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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “When I was a kid, the autism rates, and today in my…”

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

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Robert Kennedy campaigning for Donald Trump, Milwaukee

Published | Video Starts at 04:40

The problem is the corruption in Washington D.C. the capture of our agencies. The only president who's going to clean that up is Donald J. Trump. We have the sickest children in the world. When I was a kid, the autism rates, and today in my generation, 70 year old men, 1 in 10,000 of us has autism. In my children's generation, it's 1 in every 34 children. 1 in every 24 in California. When I was a kid, juvenile diabetes was unknown. The typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes in his entire career, a 40 or 50 year career. (04:40–04:56)

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Asserts that autism rates have increased from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 34 children.

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