some of them

00:07:46.580 their whole lives,

00:07:47.640 love Maha.

00:07:49.680 And I guarantee you,

00:07:51.360 Nevada Senator

00:07:52.020 Catherine Cortez Masto

00:07:52.940 has a lot of them

00:07:53.840 in her state too.

00:07:55.620 You know,

00:07:56.020 the Libs who thought

00:07:56.780 that the right was crazy

00:07:58.400 and was neo-conny

00:07:59.800 and wanted to spy on them

00:08:01.800 and they weren't much

00:08:02.520 akin to that,

00:08:03.800 they weren't friendly

00:08:04.540 toward it,

00:08:05.260 they like Maha.

00:08:06.600 And this is the face

00:08:08.000 of Maha,

00:08:09.300 so she better watch it.

00:08:11.280 She decided it'd be

00:08:12.180 super fun

00:08:12.800 to frame RFKJ

00:08:14.260 as just a loser stooge

00:08:16.460 for this Trump administration.

00:08:20.140 You keep citing

00:08:21.340 the Trump administration

00:08:22.460 and you're just gonna

00:08:23.380 follow what they say.

00:08:24.900 Is that what you're doing?

00:08:25.700 You're just a rubber stamp

00:08:26.620 in this position?

00:08:27.880 President Trump

00:08:28.700 has asked me

00:08:29.560 to end the chronic

00:08:31.200 disease epidemic

00:08:32.180 and make America

00:08:33.300 healthy again.

00:08:35.460 And I'm in a unique position.

00:08:36.720 So is that the only reason

00:08:37.340 why you're at HHS?

00:08:38.860 Is that the only reason

00:08:40.020 why then you're at the HHS

00:08:41.180 to address that one issue?

00:08:42.740 President Trump

00:08:43.620 has asked me

00:08:44.580 because I'm in a unique

00:08:45.640 position to end that.

00:08:47.660 And that is

00:08:49.300 what I'm doing.

00:08:51.120 And if we don't solve

00:08:52.760 that problem, Senator,

00:08:54.700 all of the other disputes

00:08:56.180 we have about

00:08:57.200 who's paying

00:08:57.980 and whether it's

00:08:59.580 insurance companies,

00:09:00.940 whether it's providers,

00:09:03.160 whether it's HMOs,

00:09:05.080 whether it's patients

00:09:05.860 or families,

00:09:06.700 all of those

00:09:07.580 are moving deck chairs

00:09:08.640 around on the Titanic.

00:09:10.020 This is an existential threat

00:09:11.820 economically

00:09:12.600 to our military,

00:09:14.200 to our health,

00:09:15.200 to our sense of well-being.

00:09:16.560 And it is a priority

00:09:17.740 for President Trump.

00:09:18.760 And that's why

00:09:19.840 he asked me

00:09:21.100 to run the agency.

00:09:22.720 And if I privilege

00:09:23.760 to be confirmed,

00:09:24.660 that's exactly

00:09:25.320 what I'll do.

00:09:27.500 Applause

00:09:28.140 Now, there were

00:09:32.740 some who believed

00:09:34.600 that Cortez Masto

00:09:35.500 could potentially be

00:09:36.920 a yes vote

00:09:37.760 for RFKJ

00:09:39.560 because of the reasons

00:09:40.700 I just stated.

00:09:41.820 I didn't see that

00:09:43.020 today in the room.

00:09:43.980 Doesn't mean

00:09:44.500 she won't eventually do it.

00:09:45.760 But the general wisdom

00:09:46.680 in there was that

00:09:47.620 none of these Dems

00:09:49.300 who might be open

00:09:50.600 to the idea of RFKJ,

00:09:52.260 who was a Democrat

00:09:53.080 two minutes ago

00:09:53.800 that they loved,

00:09:55.360 probably none

00:09:57.000 will want to be

00:09:57.460 the deciding vote.

00:09:59.040 So if he loses

00:10:01.120 four Republican votes,

00:10:03.760 then he's going

00:10:04.780 to need one Dem.

00:10:06.620 And the wisdom

00:10:08.180 is that not Cortez Masto,

00:10:11.240 Sheldon Whitehouse

00:10:12.080 of Rhode Island

00:10:13.240 is like a lifetime

00:10:15.000 friend of RFKJ's.

00:10:19.820 Some thought maybe

00:10:20.680 he could potentially

00:10:21.520 be that vote.

00:10:23.080 They went to law school

00:10:23.880 together.

00:10:24.420 I'm pretty sure

00:10:25.360 they were both

00:10:25.860 in each other's weddings.

00:10:27.980 You wouldn't have

00:10:28.500 known that from today.

00:10:30.280 So he's potentially

00:10:31.540 at least another.

00:10:32.320 He didn't beat up

00:10:32.980 on RFKJ the way

00:10:33.940 the others did.

00:10:34.560 He just used his five minutes

00:10:36.060 to go off on the issues

00:10:37.580 in Rhode Island.

00:10:38.240 And I got to be honest,

00:10:39.220 a lot of what he said

00:10:40.020 I actually agreed with.

00:10:41.120 He was going on and on

00:10:42.140 about the nonsense rules

00:10:43.300 that constrict states

00:10:44.440 when it comes to,

00:10:45.560 for example,

00:10:46.600 elder care

00:10:47.320 and how,

00:10:48.960 you know,

00:10:49.260 you want,

00:10:49.660 if Granny kept calling

00:10:50.540 her Granny,

00:10:51.000 like Granny gets sick

00:10:51.820 and you want to take,

00:10:53.300 and like the caregivers

00:10:54.220 of the family

00:10:54.800 who need a break

00:10:55.480 instead of like

00:10:56.480 providing coverage

00:10:57.460 for a caregiver

00:10:58.240 to come in for a day

00:10:59.320 or two so the family

00:11:00.140 can have a break,

00:11:00.920 they insist that Granny

00:11:01.920 go in an ambulance

00:11:02.740 to the hospital.

00:11:03.520 That insurance will pay for,

00:11:05.200 but not the former,

00:11:06.780 which is stupid

00:11:07.840 as he kept saying.

00:11:08.840 So I got to say,

00:11:09.840 White House was making

00:11:10.420 some good points.

00:11:11.700 He's a possible

00:11:12.640 on RFKJ,

00:11:14.140 but we don't know.

00:11:16.000 And the two

00:11:16.740 absolute worst,

00:11:18.860 absolute worst

00:11:20.140 in the room

00:11:20.840 were Ron Wyden

00:11:22.740 of Oregon.

00:11:23.860 He's the ranking member,

00:11:25.280 meaning the top Democrat

00:11:26.240 on the committee,

00:11:26.880 and Mark Warner

00:11:29.980 of Virginia,

00:11:31.500 who I'm going to,

00:11:33.920 it's tough to say.

00:11:35.160 I'm going to let you guys

00:11:35.700 be the judge.

00:11:36.720 First, I'll get

00:11:37.340 Michael Knowles' vote.

00:11:38.580 In a bit,

00:11:39.100 we're going to be joined

00:11:39.640 by Link Lauren.

00:11:41.100 He worked on RFKJ's campaign

00:11:42.700 and he's got a lot of,

00:11:44.500 a lot of thoughts

00:11:45.300 on all of that.

00:11:47.020 But first,

00:11:48.040 Michael Knowles is here.

00:11:48.760 He's hosted

00:11:49.120 the Michael Knowles Show

00:11:49.880 on the Daily Wire.

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00:13:00.800 Michael,

00:13:01.300 great to have you.

00:13:02.040 So,

00:13:02.440 just like last time

00:13:03.280 you and I did this

00:13:03.940 after Hegseth,

00:13:04.560 I was in the room.

00:13:05.640 I was seated

00:13:06.020 right behind Cheryl Hines,

00:13:07.640 the wife of RFKJ,

00:13:09.520 who must have

00:13:10.180 blown Hollywood's mind

00:13:11.360 for those who didn't know

00:13:12.340 she was married to him

00:13:13.200 to see her,

00:13:14.040 the star of Curb Your Enthusiasm,

00:13:15.480 Larry David's show,

00:13:16.440 right there.

00:13:17.780 And I was totally struck

00:13:19.600 by the amount

00:13:20.120 of enthusiasm

00:13:20.740 in the crowd for him.

00:13:22.440 He's a rock star.

00:13:23.560 That's,

00:13:24.300 like,

00:13:24.580 as much as the people

00:13:25.400 love Pete,

00:13:26.620 they were military guys.

00:13:27.840 They follow the rules.

00:13:29.260 You know,

00:13:29.420 they were told

00:13:29.880 not to clap

00:13:30.520 and not to make sound

00:13:31.280 and they didn't.

00:13:32.440 The RFKJ Maha crew

00:13:34.280 was like,

00:13:35.040 bring it.

00:13:35.680 They were booing

00:13:36.700 people like Elizabeth Warren.

00:13:39.060 Whenever the hecklers

00:13:40.040 got loud,

00:13:40.900 they were yelling,

00:13:41.560 we love you, Bobby!

00:13:43.080 And the woman

00:13:43.960 who was seated

00:13:45.080 a couple down

00:13:46.040 from me

00:13:46.520 was awesome.

00:13:48.260 She just kept,

00:13:48.940 like,

00:13:49.800 when Bobby got on a roll,

00:13:51.240 she was like,

00:13:51.740 tell it!

00:13:52.720 I'm like,

00:13:53.080 this is so much better

00:13:54.060 with her here.

00:13:55.220 So it was kind of fun.

00:13:57.220 Today's was,

00:13:57.740 it was kind of fun.

00:13:58.920 Probably not for Bobby Kennedy,

00:14:00.440 but it was fun

00:14:01.160 for people like me, too,

00:14:02.020 just to see,

00:14:02.540 once again,

00:14:03.600 these Democrats

00:14:04.280 have nothing.

00:14:06.120 They just want

00:14:07.600 to inflame,

00:14:09.440 you know,

00:14:09.720 throw arrows.

00:14:11.380 All of it was about

00:14:12.460 conspiracy theorists

00:14:14.440 and anti-vaccine freak.

00:14:16.600 That's really

00:14:17.000 where they went with it.

00:14:17.960 What were your thoughts?

00:14:19.460 Well,

00:14:20.000 this is the advantage

00:14:20.940 of having a guy

00:14:21.740 who was a Democrat

00:14:22.360 for his whole life

00:14:23.200 be your nominee,

00:14:24.140 is that his supporters

00:14:25.180 were Democrats

00:14:25.860 for their whole lives

00:14:26.780 and Democrats

00:14:27.360 are a little bit unruly.

00:14:29.060 And so,

00:14:29.660 in this case,

00:14:30.160 that actually redounded

00:14:30.820 to our benefit

00:14:31.460 because they were applauding.

00:14:32.740 I feel really good

00:14:35.040 about Sheldon Whitehouse.

00:14:36.760 And I could be proven

00:14:37.720 wrong on this,

00:14:38.700 but they say that jazz

00:14:40.360 is not the notes

00:14:41.580 that they play,

00:14:42.520 but it's the notes

00:14:43.240 that they don't play.

00:14:44.360 And that's how I felt

00:14:45.160 about Sheldon Whitehouse's

00:14:46.540 line of questioning

00:14:47.620 so-called today.

00:14:49.140 What was the one thing

00:14:50.040 he didn't say?

00:14:51.420 He didn't ask RFK

00:14:52.520 a single question.

00:14:54.100 So,

00:14:54.580 on the one hand,

00:14:55.240 he was really playing up

00:14:56.260 how people are concerned,

00:14:58.100 Mr. Kennedy,

00:14:58.820 and people are afraid

00:14:59.860 of some things you've said.

00:15:00.980 But then Sheldon Whitehouse

00:15:02.460 filibustered himself.

00:15:04.320 Why?

00:15:04.860 Because he didn't want

00:15:05.680 to make RFK

00:15:06.320 answer any questions.

00:15:07.640 He didn't want

00:15:08.000 to put him in a bad spot.

00:15:09.360 I think Senator Whitehouse

00:15:10.680 was sending a clear message today

00:15:12.340 to the Democrats

00:15:13.660 and to some of the

00:15:15.120 fence-sitting Republicans

00:15:16.020 that he would be

00:15:17.920 a pro-Kennedy vote

00:15:20.120 if it comes down to it.

00:15:21.920 The rest of the crew,

00:15:23.200 I thought,

00:15:23.600 didn't really land

00:15:24.520 much of a punch.

00:15:25.840 You had Ron Wyden,

00:15:27.420 who, to me,

00:15:28.300 sounded a little more

00:15:29.040 like Ron Wyden today.

00:15:30.440 Am I right?

00:15:31.120 He was just complaining

00:15:31.980 the whole time.

00:15:32.940 He didn't really land

00:15:33.980 a blow on him.

00:15:35.240 Elizabeth Warren

00:15:36.120 was funny

00:15:37.100 because she first asked Kennedy,

00:15:39.480 do you promise

00:15:40.340 once you leave HHS

00:15:41.540 not to work

00:15:42.700 for the pharmaceutical industry?

00:15:44.380 And he said,

00:15:44.840 yeah,

00:15:45.160 I certainly promised that.

00:15:46.440 They wouldn't hire me.

00:15:47.220 I don't like them.

00:15:48.100 And she said,

00:15:48.620 great, next question.

00:15:49.700 Do you promise

00:15:50.160 not to work against them?

00:15:51.820 And Kennedy basically laughed.

00:15:53.640 He said,

00:15:53.940 hold on,

00:15:54.300 I can't work for them

00:15:55.460 or against them?

00:15:56.240 Am I,

00:15:56.460 can I do anything

00:15:57.040 after I leave HHS?

00:15:58.140 So I don't think

00:15:59.420 that really landed at all.

00:16:00.900 The silliest moment

00:16:01.860 was Tina Smith,

00:16:03.840 a Democrat

00:16:04.540 that I didn't even

00:16:05.400 really know about

00:16:06.240 in the Senate.

00:16:07.000 I think we have this.

00:16:08.000 Is this the SSRI thing?

00:16:09.660 The SSRI gal.

00:16:11.180 Stand by.

00:16:11.700 Let me play it

00:16:12.360 and then you take it

00:16:12.980 on the back end.

00:16:13.600 Here she is.

00:16:14.080 So do you believe,

00:16:15.820 as you've said,

00:16:16.420 that antidepressants

00:16:17.240 cause school shootings?

00:16:18.640 This should be

00:16:19.540 a simple question.

00:16:20.380 I don't think anybody

00:16:21.340 can answer that question

00:16:22.320 and I didn't answer

00:16:23.180 that question.

00:16:24.000 I said it should be studied

00:16:27.380 along with other

00:16:28.360 potential culprits

00:16:29.460 like social media.

00:16:32.800 But I don't know.

00:16:34.120 I would never make,

00:16:35.200 because there's no science

00:16:36.460 on that, Senator.

00:16:37.360 Well, there is, Senator.

00:16:38.480 I mean, excuse me.

00:16:39.220 There is, Mr. Kennedy.

00:16:41.280 Thank you for the promotion.

00:16:41.820 The science shows

00:16:43.740 that there is no link

00:16:45.280 between school shootings

00:16:46.340 and antidepressants.

00:16:47.420 And in fact,

00:16:48.060 most school shooters

00:16:48.800 were not even treated

00:16:49.740 with antidepressants.

00:16:51.280 And of those that were,

00:16:52.160 there was no evidence

00:16:53.340 of association, you know.

00:16:54.820 I don't think

00:16:55.680 you can say that, Senator,

00:16:57.380 because HIPAA rules,

00:16:58.640 nobody knows.

00:17:00.720 But the science shows

00:17:02.240 that there's no link

00:17:03.300 between antidepressants

00:17:04.700 and school shootings.

00:17:05.620 Okay, does it?

00:17:07.040 That's an impossibility

00:17:08.360 that they could absolutely

00:17:09.420 rule out

00:17:09.980 that they played any role

00:17:11.140 in any of these.

00:17:12.300 But keep going.

00:17:13.260 I loved Kennedy's answer,

00:17:15.000 which is,

00:17:15.300 what are you talking about?

00:17:15.940 There are HIPAA rules.

00:17:16.800 We can't actually go

00:17:17.680 into the medical files

00:17:18.580 of a lot of these shooters.

00:17:19.920 And there has been

00:17:20.880 an association shown

00:17:22.220 with a number

00:17:22.660 of these school shootings.

00:17:23.680 So this woman went on

00:17:24.880 and she went on

00:17:26.020 to talk about

00:17:26.500 her own experience

00:17:27.500 with SSRIs.

00:17:29.060 And I thought it really

00:17:29.920 undermined her argument

00:17:30.880 because she was not

00:17:31.940 particularly articulate.

00:17:33.020 She was interrupting him.

00:17:34.400 I thought she sounded

00:17:35.060 downright unhinged.

00:17:36.680 And if her argument was,

00:17:38.080 listen, I've been on

00:17:38.780 powerful psych drugs

00:17:39.820 for a lot of my life.

00:17:41.060 And see, I'm proof

00:17:41.880 that they're all great

00:17:42.920 and there's no question

00:17:43.580 about them.

00:17:44.360 Not the best argument,

00:17:45.820 Senator.

00:17:46.420 So I felt hers

00:17:47.700 really fell flat.

00:17:49.520 No one really landed a blow.

00:17:50.860 The funniest part

00:17:51.420 was at the end

00:17:52.060 when the senators

00:17:52.860 were all itching

00:17:53.560 to get out of the hearing

00:17:54.520 to go vote

00:17:55.500 on a separate matter.

00:17:56.900 And one senator

00:17:58.240 asked like five questions

00:17:59.940 in a row

00:18:00.380 and then said,

00:18:01.100 okay, I got to go.

00:18:01.800 I don't even want to stick around

00:18:02.640 to hear the answer.

00:18:03.700 I thought Kennedy

00:18:04.460 was going to have

00:18:05.040 a lot more trouble

00:18:06.100 when he was first announced

00:18:08.040 as the pick for HHS.

00:18:09.640 But as we said last time

00:18:10.760 on the show, Megan,

00:18:11.880 Pete Hegseth

00:18:12.420 was obviously the canary

00:18:13.680 in the coal mine.

00:18:14.720 He was one of the

00:18:15.640 controversial nominees.

00:18:17.180 The controversial nominees

00:18:18.060 are Hegseth, Tulsi,

00:18:20.340 Cash Patel,

00:18:21.240 and Bobby Kennedy.

00:18:22.240 They scheduled

00:18:23.100 Pete Hegseth first,

00:18:24.380 then they had a bunch

00:18:25.180 of boring nominees

00:18:26.060 that we all knew

00:18:26.640 would get through

00:18:27.060 like Marco Rubio,

00:18:28.040 and then they had

00:18:28.720 the rest of the controversial

00:18:29.540 ones scheduled for later.

00:18:32.000 Hegseth sailed through.

00:18:33.440 It was a little tricky,

00:18:34.500 but there was never

00:18:35.080 any real doubt

00:18:35.880 that he was going

00:18:36.400 to make it through.

00:18:37.500 And so I think

00:18:38.040 it's a lot easier

00:18:38.700 for all the other

00:18:39.340 controversial nominees,

00:18:40.580 including Kennedy.

00:18:41.420 If I were Bobby Kennedy,

00:18:42.280 I'd be feeling very good

00:18:43.200 this afternoon.

00:18:44.380 I would too,

00:18:45.420 but I do have my eye

00:18:46.960 over on Senator Cassidy

00:18:51.300 on the Republican side

00:18:52.440 who is a question mark.

00:18:54.400 He's a doctor.

00:18:56.120 To hear him question RFKJ,

00:18:58.820 you might think

00:19:00.180 he was a Democrat.

00:19:01.360 He seemed to be

00:19:01.920 laying traps for him.

