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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Government agencies [are] transformed into sock puppets for…”

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

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 23:34

So it was the same issue that, you know, it's an issue of corporate capture. It's an issue of government agencies being subverted and democracy being subverted and Government agencies [are] transformed into sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate. So you're talking about the FDA? Oh, yeah. Before that, it was the EPA that I was. (23:34–23:48)

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Asserts that government agencies are influenced by the industries they regulate.

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