Well, a reporter, we know her closely reporter
Tara Rosenbloom from our sister station News 12. She
got a chance to sit down with Robert F.
Kennedy Junior who announced his campaign for the 2024 democratic
presidential nomination in April. Take a look. That's
right. Robert F. Kennedy Jr in town for
just one day. And he invited us here to
lower Manhattan to essentially pick his brain for a full
hour on all things, politics and personal. So
we went on to ask him about everything from COVID-19
, the war in Ukraine to even his late uncle
and father, the late US senator from here in
New York. Robert F. Kennedy who was so
tragically assassinated 55 years ago in this exact spot in
his life for the White House on the Democratic line
. Now, while Kennedy himself in recent years has
stirred up controversy for his views on things like vaccine
efficacy. All recent polling suggests that his voice is
simply not one that can be ignored. Today.
Here in lower Manhattan, the environmental attorney portraying himself
as a truth teller who is intent on ending the
dysfunction and divide crippling our nation. If you do
polls both with Democrats and Republicans. Around 75% 80%
of Americans think we're moving in a bad direction.
You have become the poster child for the anti vac
sentiments that are out there. What would you have
done differently if you were the president when the pandemic
began? I would have, first of all,
I would have never locked down our country. All
of the pandemic protocol, pandemic prepared medicine response protocols
, I W H O by CDC, by um
the European Medical Agency, by the National Health System
. Uh the Services in the UK, all of
them said you never locked down a society. You
, you quarantine the sick, you protect the vulnerable
but you keep the society going. So if you
are elected president, would you relax the educational requirements
for the most rudimentary vaccines like measles, polio,
smallpox? What I would do is to immediately do
controlled trials. First of all, nobody take smallpox
vaccines um anymore. And you know, any smallpox
no longer exists except in our bio weapons labs.
And I would get rid of those cultures. You
would not have mandatory vaccines. I would, I
think parents need to have a choice. Our thanks
to for that exclusive interview.