00:19:03.500 It was all like,

00:19:04.200 what is your plan

00:19:06.060 to do this within Medicare?

00:19:07.340 What is your plan

00:19:07.820 to do that within Medicaid?

00:19:09.360 Explain the difference

00:19:10.080 between this obscure program

00:19:11.780 every lay person

00:19:12.760 has never heard of

00:19:13.540 and this other.

00:19:14.680 And so it seemed to be

00:19:15.800 like a little knowledge

00:19:17.140 test for him.

00:19:18.620 Meanwhile, it's like,

00:19:19.300 that is not why

00:19:20.160 Trump nominated him.

00:19:21.280 Obviously, he will have

00:19:22.300 the help of career bureaucrats

00:19:24.600 over at HHS

00:19:25.380 who can get him up to speed

00:19:26.860 on all these things.

00:19:27.920 He'll learn,

00:19:28.900 but it almost seemed

00:19:30.000 like he was trying

00:19:30.620 to embarrass him

00:19:31.460 or maybe create the case

00:19:33.580 for Republicans

00:19:34.360 that Bobby's not qualified

00:19:35.840 for this job.

00:19:36.560 That was my feeling.

00:19:38.300 I don't know,

00:19:38.700 but we need Cassidy

00:19:39.440 to be a yes

00:19:40.140 or he needs to be hearing

00:19:41.580 from Elon Musk's super PAC.

00:19:43.540 You've already got

00:19:44.140 Scott Pressler

00:19:44.860 who got all those Republicans

00:19:46.180 registered in Pennsylvania

00:19:47.580 saying,

00:19:48.680 I will personally make sure

00:19:49.860 Kennedy suffers electorally

00:19:51.520 or anybody

00:19:52.040 on the Republican side

00:19:53.320 who doesn't vote for him.

00:19:54.160 And these people mean business.

00:19:55.640 Don Jr.'s got a whole

00:19:56.840 wrangling group

00:19:58.300 of money people

00:19:59.400 who know how to scare

00:20:00.620 these Republican senators.

00:20:01.780 They're not trying

00:20:02.180 to scare the Dems.

00:20:03.240 They're trying to scare

00:20:03.880 the Republicans

00:20:04.420 who are trying to stop Trump

00:20:05.440 from getting his nominees.

00:20:07.040 So if I were Cassidy,

00:20:08.060 I would be careful.

00:20:09.920 This was Kennedy's

00:20:11.240 one mistake

00:20:12.180 during the series

00:20:13.280 of traps

00:20:13.760 and gotcha questions

00:20:14.640 is he was asked,

00:20:16.040 do you know

00:20:16.560 how many kids

00:20:17.440 are born on Medicaid

00:20:19.240 in the country?

00:20:20.520 And it's one of these,

00:20:21.460 you know,

00:20:21.620 what's the capital

00:20:22.140 of Uzbekistan

00:20:22.840 kind of questions.

00:20:23.820 And Kennedy didn't know

00:20:24.740 the answer.

00:20:25.220 He said,

00:20:25.620 I don't know

00:20:26.040 what the answer is.

00:20:26.900 And he made the mistake

00:20:28.120 that people sometimes make

00:20:29.420 when they're in a negotiation.

00:20:31.000 In a negotiation,

00:20:31.840 whoever gives

00:20:32.240 the first number loses.

00:20:33.460 And I think it's true

00:20:34.120 here in Senate confirmations.

00:20:35.200 If you don't know the answer,

00:20:36.500 don't give an answer.

00:20:37.240 So he said,

00:20:37.980 I don't know,

00:20:38.400 30 million.

00:20:39.180 And the answer was

00:20:39.980 one and a half million

00:20:41.040 or something like that.

00:20:41.960 So, okay,

00:20:42.780 they showed that

00:20:43.480 he didn't know

00:20:44.080 one statistic.

00:20:45.300 I don't think

00:20:45.980 that's really going to hurt him

00:20:47.320 all that much

00:20:48.140 in the end.

00:20:49.180 I agree.

00:20:50.060 Some Republicans

00:20:50.760 are a little on the fence.

00:20:52.020 The reason that

00:20:52.680 I would have been

00:20:53.260 on the fence

00:20:53.780 and that conservative Republicans

00:20:54.960 would be on the fence

00:20:55.760 is because Bobby Kennedy

00:20:57.020 has been in favor

00:20:57.900 of abortion

00:20:58.460 for his whole career.

00:21:00.060 That was what

00:21:00.740 really worried me.

00:21:02.140 And I know a lot

00:21:03.380 of pro-lifers as well.

00:21:04.800 And Kennedy was clear

00:21:05.760 as day here.

00:21:06.840 Kennedy said,

00:21:07.920 I believe that

00:21:08.940 every abortion

00:21:09.600 is a tragedy

00:21:10.280 and I support

00:21:11.740 President Trump's agenda.

00:21:13.100 To me,

00:21:13.440 it was a little strange

00:21:14.340 that these Democrats

00:21:15.120 kept hammering Kennedy.

00:21:16.740 I know.

00:21:17.860 You know,

00:21:18.600 they said,

00:21:19.320 are you just here

00:21:20.320 to enact Trump's agenda?

00:21:21.900 And Kennedy

00:21:22.660 was nuanced

00:21:23.920 about his answer.

00:21:24.880 But, of course,

00:21:25.420 the correct answer is,

00:21:26.720 yes,

00:21:27.380 I didn't win

00:21:28.160 the election for president.

00:21:28.980 And the other thing was,

00:21:29.700 a Republican senator

00:21:30.840 asked him,

00:21:31.380 Michael,

00:21:31.620 are you,

00:21:32.280 you know,

00:21:32.520 if we have another

00:21:33.180 like pandemic type thing,

00:21:34.340 are you going to go over

00:21:35.820 and, you know,

00:21:36.920 interfere at the CDC

00:21:38.440 and the NIH

00:21:39.380 and with these doctors

00:21:40.640 who are coming up with,

00:21:41.740 meanwhile,

00:21:42.200 I was like,

00:21:42.720 I certainly hope

00:21:43.480 he's going to.

00:21:44.460 Yes,

00:21:44.860 I hope his answer is yes,

00:21:45.820 that's why we want him there,

00:21:47.080 to make sure

00:21:47.640 we don't have another

00:21:48.260 drunk on his own wine.

00:21:49.420 Dr. Fauci

00:21:50.140 is sending out edicts.

00:21:51.620 Now,

00:21:51.820 if all goes well,

00:21:52.660 we're not going to have that

00:21:54.120 because we're going to have

00:21:54.540 normal heads of these agencies.

00:21:56.120 But, I mean,

00:21:56.580 he did say,

00:21:57.200 no,

00:21:57.500 I won't interfere.

00:21:58.380 But, like,

00:21:58.920 they're not getting it.

00:22:00.220 They're not understanding.

00:22:01.560 Like,

00:22:01.920 some Republicans,

00:22:03.120 Senator Ron Johnson

00:22:03.900 was a star today.

00:22:05.320 He was the star

00:22:06.220 of the whole hearing.

00:22:07.120 He asked all the right questions.

00:22:08.960 In fact,

00:22:09.240 I'll give the audience

00:22:10.140 just a flavor

00:22:11.000 of him

00:22:12.480 after just so many

00:22:13.840 beatdowns by the left.

00:22:15.020 Here's what Ron Johnson did.

00:22:16.200 SOT 12.

00:22:18.800 Here's somebody

00:22:19.460 from the left,

00:22:20.660 somebody I don't agree with

00:22:21.740 on many issues politically.

00:22:24.520 Coming together

00:22:25.360 with President Trump

00:22:26.480 and focusing on

00:22:30.000 an area of agreement,

00:22:30.940 something that the American

00:22:32.120 people

00:22:32.960 desperately want.

00:22:38.200 Finding out the answers.

00:22:39.360 What has caused autism?

00:22:41.700 What is causing

00:22:42.820 chronic illness?

00:22:43.680 Mr. Kennedy,

00:22:46.400 I know,

00:22:47.660 I think I've come to know

00:22:49.140 what's in your heart.

00:22:50.800 I think I know

00:22:51.940 the personal

00:22:52.740 and political price

00:22:53.500 you've paid

00:22:54.040 for this decision.

00:22:56.980 I want to say publicly,

00:22:58.520 I thank you for that.

00:22:59.800 I truly appreciate

00:23:01.480 what you're doing here.

00:23:03.200 Thank you.

00:23:07.300 Can't we come together

00:23:09.580 as a nation

00:23:10.580 and do this?

00:23:15.200 That was amazing,

00:23:17.120 Michael.

00:23:17.560 And RFK

00:23:18.700 took that mantle

00:23:20.240 and ran with it

00:23:21.080 repeatedly

00:23:21.540 when given the opportunity

00:23:22.580 to say

00:23:23.060 what he plans

00:23:24.640 to do,

00:23:25.800 which only came

00:23:26.700 from folks on the right,

00:23:27.940 he was absolutely

00:23:29.040 brilliant with it

00:23:29.780 and really sold himself.

00:23:32.560 I think the American people

00:23:34.140 were persuaded,

00:23:35.180 whether the Democrats

00:23:36.140 were,

00:23:36.880 certainly they were not,

00:23:38.140 whether the fence-sitting

00:23:39.640 Republicans were,

00:23:40.720 that remains to be seen,

00:23:41.840 but I suspect

00:23:42.580 they will get in line.

00:23:43.940 But the way

00:23:44.400 some of these senators

00:23:45.120 were speaking

00:23:45.880 about vaccines,

00:23:47.500 about government organizations,

00:23:49.140 about mandates,

00:23:50.160 I thought,

00:23:51.140 have you not been around

00:23:52.640 the last five years?

00:23:54.100 Did you not pay attention

00:23:55.100 to what happened

00:23:55.740 in the election?

00:23:56.660 You know,

00:23:56.960 we remember COVID.

00:23:58.260 We remember

00:23:58.940 when Bobby Kennedy

00:23:59.840 was right about

00:24:00.540 the COVID vaccine

00:24:01.420 and all you people

00:24:02.520 and Dr. Fauci

00:24:03.460 and the CDC,

00:24:04.520 all of you just lied to us.

00:24:06.240 In some cases,

00:24:06.840 you knew that

00:24:07.960 what you were saying

00:24:08.580 was not true

00:24:09.240 or was not based

00:24:09.880 on reliable science

00:24:10.640 and you just said it anyway.

00:24:12.260 So, sorry,

00:24:13.540 excuse me

00:24:14.180 if I'm willing to

00:24:15.200 favor the views

00:24:16.540 of the supposed

00:24:17.200 conspiracy theorist

00:24:18.460 Bobby Kennedy

00:24:19.340 over the supposed

00:24:20.980 geniuses like Dr. Fauci

00:24:22.460 because,

00:24:23.340 as Kennedy made clear

00:24:24.140 in this hearing,

00:24:25.020 he was called

00:24:25.720 a conspiracy theorist

00:24:26.880 recently

00:24:27.720 for his views on COVID.

00:24:29.660 He was proven

00:24:30.360 100% right.

00:24:31.960 So my thought

00:24:33.220 to these squishy Republicans

00:24:34.780 is,

00:24:35.880 vote against Bobby Kennedy

00:24:36.820 if you want,

00:24:37.700 but you're going to

00:24:38.100 have to answer

00:24:38.580 the American people

00:24:39.380 whose views

00:24:40.000 on this matter

00:24:40.560 are perfectly clear.

00:24:42.520 Okay,

00:24:42.880 we have that sound bite.

00:24:43.920 I'm just trying

00:24:44.300 to look through

00:24:44.860 where it is

00:24:46.200 where he defends himself

00:24:47.280 on these,

00:24:47.840 you know,

00:24:48.100 on the conspiracy

00:24:48.720 here it is,

00:24:49.060 SOT 17

00:24:49.600 on whether he's

00:24:50.800 a conspiracy theorist.

00:24:51.820 Watch.

00:24:53.380 That label

00:24:54.240 was applied to me

00:24:55.060 because I said

00:24:56.180 that the vaccines,

00:24:57.620 the COVID vaccine

00:24:58.500 didn't prevent transmission

00:25:00.560 and it wouldn't

00:25:01.520 prevent infection

00:25:02.380 when the government

00:25:03.720 was telling people,

00:25:05.060 Americans,

00:25:05.740 that it would.

00:25:06.260 I was saying

00:25:07.740 that because

00:25:08.200 I was looking

00:25:08.800 at the monkey studies

00:25:09.700 in May of 2020.

00:25:11.640 I was called

00:25:12.360 a conspiracy,

00:25:12.800 and now everybody

00:25:13.500 admits it.

00:25:14.700 I was called

00:25:15.380 a conspiracy theorist

00:25:16.460 because I said

00:25:17.180 red dye

00:25:17.860 caused cancer

00:25:18.820 and now

00:25:20.080 FDA

00:25:20.620 has acknowledged

00:25:21.700 that and banned it.

00:25:23.260 I was called

00:25:24.080 a conspiracy theorist

00:25:25.320 because I said

00:25:26.100 fluoride lowered IQ.

00:25:28.920 Last week,

00:25:29.880 JAMA published

00:25:30.640 a meta review

00:25:31.600 of 87 studies

00:25:32.940 saying that

00:25:34.000 there's a direct

00:25:34.960 inverse correlation

00:25:36.100 between IQ laws.

00:25:37.500 All right.

00:25:38.040 So I'm going to assume

00:25:38.980 a lot of them

00:25:39.740 for about a week.

00:25:40.780 Is there any one

00:25:41.600 of them that you can say,

00:25:42.440 you got me?

00:25:43.100 That really was

00:25:43.800 a conspiracy theory

00:25:44.860 or are you

00:25:45.860 in a position?

00:25:47.900 Not yet.

00:25:48.600 Exactly right.

00:25:49.320 I mean,

00:25:49.500 I feel like

00:25:49.860 that too,

00:25:51.260 virtually all Americans,

00:25:53.780 virtually all Americans

00:25:54.780 can relate to that.

00:25:55.900 You know,

00:25:56.100 whether this was

00:25:57.460 a lab leak,

00:25:58.420 you know,

00:25:58.660 COVID,

00:25:59.420 whether it was

00:26:00.200 Russian disinformation

00:26:01.300 in that Hunter Biden

00:26:02.180 laptop.

00:26:02.740 I mean,

00:26:03.400 you know,

00:26:04.040 this is something

00:26:04.640 that's become

00:26:05.100 so commonplace

00:26:06.120 that it's a meme

00:26:07.040 online, right?

00:26:07.820 Like,

00:26:08.100 wait 10 minutes

00:26:08.600 and all my conspiracy

00:26:09.300 theories will be

00:26:10.420 proven true.

00:26:11.880 That's right.

00:26:12.700 This was a realization

00:26:13.740 I had during COVID

00:26:14.820 and I was not

00:26:15.360 the only one

00:26:15.960 that the difference

00:26:17.320 between a conspiracy

00:26:18.160 theory and the truth

00:26:19.240 very often these days

00:26:20.200 is about six

00:26:21.180 to nine months.

00:26:21.980 The fact you just

00:26:22.860 alluded to,

00:26:23.420 Megan,

00:26:23.700 that the CIA now says,

00:26:25.400 according to reporting

00:26:26.060 from the New York Times,

00:26:27.480 that they have come

00:26:28.660 around to the idea

00:26:30.100 that COVID might have

00:26:31.420 come from a lab leak

00:26:32.480 in China.

00:26:33.820 Gee,

00:26:34.440 really?

00:26:35.260 That's amazing.

00:26:36.320 You now,

00:26:37.020 you,

00:26:37.260 the CIA,

00:26:38.160 the preeminent

00:26:38.820 intelligence agency

00:26:39.940 in the entire world,

00:26:40.980 you,

00:26:41.200 the New York Times,

00:26:41.860 the paper of record,

00:26:42.840 you've just now figured out

00:26:44.320 what everyone

00:26:45.000 with two brain cells

00:26:45.880 to rub together

00:26:46.500 knew and said openly

00:26:47.740 five years ago

00:26:48.800 that you all called us

00:26:49.720 conspiracy theorists

00:26:50.700 for saying five years ago,

00:26:51.860 that's out.

00:26:52.820 You know,

00:26:53.080 we saw the left

00:26:53.940 overplay their hand

00:26:54.960 on insults like racist

00:26:57.200 and sexist

00:26:58.460 for years

00:26:59.480 and decades even.

00:27:00.860 And now,

00:27:01.540 those insults

00:27:02.500 don't really stick anymore.

00:27:03.940 I think the same

00:27:05.020 can be said

00:27:05.640 of conspiracy theorists,

00:27:07.400 which is why

00:27:07.980 Bobby Kennedy

00:27:08.640 took that invective

00:27:10.120 and he ran with it today

00:27:11.960 and the Democrats

00:27:12.980 were left sputtering.

00:27:14.540 He was on

00:27:15.440 totally solid ground.

00:27:16.400 Here he is describing

00:27:17.620 what he's doing there,

00:27:20.140 right?

00:27:20.380 I mean,

00:27:20.540 this is,

00:27:20.960 you kind of forget

00:27:21.640 because we cover him

00:27:22.380 as a news item so often,

00:27:23.840 but this is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:27:26.600 You know,

00:27:26.880 his wife is a very successful actress

00:27:29.160 out in Hollywood.

00:27:30.420 He's led a very big life.

00:27:32.340 He's been an extremely

00:27:33.120 successful attorney

00:27:34.160 and much like President Trump,

00:27:36.340 frankly,

00:27:36.780 much like Pete Hegseth,

00:27:38.060 who was making,

00:27:38.900 according to the disclosures,

00:27:40.120 over $2 million a year

00:27:41.540 at Fox News

00:27:42.160 and is now making

00:27:43.020 about $250,000.

00:27:44.480 And they don't,

00:27:46.360 this is not for the money.

00:27:47.780 They actually want

00:27:48.740 to get into public service

00:27:50.240 to do some good.

00:27:52.260 So here he was

00:27:53.020 speaking to that

00:27:53.740 in SOT 13.

00:27:55.520 I don't think anybody

00:27:57.020 is going to be able

00:27:58.840 to do this like I have

00:28:00.120 because of my peculiar experience,

00:28:03.620 because I've litigated

00:28:05.440 against these agencies.

00:28:06.540 When you litigate against them,

00:28:08.040 you get a PhD

00:28:08.900 in corporate capture

00:28:09.960 and how to unravel it.

00:28:11.400 I've written six books

00:28:13.700 about these agencies.

00:28:15.500 I know a lot about them

00:28:17.160 and I know how to fix it.

00:28:18.640 And there's nobody

00:28:19.620 who will fix it

00:28:21.800 the way that I do

00:28:22.480 because I'm not scared

00:28:23.840 of vested interest.

00:28:25.020 I don't care.

00:28:26.340 I'm not here

00:28:27.220 because I want a position

00:28:28.420 or a job.

00:28:29.340 I have a very good life

00:28:30.720 and a happy family.

00:28:32.360 This is something

00:28:33.300 I don't need.

00:28:34.520 I want to do this

00:28:36.000 because we're going

00:28:36.980 to fix it.

00:28:37.480 It's so well said, right?

00:28:41.060 He doesn't have to.

00:28:41.660 We should be grateful.

00:28:42.780 People, they're not even

00:28:43.680 grateful for Elon Musk,

00:28:45.300 these leftists.

00:28:46.140 It's like the most brilliant man

00:28:47.780 on the face of the planet

00:28:49.160 wants to work for us for free.

00:28:51.120 The only correct answer

00:28:52.600 is to say, yes, thank you.

00:28:55.600 Yes.

00:28:56.120 I love the line he said there.

