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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Americans are optimistic about their future.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22

Published January 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 45:57

People love America. And, you know, I think we've restored our leadership around the globe and Americans are optimistic about their future. And I am optimistic too, because a lot of the things that President Trump has done, the tariffs and, you know, reshoring, all these industries, huge commitments of trillions of … (45:57–46:00)

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“Kids today get 80 vaccines. 80 doses of about 80, 18 vaccines.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 05:09-05:16
“In 1980 it was 23 doses of seven vaccines.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 05:17-05:22
“Vaccines are the only medical device or medical intervention that is exempted or pharmaceutical product that's exempted from pre licensing…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 05:42-05:52
“None of the vaccines on the schedule, with the exception of the COVID vaccine, none of them had ever been safety tested in a placebo…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 05:51-06:03
“The conclusion was that fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries were ever reported.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 07:40-07:46
“The death rate from rotavirus prior to the introduction of the vaccine was about three kids a year.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 12:25-12:31
“The rate of death in children from hepatitis B was about 1 in 7 million.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 14:31-14:40
“You have to give 70,000 hepatitis B vaccines to avert one case of chronic disease.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 14:47-14:55
“The GSK version was tested for four days, Safety tested, that's all.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 15:30-15:36
“In the 1980s, I was peripherally involved in the tobacco cases. And during that period, the tobacco companies, the cigarette companies, were…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 24:09-24:44
“I think 38% of our teens are diabetic or pre diabetic. And, you know, also 77% of American kids can no longer qualify for military service.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 25:46-26:00
“The food pyramid was hijacked by the food industry.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 03:01-03:07
“The American Heart Association takes hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars from the processed food industry.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 04:00-04:07
“Coca Cola and Pepsi are two of [the American Heart Association's] biggest owners.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 04:47-04:50
“The surveillance systems for injuries are completely broken.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 06:25-06:32
“The VAERS system, Vaccine Adverse Prevention Event Reporting System... is broken. It was designed to fail.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 06:33-06:45
“I know [vaccine injuries are] grossly unreported.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 06:59-07:01
“The CDC actually did a study of that question in 2010. The lead author on the study was Lazarus.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 07:00-07:10
“The National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, has said that any study that's based upon VAERS is automatically deficient.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 07:48-08:02
“The only system that CDC really has for reporting vaccine injury is broken.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 08:02-08:11
“Their other system, which is called the vaccine safety data link, is also designed to fail.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 08:10-08:18
“That system has been designed so that independent scientists can never look at it.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 08:44-08:51
“We have no idea really what the risk profile is for these products.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 08:57-09:02
“Since the introduction of the vaccine, the data showed that it's dropped to two deaths a year.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 12:31-12:40
“The first rotavirus vaccine that they approved caused intussusception at such high rates, it was clearly much worse than the disease.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 13:18-13:29
“The European countries don't require [the rotavirus vaccine].”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 13:40-13:43
“Hepatitis B is transmitted through sexual activity, unprotected sex, and through intravenous drug use, through sharing needles.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 13:56-14:06
“The rate of chronic disease in children is probably around 60 or 71 in 60 or 70,000.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 14:40-14:46
“There's two hepatitis B vaccines allowed in this country, one by GSK, the other by Merck.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 15:23-15:30
“The study group, I think, for that vaccine was 343 kids.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 15:48-15:53
“In Japan, they break [the MMR vaccine] up and they give three different vaccines.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 16:21-16:25
“We consulted with medical professionals across all the agencies, including not only political appointees at CDC, but career vaccine safety…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 18:57-19:09
“Sugar was not available prior to the industrial age.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 20:37-20:42
“We've gone to eating pounds of sugar, you know, 10, 20, 30 pounds of sugar each American a year.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 20:45-20:52
“A processed sugar. There is no precedent for that in our evolutionary history. It destroys them. It's apple. It destroys our metabolic…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 21:17-21:31
“The biggest roadblock is the power of vested interests of the pharmaceutical cartel and of the, you know, big food and an economic system…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 23:40-24:04
“Because of President Trump, we were able to recruit, you know, billionaires from Silicon Valley who walked away from growing businesses and…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 26:22-26:40
“Our department is going to lead all the other departments in implementing AI.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 26:44-26:50
“We're going to lead all the other departments on revolutionizing the Freedom of Information law so that you can go on and it's going to be…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 27:00-27:10
“I believe that glyphosate causes cancer.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 28:25-28:31
“There's no scientific evidence that masks prevent the transmission of, or inhibit at all the transmission of respiratory illnesses.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 28:36-28:48
“I don't think the COVID vaccine prevented transmission.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 28:49-28:54
“I don't think social distancing worked.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 28:58-29:01
“We just adopted transparency 2.0, where we're going to require every hospital and every physician in this country to provide their…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 29:29-29:52
“Profits have been skyrocketing. And at the same time, by hiding the prices from Americans, how does that.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 30:29-30:39
“I suspect that [high fructose corn syrup is] doing a lot of damage.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 38:33-38:37
“The entire country has changed in the last year and there's a feeling of optimism.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 45:37-45:44
“People respect our country again. People love America.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 45:45-45:51
“I think we've restored our leadership around the globe.”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 45:52-45:56
“A lot of the things that President Trump has done, the tariffs and, you know, reshoring, all these industries, huge commitments of trillions…”
RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22 | Uploaded January 13, 2026 | 46:01-46:20