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“Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines clashed with “The View” co-hosts and defended her husband, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On Tuesday, during a discussion about Hines’ upcoming memoir, “Unscripted,” the actress was pressed about her husband’s work in the Trump administration. RFK Jr. had initially run as a Democrat in the 2024 election, but ultimately dropped out of the race and instead supported President Trump, a decision many consider decisive in the overall election.
Since then, Kennedy has faced backlash from prominent Democrats and liberal commentators, including the hosts of “The View.”
“Bobby’s background, everything I’ve seen him do, he’s dedicated his career to suing big corporations over toxins that are affecting people’s health care, people’s health, I should say,” Hines said in defending her husband, citing her husband’s well-known environmental lawsuits.
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Cheryl Hines has stood by her husband, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., throughout the backlash over his alliance with President Trump. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
“But the problem, respectfully, is that your husband is the least qualified head of the Department of Health and Human Services that we’ve had in history,” Hostin argued.
Hines objected, questioning the proposition that her husband – who specifically studied toxins – might be considered less qualified than an economist to play the role.
“He’s also spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion, and I think that’s just a very dangerous thing,” Hostin argued. “I say this with the greatest respect.”
“Some are good, some aren’t,” co-host Joy Behar responded.
“When you talk about misinformation, disinformation, we could go back to COVID,” Hines began, recalling all the controversies over medical information and institutional narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He linked circumcision to autism,” Hostin interjected.
“Can I finish?” said Hines, recalling the time when medical professionals and institutions initially claimed that getting the vaccine would prevent a person from catching or transmitting COVID-19 — guidance later revised by the CDC. “It was ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation’.”
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Sunny Hostin attends a discussion on “The View” podcast “Behind the Table” at 92NY on October 8, 2024, in New York. (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)
She recalled that her husband was censored at the time for asking authorities at the time for actual medical evidence for these claims.
Co-host Sara Haines then offered a point the panel could all agree on, a prospect that delighted a struggling Hines, responding, “Oh, thank you. What do we all agree on?”
“The MAHA movement, ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ you’re praising your husband’s campaign to make food and formula safer, which I think everyone can get behind, tell us about it,” Haines said.
“I’m very proud of Bobby, and he’s worked very hard to get a lot of petroleum-based food coloring out of our food, which also and… Even infant formula, we’re finding out there’s arsenic in it. There’s lead in it,” Hines responded. She then turned back to Hostin, reversing his earlier remarks that RFK Jr. was unqualified compared to his predecessors and asked, “The question is, who was running HHS when they allowed lead and arsenic in infant formula?” How is this person not dangerous?
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing calls for impeachment over his handling of the agency. (Getty Images)
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At the end of the interview, co-host Whoopi Goldberg then encouraged Hines to return to the show in the future.
“Really?” » Hines asked with a shocked look.
“Because we don’t often have people on this show to ask these questions of, and I appreciate you coming, so I say, ‘Come back.'”
“My husband was going to come, and I said, ‘Maybe not,’” Hines joked.
“No, because you know what?” Goldberg said. “If we can have the discussion both ways, then it becomes the people’s business – they can decide what they believe, and they don’t just hear one side.”
