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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I was suing the Navy for bombing the island of Vieques…”

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 1:36:02

In Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico? Yeah. You were in a federal US Federal prison in Puerto Rico. Was it better or worse than the Ailes thing? Why? What'd you do? I was suing the Navy for bombing the island of Vieques, which had caused all kinds of environmental problems. I know that story. Human health problems. Yes. And I got a crooked judge who, you know, the federal Court of Appeals gave me the injunction, declared he had to give me the injunction, and he would not enjoy the enjoyment. (1:36:02–1:36:10)

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Asserts that the Navy's bombing of Vieques caused environmental problems.

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