Cheryl Hines appeared on The View to promote her new memoir, Unscripted, and was grilled by the ABC show’s co-hosts about her husband, RFK Jr. RFK Jr is currently the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Trump’s adminstration
Cheryl Hines was on The View(Image: ABC)
Actress Cheryl Hines found herself in the hot seat during a tense appearance on The View, where she faced tough questions about her husband RFK Jr. and his controversial statements.
During the Tuesday, Oct. 14 episode, Hines, who was there to promote her new memoir Unscripted, discussed the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ positions on vaccines and President Donald Trump. She also addressed his absence of medical credentials. What started as a friendly chat about Curb Your Enthusiasm quickly took a sharp turn when The View co-hosts shifted focus to Kennedy, her spouse of 11 years.
Hines began, “When I met Bobby, 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.”
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“That’s for sure,” joked co-host Joy Behar, before Sunny Hostin took control of the discussion, pressing Hines about whether she backed her husband’s choice to drop out of the 2024 presidential race and endorse Donald Trump, reports The Express US.
Hines was promoting her new memoir, Unscripted, which comes out in November(Image: ABC)
“Did you share any concerns that you may have had about that?” she asked.
Hines responded, “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 identifies as a registered Independent and former Democrat, confessed that she was initially “guarded” about Kennedy’s decision to switch from being a Democrat to a Republican in just about a year.
“It was complicated, right?” she expressed. “Because that is a big change politically.”
Hines went on to reveal that Trump and Kennedy “sat down and talked” and shared “a lot of common goals,” including their mutual desire for lower prescription drug costs in the United States.
“What about access to vaccines?” Hostin queried, to which Hines responded, “They both want access to vaccines.”
Behar chimed in that Trump received his COVID booster recently. Behar told Hines that it wasn’t fair of her and her co-hosts to put her on the spot like this, to which Hines said, “Thank you,” before rolling her eyes.
Behar continued to add, “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.”
Joy Behar had said that it wasn’t fair for the co-hosts to put Hines on the spot about her husband(Image: ABC)
Hines then referenced 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.”
The conversation then shifted to Tylenol and autism, with Hines responding, “Consult your doctor.”
Whoopi Goldberg then interjected, “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 responded that “90% of Secretaries of HHS have not been doctors,” and that “one of Obama’s Secretaries of HHS was an economist.”
Hostin pointed out that most HHS Secretaries have possessed scientific credentials if not medical qualifications.
Hines fired back, “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 have been affecting people’s health.”
Hines added, “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.”
Sunny Hostin asked Hines if she had any reservations when RFK dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Trump (Image: ABC)
Hostin chimed in, “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 retorted. The conversation then shifted to misinformation and disinformation about Covid, circumcision, baby formula and food dyes.
Kennedy’s brain worm was also brought up.
“Just so we don’t have to make any more jokes about,” Behar interjected, “Does he or or does he not have a brain worm?”.
“It ate just a little bit of his brain and died,” Hines responded. “So don’t worry.”
In the end, Hines expressed pride in her husband and Goldberg thanked her for joining them and extended an invitation for her to return. “Really?” Hines said, with a feigned sigh of exasperation.
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