00:28:57.800 When you litigate

00:28:58.960 against these companies,

00:29:00.060 you get a PhD

00:29:00.880 in corporate capture.

00:29:02.780 And that obviously has happened.

00:29:04.080 I don't know anyone

00:29:05.040 who has any familiarity

00:29:06.340 with Washington

00:29:07.100 who would disagree

00:29:08.480 with Kennedy

00:29:09.100 that major corporate interests

00:29:11.060 have captured

00:29:11.980 a lot of the agencies

00:29:12.880 that are supposed

00:29:13.480 to regulate them.

00:29:14.540 And there's a real irony here

00:29:16.280 for the former Democrats

00:29:17.840 who are sitting there

00:29:18.740 supporting Kennedy,

00:29:19.940 many of whom voted

00:29:20.640 for Donald Trump,

00:29:21.920 is they believe

00:29:23.280 for so many years

00:29:24.220 that Republicans

00:29:25.280 were the party

00:29:26.080 of the establishment

00:29:28.080 and corporate power,

00:29:29.580 rich Uncle Pennybags,

00:29:30.660 and Democrats

00:29:31.460 were the ones

00:29:31.920 speaking truth to power,

00:29:33.460 independence from the outside,

00:29:34.880 man.

00:29:35.740 And in reality,

00:29:37.280 all of those Democrats

00:29:38.140 who were grilling

00:29:38.940 Kennedy today

00:29:40.180 were effectively working

00:29:41.940 on behalf of some

00:29:42.920 of the biggest

00:29:43.580 corporate interests

00:29:44.740 in the country.

00:29:46.020 Even to zoom out

00:29:47.880 a little bit,

00:29:48.560 when President Trump

00:29:49.360 just passed

00:29:49.900 his executive order

00:29:50.960 ordering the agencies

00:29:52.220 to stop transing the kids,

00:29:53.940 to cut out

00:29:54.600 the so-called

00:29:55.500 gender-affirming care

00:29:56.280 for little kids,

00:29:57.440 the people who are

00:29:58.400 arguing against that

00:29:59.740 on behalf of transing

00:30:01.120 the kids

00:30:01.520 are arguing on behalf

00:30:02.780 of Big Pharma,

00:30:03.900 getting little kids

00:30:04.760 hooked on expensive

00:30:05.820 medical treatments

00:30:06.580 that they will have

00:30:07.380 to pay a lot of money

00:30:08.280 for for the rest

00:30:09.320 of their lives.

00:30:10.100 So you're right,

00:30:10.960 you did see a fight here

00:30:12.540 just beyond

00:30:13.800 Republican versus Democrat.

00:30:15.220 You saw a fight

00:30:16.080 beyond corporate power,

00:30:17.760 I think very corrupt

00:30:18.840 corporate power

00:30:19.880 in this case,

00:30:20.980 versus independent-minded people

00:30:23.040 who want to make

00:30:24.020 America healthy again.

00:30:25.240 It just so happens

00:30:26.160 that the Dems

00:30:26.980 were on the side

00:30:27.420 of the corporations

00:30:28.080 and it was the Republicans

00:30:29.500 who were trying

00:30:30.340 to bring some accountability

00:30:31.300 to those corporations.

00:30:33.180 Yes, okay,

00:30:33.840 and that brings me

00:30:34.460 to Ron Wyden,

00:30:35.600 who I mentioned

00:30:36.380 at the top,

00:30:37.100 Democrat from Oregon.

00:30:38.800 How much has he taken

00:30:40.400 from pharmaceuticals

00:30:41.880 and healthcare companies?

00:30:44.500 $1.2 million

00:30:46.320 over the course

00:30:48.120 of his career.

00:30:48.660 It didn't happen

00:30:48.980 just yesterday,

00:30:49.820 but still,

00:30:50.280 that's a lot of change

00:30:51.300 in Washington.

00:30:52.760 And here's a taste

00:30:54.220 of how it went

00:30:55.180 between him

00:30:56.600 and RFKJ Today,

00:30:59.300 SOT6.

00:31:00.740 In your testimony today

00:31:02.100 under oath,

00:31:02.700 you denied

00:31:03.180 that you were anti-vaccine,

00:31:05.380 but during a podcast interview

00:31:07.540 in July of 2023,

00:31:08.820 you said,

00:31:09.660 quote,

00:31:10.080 no vaccine

00:31:11.460 is safe and effective.

00:31:13.400 Yeah,

00:31:13.800 Senator,

00:31:14.540 as you know,

00:31:16.440 because it's been

00:31:17.760 repeatedly debunked,

00:31:19.240 that statement

00:31:19.800 that I made

00:31:20.440 on the Lex Friedman podcast

00:31:21.880 was a fragment

00:31:22.920 of the statement

00:31:23.700 and he asked me

00:31:25.580 and anybody

00:31:26.240 who actually goes

00:31:27.100 and looks

00:31:27.620 at that podcast

00:31:29.360 and will see this,

00:31:31.600 he asked me,

00:31:32.360 are there vaccines

00:31:33.240 that are safe

00:31:33.800 and effective?

00:31:34.480 And I said to him,

00:31:35.860 some of the live virus

00:31:37.000 vaccines are.

00:31:38.540 And I said,

00:31:39.360 there are no vaccines

00:31:40.700 that are safe

00:31:41.260 and effective

00:31:41.720 and I was going

00:31:42.500 to continue

00:31:43.080 for every person,

00:31:45.040 every medicine

00:31:45.860 has people

00:31:46.700 who are sensitive

00:31:47.420 to them,

00:31:48.400 including vaccines.

00:31:50.260 Right,

00:31:50.500 so he interrupted

00:31:51.900 me at that point.

00:31:52.920 I've corrected it

00:31:54.740 many times,

00:31:55.500 including on national TV.

00:31:56.900 You know about this,

00:31:58.080 Senator Wyden,

00:31:58.740 so bringing this up

00:31:59.760 right now

00:32:00.260 is dishonest.

00:32:03.220 That was very good

00:32:04.480 and all it needed

00:32:05.880 at the end

00:32:06.260 was that cherry

00:32:06.860 on the sundae

00:32:07.420 about his 1.2 million

00:32:08.680 from Big Pharma,

00:32:10.180 which is why

00:32:10.660 he's so concerned

00:32:11.660 about what Bobby Kennedy

00:32:13.020 has said on vaccines.

00:32:14.880 And you notice

00:32:15.720 Ron Wyden

00:32:16.320 didn't attempt

00:32:17.020 to correct

00:32:17.700 Kennedy's correction

00:32:18.640 because Wyden

00:32:19.940 did know.

00:32:20.680 Of course he did know.

00:32:22.480 And so to Kennedy's

00:32:23.580 actual point,

00:32:24.280 when he says

00:32:24.880 no vaccine

00:32:25.560 is totally safe

00:32:26.800 and effective

00:32:27.240 for everyone,

00:32:28.540 that is just

00:32:29.360 obviously true.

00:32:30.820 Okay?

00:32:31.240 And most Americans

00:32:32.220 agree with that.

00:32:33.360 Now,

00:32:33.560 to your point

00:32:34.160 at the top

00:32:34.620 of the show,

00:32:35.100 Megan,

00:32:35.680 the fact that

00:32:37.540 doctors in hospitals

00:32:39.060 try to give

00:32:40.740 newborn babies

00:32:42.020 hepatitis vaccines,

00:32:44.080 I remember we asked

00:32:45.280 when one of my children

00:32:46.500 was born,

00:32:47.220 we said,

00:32:47.620 maybe I guess

00:32:48.060 it was our first kid,

00:32:48.740 we said,

00:32:49.240 why are we giving

00:32:50.140 the kid a hepatitis vaccine?

00:32:51.600 He's probably not

00:32:52.360 going to be sharing needles

00:32:53.340 or going to brothels

00:32:54.220 anytime soon.

00:32:55.180 Why does he need

00:32:56.200 the vaccine?

00:32:57.340 And the insinuation

00:32:58.580 was all but stated

00:33:00.880 explicitly

00:33:01.500 because,

00:33:02.780 I don't know,

00:33:03.040 maybe your husband

00:33:03.560 cheated on you

00:33:04.420 or maybe he's going

00:33:05.000 to cheat on you

00:33:05.800 or who knows,

00:33:06.240 I don't know.

00:33:06.860 And you think,

00:33:07.800 well,

00:33:07.940 that is so deeply offensive.

00:33:09.260 This is obviously

00:33:09.820 unnecessary.

00:33:11.160 This precious little kid,

00:33:12.440 I don't want to give

00:33:13.020 this kid drugs

00:33:13.800 that he doesn't need

00:33:15.340 when he's nine pounds

00:33:16.840 or something

00:33:17.380 two days after birth.

00:33:18.700 That is the mainstream

00:33:19.940 position now.

00:33:20.840 I think that the Democrats

00:33:22.200 and the Swiss Republicans

00:33:23.220 have not caught up

00:33:24.760 with the tectonic shift

00:33:26.160 that has happened

00:33:27.000 in politics.

00:33:27.600 They're still

00:33:28.560 considering politics

00:33:29.720 from 10 or 15 years ago.

00:33:31.340 But after this election,

00:33:33.240 issues like

00:33:33.980 mass deportations,

00:33:36.060 that is now

00:33:36.560 the mainstream position

00:33:38.000 of most Americans.

00:33:39.660 Issues like questioning

00:33:40.840 the overprescription

00:33:42.780 of vaccines,

00:33:43.960 the regulatory capture

00:33:45.220 by big pharmaceutical companies,

00:33:46.500 that is now

00:33:47.160 the mainstream position

00:33:48.680 for most Americans.

00:33:50.420 I think that these senators

00:33:51.740 who haven't gotten

00:33:53.200 the message,

00:33:53.700 they're just so profoundly

00:33:55.340 out of touch.

00:33:56.380 And if they continue

00:33:57.420 to remain out of touch,

00:33:58.240 it will be at their own

00:33:59.040 electoral peril.

00:34:00.760 He wasn't the only one

00:34:02.500 who's been,

00:34:03.820 I believe,

00:34:04.300 is my opinion,

00:34:04.960 compromised

00:34:05.340 by the amount of money

00:34:06.660 they've taken

00:34:07.200 from Big Pharma.

00:34:08.940 Elizabeth Warren,

00:34:10.440 Pocahontas,

00:34:11.700 is big

00:34:12.400 on the Big Pharma money.

00:34:14.920 She has,

00:34:16.180 let me see,

00:34:16.860 I want to get the number

00:34:17.360 correct,

00:34:18.260 in,

00:34:19.720 yeah,

00:34:20.360 she and Bernie Sanders

00:34:21.400 are the two top senators

00:34:24.560 who received

00:34:25.120 the most pharmaceuticals

00:34:26.500 or health product donations

00:34:27.520 in the 2020 election cycle

00:34:29.300 when they each ran

00:34:30.340 for the Democratic

00:34:30.900 presidential nomination.

00:34:32.260 She received

00:34:33.300 just under a million dollars,

00:34:34.820 $822,000.

00:34:37.520 and what did she do

00:34:40.260 when she got her chance

00:34:42.440 to question RFKJ

00:34:43.680 who spent his whole life

00:34:44.960 suing these Big Pharma companies

00:34:47.140 for what they've done

00:34:48.600 and suing environmental

00:34:49.700 toxin producers

00:34:51.500 for what they've done

00:34:52.440 to our lakes

00:34:53.120 and our rivers

00:34:53.540 and so on.

00:34:54.180 Here's how that went,

00:34:54.980 Sot 16.

00:34:56.100 So, Mr. Kennedy,

00:34:57.960 will you also agree

00:34:59.480 that you won't take

00:35:00.940 any compensation

00:35:01.960 from any lawsuits

00:35:03.940 against drug companies

00:35:06.260 while you are secretary

00:35:08.100 and for four years afterwards?

00:35:12.100 Well, I'll certainly commit

00:35:13.860 to that while I'm secretary,

00:35:16.880 but I do want to clarify something

00:35:18.680 because you're making me

00:35:19.840 sound like a shill.

00:35:21.160 I'm asking about fees

00:35:23.580 from suing drug companies.

00:35:25.900 Will you agree not to do that?

00:35:27.680 You're asking me

00:35:29.080 to not sue drug companies.

00:35:30.620 No.

00:35:31.040 And I'm not going to agree

00:35:32.140 to that, Senator.

00:35:32.820 You can sue drug companies

00:35:33.340 as much as you want.

00:35:35.340 You're asking me

00:35:36.240 You're asking me

00:35:38.220 not to sue a vaccine.

00:35:39.900 No, I am not.

00:35:42.120 Yeah, you are.

00:35:43.460 That's exactly

00:35:44.360 what you're doing.

00:35:45.540 Kids might die,

00:35:47.320 but Robert Kennedy

00:35:48.380 can keep cashing in.

00:35:50.760 Senator, I support vaccines.

00:35:53.920 I support the childhood schedule.

00:35:57.600 I will do that.

00:35:59.120 The only thing I want

00:36:00.460 is good science.

00:36:01.540 And that's it.

00:36:02.900 That was actually,

00:36:04.300 I thought,

00:36:04.840 a very effective exchange

00:36:07.460 on his part, right?

00:36:09.080 Because there is a difference.

00:36:10.600 I understand what she was trying to do.

00:36:14.160 And it's very clear

00:36:15.180 he can't be suing vaccine companies

00:36:17.000 or drug companies

00:36:17.720 while HHS director.

00:36:19.620 That's a no-brainer.

00:36:20.900 She wanted him to say

00:36:22.060 that he wouldn't sue vaccine

00:36:23.380 or drug companies

00:36:24.220 for four years after.

00:36:26.060 Why?

00:36:27.080 What is the incentive

00:36:28.200 like that?

00:36:30.220 It doesn't make sense to me

00:36:31.460 to put that prohibition

00:36:32.720 on somebody

00:36:33.280 after they've left the office.

00:36:34.760 It's not going

00:36:35.700 on the payroll

00:36:36.640 of any individual plaintiff

00:36:38.820 who might be suing

00:36:40.200 Big Pharma

00:36:41.320 over a vaccine injury.

00:36:43.280 Like that's,

00:36:44.040 she's saying,

00:36:44.600 yes,

00:36:44.780 he was receiving

00:36:45.400 some payments

00:36:46.000 if he pushed people

00:36:46.720 to this law firm

00:36:48.180 that has a lawsuit

00:36:49.340 now over Gardasil,

00:36:50.620 the HPV vaccine,

00:36:51.680 and showed

00:36:53.180 that he is getting

00:36:54.100 some sort of a kickback

00:36:55.020 or some sort of a payment

00:36:55.840 for that referral.

00:36:57.420 And he's done an ad

00:36:58.600 trying to tell people

00:36:59.480 if you've been injured

00:37:00.200 you can go to this law firm.

00:37:01.800 That's,

00:37:02.180 there's nothing inappropriate

00:37:02.760 about that whatsoever.

00:37:03.700 He's been very outspoken

00:37:04.500 about that vaccine

00:37:05.220 and does not believe in it.

00:37:06.240 And there are some people,

00:37:07.760 many, many people actually

00:37:08.900 who say their child

00:37:09.860 has been hurt

00:37:10.300 by that vaccine.

00:37:11.780 But she tried to turn it

00:37:13.580 into the same thing

00:37:14.800 as like an HHS secretary

00:37:17.160 leaving and taking a job

00:37:18.960 with Pfizer,

00:37:19.800 which would create

00:37:21.020 an incentive

00:37:21.620 while in the job

00:37:22.580 to just give Pfizer

00:37:24.300 a pass for four years.

00:37:25.700 It didn't work

00:37:26.520 the other way around.

00:37:27.700 Certainly not.

00:37:28.640 And Kennedy had her number

00:37:29.800 and you could tell

00:37:30.700 that Senator Warren's fingers

00:37:31.940 were just itching

00:37:32.720 for the tomahawk

00:37:33.600 when he called her out.

00:37:34.860 She raised her voice.

00:37:36.220 She got a little red

00:37:37.300 in the face.

00:37:38.420 But Kennedy was absolutely right.

00:37:40.000 He seemed almost perplexed

00:37:42.080 when he said,

00:37:43.400 hold on,

00:37:43.640 you're asking if I promise

00:37:45.500 not to work

00:37:45.920 for the drug companies.

00:37:46.640 Okay, I won't.

00:37:47.600 But now you're,

00:37:48.220 hold on,

00:37:48.480 now you're asking

00:37:49.000 will I work against

00:37:50.160 the drug companies

00:37:51.060 as the HHS secretary?

00:37:53.280 I'm just going to follow

00:37:54.140 the science

00:37:54.700 and now you're asking

00:37:56.320 if after I leave,

00:37:58.020 you're clearly,

00:37:59.200 you Senator Warren

00:38:00.140 are clearly just shilling

00:38:01.680 for the big

00:38:02.380 pharmaceutical companies.

00:38:03.620 And so this is

00:38:04.300 the real dynamic

00:38:05.100 at play here.

00:38:06.320 Every nominee

00:38:07.240 is going to be different.

00:38:08.200 Every agency

00:38:08.860 is going to be different.

00:38:10.180 But in this case,

00:38:11.400 it's not Democrats

00:38:12.740 versus Republicans.

00:38:14.060 In this case,

00:38:14.840 it's not even

00:38:15.480 leftists versus conservatives.

00:38:17.260 It's not over

00:38:18.400 some ideological issue.

00:38:20.240 The sole pushback

00:38:21.800 that Kennedy is getting,

00:38:23.240 but it's from

00:38:23.700 a powerful force,

00:38:25.280 is from the

00:38:26.020 pharmaceutical companies

00:38:27.260 operating through

00:38:28.520 the politicians

00:38:29.260 that they have bought off

00:38:30.420 and that they control.

00:38:31.660 That's it.

00:38:32.420 So the question

00:38:33.060 that remains to be seen

00:38:33.980 is can Bobby Kennedy

00:38:35.920 with the backing

00:38:37.340 of Donald Trump

00:38:38.080 who just won

00:38:39.240 a landslide election

00:38:40.500 with the popular vote

00:38:41.780 for the first time

00:38:42.560 for a Republican

00:38:43.040 in 20 years,

00:38:44.840 can he overcome

00:38:46.200 one single lobby

00:38:48.180 in the country?

00:38:48.880 And that is

00:38:49.180 the pharmaceutical lobby.

00:38:50.200 We're about to get

00:38:50.880 a measure of their

00:38:51.760 relative power

00:38:52.500 in the U.S. Senate.

00:38:54.100 You can see

00:38:54.980 why they're scared.

00:38:56.180 All right.

00:38:56.540 Going back now

00:38:57.420 to my other

00:38:58.500 least favorite

00:38:59.740 senator out there today,

00:39:01.880 and that is Democrat

00:39:03.340 Mark Warner of Virginia.

00:39:05.240 He was the governor.

00:39:06.560 Now he is a senator.

00:39:07.660 And he was dripping

00:39:10.860 with disdain for Bobby.

00:39:13.240 I mean, it was,

00:39:14.840 you could feel

00:39:15.680 the negative vibration

00:39:16.740 all the way across the room

00:39:18.380 where I was seated.

00:39:19.580 He clearly can't stand him.

00:39:23.040 And by the end

00:39:23.960 of his cross-examination,

00:39:25.420 you really kind of wanted

00:39:26.760 to punch him in the face.

00:39:27.660 Don't punch him in the face.

00:39:28.480 Not calling for violence.

00:39:29.280 I'm just saying,

00:39:30.040 like a surge built

00:39:31.220 inside of you of like,

00:39:32.560 this guy is a total asshole.

00:39:34.900 He just felt

00:39:35.580 really disrespectful.

00:39:36.600 You could sense his hatred.

00:39:39.120 He was shaking, by the way.

