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robert f. kennedy jr. he is running for president and there are other people that have said they want to deep platform him and not listen. i believe in freedom and freedom of speech and the freedom of the american people to hear things they may disagree with and determine for themselves whether they agree or don't agree. that is going to be up to you, the audience. like others in the media mob, make no mistake they are furious with rfk jr. they loathe his stance on medical freedom and privacy. they are angry he does not toe the party line and donald trump, they can't stand robert kennedy jr. is a freethinker

with classic liberal principles. today's democratic party is about compliance, about groupthink. stepping out of line can be unacceptable for many, especially for a kennedy. many democrats have circled the wagons around an 80-year-old cognitively impaired morally bankrupt career politician who has been credibly accused of plagiarism, bribery, public corruption from an outsider perspective, even the democratic party can do better. my next guest agrees and that is why he is challenging joe biden for the nomination. let's give a warm welcome, robert f. kennedy jr. [cheers and applause]

grab a seat. how are you? they are all here to see me. i'm kidding. you have a lot of fans here. my first question, maybe we will learn something. you are in challenging a sitting u.s. president in your party. you have to have good reason to do so. >> thank you for having me. i saw a poll yesterday afternoon that set in 1985, 85% of americans were proud to be american. 85% between 18 and 30.

a poll taken last week of people say that only 42% are proud to be american. i want my children to grow up as proud of this country as i was and i grew up in a time when we believed with good reason this country was the greatest country in history and that we were the moral authority. there was plenty of evidence for that. the world wanted our leadership. people all over the world looked to the united states of america for leadership. when my uncle was president, he lived up to that role and there is now more statues to him on our boulevards named after him than any other president.

it is because he didn't focus on shooting people. he never sent a combat soldier abroad ted died. he sent 16,000 military advisors to vietnam and then ordered them home. he created it for progress. in this country, and it was the of democracy.

a new yorker editor, who interviewed me a couple weeks ago said what qualifies you to be president. you have never been in congress, never been governor, never been in the senate. for me, that is the best qualification. [applause] i am not saying anything bad about people. most people in public office are there because they want to be good citizens, good public servants. but the system tends to corrupt you. you have to spend most of your time chatting between southampton and palm beach and los angeles and hang out with millionaires who are going to give you money. my job over the past four years has been suing government

agencies for corruption. [applause] representing people 10,000 families who were poisoned by zinc. 1,000 families i am repre representing. 10,000 families i represented on the dupont case, the 40,000 people i represented in monsanto, fishermen who i have represented my whole life and i see how people live and i see the disintegration of the american experience. i have seen the social and

economic deprivation that exists in this country that is like what i saw and latin america. 35% of people in this country do not make enough money to pay for basic human needs for transportation, housing, and food. they have to make choices every day. they have to listen to the baby crying and have to wonder if that baby is 30, 40, $200 sick before they bring them to a hospital. they have to choose between heat and food. medicine and food. my wife grew up very poor. she got a break by getting a job from larry david. she was living in poverty. >> sean: she is great on that

show. >> she said to me, the whole time i was living paycheck to paycheck. >> sean: so was i. i can identify with that. it is not fun. >> we were talking about depression and mental illness and suicide rates have risen dramatically in this country and she said being poor makes you depressed. you are scared all the time and you think there is something wrong with you. this is not the america. >> sean: you are saying we can do better and i agree with you. we have over 60% of this country living paycheck to paycheck. people are cashing in their pensions to get bare necessities or they are putting stuff on credit cards. i would argue that as part of

the biden economy and the only difference we might separate here is whether or not you think it ought to be a government program. i think it is free-market economies that inspire entrepreneurs and you have the freedom and the ability to bring goods and services to market versus the government giving you your bare necessities. >> nobody wants that. nobody wants to live on the government dollar. we don't have free-market capitalism. we have a system of cushy socialism for the super rich, this brutal, savage, merciless

savage to the poor. the cove and lockdowns were the final straw. we created a billionaire a day and this was trump and biden, 500 days of lot balance. we created a billionaire a day. we mowed four from the middle class to the super rich. the people who came into the lock down with $1 billion increased their wealth on average by 30%. we closed 3.3 million businesses. >> sean: for a period of time in the early days, nobody knew what they were dealing with. >> i am not going to be fair. >> sean: in the early days, i am talking about january 20th, 2020. those early days.

