Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touched on vaccines and CIA assassinations in an interview Monday with Fox News host Jesse Watters.
President Joe Biden's foremost Democratic contender for the party's 2024 nomination took on a lighthearted tone with Watters while answering a series of questions. Topics ranged from autism and vaccines to the unconfirmed idea of the CIA assassinating his uncle, President John F. Kennedy.
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Watters asked Kennedy about his stance on vaccines, saying his Democratic mother had demanded such a line of questioning. The Democratic presidential candidate responded by doubling down on his position that vaccines cause autism, but he clarified that the public was misled regarding his position on the topic.
"I do believe that autism comes from vaccines," he said.
"Most of the things people believe about my opinions about vaccines are wrong. You know, all I have said about vaccines, we should have good science. We should have the same kind of testing, placebo-controlled trials," the candidate said.
"Vaccines are exempt from placebo-controlled trials. There’s no way that anybody can tell the risk by all those products, or the relative benefits of all those products before they are mandated, and we should have that kind of testing," Kennedy contested.
Watters countered, "My kids got vaccinated. Are they going to have problems?"
"Well, do they have problems now?" Kennedy responded.
"They have problems because I’m their father but not those types of problems," Watters responded, drawing a laugh from Kennedy.
The discussion then turned to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Watters asked Kennedy if he would prosecute him if he won office. Kennedy said he may if the health official was found guilty of any crimes. Kennedy added that the Biden administration is hesitant about confronting China due to what Kennedy alleged was a shared biological weapons program. That led Watters to question him about malicious behavior from the CIA.
"You have seen what the government is capable of with regard to your uncle, possibly with regard to your father," Watters said, referring to the assassinations of JFK and Robert F. Kennedy. "We have seen evidence that suggests the CIA was involved in assassinations here on American soil. In 2023, do you still think the CIA is capable of something like that?"
Kennedy answered by redirecting the conversation to CIA involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic, but Watters doubled down.
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"I couldn’t say yes or no to that question," Kennedy said.
"Even with my uncle’s assassination," he continued. you can’t really say the CIA killed John F. Kennedy. You could say members of the CIA — people working for the CIA were definitely involved, people like E. Howard Hunt, David Astley Phillips, David Morales — people who have confessed to it, many of them deathbed confessions. They may have been operating on a rogue basis rather than the CIA doing it. These were people who were involved in the Miami station who were angry at President Kennedy for refusing to invade Cuba."