00:39:40.360 I don't understand

00:39:40.780 any senators who shake

00:39:42.080 when they cross-examine.

00:39:42.960 It's kind of what they do

00:39:43.600 for a living now.

00:39:44.480 But here's a flavor

00:39:45.540 of Mark Warner.

00:39:48.120 If you are in this position,

00:39:50.700 will you pledge

00:39:51.580 that you will not fire

00:39:53.100 federal employees

00:39:53.860 who work on food safety,

00:39:56.400 work on trying

00:39:56.960 and preventing things

00:39:57.560 like Salomino?

00:39:59.120 Senator,

00:39:59.680 there are 91,000 employees.

00:40:01.940 So I take that as a,

00:40:03.000 I take it,

00:40:03.500 that's a simple yes,

00:40:04.300 and I'm going to take that

00:40:05.060 as a no.

00:40:05.460 I will commit

00:40:06.740 to not firing anybody

00:40:08.720 who's doing their job.

00:40:11.540 Based on your opinion?

00:40:13.920 Based upon your opinion

00:40:15.300 or your political agenda

00:40:17.220 or Mr. Trump's political agenda?

00:40:18.780 Based upon my opinion.

00:40:21.900 I guess that means

00:40:22.840 a lot of the folks

00:40:23.460 who've had any type of

00:40:24.840 views on vaccines

00:40:26.760 will be out of work.

00:40:30.060 What?

00:40:30.500 Like, it's just

00:40:32.000 all these snide comments.

00:40:33.920 I don't even really understand.

00:40:35.680 There was no evidence for that.

00:40:37.280 All these people with vaccines

00:40:38.340 are going to be out of work.

00:40:39.000 It's just every,

00:40:40.380 you know,

00:40:40.740 I understand you're trying

00:40:41.400 to score points,

00:40:42.280 but get something substantive

00:40:43.720 and write it on the substance.

00:40:46.140 What they kept doing

00:40:47.020 was just these little

00:40:47.960 snide, snarky comments

00:40:50.180 at the end of RFKJ,

00:40:51.340 if they ever even

00:40:52.280 let him answer, Michael.

00:40:53.820 And I think ineffective

00:40:54.840 snide comments

00:40:55.700 because what was he

00:40:56.520 really getting at?

00:40:57.540 The question was,

00:40:58.860 will you fire

00:41:00.020 any of the 91,000 employees,

00:41:02.800 these bureaucrats,

00:41:04.100 many, if not most of whom,

00:41:05.680 don't even come into the office

00:41:06.640 anymore since COVID

00:41:07.660 at HHS.

00:41:09.280 And Kennedy said,

00:41:10.480 no, I'll fire people

00:41:11.640 who are bad at their jobs.

00:41:12.680 Did these Democrat senators

00:41:15.220 not pay attention

00:41:16.860 to the election?

00:41:18.040 Donald Trump ran

00:41:19.220 on firing bureaucrats.

00:41:21.540 The American people voted

00:41:22.740 to fire bureaucrats.

00:41:24.280 That is one of the main reasons

00:41:25.560 that we want Bobby Kennedy

00:41:26.800 in this role,

00:41:27.460 that we want all

00:41:28.240 of these agency heads

00:41:29.240 because these bureaucrats

00:41:30.540 are ineffective.

00:41:31.320 They're costing the government

00:41:31.980 a lot of money.

00:41:32.820 They're working against

00:41:34.020 President Trump

00:41:35.180 as they did in the first term

00:41:36.620 and they're undermining

00:41:37.760 what the American people want.

00:41:38.940 So when Kennedy comes out

00:41:39.920 and he says,

00:41:40.260 yeah, I'm going to fire people

00:41:41.440 who are bad at their jobs

00:41:42.480 and then the response,

00:41:45.080 well, is that going to be

00:41:46.560 based on your opinion

00:41:47.760 or your political agenda?

00:41:49.900 Hold on.

00:41:50.100 What's the difference?

00:41:50.620 Those are synonymous.

00:41:51.780 Or Trump's agenda.

00:41:53.620 Well, you know,

00:41:54.220 Trump picked me for the job,

00:41:55.400 so I don't, you know,

00:41:56.380 these are three ways

00:41:57.480 of saying the same thing.

00:41:58.840 Will you exercise

00:42:00.200 your judgment, Mr. Kennedy,

00:42:02.260 as the secretary of HHS

00:42:04.200 to lead the department?

00:42:06.420 Uh, yes.

00:42:07.820 Got you there.

00:42:09.000 I think I will.

00:42:10.060 Yeah, I don't know.

00:42:10.840 Will you, will you work

00:42:12.000 with the president

00:42:12.520 to help enact his agenda?

00:42:14.200 Ah-ha.

00:42:15.260 It was, it really was

00:42:16.360 so ineffective.

00:42:17.360 It was kind of painful

00:42:19.140 to have to sit there through it.

00:42:21.020 He, in particular,

00:42:22.040 was quite painful.

00:42:24.100 Um, I want to ask you

00:42:25.220 a little bit about,

00:42:26.260 Link Lauren's going to come on,

00:42:27.060 we're going to continue

00:42:27.560 the discussion

00:42:28.040 about what happened here,

00:42:28.840 but there is some news of the day

00:42:30.240 that I would love

00:42:30.720 to get to with you.

00:42:31.920 And in particular,

00:42:32.720 I want to ask you about

00:42:33.580 this executive order

00:42:35.240 by Trump

00:42:36.100 on so-called

00:42:37.680 trans surgeries

00:42:39.300 and procedures

00:42:40.620 for minors.

00:42:42.380 another executive order,

00:42:45.380 another thing of beauty,

00:42:47.020 and this is what he did

00:42:48.740 yesterday, in part.

00:42:50.720 Across the country today,

00:42:51.880 medical professionals

00:42:52.560 are maiming and sterilizing

00:42:53.980 a group of, uh,

00:42:55.420 impressionable children

00:42:56.560 under the radical

00:42:57.720 and false claim

00:42:58.440 that adults can change

00:42:59.620 a child's sex

00:43:00.380 through a series of

00:43:01.140 irreversible medical interventions.

00:43:03.120 This dangerous trend

00:43:04.120 will be a stain

00:43:05.200 on our nation's history

00:43:06.120 and it must end.

00:43:07.580 Accordingly,

00:43:08.120 it is the policy

00:43:08.780 of the United States

00:43:09.900 that it will not fund,

00:43:11.300 sponsor, promote,

00:43:12.000 assist or support

00:43:13.120 the so-called

00:43:13.780 transition,

00:43:15.040 in quotes,

00:43:15.680 of a child

00:43:16.400 from one sex to another

00:43:17.500 and it will rigorously

00:43:19.020 enforce all laws

00:43:20.320 that prohibit

00:43:21.380 or limit

00:43:22.460 these destructive

00:43:23.820 and life-altering

00:43:25.040 procedures.

00:43:27.100 It calls for

00:43:27.760 a reversal

00:43:29.120 to the absolutely

00:43:30.380 disgusting reliance

00:43:31.620 on and acceptance

00:43:32.480 of guidance

00:43:33.140 from this group

00:43:34.380 WPATH,

00:43:35.580 which is really,

00:43:36.420 I mean,

00:43:36.980 PATH should stand

00:43:37.860 for pathology

00:43:38.620 given the way

00:43:39.240 this group

00:43:39.860 tries to run

00:43:40.960 the trans

00:43:42.100 medical community.

00:43:44.000 It calls for

00:43:44.980 defunding of agencies

00:43:46.260 that provide grants

00:43:47.360 to medical schools

00:43:48.580 and hospitals

00:43:49.280 who are providing

00:43:50.240 these treatments

00:43:50.800 so it's a threat

00:43:51.400 of federal funding

00:43:52.220 to your institution

00:43:53.540 if you provide

00:43:54.280 these procedures

00:43:55.740 on minors.

00:43:56.740 It calls for

00:43:57.040 the Secretary of HHS

00:43:58.280 to ensure treatments

00:43:59.360 are not covered

00:44:00.120 by federally funded

00:44:01.440 programs

00:44:02.060 such as Medicare

00:44:03.380 and Medicaid.

00:44:03.980 We don't want

00:44:04.520 federal taxpayer money

00:44:05.580 being used

00:44:06.260 to fund for these.

00:44:07.800 also called

00:44:08.920 to exclude

00:44:09.420 chemical and

00:44:10.180 surgical mutilation

00:44:10.980 of children coverage

00:44:11.920 from other

00:44:12.860 related programs

00:44:13.800 because it's not

00:44:14.280 just Medicare

00:44:14.740 and Medicaid

00:44:15.180 that wind up

00:44:16.240 getting used

00:44:16.660 for this

00:44:17.000 and goes on

00:44:18.220 to say

00:44:18.920 the DOJ

00:44:19.780 shall convene

00:44:21.480 state's attorneys

00:44:22.020 general

00:44:22.460 to coordinate

00:44:23.420 the enforcement

00:44:24.040 of laws

00:44:24.580 against genital

00:44:25.840 mutilation

00:44:26.300 across all

00:44:27.000 American states

00:44:27.700 and territory.

00:44:28.220 It goes on

00:44:28.680 and we don't

00:44:28.960 have enough time

00:44:29.500 to go through

00:44:29.840 all of it today

00:44:30.460 but this

00:44:32.640 is a thing

00:44:33.460 of beauty

00:44:33.980 and it will

00:44:34.960 literally

00:44:35.480 save lives.

00:44:37.340 What did you make of it?

00:44:38.920 We're waiting

00:44:39.620 to pop some champagne

00:44:40.760 a little later today

00:44:41.620 over here

00:44:42.000 at the Daily Wire.

00:44:42.740 This has been

00:44:43.060 a hobby horse

00:44:43.580 of ours

00:44:43.960 for some time now.

00:44:45.480 A lot of people

00:44:46.080 probably first

00:44:47.020 even came

00:44:47.800 to be aware

00:44:48.560 of Ben Shapiro

00:44:49.400 when he was calling

00:44:50.400 out the trans ideology

00:44:51.340 on TV

00:44:51.940 and a trans identifying

00:44:53.180 man threatened

00:44:53.920 to beat him

00:44:54.600 into a pulp

00:44:55.220 and send him home

00:44:55.780 in an ambulance.

00:44:56.820 My first campus

00:44:57.720 speaking tour

00:44:58.380 my first or second

00:44:59.440 it was very early on

00:45:00.400 was called

00:45:00.920 Men Are Not Women

00:45:01.640 and Other Uncomfortable

00:45:02.640 Truths

00:45:03.140 at the time

00:45:03.580 that was uncomfortable

00:45:04.220 to people

00:45:04.860 nobody has done

00:45:06.180 more in the country

00:45:07.080 than my colleague

00:45:07.780 Matt Walsh

00:45:08.440 to bring attention

00:45:09.300 to the trans issue

00:45:10.100 with this movie

00:45:10.540 What is a Woman?

