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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We have the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on…”

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

RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight

Published August 3, 2026 | Video Starts at 00:48

All of our churches closed, our schools and our children are still paying the price for that. And yet we had the worst outcome of any country in the world. How so? We have the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on earth. Well, let me just say, because I've heard you say that before on the death rate from COVID That's not accurate, because public health experts say that there is a combination of factors that went into that. (00:48–00:52)

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Lockdowns shut down 3.5 million businesses in our country with no due process, no just compensation.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 00:27-00:36
“We have the highest chronic disease burden in the world.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 01:32-01:36
“COVID 19 pandemic and many other global pandemics that we have have come from gain of function research.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 03:58-04:06
“The RSV epidemic that we have that is the biggest killer of kids in this country today came from these kind of experiments.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 04:06-04:16
“The Lyme disease almost certainly came from this kind of research.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 04:15-04:20
“Mexico has 15 times the amount of measles per capita that we have.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 10:04-10:10
“The Mennonites have not vaccinated since 1796, since Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 11:46-11:54
“We're doing all those things, and that's one of the ways that we found Tylenol. There's 73 studies out there. Tylenol exposure during later…”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 13:50-14:05
“None of the eight vaccines that are administered during the first six months of life have ever been studied for relationship to autism.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 14:46-14:57
“Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the COVID pandemic and was doing it under the Biden administration.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 01:36-01:42
“President Trump wanted to end the lockdowns in effect.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 01:42-01:46
“In Anthony Fauci's diaries, he talks about how President Trump is calling him every day, trying to get him to reopen the country.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 01:45-01:55
“There were ICUs that were empty all over the country, including in New York at the height.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 02:25-02:30
“If we had listened to those doctors during the COVID pandemic, we would have saved potentially millions of lives.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 05:14-05:21
“During COVID we completely dismantled our constitutional rights.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 05:47-05:52
“This is an international [measles] outbreak and we're doing better at handling it than any country in the world.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 09:57-10:04
“Canada has four times the amount of measles.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 10:10-10:13
“England has two times the amount of measles.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 10:13-10:16
“In his diaries [Anthony Fauci] says this is going to cause massive outbreaks in measles and more children.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 10:27-10:49
“The reason we're having a measles outbreak [is] because of the COVID lockdowns, because people didn't like children during that period, did…”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 10:32-10:42
“More children are going to die from measles because of these lockdowns than Covid.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 10:59-11:04
“We have stopped the outbreaks at record speed in South Carolina, in Texas, in Utah and Virginia.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 11:15-11:22
“The communities that are suffering from measles are almost all religious communities that just don't vaccinate.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 11:37-11:46
“I've never questioned the efficacy of the MMR vaccine.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 12:04-12:08
“A measles vaccine is effective. It stops measles in about 97% of the cases.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 12:38-12:45
“The Institute of Medicine dismissed those two studies because they were based on CDC's database.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 15:09-15:16
“The studies that you're referring to are all from one vaccine, the MMR vaccine or one ingredient, Thimeritis.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 15:16-15:23
“Your statement that this has been studied is not true.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 16:09-16:13
“I can give you hundreds of scientists who have looked at this.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 16:23-16:27
“Show me one of the studies that's been done on the first eight the vaccines during the first six months of life. You will not find them.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 16:40-16:48
“Because that is one of the vaccines that has been studied.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 16:53-16:57
“It's the only one that has been studied.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 16:58-17:01
“Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the expert, was lying about everything. About mass, about social distancing, about natural immunity…”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 18:15-18:29
“Look at the National Academy of Science most recent report.”
RFK Jr. Wipes The Floor With Dana Bash And CNN For 21 Minutes Straight | Uploaded August 3, 2026 | 19:24-19:29
“They've both gone through extensive interagency process. I'm very confident that we will get them both out there within probably a month.”
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