when we got to a point, this is where you and i will find agreement. everybody in this country, in this room, were told things that turned out to be absolutely false. these are smart people. viruses mutate. then it mutated into the delta variant and then they took away therapies that were experimental but they were telling people, they had one broad sweeping general health policy, take the shot, the boosters and meanwhile, they never considered natural immunity. if you brought it up, you were beaten up.

i am not a doctor. i am not qualified, so i didn't tell them what to do. i said talk to your doctor and make an informed decision. you think the whole thing was that bad? >> we have had the w.h.o., cdc, the dhs and all the agencies have thought about pandemics for 100 years and they have worked carefully on pandemic preparedness protocols and all of them said you never lock down a population. what they were doing violated all of the orthodoxies. the greatest expert on how to handle pandemics was a scientist called d.a. henderson, credited with obliterating the smallpox.

it disappeared from the world. he is the guy that is credited with doing it. when the public health agencies started saying we are going to do mass lockdowns, he came out of retirement and said you never do that. you are always going to cause -- you cannot stop a respiratory virus with lockdowns. you are going to amplify it. >> sean: there were states that did not lock down. >> there were states that locked down less. >> sean: south dakota never shut down. >> all the orthodox protocols,

is that you? you protect the vulnerable. you let the population continue. when you shut down businesses, that kills people. unemployment kills people. >> sean: what you are saying is very true. people are calling and saying i cannot afford to keep my doors open anymore. >> i was in cleveland. it used to be a booming neighborhood. all these -- the last surviving

ones in that district. they are shutting down because of the hike and interest rates. all the money we had to print to pay for the lockdowns. >> sean: i really want to get to the meat -- i am not trying to interrupt you. i want to know this, in retrospect, what would you have done differently and when? when would you have allowed the experimental vaccine to be produced? would only be for older people? would you have mask mandates or school shutdowns and if you took those policies on, do you not run the risk of a virus we didn't know a lot about early on, what would you have done differently?

>> they use the internet in many ways. we should have use the internet, we have this extraordinary resource, to link ourselves to the 15 million frontline positions around the world and have them report what treatments were they using, what was working? there were dozens of therapeutic drugs that obliterated -- >> sean: are you talking about live from acton? >> many others. i think i have seen a list. 20 different drugs that were

effective. the problem is not only did they not focus on those, they tried to prevent the public from getting access to them and the reason was because there is a little-known federal law that says you cannot give an emergency use authorization to a vaccine. if an existing therapeutic drug that has been approved for any purpose proves to be effective against the target disease. if they had admitted that a drug worked against covid -- >> sean: a hospital came out and said taken early, it mitigated symptoms. there were other studies that followed. i never saw one on eye from acton that showed it was effective, but there was one

that was experimental. >> you don't know about those studies because the press is not reporting them. look at one of the doctors who is an expert in bioterrorism and they have lists of 99 studies that show ivermectin is about 85% effective against serious disease and death, and 400 studies show the same about another. >> sean: i have to take a break. live shows, audience shows, tomorrow, thursday night in new york city. go to hannity.com. go to hannity.com. tickets are free. we will continue straight ahead. you should get a second opinion

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[applause] >> sean: we have thousands in here. thank you for coming. welcome back to hannity. we continue with robert kennedy jr. i want to go back.

this drives me nuts. i have been making the case our current president, i don't think he knows today is tuesday. he could not sit with me as you are and have this conversation. i think he is physical week and cognitively a mess and nobody wants to say it except the few of us. i want you to look at this tape and tell me if you think he is fit for the job. >> we cheer for muslim athletes -- >> a ban on transgender americans. >> thank you. don't go anywhere. it is an exciting day. we will have a reaction. >> i have been alone with him aanend interpret a 68 times, 68

hours, 68 times, 68 hours. >> god save the queen. >> thank you. we appreciate it. >> i might add if i didn't, i would be sleeping alone. my wife is a silly girl. we have plans to build a railroad. >> do you believe he is us physically, mentally, cognitively strong enough to

lead our country? robert kennedy jr., you know this is a dangerous place. is he cognitively strong enough to be your president? >> he has never been very good with words. >> sean: you get an a+ for that answer. is he up to the job? how many of you think he is not up to the job? [applause] i know that there is a reluctance for politicians, you are a democratic party guy. we can dominate you devoted your life to the things you believe in. do you really think he is up to the job? >> one of things i have tried to