00:45:11.740 The rally

00:45:12.260 to end child mutilation

00:45:14.320 you've seen lawmakers

00:45:15.700 now taking action

00:45:16.720 since then

00:45:17.120 but this has been

00:45:17.860 a long journey

00:45:18.560 I mean we're talking

00:45:19.300 about 8 or 10 years

00:45:20.920 that conservatives

00:45:22.460 and to give credit

00:45:24.340 also feminists

00:45:26.520 also people

00:45:27.160 who care about

00:45:27.560 women's rights

00:45:28.200 also people

00:45:28.760 who just care

00:45:29.140 about the well-being

00:45:29.700 of children

00:45:30.120 all sorts of people

00:45:31.100 across a broad

00:45:31.840 ideological coalition

00:45:32.900 have said

00:45:33.720 what radical ideologues

00:45:36.800 are doing

00:45:37.220 to little kids

00:45:37.960 the kind of medical

00:45:38.680 experiments

00:45:39.280 that are ruining

00:45:40.000 their lives

00:45:40.680 based on no kind

00:45:42.000 of science whatsoever

00:45:42.780 in fact the largest

00:45:43.580 data set we have

00:45:44.640 on trans procedure

00:45:46.500 outcomes

00:45:47.100 long term

00:45:47.960 shows that not only

00:45:48.980 do they not help

00:45:49.620 but they actually

00:45:50.000 make anxiety worse

00:45:51.080 horrifying kind

00:45:52.920 of medical experimentation

00:45:53.800 worse than what

00:45:54.940 we did in this country

00:45:55.680 with lobotomies

00:45:56.580 in the 1950s

00:45:57.860 that is coming

00:45:59.020 to an end

00:45:59.760 you're seeing

00:46:00.520 that now

00:46:00.880 in the UK

00:46:01.380 in Sweden

00:46:02.340 and Finland

00:46:03.060 this is a cross

00:46:04.700 civilizational

00:46:05.660 kind of movement

00:46:06.540 to restore

00:46:07.680 a little bit

00:46:08.140 of sanity

00:46:08.620 and Trump

00:46:09.460 is putting

00:46:09.920 the final hammer

00:46:10.760 down on this

00:46:11.380 we're not going

00:46:12.080 to mutilate kids

00:46:12.900 because of people's

00:46:14.560 ideological fantasies

00:46:16.480 or sexual fetishes

00:46:17.960 or anything else

00:46:18.940 that is over

00:46:20.200 at the federal level

00:46:21.080 now I want to see

00:46:21.920 that matched

00:46:22.340 at the state

00:46:22.860 and local level

00:46:23.880 a major

00:46:24.940 major important victory

00:46:26.420 yeah I mean

00:46:28.100 I want to study

00:46:29.120 the order more

00:46:29.900 and talk with

00:46:30.540 some of my lawyer

00:46:31.060 friends about it

00:46:31.720 but he can't undo

00:46:33.620 a state law

00:46:34.440 that allows this stuff

00:46:35.720 like these radical

00:46:36.700 leftist states

00:46:37.360 by executive order

00:46:38.400 but

00:46:40.300 but he can withhold

00:46:41.140 funding

00:46:41.460 he can withhold

00:46:43.000 funding

00:46:43.520 from universities

00:46:44.880 and

00:46:45.780 lower schools

00:46:47.740 and hospitals

00:46:49.180 and private schools

00:46:50.920 some of which

00:46:51.380 take some federal money

00:46:52.240 he can withhold

00:46:53.780 money

00:46:54.780 from the institutions

00:46:56.180 that perform

00:46:56.900 or promote

00:46:58.020 these procedures

00:46:59.080 and that

00:47:00.300 is huge

00:47:01.420 I mean that's

00:47:02.180 a real blessing

00:47:02.740 because

00:47:03.140 the almighty dollar

00:47:04.700 is what they actually

00:47:05.280 care about

00:47:05.780 and let me

00:47:07.040 I mean if he actually

00:47:08.080 says we're not

00:47:08.920 going to pay

00:47:09.380 you know

00:47:10.360 Medicare funds

00:47:11.440 or Medicaid funds

00:47:12.980 at an institution

00:47:14.100 doing this to children

00:47:15.140 everyone will stop

00:47:16.580 there'll be tons

00:47:17.880 of legal challenges

00:47:18.660 over all of this

00:47:19.340 can it be done

00:47:20.140 can something that's

00:47:21.580 already been authorized

00:47:22.360 in terms of funding

00:47:23.280 by Congress

00:47:24.040 be revoked

00:47:25.440 by executive order

00:47:26.200 and this kind of threat

00:47:26.900 and all of that

00:47:27.480 must be fleshed out

00:47:28.540 but to me

00:47:29.320 what's important today

00:47:30.160 is the statement

00:47:31.300 the intention

00:47:32.400 and the

00:47:33.740 we're not screwing

00:47:34.660 around anymore

00:47:35.260 this is a scourge

00:47:36.400 that will be

00:47:37.500 looked back on

00:47:38.760 as an infamous

00:47:40.500 horrific

00:47:41.780 dereliction

00:47:42.680 of morality

00:47:43.580 for decades to come

00:47:45.460 and President Trump

00:47:46.680 said it stops now

00:47:47.980 yeah

00:47:48.880 that's right

00:47:49.680 that's right

00:47:50.080 this is just

00:47:51.700 the cherry on top

00:47:52.820 of what has been

00:47:53.460 an amazing first

00:47:54.480 what are we at

00:47:54.960 nine days

00:47:55.680 in office

00:47:56.720 the winds

00:47:58.260 just keep on coming

00:47:59.600 even I

00:48:00.500 I was very hopeful

00:48:02.060 about the Trump administration

00:48:03.240 and he has surpassed

00:48:04.980 even my expectations here

00:48:06.480 and I think

00:48:07.420 some of that talk

00:48:08.480 early on

00:48:09.200 about acquiring Greenland

00:48:10.840 about renaming

00:48:11.860 the Gulf of Mexico

00:48:12.800 about designating

00:48:14.280 the Mexican cartels

00:48:15.580 terrorist organizations

00:48:16.680 about retaking

00:48:17.780 the Panama Canal

00:48:18.540 you know some of this talk

00:48:19.760 about really

00:48:20.460 throwing around

00:48:21.900 America's weight

00:48:23.120 and the power

00:48:23.720 of the White House

00:48:24.460 in ways that we haven't

00:48:25.480 seen explicitly

00:48:26.240 in many years

00:48:27.420 in many ways

00:48:28.260 I think that was

00:48:28.820 setting the stage

00:48:29.640 for some of these

00:48:30.680 kinds of issues

00:48:31.400 for this exact

00:48:32.340 executive order

00:48:33.120 which is to say

00:48:34.320 F-A-F-O

00:48:36.440 okay

00:48:36.820 don't think that I'm joking

00:48:38.280 don't think I won't do it

00:48:39.560 the fact that

00:48:40.460 when Columbia

00:48:41.320 rejected those flights

00:48:42.880 of criminal migrants

00:48:44.260 that were going back

00:48:44.800 down to them

00:48:45.180 and Trump immediately

00:48:46.280 slapped 25% tariffs

00:48:47.920 economic sanctions

00:48:48.880 threatened to jump

00:48:49.600 the tariffs

00:48:49.960 to 50% a week later

00:48:51.200 this is him saying

00:48:52.420 guys I'm really

00:48:53.620 not bluffing

00:48:54.520 okay

00:48:54.880 and unpredictability

00:48:56.200 is one of Trump's

00:48:56.860 great geopolitical strengths

00:48:58.400 and he had

00:48:59.440 seven eight days

00:49:00.620 already to say

00:49:01.440 guys please

00:49:02.740 do not test me

00:49:03.500 I am pleading with you

00:49:04.820 don't make me do to you

00:49:05.940 what I am threatening

00:49:07.300 to do

00:49:07.780 I think if I were

00:49:09.060 an institution

00:49:09.680 receiving federal money

00:49:11.080 that was harming

00:49:13.040 and abusing children

00:49:14.020 in the way

00:49:14.520 that the pro-trans crowd

00:49:15.560 has

00:49:15.880 I would be very

00:49:17.160 very cautious

00:49:18.220 yeah

00:49:19.520 if the morality

00:49:20.680 of it

00:49:21.060 the immorality

00:49:21.800 of it

00:49:22.100 doesn't make them

00:49:22.840 stop

00:49:23.280 maybe the threat

00:49:24.520 of losing federal

00:49:25.400 funding will

00:49:26.200 because that's

00:49:26.900 why they do it

00:49:27.960 to the point

00:49:28.340 you made earlier

00:49:29.020 it costs a lot

00:49:30.880 of money

00:49:31.160 to have these

00:49:31.580 procedures

00:49:31.920 and then they

00:49:32.380 have a patient

00:49:32.900 for life

00:49:33.440 in both the

00:49:34.240 hospital

00:49:34.620 and with big pharma

00:49:35.880 two other points

00:49:37.260 I just want to make

00:49:37.780 one question

00:49:38.780 and one point

00:49:39.260 you mentioned

00:49:40.920 what happened

00:49:41.280 in Columbia

00:49:41.680 that's one of the

00:49:42.480 things I'm going

00:49:42.900 to be talking about

00:49:43.440 when I sit down

00:49:44.060 tomorrow

00:49:44.540 just a programming

00:49:45.340 note

00:49:45.660 for

00:49:46.360 with Marco Rubio

00:49:47.640 our new

00:49:48.160 senator

00:49:48.620 I'm a secretary

00:49:49.580 of state

00:49:50.380 in his first

00:49:50.880 long-form interview

00:49:52.000 so tomorrow

00:49:52.780 in his first

00:49:53.980 long-form interview

00:49:55.160 secretary of state

00:49:56.160 Marco Rubio

00:49:56.760 sits with yours truly

00:49:57.620 and 100%

00:49:59.040 we are going to be

00:49:59.720 talking about

00:50:00.180 the message

00:50:00.660 that was sent

00:50:01.580 to Columbia

00:50:02.240 and all other

00:50:03.200 nations

00:50:03.640 when it comes

00:50:04.660 to Trump's

00:50:05.380 F-A-F-O

00:50:06.560 policies

00:50:07.240 because he's

00:50:08.260 the guy

00:50:08.640 who's going to

00:50:09.180 have to be

00:50:09.500 the face of those

00:50:10.240 with most of

00:50:11.380 these nations

00:50:11.820 so looking forward

00:50:12.580 to that

00:50:12.920 then secondly

00:50:14.120 I can't let you

00:50:14.920 go without

00:50:15.240 asking you

00:50:15.680 about the

00:50:16.140 historic

00:50:16.660 legislation

00:50:17.680 that Donald

00:50:18.460 Trump

00:50:18.740 just signed

00:50:19.740 into law

00:50:20.540 the Laken

00:50:21.940 Riley Act

00:50:23.100 Michael

00:50:23.540 this is like

00:50:25.320 it's bittersweet

00:50:26.600 you know

00:50:27.480 this 22-year-old

00:50:29.680 nursing student

00:50:30.840 with her entire

00:50:31.480 life in front of

00:50:32.180 her was brutalized

00:50:33.760 by this illegal

00:50:35.020 who had no

00:50:35.760 business being here

00:50:36.720 who had been

00:50:37.240 caught for

00:50:38.380 lesser violations

00:50:39.600 in New York

00:50:40.200 and then put

00:50:41.200 back out on

00:50:41.760 the street

00:50:42.160 to hurt

00:50:42.860 somebody else

00:50:43.400 they didn't

00:50:43.880 care

00:50:44.140 New York

00:50:44.480 City

00:50:44.740 New York

00:50:45.060 State

00:50:45.300 are both

00:50:45.720 sanctuary

00:50:46.120 cities and

00:50:46.660 states

00:50:46.920 they put him

00:50:47.940 back out

00:50:48.260 on the street

00:50:48.600 he went

00:50:48.960 down to

00:50:49.240 Georgia

00:50:49.500 and he

00:50:50.080 killed

00:50:50.780 this young

00:50:51.600 promising

00:50:52.100 innocent

00:50:52.560 woman

00:50:52.920 and today

00:50:54.580 with support

00:50:56.200 it was bipartisan

00:50:57.120 you know

00:50:57.640 by a lot

00:50:58.400 I mean

00:50:58.760 we had

00:50:59.220 some 43

00:50:59.940 Democrats

00:51:00.300 who crossed

00:51:00.880 over

00:51:01.200 the vast

00:51:01.640 majority

00:51:01.920 still didn't

00:51:03.060 but still

00:51:04.480 there was a

00:51:04.860 fair amount

00:51:05.160 of bipartisan

00:51:05.620 support on

00:51:06.180 this

00:51:06.400 President

00:51:07.060 Trump

00:51:07.300 signed

00:51:07.540 this

00:51:07.740 his first

00:51:08.080 piece

00:51:08.300 of legislation

00:51:08.920 into law

00:51:09.640 saying

00:51:10.160 if you

00:51:11.560 arrest

00:51:11.960 somebody

00:51:12.620 yes

00:51:13.820 obviously

00:51:14.280 for a

00:51:14.580 major crime

00:51:15.000 but even

00:51:15.500 for a

00:51:16.120 minor crime

00:51:17.300 they must

00:51:18.320 be referred

00:51:19.280 to the

00:51:20.200 feds

00:51:20.740 and that

00:51:21.460 states

00:51:22.020 attorney

00:51:22.460 generals

00:51:23.060 attorneys

00:51:23.940 general

00:51:24.500 have the

00:51:25.700 right

00:51:25.940 if they

00:51:26.440 are in

00:51:26.740 a state

00:51:27.180 that

00:51:28.000 where

00:51:29.220 federal

00:51:29.900 lack of

00:51:31.260 enforcement

00:51:31.720 of these

00:51:32.140 policies

00:51:32.620 leads to

00:51:33.400 problems

00:51:33.740 within their

00:51:34.200 state

00:51:34.500 they have

00:51:34.820 the right

00:51:35.080 to sue

00:51:35.580 the

00:51:35.760 feds

00:51:36.400 for not

00:51:36.920 enforcing

00:51:37.320 the law

00:51:37.520 and that's

00:51:38.100 obviously

00:51:38.540 for down

00:51:38.940 the line

00:51:39.320 when the

00:51:39.680 Trump

00:51:39.860 administration

00:51:40.280 is gone

00:51:40.840 if there's

00:51:41.620 a Kamala

00:51:42.960 Harris

00:51:43.220 administration

00:51:43.780 and we

00:51:44.480 open the

00:51:44.940 borders back

00:51:45.440 up again

00:51:45.760 and we

00:51:46.000 lean into

00:51:46.420 these

00:51:46.600 sanctuary

00:51:46.940 jurisdictions

00:51:47.540 it's

00:51:48.120 empowering

00:51:48.620 the red

00:51:49.020 states

00:51:49.320 and the

00:51:49.680 border

00:51:49.880 states

00:51:50.280 to do

00:51:51.040 something

00:51:51.440 about it

00:51:52.200 God

00:51:52.740 rest her

00:51:53.300 soul

00:51:53.720 it's not

00:51:55.240 it's not

00:51:55.860 it's never

00:51:56.180 something you

00:51:56.600 would celebrate

00:51:57.180 it's just

00:51:57.720 her death

00:51:58.840 was not

00:51:59.200 meaningless

00:51:59.680 it wasn't

00:52:01.120 meaningless

00:52:01.660 let me just

00:52:02.120 play you

00:52:02.440 Michael

00:52:02.700 her mom

00:52:04.040 reacting

00:52:04.640 today at

00:52:05.560 the signing

00:52:05.900 ceremony

00:52:06.300 we also

00:52:07.580 want to

00:52:07.860 thank

00:52:08.100 president

00:52:08.640 trump

00:52:09.140 for the

00:52:09.940 promises

00:52:10.340 he made

00:52:10.940 to us

00:52:11.360 he said

00:52:12.260 he would

00:52:12.540 secure

00:52:12.860 our borders

00:52:13.420 and that

00:52:14.180 he would

00:52:14.420 never forget

00:52:15.020 about

00:52:15.280 Lakin

00:52:15.620 and he

00:52:18.540 has

00:52:18.800 he's a

00:52:19.980 man of

00:52:20.300 his word

00:52:20.840 trust that

00:52:22.160 he will

00:52:22.420 fight for

00:52:22.840 the

00:52:22.980 American

00:52:23.300 people

00:52:23.820 most

00:52:27.620 importantly

00:52:28.140 I want

00:52:28.500 to thank

00:52:28.780 our lord

00:52:29.180 and savior

00:52:29.600 Jesus

00:52:30.000 Christ

00:52:30.500 because

00:52:31.560 without

00:52:31.900 his

00:52:32.220 sacrifices

00:52:32.900 Lakin's

00:52:34.180 story would

00:52:34.600 have ended

00:52:34.920 on that

00:52:35.320 horrific day

00:52:36.100 that she

00:52:36.420 was taken

00:52:36.840 from us

00:52:37.420 but because

00:52:38.980 of him

00:52:39.340 we can

00:52:39.660 continue

00:52:40.100 living

00:52:40.480 knowing

00:52:40.760 that we

00:52:41.100 will see

00:52:41.500 Lakin

00:52:41.840 again

00:52:42.340 there's no

00:52:47.500 amount of

00:52:47.920 change that

00:52:48.480 will ever bring

00:52:49.020 back our

00:52:49.440 precious

00:52:49.800 Lakin

00:52:50.200 our hope

00:52:51.960 moving forward

00:52:52.700 is that her

00:52:54.160 life saves

00:52:54.880 lives

00:52:55.340 we're so

00:52:56.820 thankful

00:52:57.200 that her

00:52:58.220 passion

00:52:58.640 for helping

00:52:59.220 others

00:52:59.640 and her

00:53:00.300 legacy

00:53:00.660 for doing

00:53:01.220 good

00:53:01.500 in the

00:53:01.720 name

00:53:01.900 of

00:53:02.040 Jesus

00:53:02.300 Christ

00:53:02.720 will

00:53:02.940 carry

00:53:03.220 on

00:53:03.540 thank

00:53:04.320 you

00:53:04.620 Allison

00:53:09.720 Phillips

00:53:10.140 Lakin's

00:53:10.620 mom

00:53:10.920 and when

00:53:11.380 she

00:53:11.540 teared up

00:53:11.980 President

00:53:12.240 Trump

00:53:12.560 who was

00:53:12.780 standing

00:53:12.980 behind

00:53:13.280 her

00:53:13.420 reached

00:53:13.680 out

00:53:13.920 and rubbed

00:53:14.400 her back

00:53:14.760 just a

00:53:15.680 small

00:53:16.420 sweet

00:53:17.000 kind

00:53:18.020 gesture

00:53:18.780 from a

00:53:19.620 man who

00:53:20.020 made sure

00:53:20.920 that young

00:53:21.780 woman did

00:53:22.240 not die

00:53:22.880 in vain

00:53:23.900 in an

00:53:24.960 emotional day

00:53:25.540 Michael

00:53:25.820 and what

00:53:26.220 a message

00:53:26.960 from President

00:53:27.500 Trump

00:53:27.840 who ran

00:53:28.520 first and

00:53:29.100 foremost

00:53:29.400 more than

00:53:29.820 anything

00:53:30.260 else

00:53:30.660 on the

00:53:32.140 immigration

00:53:32.520 issue

00:53:32.860 that's

00:53:33.960 right

00:53:34.140 immigration

00:53:34.600 and law

00:53:35.460 and order

00:53:36.020 and and so

00:53:36.960 what a what a

00:53:38.020 beautiful statement

00:53:38.740 from Lakin Riley's

00:53:39.820 mother and a

00:53:40.600 beautiful act

00:53:41.140 to sign this

00:53:41.660 law

00:53:41.960 the Democrats

00:53:43.060 had made a

00:53:43.700 deal

00:53:43.940 they said

00:53:45.060 look we are

00:53:46.060 going to keep

00:53:46.580 the border

00:53:46.920 open and we

00:53:47.640 know that's

00:53:48.060 going to bring

00:53:48.440 some criminals

00:53:48.960 in but it's

00:53:49.500 going to help

00:53:49.920 us electorally

00:53:51.360 and it might

00:53:51.660 give us a

00:53:52.060 permanent

00:53:52.360 electoral

00:53:52.740 majority

00:53:53.240 and yeah

00:53:54.080 some Americans

00:53:55.160 are going to

00:53:55.480 be murdered

00:53:55.860 and some

00:53:56.440 Americans are

00:53:56.920 going to be

00:53:57.160 raped

00:53:57.840 some Americans

00:53:58.300 are going

00:53:58.940 to be

00:53:59.400 run rough

00:54:00.280 shot over

00:54:00.860 but you know

00:54:02.300 you can't

00:54:02.680 make an

00:54:02.940 omelet

00:54:03.140 without cracking

00:54:03.740 some eggs

00:54:04.220 that was it

00:54:05.080 that was the

00:54:05.720 calculation

00:54:06.220 that the

00:54:06.540 Democrats

00:54:06.900 made

00:54:07.220 it's hideous

00:54:08.100 it's evil

00:54:08.940 it's deeply

00:54:09.700 immoral

00:54:10.180 that was their

00:54:10.900 calculation

00:54:11.420 and Trump

00:54:11.920 today said

00:54:12.540 no no more

00:54:13.820 the best

00:54:14.480 argument against

00:54:15.200 the Lakin Riley

00:54:15.980 Act that you

00:54:16.680 could hear

00:54:16.980 I believe it was

00:54:17.400 Adam Schiff

00:54:17.940 who made it

00:54:18.800 for these from

00:54:19.640 the Democrats

00:54:20.120 in Congress

00:54:21.380 and in the

00:54:22.020 Senate

00:54:22.200 they said

00:54:23.040 we won't

00:54:24.160 vote for this

00:54:24.980 law because

00:54:25.780 we don't want

00:54:26.260 to arrest a

00:54:26.860 dreamer for

00:54:27.420 stealing a tube

00:54:28.160 of toothpaste

00:54:28.680 give me a

00:54:29.900 break

00:54:30.060 first of all

00:54:30.400 the dreamers

00:54:30.860 are in their

00:54:31.140 mid-40s now

00:54:31.920 second of all

00:54:32.760 no one is

00:54:33.480 stealing a tube

00:54:34.440 of toothpaste

00:54:34.900 okay

00:54:35.500 the man who

00:54:36.440 murdered Lakin Riley

00:54:37.600 stole hundreds of

00:54:38.720 dollars of merchandise

00:54:39.560 from a Walmart

00:54:40.320 and they let him

00:54:41.180 off the hook

00:54:41.720 because the Democrats

00:54:42.960 didn't want to

00:54:43.600 enforce immigration law

00:54:44.880 for selfish

00:54:46.080 partisan reasons

00:54:46.740 and there was

00:54:47.060 inappropriate behavior

00:54:47.860 with a minor

00:54:48.440 there was also

00:54:49.760 inappropriate

00:54:50.880 that's right

00:54:51.720 they let him

00:54:51.980 off again

00:54:52.420 and the central

00:54:54.520 political insight

00:54:55.460 here that Trump

00:54:56.800 has that is lost

00:54:58.560 on the Democrats

00:54:59.320 or the Democrats

00:54:59.780 don't want to

00:55:00.180 acknowledge is

00:55:00.800 people who

00:55:02.220 habitually commit

00:55:03.660 crimes are going

00:55:05.120 to keep committing

00:55:05.820 crimes

00:55:06.360 that that's it's

00:55:07.360 it's actually an

00:55:08.060 insight about human

00:55:08.940 nature which is why

00:55:10.260 this legislation

00:55:10.940 should be such

00:55:11.640 common sense

00:55:12.340 if you break into

00:55:13.400 our country illegal

00:55:14.220 illegally first of

00:55:15.280 all you should just

00:55:15.700 be deported for that

00:55:16.600 but even if you

00:55:17.760 won't be deported

00:55:18.320 for that if you

00:55:19.280 then go on to

00:55:20.020 start committing

00:55:20.780 other crimes

00:55:21.800 it's going to be

00:55:23.060 a good bet

00:55:23.720 that you're going

00:55:24.460 to keep doing that

00:55:25.520 one does not

00:55:26.300 commit theft

00:55:27.300 and commit

00:55:28.180 lascivious acts

00:55:29.240 and then just

00:55:30.160 just out of the

00:55:31.340 blue for no reason

00:55:32.260 straighten up

00:55:33.520 and fly right

00:55:34.060 that's not how it

00:55:34.740 works

00:55:35.000 and so this should

00:55:36.080 have been passed

00:55:37.080 unanimously in the

00:55:38.320 House and Senate

00:55:38.920 the fact that these

00:55:39.960 Democrats the many

00:55:41.000 many Democrats

00:55:41.700 voted against this

00:55:42.860 is a national

00:55:43.540 disgrace

00:55:44.020 it's a scandal

00:55:45.180 they should be

00:55:45.720 ashamed of themselves

00:55:46.620 they should resign

00:55:47.960 if we had any

00:55:48.880 integrity in our

00:55:50.000 government

00:55:50.400 at least though

00:55:52.000 there is the

00:55:52.740 beginning of a

00:55:53.660 restoration of

00:55:54.400 common sense and

00:55:55.180 dignity in our

00:55:56.100 government

00:55:56.440 I have to say

00:55:58.200 it's like I

00:55:59.040 you know that

00:56:00.800 night before the

00:56:01.620 election Michael

00:56:02.180 I showed up in

00:56:03.060 Pittsburgh to speak

00:56:03.760 for Trump

00:56:04.180 and we didn't know

00:56:05.680 if he was going to

00:56:06.060 win or lose at that

00:56:06.720 point but I wanted

00:56:08.300 to respond to the

00:56:09.080 allegation that he

00:56:09.720 wouldn't protect

00:56:10.320 women he had said

00:56:11.240 he would be a

00:56:11.680 protector of women

00:56:12.420 and his critics on

00:56:13.560 the left rolled

00:56:14.220 their eyes and made

00:56:15.400 fun of him and

00:56:16.500 said it was an

00:56:17.160 absurdity and one

00:56:18.840 of the names I

00:56:19.680 mentioned that

00:56:20.460 night was Lakin

00:56:21.160 Riley that that's

00:56:22.880 who I would be

00:56:23.340 thinking of when I

00:56:24.140 voted for Donald

00:56:24.960 Trump and I was

00:56:26.840 and to see her

00:56:28.940 mom there today

00:56:30.060 who you know it's

00:56:30.980 like my god your

00:56:31.720 worst nightmare but

00:56:33.740 his empathy toward

00:56:34.600 her and I mean

00:56:35.660 really the empathy

00:56:36.320 is manifested in

00:56:37.180 the language of

00:56:37.980 that now law that

00:56:39.680 he signed in his

00:56:40.420 first act and then

00:56:42.400 when it was all

00:56:43.120 said and done after

00:56:44.780 she spoke and they

00:56:45.600 hugged he gave her

00:56:47.220 the pen that that's

00:56:49.500 like kind of

00:56:50.140 emotional thinking

00:56:50.900 about it he gave

00:56:51.580 her the pen that he

00:56:52.120 signed that bill

00:56:52.960 into law with and

00:56:54.460 that's what she has

00:56:55.200 now and she has

00:56:56.260 that instead of her

00:56:57.940 daughter it's

00:56:58.900 meaningful but it's

00:57:00.780 not enough and what

00:57:02.280 really needs to happen

00:57:03.020 is is the Democrats

00:57:04.020 who put these

00:57:04.560 policies into place

00:57:05.380 and they are still

00:57:06.380 in place in many

00:57:07.620 cities and states

00:57:08.660 like the the one I

00:57:10.080 grew up in New

00:57:10.620 York that they need

00:57:12.640 to be punished they

00:57:13.540 need to be removed

00:57:14.240 from power and this

00:57:15.920 can never be allowed

00:57:16.760 to happen again I'll

00:57:17.800 give you the last

00:57:18.180 word exactly right

00:57:20.300 Megan and part of

00:57:21.980 the reason that Trump

00:57:22.760 can do this is

00:57:23.680 because he received

00:57:25.080 a mandate from the

00:57:25.920 American people things

00:57:26.900 had spun so far out

00:57:27.980 of control and there

00:57:29.300 were a lot of people

00:57:30.000 who said I've never

00:57:30.720 voted Republican

00:57:31.340 before I've been told

00:57:32.360 Trump is a bad guy I

00:57:33.640 don't know you know

00:57:34.540 is he really going to

00:57:35.240 protect this group or

00:57:36.020 that group or the

00:57:36.600 American interest and

00:57:37.720 they voted for him on

00:57:39.800 a gamble and he has

00:57:41.820 proven them right he

00:57:43.120 has proven himself

00:57:43.940 worthy of their

00:57:44.960 trust if the man did

00:57:46.520 nothing more in office

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00:57:48.780 first nine days of his

