Cheryl Hines, wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), battled the clucking harpies of The View yesterday, and she held her own.
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines clashed on The View with co-host Sunny Hostin on Tuesday over the medical qualifications of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be the Department of Health and Human Services head.
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Co-host Joy Behar, while recognizing Kennedy as her husband and insisting she was being put on the spot to defend him, still pressed her on RFK Jr., questioning the “efficacy” of vaccines. Hines responded that all vaccines were “an important part of our health care,” but insisted they could be made safer and parents claiming their children had health impacts after taking a vaccine shot needed to be heard from.
But Hostin then went back on the offensive and sparred with Hines over the qualifications of RFK Jr. to be the HHS head, with The Viewco-host claiming he has “spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion, and it’s just a very dangerous thing. I say it with the utmost respect.”
Hines, at that point, attempted to respond to allegations of misinformation by circling back to the COVID era, but was quickly interrupted by Hostin. Hines then interjected: “May I? May I finish?”
She then told a silenced Hostin: “When people, Fauci, were saying when you get the vaccine, you cannot transmit COVID, it will stop COVID, that was disinformation.” Hines was referring to Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The conversation ended with co-host Whoopi Goldberg thanking Hines for appearing on The View to answer vital questions about people’s health, before inviting her to return to the TV show. “Really?” Hines replied with faux exasperation, before adding: “I would love that.”
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