do during this campaign is avoid personal attacks on people. whether he is up to it or not, making his own decisions, the decisions coming out of the white house are bad. the democratic party does not censor people in my experience. we are not the party of war, dictating foreign policy. we are the party of the middle class and working people. that is not where the party is. >> here would be my agenda. i want to secure our borders. every american has the right to be safe and secure in their town and city. we have to have law and order. i want an economy that is thriving, and opportunity economy where everybody can

climb that ladder to success. i want a military that would serve as a deterrent to any hostile regime that might have ill intentions to us. i believe in peace and strength with all my heart. i believe in school choice. >> we agree on all of those things. >> sean: i don't like the fact america is bearing the brunt and burden of financing most of the war against putin and ukraine. why don't they step up and defend their own continent before they ask for u.s. involvement and why would joe biden veto pole and giving zelenskyy fighter jets to fight to win the war after they were invaded? >> the disturbing thing is on

two occasions, the russians tried to sign a peace agreement. >> sean: do you trust putin? >> no. i have litigated over 500 lawsuits. all of them end up with -- many end up with settlements. you never trust the guy on the other side. >> to a piece putin, have given up crimea and now they have to give up the other area. in 2019, france, germany, and russia agreed to the minsk accords.

that year, zelenskyy ran for president. he was a comedian. why did he win? because he ran on one issue, signing the minsk accords. as soon as he got in there, they told him he couldn't do it. put in since 40,000 troops in. that is not enough to conquer the country. he wanted us to come to the negotiating table. zelenskyy came to the negotiating table, signed an agreement in 2022 and that would have allowed -- to stay and remain as part of ukraine. putin, in good faith began with -- from the ukraine. we set boris johnson over there to torpedo it. we don't want peace.

we want war with russia. >> why are you blaming america's role in this -- putin is an evil, murdering, dictator thug. when he leaves this earth, nobody is going to miss him. europe has a responsibility to protect their continent and it falls on the united states. joe biden has committed all of these dollars that we can't afford and he is not fighting a war to win the war. if you are going to fight a war, you go in with overwhelming force, you beat them and get out. that is it. only if it is provoked. gluten did not need to invade a sovereign country. america's role should be dictated by europe. they haven't stepped up in my view.

>> it is clear what happened. from the beginning, we promised, gorbachev said when the soviet union, he was getting ready to dismantle it and he said we are going to withdraw 400,000 troops from east germany and we are going to allow you to reunite germany under nato. one commitment we want is what the russians said. you will not move nato to the east. james baker, secretary of state under bush, promised we will not move nato 1 inch to the east. since then, we have moved at 1,000 miles in 14 countries. when we started that plan in 1997, bill perry said to the

clinton administration, if you move nato to the east, i am resigning. george was the most important diplomat of american history. he said the same thing. you don't need to make an enemy out of russia. russia should be treated, we won the cold war. >> china has been showing nothing but hostility. unfair trade practices, they have been confronting navy ships and international waterways. they had those spy drones fly around the country. they threatened to shoot hypersonic missiles at the u.s. if you were president, would you come to the defense of taiwan? >> no presidential candidate

with any prudence would answer that question. [applause] our policy towards taiwan is strategic ambiguity and that makes sense. that has been our policy. >> do you see china as our top geopolitical foe? >> yes. that is another reason the war in ukraine is insane. we have pulled china into -- >> sean: donald trump said he could resolve the issue. >> russia is not going to lose this war. it would be like us losing a war to mexico. they are not going to lose the

war. look at russia did in stalingrad to preserve its territory. russia has been invaded three times with the ukraine. the last time hitler killed one out of every seven russians. they are 400 miles from moscow. we have missile systems within 12 minutes of moscow. >> sean: i want to talk about your background growing up, your uncle as president, what happened to him, your dad and what you think about how those things happen. we are with robert kennedy jr. [ applause ] >> the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day a confident day...