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00:57:54.140 obviously he's just

00:57:55.560 getting started I think

00:57:56.680 he has he has proved

00:57:58.100 his supporters right

00:57:58.980 he's proved his

00:57:59.820 naysayers wrong I can't

00:58:00.960 wait to see what

00:58:01.380 happened next week

00:58:02.020 amen thank you so much

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00:58:06.260 you Megan great to be

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01:02:32.540 more now on the RFKJ confirmation

01:02:34.200 hearing today where I attended in

01:02:36.000 person it was eye-opening in some

01:02:38.780 unexpected ways was very pleased to

01:02:41.460 be seated next to Callie and Casey

01:02:44.060 means we love them they're right at

01:02:47.060 the heart of the Maha movement and

01:02:48.780 one of the reasons I want him to be

01:02:50.460 confirmed so badly is I have every

01:02:52.540 expectation that those two will be

01:02:54.780 very involved in whatever projects he

01:02:57.780 pursues there I mean Callie is a

01:02:59.900 whistleblower from inside of the

01:03:02.180 corrosive big food industry who saw

01:03:05.340 the light exited and then has been

01:03:07.220 jumping up and down about the toxins

01:03:09.020 that are being put in our in our food

01:03:10.900 supply ever since and Dr. Casey means

01:03:13.500 wrote good energy she's been on the show

01:03:15.160 numerous times she's brilliant Stanford

01:03:17.860 trained doctor was a surgeon at Stanford

01:03:20.700 post finishing her residency or or again

01:03:23.560 I can't remember anyway the point is

01:03:25.040 Stanford Stanford and she walked away

01:03:27.360 from a very lucrative career as a

01:03:29.260 surgeon because she was sick and tired

01:03:31.140 of seeing what big medicine was doing to

01:03:33.160 us it just they put the incentive to

01:03:35.000 keep us sick to never solve anything so

01:03:37.120 those two were there front and center

01:03:38.280 right behind the Kennedy family many of

01:03:41.580 whom sat right behind their dad their

01:03:43.840 husband their cousin as you know it's a

01:03:46.420 big family and it's not without its

01:03:48.380 losers we'll get to that joining me now

01:03:51.380 to discuss it our friend link lauren who

01:03:53.380 is a former senior advisor to rfkj during

01:03:56.200 his presidential campaign link welcome

01:03:58.240 back thanks for having me megan great

01:04:00.780 to be here all right so what was your

01:04:03.220 take on what we witnessed this morning

01:04:05.160 I thought that went amazing for bobby but

01:04:08.560 it was an utter calamity for most of

01:04:10.580 those senate democrats I mean Elizabeth

01:04:12.500 Warren can't figure out what nationality

01:04:14.320 she is but she's screeching about big

01:04:16.020 pharma Bernie Sanders was pointing to the

01:04:18.260 onesies that was an utter calamity as

01:04:20.280 well I think these senators should spend

01:04:22.300 less time talking to lobbyists and

01:04:24.400 donors more time talking to their

01:04:26.260 constituents because their constituents

01:04:28.120 will tell them they're on board with the

01:04:30.240 maha movement we have a chronic disease

01:04:32.100 crisis in this country and they're behind

01:04:33.960 bobby whether he's perfect or not

01:04:36.020 exactly right it was amazing when he I

01:04:39.120 think we have this actually when he left

01:04:40.620 the hearing room at the end of the day

01:04:42.720 they broke out in a cheers not the

01:04:44.460 senators the spectators who are in the

01:04:46.460 audience here it is this hearing will be

01:04:48.460 adjourned I in still encourage the

01:04:50.820 audience to be polite and respectful no

01:04:53.080 matter what side of the issues you may be

01:04:55.160 on and mr. Kennedy I look forward to

01:04:58.100 working with you thank you mr. chairman

01:05:00.360 berger you just don't see that every day

01:05:07.700 where like he he's the head of a movement

01:05:11.360 link that's what they don't seem to be

01:05:13.180 getting no and I mean I got to witness it

01:05:15.880 firsthand I saw him get up every single

01:05:17.880 day and be that warrior on the front lines

01:05:20.000 of the chronic disease epidemic in our

01:05:21.740 country I mean Kamala Harris during her

01:05:23.680 107 day campaign she didn't even mention

01:05:26.300 the chronic disease crisis she had nothing

01:05:27.920 to say about it I watched Bobby Kennedy get

01:05:30.000 up go out there and talk to the people

01:05:32.080 about the issues that mattered to them

01:05:33.880 the fact that kids in this country are

01:05:35.540 sicker than they've ever been before so

01:05:37.440 these senators the mainstream media some

01:05:39.500 of his family members they want to go to

01:05:41.180 the smear campaigns that's not what

01:05:43.040 affects people what affects them is a

01:05:44.520 sick child and trying to get answers

01:05:46.260 yes and as I said there were moms in the

01:05:49.700 audience with their children today trying

01:05:51.360 to send a message to these senators that

01:05:53.420 they mean business like these mama bears

01:05:55.980 I think are so largely responsible for

01:05:58.460 this even happening right his for maha

01:06:01.120 for RFKJ getting elevated in some part

01:06:04.280 for Trump winning even if they might not

01:06:06.320 have loved Trump himself they got to the

01:06:08.140 polls and they believed that he would

01:06:09.860 make good on his promises on maha and

01:06:11.740 he's doing that with this appointment the

01:06:15.120 family members are disgusting not those

01:06:17.140 who showed up today but Caroline Kennedy

01:06:19.280 who's the daughter of JFK and her son

01:06:21.980 writes her son Jack Schlossberg I don't

01:06:25.540 know which one was worse but let me start

01:06:27.920 with Caroline Kennedy who what I mean

01:06:30.520 Caroline Kennedy I realize your dad was

01:06:32.140 president like okay good for you is a

01:06:34.100 long time ago but I and then you are a

01:06:36.880 big Democrat donor so they made you

01:06:38.340 ambassador to Australia which doesn't

01:06:40.780 mean you know anything anything at all

01:06:42.640 but she still thinks that people want to

01:06:44.220 hear from her and I guess in some

01:06:45.780 leftist circles they do because she's

01:06:48.640 got the name Kennedy okay he was killed in

01:06:50.760 1963 it's like she was cute she's a

01:06:53.700 little daughter we had a part of Camelot

01:06:55.460 which was a lie anyway but it's like who

01:06:57.840 is like gee I really want to hear from

01:07:00.460 Caroline Kennedy about RFKJ and what he

01:07:03.500 was like 30 years ago here she is in a

01:07:07.080 video that is a reenactment of a letter

01:07:09.180 that that was mentioned by some Democrats

01:07:11.840 today I've known Bobby my whole life we

01:07:14.400 grew up together it's no surprise that he

01:07:17.540 keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby

01:07:20.560 himself is a predator I watch his younger

01:07:23.120 brothers and cousins follow him down the

01:07:25.000 path of drug addiction his basement his

01:07:28.320 garage his dorm room were always the

01:07:30.320 center of the action where drugs were

01:07:32.520 available and he enjoyed showing off how

01:07:35.200 he put baby chickens and mice in a

01:07:37.240 blender to feed to his hawks it was often

01:07:40.120 a perverse scene of despair and violence

01:07:42.960 Bobby was able to pull himself out of

01:07:45.520 illness and disease I admire the discipline

01:07:48.920 that took and the continuing commitment it

01:07:51.420 requires but siblings and cousins who Bobby

01:07:55.100 encouraged down the path of substance abuse

01:07:57.580 suffered addiction illness and death while

01:08:02.400 Bobby has gone on to misrepresent lie and

01:08:06.600 cheat his way through life I mean just to

01:08:11.740 recap I admire him but he caused family

01:08:15.640 members deaths and he's a liar and a cheat

01:08:20.000 and also a predator well none of which was

01:08:23.780 actually supported in her little stick not

01:08:27.380 to mention the Kennedy family addictions

01:08:30.040 which had a long history that predates RFK

01:08:33.820 J link absolutely I mean I've got a big Irish

01:08:37.460 family there are a bunch of drunks and

01:08:39.000 alcoholics in my family my mom's been sober

01:08:41.280 for over 30 years I'm glad she is sober I've

01:08:43.980 gone with her to get her chips she got to know

01:08:46.100 Bobby on the campaign so much of his brand is

01:08:49.160 his grit and authenticity he was open every

01:08:51.940 single day in every stump speech and every

01:08:54.000 interview about how he found God and found

01:08:56.300 sobriety and he's been sober I think since

01:08:58.280 the 70s at least for 40 or so years so I

01:09:01.180 thought Caroline Kennedy's video was an

01:09:03.000 absolute joke she's sitting in some dirty

01:09:05.360 messy disorganized office I wish we could

01:09:07.980 send her back down under to Australia I would

01:09:10.820 also question the veracity of her claims

01:09:13.220 made in the video there's this narrative that

01:09:15.020 his family doesn't support him that is

01:09:17.220 antithetical to what I experienced on the

01:09:19.300 campaign Megan at every single event he was

01:09:21.740 surrounded by family members they volunteered

01:09:23.720 they knocked on doors they phone banked if you go to his

01:09:26.180 house in Brentwood he has family asleep on

01:09:28.500 every sofa every couch they're out in the back

01:09:30.860 playing so this notion that they don't support

01:09:32.780 him is just untrue and I found it really

01:09:35.120 embarrassing to weaponize his past issues with

01:09:38.060 addiction against him especially given the other

01:09:41.100 circumstances I found that to be just a really low blow in a

01:09:43.980 moment of desperation the nerve to try to blame the

01:09:49.620 Kenley the Kennedy family addiction problem on one Kennedy

01:09:53.940 right maybe he did do drugs with or drink with other family members you know

01:09:59.100 what who else did your uncle Teddy Caroline who was a one of the biggest drunks we've ever seen in public service to the point where he killed a woman he killed Mary Jo Kopechny when they drove off a bridge in Chappaquiddick and as the car was falling to the ground under the water he left her he walked away and waited hours before reporting it so maybe you should talk about addiction problems with a different branch of the family not to mention her own father's pill pot

01:10:17.100 he left her he walked away and waited hours before reporting it so maybe you should talk about addiction problems with a different branch of the family not to mention her own father's pill popping which has become so legendary that now it gets talked about like we had an active addict as a president in the White House but it's all Bobby Kennedy's

01:10:38.620 fault for introducing people to or doing drugs with some other family members now she wants to blame it all on him I mean link it totally undermined her credibility and like she she tried to comment it as like I have a very close family I love my family I'm very sorry to tell you he's a predator and a drunk and got everyone drunk and addicted and they died because of him

01:11:03.160 yeah I can think of several family members I wouldn't want to sponsor anybody I don't think they are you know 12 step success stories and I'm only speaking for myself I don't want Bobby to call and yell at me which he is not shy to do but Caroline Kennedy yeah the timing was just way too convenient for me but it was like crack for Democrats and MSNBC last night they were eating up that video my woke liberal friends in New York were sending it to me going good for her you go girl and I'm like you need to get out and touch grass okay

01:11:33.140 this is a joke right okay but now can you speak to as somebody who knows him well the baby chickens and the mice in the blender led to a perverse scene of despair and violence that's what she accused him of housing in some basement where baby chickens were being sacrificed it's not funny forgive me Peter I'm not laughing at the baby chickens it's just I'm laughing at the desperation and the attempt to take him down perverse scene of despair and violence by this predator who

01:12:03.000 lies and lies and cheats but I love him he kills my relatives but I love him I don't think we're winning any awards from PETA Megan so I think we're safe you know she had no evidence to back up her claims and I know I'm sort of part journalist part operative part influencer but the journalist in me is like if you're gonna make these claims and call someone a predator on video one of your family members why don't you have any evidence to back it up and when she talked about him collecting birds of prey

01:12:33.000 he's been falconing he's been falconing for years and decades he's taken disadvantaged people out falconing handicapped people out falconing for charity we had many falconing events on our campaign where people got to go out in nature and experience that with him we did a falconing event with Donald Trump Jr. all the pictures are online it was a huge success so this notion that he collects birds of prey let's give the actual backstory that he likes to go out in nature and play with these falcons which he's been doing for decades and all the pictures are online

01:13:00.000 I kind of want to know more like I were they live mice live baby chickens because I understand like we all eat adult chickens like many times a week it's not it's not nice but we do it because we're at the top of the food chain the mice I mean it's sad but you can go to Petco right now and buy a bunch of live mice to feed to your pet snake or your pet whatever whatever it's like it's a thing the baby chickens I don't know that's weird but I kind of want to know more I'm glad it didn't come up today

01:13:28.800 don't try that I thought today there were so many things that could have been brought up I was like yes we got through that a million other things that could have been brought up Megan and I used to keep a list on the campaign of every horrible thing that could be brought up in interviews so when we did like little media trainings or we do some interview prep when he was going to go on TV I would keep my running list they didn't touch on any of that and like I said though most Americans they don't expect perfection from their elected officials they love Donald Trump Pete Hegseth RFK

01:13:58.800 they don't wait for them so these smear campaigns they haven't worked thus far the guy's still standing

01:14:02.820 yeah all right so if the apple didn't fall far from the tree because her son Jack Schlossberg posted a video about a week ago which is really despicable it appears to be making fun of Bobby's speech issue his vocal cord issue here it is

01:14:22.800 hey everybody I I'm trying to figure out of the right president to get Donald Trump for the inauguration so I found a really rare animal and killed it and I'm gonna give it to him

01:14:36.740 how many leftists absolutely laid into Donald Trump in 1516 because on the campaign trail they accused him of mocking a reporter's disability which Trump denied he was doing

01:14:54.560 not a peep not there were so many likes on this video it was no Republican liking that shit right who would do that to a family member

01:15:04.820 I found that absolutely disgusting to come out and attack your family publicly is just embarrassing it feels very reality show Kardashian to me it's not something I will ever support and Jack Schlossberg I've never met him I can only speak from what I see I'm not a big fan I thought that video was gross you can discuss you know what people believe in you can discuss you know the merits of their work and you can discuss you know Bobby's policies but to attack him for having spasmodic dysphonia was a really low blow and really just made Jack look bad to me

01:15:34.520 I also have to point out Kerry Kennedy and other members of the family have the same condition so I don't think they probably felt good watching that too

01:15:41.180 right I mean it's like you want to I just feel like the his deceased grandfather would be shocked would be horrified and by the way Caroline Kennedy was like I don't try to speak for my father or my uncle but they would both think he's a disgrace

01:16:00.520 he's a disgrace so now she wants us to know she's vouching for the fact that Bobby's father would find his own son who's just an uncle to her absolutely disgraceful but she never speaks for him nor her own father who also would hate RFKJ

01:16:14.860 absolutely they kind of push this narrative that Bobby's dined out on his last name no he hasn't he's not even that wealthy as we've seen in the financial disclosures he's not dining out on his last name and he's also the patriarch of the Kennedy family I think a lot of the other ones who had postings in the Biden administration you could argue they've been dining out and currying favor based on their last name Jack Schlossberg I don't know if he works he seems to have a lot of free time I wish I had that much free time in my day to sit around making videos making fun of people

01:16:44.860 I don't so maybe go find some employment and find a job yeah he's been in the news a lot this past year and none of it has been good um then there's this this is so Kennedy and I'm talking about modern day Kennedy we weren't around when the true alleged Camelot was around but that was no Camelot either JFK was banging everything with legs I mean it was like absolutely no loyalty or faithfulness to his wife including the White House intern sounds like a good time to me okay I'm just like okay whatever we were sold a bag of goods because they were Democrats they were

01:17:14.840 doing that to the Republicans those people were getting impeached thanks to Woodward and Bernstein um but Maria Shriver weighs in now on the Caroline Kennedy video yes just to like we we're such good people oh my god we're so good we Kennedys we're so strong and we always do the right thing except for him he's he's the black sheep she um on x posted in response to Caroline's video courage is when you do something hard heartbreaking and painful and you do it anyway

01:17:44.660 love you love you Caroline always have always will okay so that this is superfluous wording she said the same thing twice but in any event um this is so Kennedy right like I'm digging the dagger into my loved one at his moment of need like the most important moment of his life I'm trying my best to absolutely humiliate him and kill his chances

01:18:08.720 and I'm noble just in case you didn't know how noble I am and how noble our family is here I am Maria Shriver to tell you that

01:18:15.920 no absolutely I thought it was really funny to give her a profiles and courage like I said she's sitting in a messy disorganized room reading a written statement you know the day before Bobby's confirmation hearing I think it just seems so obvious to all of us who are living in reality but if you're in that liberal mainstream media echo chamber you're eating all of that up you want Bobby to go down so hard so they're just grabbing on to anything Megan

01:18:37.940 okay I guess Schlossberg this the guy this is again JFK's grandson Caroline's son apple tree posted this today we have it cut he's decided he really does like making fun of family members and others no oh it's a tweet okay at which it's a post okay

01:18:57.860 which is responding to Nicole Shanahan in fact let me set it up here's what Nicole she said she was hosted and yeah and then here's how here's his response here's Nicole Shanahan warning the senators who are beating up on RFKJ today

01:19:11.300 in 2020 I cut large checks to Chuck Schumer to help Democrats flip two Senate seats in Georgia from red to blue the two candidates I helped elect Senator Raphael Warnock and Senator John Ossoff please know I will be watching your votes very closely I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America's children

01:19:37.160 uh and more than that I also want to say to Senators Mitch McConnell

01:19:42.460 Lindsey Graham Lisa Markovsky Susan Collins Bill Cassidy Tom Tillis James Langford Cory Booker John Fetterman Bernie Sanders and Catherine Cortez Masto this is a bipartisan message and it comes directly from me

01:19:57.040 while Bobby may be willing to play nice I won't if you vote against him I will personally fund challengers to primary you

01:20:04.220 in your next election in your next election and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me

01:20:09.100 you're either on the side of transparency and accountability or you are standing in the way

