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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “They all have to be out within two years.”

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

Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary

Published April 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:53

And we have not yet found a vegetable diet that we can match, but we're going to do it. And They all have to be out within two years. Within two years. You said it's going to take a while. What's a while? Well, I think we can go much faster than that. (01:53–01:56)

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Asserts that food dyes will be removed from products within two years.

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“Food dyes are kind of the most egregious because they don't use them in any other country.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 00:52-00:58
“That's why we have 10,000 ingredients in our food and the Europeans only have 400 in theirs.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 03:22-03:28
“There's only three deaths from measles in 20 years.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 04:00-04:04
“They've had now 127,000 measles cases compared to 840 here, and they've had 37 deaths.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 05:58-06:07
“Many of the vaccines are tested for only three or four days with no placebo group.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 09:36-09:42
“For respiratory illnesses, the single antigen vaccines have never worked.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 14:49-14:54
“Pharmaceutical drugs are the third biggest killer of Americans.”
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“They're clearly associated with a variety, a grim inventory of diseases, including cancers and behavioral diseases, neurological diseases…”
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“They're making, in many cases, the same products in this country that have those dyes, and then they use vegetable dyes in Canada, Mexico…”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 01:12-01:22
“The CEO of Pepsi, which owns Doritos, said that in Doritos, you know, people, the consumers like them to be very red.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 01:37-01:48
“We're getting rid of the GRAS standard.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 02:21-02:28
“The rate of increase has substantially decreased. So we are successfully controlling it.”
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“The vaccine wanes very quickly.”
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“Prevention, of course, get the vaccine because it does limit the spread and it prevents it.”
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“There are some vaccines, like the [pertussis] vaccine, that don't prevent transmission.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 07:51-07:57
“Our agency grew by 38% over the past four years.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 12:21-12:25
“These reductions just bring it down to pre-Covid levels.”
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“We have 100 communication departments. We have 40 procurement departments. We have 40 IT departments. You have nine HR departments.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 12:39-12:49
“With 28 different institutes or sub agencies, and many of them were redundant.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 12:55-13:04
“In almost every, every situation, the cuts we made were administrative cuts and they were redundancies.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 14:04-14:13
“In some cases we cut programs, but we only did that when we consolidated them into another program.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 14:12-14:19
“We are actually shifting our priorities to multiple antigen vaccines. And NIH is already working on a number of those.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 14:58-15:06
“Our government, we're spending $2 trillion more than we have each year.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 15:39-15:45
“We're spending $1.9 trillion a year, and people are not getting healthy. People are getting sicker and sicker.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 15:58-16:04
“Our purpose is not to reduce any level of scientific research that's important.”
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“We're trying to target problems that we have in our society today that are very obvious, which is chronic disease, and we're trying to end…”
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“Virtually all the cuts were DEI cuts.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 22:37-22:40
“GLP agonists, which are extraordinary drugs, aren't. They are available to anybody who's got diabetes.”
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“We are reducing the cost. We're going to reduce the cost.”
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“President Trump has ordered us to get to bring it down to something around European pricing.”
Watch: RFK Jr.'s first network TV interview as HHS secretary | Uploaded April 9, 2025 | 27:40-27:49
“If you're smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you expect society to pay when you get sick?”
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“We should incentivize people to take care of themselves and then when they get sick, make sure they're taken care of.”
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“The way insurance industry used to do it is they'd say are you a smoker? And if you were a smoker the price of your insurance would go up.”
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“What we're trying to figure out is how do you do it under the current system where there is no penalty for bad behavior.”
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“Cleveland Clinic has done an extraordinary job at that, the study of its own workers.”
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“Their health care costs have declined dramatically and their lost work days have declined dramatically, and they have a happier workforce.”
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