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[applause] >> sean: back in new york city, our exclusive town hall with robert f

robert f. kennedy jr., who shot democratics with strong poll numbers. i know you have addressed it. i don't want to belabor it but i want to bring it up. there is ambiguity on it. this was the comment on tape, there is a tape of it. there is an argument that covid was ethnically targeting certain races disproportionately, for example, caucasian and black people and the people most immune are ashkenazi and chinese and you said at another point, that is not what you were sa saying. was it just misunderstood. i don't like people who race to say someone is anti-semitic or racist. >> i was describing an nih. it is not surprising a disease

would have a disproportionate impact on certain races. i was describing a study funded by nih that was performed by half a dozen scientists from cleveland clinic and that study showed the docking site for the -- of the covid virus was particularly compatible with certain races. chiefly with people of african dissent. least of all, people from finland. people and certain germanic races. chinese were less susceptible

than ashkenazi. it was designed to preserve certain races. i was not suggesting that. >> i look at your life, your uncle is the president of the united states. we know so much about the presidency of your uncle. your father, the attorney general at the time, and then your father makes a run for president and he was assassinated. you have suggested you believe it was a conspiracy within our government, intelligence agencies, you mention the cia, and that you believe yourself today because of your last name, that your life could be in

jeopardy. why do you believe they were involved in the assassination of your dad and your uncle and may be that you may be a target? >> for anybody that runs for president, so, i think i have taken worse risk in my life than running for president. >> sean: it has to be hard. you lost your uncle and your father. why do you think our government could be involved? >> the commission run by dulles, who my uncle fired, found it was a lone shooter, lee harvey oswald, when a congressional

committee re-investigated, they concluded, and they saw more documentation and had more witnesses. they concluded my uncle was killed by a conspiracy. most of the people, richard spicer, who is head of the committee, publicly said, jfk, the president of the united states, the cia was involved in the murder of the president of the united states. most of the people on the committee believed it was the cia. >> you have seven at the time? >> i was 14 when my father was killed. today, there is overwhelming evidence. >> sean: let's be transparent.

let's see the files on it. >> there is a law that requires all the records of john kennedy's assassination be released to the public ten years ago. they are still holding 5,000 documents. biden promised he was going to release those documents. trump promised he would. the cia doesn't want them to. the question americans have a right to ask is, why not? what don't you want to see 60 years later? the last bit of documents released had documentation that finally got even "the new york times" to admit

that lee harvey oswald was a cia asset and he was working for the cia. if the warren commission had known that back in 1964, they would have had a different time. that was released. we have known that, had documentation at least a decade. some of that documentation became overwhelming. finally the mainstream media acknowledged she had this relationship with the cia going back to 1958. >> we have a minute left. talking to the american people, why should they vote for you for president? in a final statement. >> most americans are at each

other's throats. we have the worst polarization we have ever had. >> the 60s were a little cr crazy. there was a lot of division at that time. it is hard to say how this is going to end well. what i have said as i want to end that polarization and i want to do that by telling the truth. [applause] the way that we are going to do that, it is to tell the truth. we need a president willing to tell the truth about everything. people in this country know the system is rigged and they know they are being lied to. >> sean: look at the way hillary clinton classified information, no prosecutor would

ever prosecute. you have four locations, they didn't raid his home. donald trump, they raid mar-a-lago and then the question is, the 2020 election, the fbi had hunters laptop in december 2019. they verified authenticity in march 2020. why was the meeting with the big tech companies and telling them they may be victims of men misinformation campaigns and they knew they already authenticated it and what is interesting is the head of integrity at the time testified that they said it might be about hunter and none of these big tech companies allowed anybody to read the laptop story in the weeks leading to that election. to me, that is our government,

through the fbi, putting cinder blocks on the scale of an election. is that something you would stop and do you agree with me? >> i am going to issue an executive order when i get into the white house, forbidding the weaponization of our agencies for political purposes. [cheers and applause] >> sean: it is worse than it has ever been. one party will be in power and they will do it to the other party and it goes back and forth. >> of course. the judge's decision, it occurs on many pages, because i was the first person censored by the biden white house. president biden took the oath of office january 21st, 2021 and

they ordered me to be censored 24 hours later. three weeks after that, my instagram account, my major way of talking to the public was d platform and disappeared. >> sean: you had a great line. i am at a censorship hearing and you are censoring me. i thought that was pretty funny. please stay with us.

subpoena that is all the time we have left this evening robert f kennedy junior. thank you so much for doing this. if you want to participate in this nice town hall we have been studio shows tomorrow and thursday night shup at

hannity.com set your dvr so you never miss an episode of hannity. let not your heart be troubled gutfeld standing by to put a smile on your face and take you to bed. good night. [applause] 's >> we are still feeling the profound loss of the pandemic 100 people dead. >> it was over 100 mr. president. [applause] >> happy tuesday everybody