01:20:13.680 the choice is yours please choose wisely

01:20:16.020 right on Nicole

01:20:17.940 so his response was

01:20:20.080 she's literally so hot

01:20:22.300 who knew

01:20:22.940 cannot imagine a senator being intimidated by this bird

01:20:26.440 that

01:20:27.680 is the perfect tweet

01:20:29.460 that is exact

01:20:30.640 that is leftism

01:20:31.700 in a nutshell

01:20:32.820 right

01:20:33.440 like

01:20:34.440 if Tucker Carlson

01:20:36.120 ever remarked on how hot

01:20:38.140 Nicole Shanahan is

01:20:39.520 he'd be getting called a sexist pig

01:20:41.800 by everyone

01:20:42.860 over on Jack Schlossberg's side of the aisle

01:20:45.500 so he puts it in there

01:20:46.860 why

01:20:47.180 to diminish her

01:20:48.060 he's actually using it to diminish her

01:20:49.640 down to her appearance

01:20:50.920 as we see with the follow-up line

01:20:52.640 which shows

01:20:53.660 he is not her fan

01:20:54.820 cannot imagine a senator being intimidated by this bird

01:20:57.760 this bird

01:20:59.020 well like this little breakable

01:21:00.380 sad

01:21:00.960 weak little thing

01:21:02.240 who's scary to no one

01:21:04.360 right

01:21:04.700 so it's like

01:21:05.300 try to knock her down

01:21:06.580 by reducing her just to her looks

01:21:08.020 then insult her as a weakling

01:21:09.720 who no one is afraid of

01:21:11.040 this is the party that is pro-woman

01:21:13.140 right

01:21:13.560 not

01:21:13.960 not

01:21:14.580 not Trump

01:21:15.340 not RFKJ

01:21:16.580 because he flew the coop

01:21:17.480 to stay on the bird motif

01:21:18.680 it's perfectly on brand

01:21:20.500 absolutely

01:21:22.100 but this is what being a democrat

01:21:23.500 is about

01:21:24.140 if you look at Jack Schlossberg

01:21:25.520 he got to go on stage

01:21:26.880 and speak

01:21:27.540 at the DNC

01:21:28.460 Bill Clinton

01:21:29.060 he's been terrible

01:21:30.080 he's the patriarch of that party

01:21:31.680 he got to speak at the DNC

01:21:33.160 Kamala Harris

01:21:34.080 she's a disaster

01:21:34.900 she got to be the candidate

01:21:36.020 so the democrats

01:21:37.060 it's always

01:21:37.580 the rules for thee

01:21:38.540 not for me

01:21:39.360 yeah Doug Imhoff as well

01:21:40.740 it's the rules for thee

01:21:41.600 not for me

01:21:42.200 so if a republican

01:21:43.220 went out there

01:21:44.180 and said someone was hot

01:21:45.380 or sexy

01:21:45.940 like you said

01:21:46.620 they would be called

01:21:47.580 a sexist pig

01:21:49.060 but Nicole Shanahan

01:21:49.880 she's a much more formidable force

01:21:51.700 than I think

01:21:52.220 people realize

01:21:53.220 I was one of the first people

01:21:54.120 who got to meet her

01:21:54.800 on the campaign

01:21:55.360 I was on the VP committee

01:21:56.760 which I was grateful

01:21:57.440 to be a part of

01:21:58.320 and Nicole's a very formidable person

01:22:00.100 I think she's been written off

01:22:01.300 but she has a lot in store

01:22:02.620 for the future

01:22:03.240 so

01:22:04.740 this also happened

01:22:06.600 on The View today

01:22:07.480 where Joy Behar

01:22:09.020 referred to

01:22:10.280 the new press secretary

01:22:11.560 Caroline Levitt

01:22:12.300 who did an amazing job this week

01:22:13.660 she's green

01:22:14.640 and she's young

01:22:15.580 but she's very strong

01:22:17.300 very strong

01:22:17.760 and she's going to get even better

01:22:18.880 this is why she thinks

01:22:21.140 Trump chose her

01:22:22.080 listen

01:22:22.400 I think she's probably

01:22:24.340 been put in there

01:22:25.080 because according to Donald Trump

01:22:26.520 she's a 10

01:22:27.320 you know that's what it is

01:22:29.060 I want to be clear

01:22:29.780 so that's why he chose

01:22:32.600 Caroline Levitt

01:22:33.360 according to the tolerant left

01:22:34.900 because of her looks

01:22:36.140 and I posted this out online

01:22:37.440 it's again

01:22:38.220 it's an attempt to diminish her

01:22:39.500 you know

01:22:40.840 she's nothing more than

01:22:41.780 a pretty face

01:22:42.400 she can't be taken seriously

01:22:43.780 but I think you made this point

01:22:46.060 on my show

01:22:46.440 Link

01:22:46.640 let's face it

01:22:47.380 we really are making America

01:22:48.440 hot again

01:22:48.900 like this

01:22:49.720 I said we're about to have

01:22:52.880 the hottest cabinet

01:22:53.840 and let's face it

01:22:56.200 Republicans in general

01:22:57.820 these days

01:22:58.360 like that New York magazine cover

01:23:00.120 I don't know

01:23:01.260 I just feel like

01:23:02.120 Republicans are all about

01:23:03.360 these days

01:23:03.780 making an effort

01:23:04.580 pulling yourself together

01:23:05.520 presenting yourself well

01:23:06.620 you know

01:23:07.900 there is an unusual percentage

01:23:09.540 of good looking people

01:23:10.360 who support Donald Trump

01:23:11.380 I don't know what it is

01:23:12.280 and then on the left

01:23:13.440 you have these lunatics

01:23:14.220 shaving their heads

01:23:14.980 wearing their blue bracelets

01:23:16.260 having their enormous

01:23:17.060 reading glasses everywhere

01:23:17.940 like it's not a good look

01:23:19.520 it's not something

01:23:20.320 young people are going to

01:23:21.000 want to be associated with

01:23:22.000 and back to the original point

01:23:23.820 Joy Behar would be ripping

01:23:26.400 on Jesse Waters

01:23:28.180 if he said

01:23:29.580 the only reason Joe Biden

01:23:30.960 selected somebody

01:23:31.740 was because she was a 10

01:23:32.960 though I can't think of

01:23:34.380 anybody in his cabinet

01:23:35.080 who'd come to

01:23:36.220 anyway whatever

01:23:37.420 what are your thoughts on it

01:23:38.420 well like I said before

01:23:40.660 we're about to have

01:23:41.920 the hottest cabinet

01:23:42.920 in American history

01:23:44.080 it is shaping up right now

01:23:46.040 MAHA stands for

01:23:47.160 make America hot again

01:23:48.340 just between me and my friends

01:23:49.680 so that's what's coming

01:23:50.940 down the pike

01:23:51.560 and I'm sorry

01:23:52.120 the Republican Party

01:23:53.060 is kind of the big tent

01:23:54.200 cool party right now

01:23:55.200 New York Magazine

01:23:55.980 can kind of do their

01:23:57.180 fancy footwork

01:23:57.980 and try to denigrate them

01:23:58.960 but the Republican Party

01:24:00.260 is the cool kids table

01:24:01.480 right now

01:24:02.260 and you played that clip

01:24:03.060 from The View

01:24:03.520 where they're talking

01:24:04.160 about Caroline Levitt's looks

01:24:05.500 and she was hired

01:24:06.220 because she's a 10

01:24:07.060 to Donald Trump

01:24:07.700 I can tell you

01:24:08.600 nobody on The View

01:24:09.380 was hired for their looks

01:24:10.420 so we can check

01:24:11.220 that off right there

01:24:12.200 but

01:24:12.420 it's jealousy

01:24:12.960 it's jealousy

01:24:14.580 there is a double standard

01:24:16.280 there that

01:24:16.860 if you're a Republican

01:24:17.600 and you speak

01:24:18.280 on a woman's looks

01:24:19.060 then somehow you're sexist

01:24:20.320 but Democrats can do it

01:24:21.400 all day long

01:24:22.000 and they get a pass

01:24:22.840 and they're praised

01:24:23.500 and they get to fail upward

01:24:24.600 all right

01:24:26.240 now back to the hearing

01:24:27.040 I want to ask you a question

01:24:28.140 so

01:24:28.960 we

01:24:30.180 we cannot afford

01:24:31.340 to lose four senators

01:24:32.680 you know

01:24:33.300 and

01:24:33.500 right

01:24:33.920 four Republicans

01:24:34.840 unless a Democrat

01:24:36.020 crosses over

01:24:36.700 but

01:24:37.320 we're not sure

01:24:38.420 if there are any

01:24:39.120 such Democrats

01:24:39.980 willing to cross over

01:24:40.900 they should

01:24:41.460 because as we saw

01:24:42.680 a lot of these swing states

01:24:43.620 where these Democrats

01:24:44.880 come from

01:24:45.480 voted for Trump

01:24:46.620 they voted for Trump

01:24:47.680 so it's not

01:24:49.200 now Rhode Island

01:24:49.980 is not one of them though

01:24:50.900 Rhode Island is blue

01:24:51.840 it's very blue

01:24:52.760 but

01:24:53.520 Sheldon Whitehouse

01:24:54.740 a Democrat

01:24:55.500 who

01:24:56.360 just really did

01:24:57.320 a soliloquy

01:24:58.640 during his questioning

01:24:59.700 which I said

01:25:00.140 actually some of it

01:25:00.920 made a lot of sense

01:25:01.560 in terms of like

01:25:02.160 what's happening

01:25:02.560 to our grannies

01:25:03.140 and elder care

01:25:03.660 so it was kind of

01:25:04.900 a safe place to go

01:25:05.780 because it wasn't

01:25:06.300 about how bad Trump is

01:25:07.620 or Republicans are

01:25:08.560 or

01:25:08.960 RFKJ has been

01:25:10.640 it really wasn't

01:25:12.180 though

01:25:12.480 there was a tinge of it

01:25:13.500 so

01:25:14.140 but there's a lot

01:25:14.740 of questioning

01:25:15.220 about whether

01:25:15.840 he could be a dem

01:25:16.560 to cross over

01:25:17.280 even though he's

01:25:18.000 in a blue state

01:25:18.540 because

01:25:19.080 they went to law school

01:25:20.040 together

01:25:20.340 I think they were

01:25:20.920 in each other's

01:25:21.420 weddings

01:25:21.700 I think there are

01:25:22.860 other like a long

01:25:23.840 long friendship

01:25:24.420 between the two of them

01:25:25.300 not sure if it's still

01:25:26.780 in existence

01:25:27.780 certainly didn't sound

01:25:29.200 like it

01:25:29.760 given the way

01:25:30.660 Sheldon Whitehouse

01:25:31.480 signed off

01:25:32.640 his little soliloquy

01:25:34.060 today we have

01:25:34.680 a little bit of a cut

01:25:35.480 I'm going to ask you

01:25:36.520 about him

01:25:36.840 and then I'm going to

01:25:37.240 ask you

01:25:37.660 about the Republican

01:25:39.140 Senator Cassidy

01:25:40.860 who people are

01:25:42.000 worried about

01:25:42.500 so they're hoping

01:25:43.400 for Whitehouse

01:25:44.140 to cross

01:25:44.680 and they're hoping

01:25:45.740 that Cassidy

01:25:46.780 will not

01:25:47.540 fall down

01:25:48.500 and go with

01:25:49.580 the RFKJ haters

01:25:51.500 first here's

01:25:52.780 the Democrat

01:25:53.260 from Rhode Island

01:25:54.060 Sheldon Whitehouse

01:25:55.140 Mr. Kennedy

01:25:56.520 I only have

01:25:57.380 five minutes

01:25:59.180 with you

01:25:59.700 so

01:26:00.160 and I've got

01:26:01.120 a lot of

01:26:01.640 experience

01:26:02.660 with CMS

01:26:03.300 so you're just

01:26:05.080 going to have

01:26:05.420 to listen

01:26:06.200 two things

01:26:08.080 one

01:26:09.320 if you want

01:26:10.680 to move

01:26:11.220 from

01:26:11.840 advocacy

01:26:12.880 to

01:26:14.440 public

01:26:15.100 responsibility

01:26:16.260 Americans

01:26:17.900 are going to

01:26:18.480 need to hear

01:26:19.220 a clear

01:26:20.620 and trustworthy

01:26:22.740 recantation

01:26:24.940 of what

01:26:25.660 you have

01:26:26.760 said

01:26:27.440 on

01:26:28.680 vaccinations

01:26:29.480 and

01:26:30.520 making

01:26:32.020 indisputably

01:26:32.980 clear that

01:26:33.700 you support

01:26:34.740 mandatory

01:26:36.300 vaccinations

01:26:37.580 against diseases

01:26:39.000 where that

01:26:40.160 will keep

01:26:40.860 people safe

01:26:41.940 you're in

01:26:43.260 that hole

01:26:43.860 pretty deep

01:26:44.800 we've just

01:26:46.740 had a measles

01:26:47.400 case in

01:26:47.940 Rhode Island

01:26:48.460 the first

01:26:49.440 since 2013

01:26:50.720 and frankly

01:26:52.560 you frighten

01:26:54.100 people

01:26:54.500 I've said a lot

01:26:55.680 my time is out

01:26:56.700 you're welcome

01:26:57.260 to respond

01:26:57.840 in writing

01:26:58.380 he didn't

01:27:01.500 give the chance

01:27:02.040 to say one

01:27:02.580 thing in response

01:27:03.400 but how do you

01:27:04.500 like RFKJ's

01:27:05.400 chances with

01:27:06.080 Senator Whitehouse

01:27:07.000 I'm really

01:27:09.120 not sure

01:27:09.940 I'm really down

01:27:10.460 the middle

01:27:10.800 on a lot

01:27:11.260 of this

01:27:11.480 I thought

01:27:11.760 Senator Whitehouse

01:27:12.480 was entertaining

01:27:13.160 when he was

01:27:13.560 going

01:27:13.740 granny's

01:27:14.200 in the

01:27:14.440 car

01:27:14.800 granny's

01:27:15.340 in the

01:27:15.540 kitchen

01:27:15.860 and granny's

01:27:16.540 here

01:27:16.820 I'm like

01:27:17.100 where is

01:27:17.740 granny

01:27:18.140 what's

01:27:18.500 going on

01:27:18.840 with this

01:27:19.140 so I

01:27:19.800 don't know

01:27:20.080 I'm hoping

01:27:20.520 that the

01:27:20.800 Republicans

01:27:21.180 will file

01:27:22.360 rank

01:27:22.760 and get

01:27:23.200 it together

01:27:23.840 Trump won

01:27:24.520 the landslide

01:27:25.240 won this

01:27:25.820 election

01:27:27.300 in a landslide

01:27:28.580 he won

01:27:28.900 the popular

01:27:29.340 vote

01:27:29.660 the electoral

01:27:30.180 college

01:27:30.640 the house

01:27:31.120 the senate

01:27:31.780 he should

01:27:32.220 be able

01:27:32.460 to have

01:27:32.820 the cabinet

01:27:33.380 he wants

01:27:34.620 the same way

01:27:35.120 Joe Biden

01:27:35.540 got to have

01:27:36.060 everybody

01:27:36.660 he wanted

01:27:37.220 he had

01:27:37.540 Pete Buttigieg

01:27:38.140 as secretary

01:27:39.040 of transportation

01:27:39.800 and the only

01:27:40.380 qualifications

01:27:40.920 he had

01:27:41.480 were fixing

01:27:42.120 potholes

01:27:42.680 in South Bend

01:27:43.380 Indiana

01:27:44.440 he was an

01:27:44.780 utter

01:27:45.040 calamity

01:27:45.800 so I

01:27:46.220 think if

01:27:46.520 Joe Biden

01:27:46.980 got to have

01:27:47.480 his cabinet

01:27:48.120 the Republicans

01:27:48.940 need to get

01:27:49.600 it together

01:27:50.080 for Donald

01:27:51.040 Trump

01:27:51.440 and you can

01:27:51.760 also look

01:27:52.200 at the

01:27:52.480 other health

01:27:52.980 officials

01:27:53.320 we had

01:27:53.760 the last

01:27:54.120 four years

01:27:54.640 Rachel Levine

01:27:55.560 who's pretty

01:27:56.120 much an

01:27:56.480 overweight

01:27:56.880 man in a

01:27:57.500 dress

01:27:57.740 has been

01:27:58.120 dictating

01:27:58.640 health policy

01:27:59.340 why don't

01:27:59.960 we have

01:28:00.360 someone who

01:28:00.820 actually knows

01:28:01.620 about the

01:28:02.160 chronic

01:28:02.400 disease

01:28:02.800 epidemic

01:28:03.380 in this

01:28:03.940 country

01:28:04.300 thank you

01:28:05.540 honestly

01:28:06.600 these Democrats

01:28:07.220 got behind

01:28:07.720 Rachel Levine

01:28:08.400 and celebrated

01:28:09.440 his elevation

01:28:11.280 to being the

01:28:12.020 alleged first

01:28:12.940 female

01:28:13.620 whatever the

01:28:14.800 role was

01:28:15.360 I don't have

01:28:16.100 the exact

01:28:16.500 title

01:28:16.780 it's not a

01:28:18.480 female

01:28:18.740 it's a man

01:28:19.500 it's a man

01:28:20.220 who lived his

01:28:20.540 whole life as a

01:28:21.020 man went to

01:28:21.420 med school as a

01:28:21.920 man practice as a

01:28:22.800 man raised a

01:28:23.280 family as a

01:28:23.780 man and I

01:28:24.820 think at 53

01:28:25.580 decided he was

01:28:26.560 going to start

01:28:26.880 masquerading as a

01:28:27.780 woman after a

01:28:28.740 lifetime of being

01:28:29.420 a man and

01:28:30.380 having some of the

01:28:30.980 advantages that

01:28:31.620 come with that

01:28:32.180 especially during

01:28:33.240 the time he

01:28:33.660 grew up

01:28:34.500 when it comes

01:28:35.660 to getting into

01:28:36.040 med school and

01:28:36.840 so on but then

01:28:37.720 actually wanted us

01:28:38.400 to celebrate him

01:28:39.140 as the first

01:28:39.840 female this and

01:28:40.620 the first female

01:28:41.160 that as though he

01:28:41.820 had climbed any

01:28:42.560 of the same

01:28:42.980 hills we had

01:28:43.520 fuck off sir

01:28:44.880 and take off

01:28:45.860 that ridiculous

01:28:46.480 dress that they

01:28:47.940 all loved him

01:28:48.620 Rachel Levine is

01:28:49.400 like the face of

01:28:50.180 HHS under

01:28:51.200 Joe Biden but

01:28:52.360 Robert Kennedy

01:28:53.180 he's too much

01:28:54.120 of a kook link

01:28:55.100 we can't vote for

01:28:55.960 that

01:28:56.200 absolutely the

01:28:57.980 Democrats the

01:28:58.680 last four years

01:28:59.380 under Joe Biden

01:29:00.420 had no problem

01:29:01.460 with an overweight

01:29:02.520 man in a

01:29:03.160 dress dictating

01:29:04.060 health policy

01:29:04.760 but they have

01:29:05.500 an issue with

01:29:06.100 Robert F Kennedy

01:29:06.760 Jr. who's been

01:29:07.740 on the front

01:29:08.180 lines of these

01:29:08.720 issues for years

01:29:10.500 and I wish they

01:29:11.060 would just come

01:29:11.480 clean and admit

01:29:12.100 it 90% of our

01:29:13.540 health care cost

01:29:14.200 in this country

01:29:14.780 go toward chronic

01:29:16.240 disease that is

01:29:16.960 four trillion

01:29:17.600 dollars a year

01:29:18.360 this is an

01:29:19.080 embarrassment for

01:29:19.880 the United States

01:29:20.520 the most prosperous

01:29:21.400 nation on earth

01:29:22.160 we've got the

01:29:22.860 sickest people on

01:29:23.680 earth this isn't

01:29:24.240 okay and if we've

01:29:25.240 been trying it one

01:29:26.020 way and it's been

01:29:26.660 an absolute disaster

01:29:27.900 God forbid we try

01:29:29.200 something new and

01:29:30.040 give Robert F Kennedy

01:29:30.880 Jr. a chance

01:29:32.040 okay I do want

01:29:33.880 to show you the

01:29:34.940 Republican

01:29:35.500 Senator Cassidy

01:29:37.180 who's a doctor

01:29:38.900 was very forensic

01:29:40.580 in his approach

01:29:41.480 there was no

01:29:42.080 warmth whatsoever

01:29:43.360 emanating off of

01:29:45.120 him and I was

01:29:46.460 not able to read

01:29:47.800 him

01:29:48.140 if I had to put

