Kennedy, whom President Donald Trump nominated for secretary of Well being and Human Companies, has frequently spoken out towards vaccines. However he spent a part of Wednesday’s hearings denying that he was an anti-vaxxer and at one level insisted that his personal youngsters have been vaccinated.
“What are you going to consider, his well-documented decades-long report, or the factor he stated right now when he was attempting to get a job?” Kosta requested. “In addition to, all of his youngsters are vaccinated. He undoubtedly doesn’t remorse that, proper? Proper? Proper?”
Kosta rolled footage of Kennedy in 2020 saying that, if he may return in time, he would cease his youngsters from getting vaccinated.
“I’d do something for that,” Kennedy stated. “I’d pay something to have the ability to try this.”
“That’s the worst reply to what you’d do with a time machine that I’ve ever heard,” Kosta stated, including in disbelief: “You possibly can’t consider anybody else in your loved ones that you’d return in time and attempt to stop a shot from taking place, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Nobody else?”
Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated whereas campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. His uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963.
See extra within the Wednesday night time “Day by day Present” monologue: