Cheryl Hines, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star married to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., squared off against the co-hosts of The View today as she was asked about her husband’s positions on vaccines, his decision to support Donald Trump and his lack of a medical background.
After starting the mostly civil if occasionally awkward interview with some chit-chat about Curb, the conversation turned to Hines’ 11-year-marriage to Kennedy.
Watch the interview below.
“When I met Bobby,” said Hines, who was promoting her new memoir Unscripted, “he was living in New York, I was living in LA and I had just been in this entertainment sort of bubble, and then I meet him, and he’s an environmental attorney, and he’s fascinating and he’s interesting, and he’s smart and he’s funny and completely different from anyone I ever met in my life.”
“That’s for sure,” quipped co-host Joy Behar, and then the conversation really took off.
Co-host Sunny Hostin took the lead from here, asking whether Hines supported her husband’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and throw his support to Donald Trump. “Did you share any concerns that you may have had about that?,” she asked.
Said Hines, “Well, I always share all of my concerns with my husband…So with Bobby, that was a very difficult decision to make with President Trump.” Hines, who said she’s a registered Independent and former Democrat, conceded that she initially was “guarded” about Kennedy’s decision.
“It was complicated, right?,” she said. “Because that is a big change politically.” Hines went on to say that Trump and Kennedy “sat down and talked” and had “a lot of common goals.” She cited both men’s desire for lower prescription drug costs in the United States.
“What about access access to vaccines?,” Hostin said.
“They both want access to vaccines,” Hines replied.
Behar jumped back in, saying, “It seems as though Bobby and Trump are casting doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine, which makes Americans very nervous so that’s the problem that we’re having.” Hines then brought up a 60 Minutes report about the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which has paid out billions of dollars for vaccine injuries.
“So my question is, can we do better?,” Hines said, adding, “Yes to vaccines, they are important, and they are an important part of our healthcare. Can we do better? Can we make them safer? Can we listen to parents who say, My child got the vaccine and changed and stopped hitting markers, stopped developing the way they were developing.”
[Editor’s Note: Overwhelming evidence disproves any causal link between vaccines and autism.]
From there the discussion went on to Tylenol and autism (“Consult your doctor,” Hines said), which prompted moderator Whoopi Goldberg to say, “This is not your fight, really, to be fair, this is your husband’s. But I do want to say, you know, he’s not a doctor and he’s not a professional, and often times when he’s speaking, he is speaking not with the best information…And some of the things he suggested take it out of the hands of my doctor and me or my OB-GYN and me. And I wonder, does it give you pause?”
Hines then pivoted to say that “90% of Secretaries of HHS have not been doctors,” and that “one of Obama’s Secretaries of HHS was an economist.” Hostin responded by saying that most HHS Secretaries have had scientific backgrounds if not medical backgrounds.
Following a commercial break, Hines said, “I just wanted to follow up, because Bobby’s background, everything I have seen him do, he has dedicated his career to suing big corporations because of toxins that are have been affecting people’s health…He was part of the team that sued Monsanto because of Roundup, a pesticide that was causing cancer. GMOs right? He sued Dupont, he sued Exxon, and he sued these companies for health reasons, because they were causing health problems.”
Hostin shot back, “But the problem, respectfully, is that your husband is the least qualified Department of Health and Human Services head that we’ve had in history.”
“Less qualified than an economist?,” Hines replied.
From there the conversation went on to the topic of misinformation and disinformation about Covid, circumcision, baby formula and food dyes. Inevitably, the subject of Kennedy’s brain worm was broached.
“Just so we don’t have to make any more jokes about,” Behar said, “Does he or or does he not have a brain worm?”
“It ate just a little bit of his brain and died,” Hines said. “So don’t worry.”
The conversation ended with Hines saying she was proud of her husband and Goldberg thanking her and inviting her back. “Really?,” Hines said, with a mock sigh of exasperation.
Watch a segment of the interview here:
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