01:29:50.500 him down right

01:29:51.280 now as yes or no

01:29:52.180 I'd say he's

01:29:52.940 leaning no

01:29:53.700 just given how

01:29:55.260 cold he seemed

01:29:56.160 toward Bobby

01:29:57.100 but I don't know

01:29:58.400 anything about him

01:29:59.020 to be perfectly

01:29:59.560 honest so here

01:30:00.200 he is what

01:30:01.860 will you do

01:30:02.400 about dual

01:30:02.920 eligibles about

01:30:04.500 dual eligibles

01:30:06.120 well dual

01:30:07.840 eligibles are

01:30:08.680 not right now

01:30:09.900 served very well

01:30:11.240 under the system

01:30:12.140 those are people

01:30:13.980 who are eligible

01:30:15.120 for both Medicaid

01:30:16.280 and Medicare

01:30:17.400 and you know

01:30:20.940 the I suppose

01:30:23.080 my answer to that

01:30:24.060 is to make sure

01:30:24.920 that the that

01:30:27.360 the programs are

01:30:28.720 consolidated that

01:30:29.940 they're integrated

01:30:30.840 how do you propose

01:30:31.980 that we integrate

01:30:32.700 those programs

01:30:33.660 does Medicare pay

01:30:34.960 more Medicare pay

01:30:35.860 less Medicaid pay

01:30:36.900 more Medicaid pay

01:30:37.760 less how do we do

01:30:38.540 that

01:30:38.820 well the I I'm

01:30:42.380 not exactly sure

01:30:43.640 because I'm not in

01:30:44.640 there what thoughts

01:30:45.560 do you have

01:30:46.380 regarding Medicaid

01:30:47.600 reform

01:30:48.180 well Medicaid is

01:30:50.800 not working for

01:30:51.760 Americans and it's

01:30:53.080 specifically not

01:30:54.020 working

01:30:54.580 or the target

01:30:56.660 population

01:30:57.440 most Americans

01:30:58.400 like myself

01:30:59.100 I'm on Medicare

01:31:00.140 advantage

01:31:00.640 and I'm very

01:31:01.220 happy with it

01:31:02.100 most people

01:31:03.440 who are on

01:31:03.860 Medicaid are not

01:31:04.740 happy the premiums

01:31:05.740 are too high

01:31:06.380 the deductibles

01:31:07.140 are too high

01:31:08.060 so I realized

01:31:11.340 that was a very

01:31:11.740 boring clip

01:31:12.300 but I cut it

01:31:14.020 that way

01:31:14.460 so that the audience

01:31:15.180 can see what he

01:31:16.200 was doing to him

01:31:17.000 and you know

01:31:17.980 he's not actually

01:31:19.120 going to be

01:31:19.640 directly atop

01:31:20.520 of Medicare

01:31:21.340 that's going to be

01:31:22.100 Dr. Oz

01:31:22.600 if he gets

01:31:23.580 confirmed

01:31:23.920 he's going to

01:31:24.660 be running

01:31:24.920 Medicare

01:31:25.240 but they thought

01:31:26.700 it was fair game

01:31:27.260 right because

01:31:27.560 it's under NIH

01:31:28.280 right

01:31:28.760 and I think

01:31:29.800 that Senator

01:31:30.720 Cassidy was

01:31:31.400 already well aware

01:31:32.280 that Bobby Kennedy

01:31:33.160 was going to have

01:31:33.680 difficulty answering

01:31:34.460 those questions

01:31:35.080 it's not something

01:31:36.120 he's talked about

01:31:36.680 in the campaign

01:31:37.260 trail

01:31:37.620 it's not really

01:31:39.040 part of his

01:31:39.560 mission

01:31:39.880 of course

01:31:40.560 he'll have

01:31:41.680 somebody there

01:31:42.340 who can oversee

01:31:43.060 this

01:31:43.500 but the senator

01:31:44.980 knew all that

01:31:45.800 so I think

01:31:46.520 he was trying

01:31:46.960 to embarrass him

01:31:47.840 while not

01:31:49.080 looking like

01:31:49.660 a complete prick

01:31:50.540 right

01:31:51.140 looking like

01:31:51.800 he was

01:31:52.220 staying on topic

01:31:53.340 which does not

01:31:54.300 give me a lot

01:31:54.820 of hope

01:31:55.280 and I don't

01:31:56.140 think McConnell

01:31:56.660 is going to

01:31:57.000 vote for Kennedy

01:31:57.620 and I don't

01:31:58.700 have high hopes

01:31:59.320 after Hegseth

01:32:00.000 of Collins

01:32:00.660 and Murkowski

01:32:01.280 and if that

01:32:01.840 calculation is true

01:32:02.900 that's four down

01:32:04.240 which kills

01:32:05.020 the nomination

01:32:05.580 so he would

01:32:07.040 need a dem

01:32:07.940 and now we're

01:32:09.460 on shaky ground

01:32:10.580 that's my own

01:32:11.680 back of the envelope

01:32:13.000 math there Link

01:32:13.960 I don't know

01:32:14.800 what you're hearing

01:32:15.340 so I'm definitely

01:32:17.440 listening to what

01:32:18.140 you're hearing

01:32:18.500 and I'm agreeing

01:32:19.060 with you

01:32:19.380 but I want to

01:32:19.820 be careful

01:32:20.220 not to criticize

01:32:20.940 Senator Cassidy

01:32:21.780 too much

01:32:22.240 because I'm

01:32:22.540 hoping we

01:32:23.180 can win him

01:32:23.660 over in the

01:32:24.240 next few days

01:32:24.920 and if there's

01:32:25.420 one thing I know

01:32:26.020 about Bobby

01:32:26.640 he's willing

01:32:27.640 to listen

01:32:28.260 and work

01:32:29.000 with anybody

01:32:29.820 our campaign

01:32:30.660 was a cornucopia

01:32:31.800 of very different

01:32:32.940 voices

01:32:33.300 we had people

01:32:33.920 who were pro-life

01:32:34.720 pro-choice

01:32:35.540 we had these

01:32:36.080 debates openly

01:32:36.880 we talked about

01:32:37.500 what should we

01:32:37.940 do with the border

01:32:38.480 what should we

01:32:38.980 do with this

01:32:39.500 doesn't matter

01:32:40.300 if you're

01:32:40.640 you know

01:32:40.860 a lifelong person

01:32:41.820 who's been

01:32:42.140 in politics

01:32:42.760 Bobby Kennedy

01:32:43.560 will listen

01:32:44.080 to you

01:32:44.440 sit down

01:32:44.960 with you

01:32:45.300 and hear

01:32:45.640 what you have

01:32:46.080 to say

01:32:46.400 and work

01:32:46.700 with you

01:32:46.960 in good faith

01:32:47.500 so I hope

01:32:48.320 Senator Cassidy

01:32:49.780 votes yes

01:32:50.640 on Robert Kennedy

01:32:51.360 Jr.'s confirmation

01:32:52.220 because I think

01:32:53.400 he will be able

01:32:53.860 to work with him

01:32:54.720 but like you said

01:32:55.580 I think he was

01:32:56.000 trying to ask

01:32:56.500 about Medicare

01:32:57.040 and Medicaid

01:32:57.560 and all these things

01:32:58.460 but the overarching

01:32:59.620 theme of the day

01:33:00.880 for me watching

01:33:01.540 the confirmation

01:33:02.040 hearings

01:33:02.560 Megan

01:33:02.820 and you'll have

01:33:03.280 to tell me

01:33:03.660 if you agree

01:33:04.140 they've been around

01:33:05.400 in D.C.

01:33:06.420 for decades

01:33:07.060 some of these people

01:33:07.660 have been in the Senate

01:33:08.320 a very long time

01:33:10.160 so they're interrogating

01:33:11.120 Bobby Kennedy

01:33:11.660 what are you going

01:33:12.340 to do about this

01:33:12.980 what are you going

01:33:13.640 to do about that

01:33:14.280 you guys are the ones

01:33:15.320 who've been around

01:33:15.820 for decades

01:33:16.360 overseeing the

01:33:17.220 chronic disease epidemic

01:33:18.280 it's like when Trump

01:33:19.280 was debating Kamala Harris

01:33:20.780 and Kamala Harris said

01:33:21.920 when I get into office

01:33:22.980 on day one

01:33:23.780 I'm going to secure

01:33:24.500 the border

01:33:24.940 sweetheart

01:33:25.580 you've been there

01:33:26.340 four years

01:33:26.880 you went down

01:33:27.380 to the border

01:33:27.820 for 20 minutes

01:33:28.620 so shoulda coulda

01:33:29.860 woulda

01:33:30.120 I think with a lot

01:33:30.900 of these senators

01:33:31.480 you're in office

01:33:33.240 now Kamala

01:33:33.900 yeah I mean

01:33:34.600 that's the crazy thing

01:33:35.240 is we're coming off

01:33:35.940 of four years

01:33:36.840 of Democrat rule

01:33:37.820 the Democrats

01:33:38.660 had control

01:33:39.640 of HHS

01:33:40.520 and the White House

01:33:41.460 like what

01:33:42.360 I love like the long

01:33:44.080 these are the problem

01:33:44.700 by the Democrats

01:33:45.740 Sheldon Whitehouse

01:33:46.440 this whole bit

01:33:46.940 on how bad it is

01:33:47.600 for Granny

01:33:48.020 the Democrats

01:33:48.980 have been in power

01:33:49.660 why didn't anything happen

01:33:50.640 but now he's disgusted

01:33:52.240 at like nobody works

01:33:53.140 with me

01:33:53.420 it's like well

01:33:53.880 you know what

01:33:54.320 this is a lifelong friend

01:33:55.300 if you would treat him nicely

01:33:56.520 maybe he would work with you

01:33:57.960 even if you don't treat him nicely

01:33:59.000 he's probably going to work with you

01:33:59.920 here was RFKJ

01:34:01.480 kind of speaking

01:34:03.000 to the point of

01:34:03.840 he's been a Democrat

01:34:05.780 his entire life

01:34:07.840 but there's a fair amount

01:34:09.620 of TDS

01:34:10.420 obviously in politics

01:34:12.020 and certainly in that

01:34:13.000 hearing room today

01:34:13.880 that was coloring

01:34:14.920 the way people

01:34:15.480 were coming for him

01:34:16.320 it's SOT19

01:34:17.260 and all these Democrats

01:34:19.140 are opposed to me

01:34:20.080 for partisan issues

01:34:21.120 they used to be my friends

01:34:22.500 agreed with me

01:34:24.080 on all the environmental issues

01:34:25.540 I've been working on

01:34:26.500 for my whole career

01:34:27.360 now they're against me

01:34:29.520 because anything

01:34:30.400 that President Trump does

01:34:31.880 any decision he makes

01:34:33.240 has to be

01:34:35.220 lampooned

01:34:37.940 derided

01:34:38.660 discredited

01:34:40.280 marginalized

01:34:41.300 vilified

01:34:42.260 it was a great

01:34:45.120 it was a great answer

01:34:46.140 and my favorite part though

01:34:47.840 Link

01:34:48.000 after the onesie

01:34:48.920 make onesies great again

01:34:50.160 that was my favorite part

01:34:51.420 of the whole hearing

01:34:51.860 when Bernie's like

01:34:52.460 do you favor this onesie

01:34:54.120 will you promise

01:34:55.020 to get this onesie

01:34:55.760 like

01:34:55.980 who cares

01:34:57.640 Senator

01:34:58.260 I think he was just mad

01:34:59.520 they didn't make them

01:35:00.120 in adult sizes

01:35:00.940 I think Bernie wanted them

01:35:02.140 and they just didn't come

01:35:02.800 in adult sizes

01:35:03.600 that was the problem

01:35:04.740 but this moment

01:35:08.600 was my absolute favorite

01:35:09.580 one of the day

01:35:10.220 sat five

01:35:11.140 I don't want to take

01:35:12.900 food away from anybody

01:35:14.740 if you like

01:35:15.840 a cheeseburger

01:35:17.020 a McDonald's cheeseburger

01:35:18.320 or a Diet Coke

01:35:19.240 which my boss

01:35:20.300 loves

01:35:21.080 and I

01:35:23.000 you should be able

01:35:24.000 to get them

01:35:24.580 if you want to eat

01:35:25.860 Hostess Twinkies

01:35:27.040 you should be able

01:35:27.760 to do that

01:35:28.280 but you should know

01:35:29.380 what the impacts are

01:35:30.760 on your family

01:35:31.900 and on your health

01:35:32.760 perfect

01:35:34.980 pitch perfect

01:35:35.720 both in its messaging

01:35:36.760 and his humor

01:35:37.960 and the call out to Trump

01:35:39.140 absolutely

01:35:41.080 and if there's one thing

01:35:41.920 I know about Bobby

01:35:42.740 he doesn't want to take

01:35:44.160 anything away from people

01:35:45.380 he said

01:35:45.840 I'm not going to

01:35:46.820 take away vaccines

01:35:48.120 I think some of the senators

01:35:49.160 overlooked that conveniently

01:35:50.560 when they were

01:35:51.120 interrogating him today

01:35:52.160 he said he doesn't want

01:35:53.140 to take away vaccines

01:35:54.140 he respects the Dobbs decision

01:35:55.880 he's a lifelong attorney

01:35:57.080 he respects the Supreme Court

01:35:58.480 he has said

01:35:59.080 he has no intention

01:35:59.920 of doing anything

01:36:00.760 to reverse Dobbs

01:36:01.780 to undermine Trump

01:36:02.720 views on abortion

01:36:03.640 over the next four years

01:36:04.940 at HHS

01:36:05.600 but they just want

01:36:06.420 to overlook these things

01:36:07.400 to have some political theater

01:36:08.620 to have a moment

01:36:09.720 I thought one of the best

01:36:10.980 comments he made

01:36:11.700 was how there aren't

01:36:12.540 any Republican

01:36:13.360 or Democrat children

01:36:14.760 in this country

01:36:15.460 there are American children

01:36:17.260 who are sicker

01:36:18.320 than ever before

01:36:19.540 it's an embarrassment

01:36:20.460 that more kids than ever

01:36:21.500 have asthma

01:36:22.200 childhood diabetes

01:36:23.420 and all these other issues

01:36:24.580 and nobody the last four years

01:36:26.100 under Biden

01:36:26.680 has wanted to discuss that

01:36:28.460 and I understand

01:36:29.260 there are a lot of

01:36:29.820 perverse incentives

01:36:30.800 in Washington D.C.

01:36:31.740 a lot of lobbying

01:36:32.460 the pharmaceutical lobby

01:36:33.580 is very strong

01:36:34.460 especially with some

01:36:35.500 of the senators

01:36:35.980 who are up there today

01:36:36.920 but it's time to make

01:36:38.040 America healthy again

01:36:39.020 otherwise I don't know

01:36:40.020 what happens to us

01:36:40.760 if we continue down

01:36:41.560 this path for more years

01:36:42.780 yeah he was talking about

01:36:44.460 how the people in Japan

01:36:45.560 still have a 3% obesity rate

01:36:48.020 they haven't gone up

01:36:49.680 exponentially

01:36:50.200 like we have in the United States

01:36:51.420 with all of our processed food

01:36:52.840 and the way we eat

01:36:53.580 and Kennedy's been talking

01:36:55.040 a long time

01:36:55.580 about the rise in autism

01:36:58.340 the rise in ticks

01:36:59.720 the rise in allergies

01:37:01.160 why are we seeing it

01:37:02.560 and his theory is

01:37:04.400 it's because we are swimming

01:37:06.040 in a sea of toxins

01:37:07.480 every day

01:37:08.200 in our food supply

01:37:08.940 in our water supply

01:37:09.840 in the air we breathe

01:37:11.480 in the furniture

01:37:12.360 we sit on

01:37:13.060 everywhere

01:37:13.600 and it's time

01:37:14.820 we get really honest

01:37:15.740 about what those things are

01:37:17.280 and whether we can

01:37:18.280 eliminate them

01:37:19.040 from our daily diet

01:37:20.360 and I use the term diet

01:37:21.360 to encompass all of that

01:37:22.440 not just the food

01:37:23.220 that we take in

01:37:24.040 it would be so

01:37:25.420 encouraging

01:37:28.560 uplifting

01:37:30.700 I don't give me something

01:37:31.760 to feel good about

01:37:32.880 in all of us

01:37:33.740 to have somebody

01:37:34.800 at the top of HHS

01:37:35.760 who's even thinking

01:37:36.880 about that stuff

01:37:38.160 Link

01:37:38.460 you know who's just

01:37:39.060 who's identified

01:37:40.640 that stuff as a problem

01:37:41.920 and instead of just

01:37:43.020 shoulder shrugging

01:37:44.440 because it's going to upset

01:37:45.340 big pharma

01:37:46.020 or big ag

01:37:47.160 or what

01:37:47.500 is actually

01:37:50.020 going to try

01:37:51.440 to do something

01:37:52.420 about it

01:37:53.140 I'll give you

01:37:53.560 the last word

01:37:54.100 yeah like I said

01:37:55.840 God forbid

01:37:56.440 we try something

01:37:57.280 different the next few years

01:37:58.400 to see if we can

01:37:59.120 make Americans

01:37:59.780 just a little

01:38:00.800 bit healthier

01:38:02.140 like I said

01:38:02.880 I've seen Bobby Kennedy

01:38:03.860 first hand

01:38:04.520 get up every single day

01:38:05.640 and be that warrior

01:38:06.520 on the front lines

01:38:07.580 of the chronic disease

01:38:08.420 epidemic

01:38:08.800 he's really been

01:38:09.580 the canary

01:38:10.080 in the coal mine

01:38:10.760 he can't be blackmailed

01:38:12.100 he can't be bought off

01:38:13.200 he's certainly

01:38:13.840 not doing this

01:38:14.480 to enrich himself

01:38:15.260 in any way

01:38:15.920 shape or form

01:38:16.540 this is a sacrifice

01:38:17.360 he's making

01:38:18.340 for the American people

01:38:19.300 because he gets up

01:38:20.420 every day

01:38:20.820 and he really does pray

01:38:21.740 what can I do

01:38:22.820 to make Americans

01:38:23.840 healthier

01:38:24.380 wow

01:38:25.880 all right

01:38:26.520 well we'll continue

01:38:27.100 to follow it

01:38:27.640 and we should know

01:38:28.300 more over the coming

01:38:29.160 days about

01:38:29.780 how the votes

01:38:30.680 on that committee

01:38:31.300 are settling

01:38:32.600 and don't forget

01:38:33.880 Link thank you

01:38:34.600 tomorrow

01:38:35.240 our exclusive

01:38:36.300 interview

01:38:36.880 with Secretary

01:38:37.960 of State

01:38:38.460 Marco Rubio

01:38:39.520 this is his

01:38:40.460 very first

01:38:41.560 long form interview

01:38:42.620 since becoming

01:38:43.420 Secretary of State

01:38:44.840 it's days before

01:38:46.220 he jets off

01:38:47.000 for his first

01:38:47.900 foreign trip

01:38:48.420 to Panama

01:38:49.400 that's interesting

01:38:50.820 right

01:38:51.140 given what

01:38:51.600 Trump has been

01:38:52.120 saying

01:38:52.500 we're going to

01:38:53.440 ask him

01:38:54.020 about Trump's

01:38:55.060 standoff

01:38:56.020 with Colombia

01:38:56.980 in which Colombia

01:38:57.800 caved in about

01:38:58.700 40 minutes

01:38:59.620 we'll ask him

01:39:01.020 about what's next

01:39:02.260 in the Middle East

01:39:02.880 what's next in Ukraine

01:39:03.980 I mean

01:39:04.460 talk about

01:39:05.420 having a lot

01:39:06.100 on your plate

01:39:06.640 under Trump

01:39:07.640 the Secretary of State

01:39:08.500 has a lot to do

01:39:09.760 and it's going to be

01:39:10.920 a very

01:39:11.900 it's going to take

01:39:12.700 a lot of

01:39:13.120 political acumen

01:39:14.680 to thread the needle

01:39:15.720 on some of these issues

01:39:16.780 both here internally

01:39:18.100 within the United States

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The Megyn Kelly Show - January 29, 2025

RFK Jr. Spars with Dem Senators Trying to Smear Him at Confirmation Hearing, with Michael Knowles and Link Lauren ｜ Ep. 994

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