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All right, we're back and I have an unexpected guest today. I'm pleased

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to welcome to the show Robert Kennedy Junior, who is going to be coming

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to Denver. You may have just heard the spot this weekend, sir,

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welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. You know,

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we'll talk about your event, but I would love to just talk about

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your race for a moment if we could, because you have been one of

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those third party candidates who is really impossible to stop paying attention to. As

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as much as the two parties would love to take the spotlight off of you,

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your candidacy continues to chug along. How do you guys feel about your

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progress as a third party candidate so far? Well, you know, Zogby

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just at the largest poll of the campaign. So typical polls like gounn to

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be a gallup Harvard Harris, the New York Times, Vienna, et cetera,

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typically have about twelve hundred to twenty two hundred people in them that they

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survey. The Zogby pole is fifty state and it's twenty six thousand people,

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so it's more than ten times the biggest pole so far. It has a

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margin error close to zero. And what it shows is that in a head

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to head race, if it was just me against President Trump, I beat

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President Trump by three Electoral College votes and I head had race. If it

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was just me against President Biden, I'd beat President Biden a landslide. I

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take thirty nine states, he takes eleven. And if the poll also shows

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that if I'm in the race, a three way race occurred today with me,

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President Trump, and President Biden, president Trump would win, President Biden

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would lose. And if I get out of the race, President Trump wins

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with two additional estates, so he went larger, wins Maine and Virginia.

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And what this shows is that President Biden cannot win no matter what. And

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I'm for people who are concerned about beating President Trump. I'm the only candidate

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that can beat him. My favorability ratings are higher than either of them.

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People don't want the contest between President Biden and President Trump. The reason that

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President Trump and President Biden do well is because people are frightened. They're able

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to orchestrate fear against the other person and say, if you vote for Robert

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Kennedy, your President Biden could get elected or Conversely, if you vote for

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Kennedy, president Trump could get elected. So people, I am Americans are

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voting out of fear, and you know, our job over the next six

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months is to persuade people to vote out of hope, and if they do

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that, I'm going to win. Well. I got a text message earlier

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when I mentioned that we may be talking to you today from a guy who

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said, look, I can't vote for Biden or Trump. I don't think

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Kennedy's going to win, but I'm going to vote for him as sort of

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a vote for the viability of a third party, something I've done in the

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past. So I get it. Are you do you think you're going to

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be able to sway Republicans specifically? And how are you planning on doing that?

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What is your strategy there? Well, you know, are we are

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ready? We're winning among among among young Americans. So the biggest national Paul

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shows me winning among beating of President Trump and President among Americans undred thirty five

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years of age. The in the sixth battle Ground States, I beat oh

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president by President Trump and Americans under forty five. I also beat them among

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independents, So that's the biggest God is the first election year where independence outnumbers

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Democrats. About forty Americans now self identify as independent versus twenty Democrats. Twenty

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percent identify as Republicans. So I win that biggest cohort, the group that

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I don't do well with, our baby bloomers, And you know that that's

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the group, if you think about it, that I should do best with, because there are people who still have nostalgia about Camelot. They were alive

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during the Kennedy era, they remember it, and I was a very big

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champion among that cohort during all of my years as environmental champion. But they

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get their news from MSNBC, from CNN, from ABCNBCCBS, the mainstream media.

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And if you if that is the news bubble, the information bubble that

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you're living in, you're going to have a very low opinion of me because

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they won't let me on. None of those stations will let me on for

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live interviews. And you know, so what they hear are mischaracterizations of my

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opinions on of riot and the issues. So my challenge is really to get

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to break through that barrier, to get on those stations, and then you

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know, we have a good chance of convincing that cohort. We have a

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very very good, big conversion rate when they actually see me speak. Well,

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what do you think some of the biggest misconceptions that they are promoting about

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you? Because I you know, I have sort of a conception of your

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campaign platform, and I'm going to be perfectly honest, I'm much to your

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right, and there are things that I disagree strongly with. But where do

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you feel like you've been mischaracterized or even caricatured. I would say almost on

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every issue. I mean, you know, the biggest area is because you

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know, antivacts, anti science, all of that stuff, my opinions and

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beliefs about those issues are mischaracterized that I don't want to take vaccines away from

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people that you know, I'm pro science. I just believe that America,

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if you like your vaccine, I'm not going to take anybody away from them.

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Everybody should be able to do what they want. I believe in personal

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freedom. But people should have the information. We should be doing the same

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kind of rigorous studies we do for other medications. We see the controlled trials,

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and we should have long term information about the risks, about the safety

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risks and the efficacy, and we do not have that, and there's the

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information chaos in that area. And I also don't think should be forced to

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take any medical intervention. Right now, the CDC is recommending the ninth booster,

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so and there's ninety Americans are saying they're not going to take it.

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So people have lost faith in CDC. Do you really believe that we should

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have a rule that says, now you can't go to work, you can't

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get on an airplane, you can't stay at a hotel, you can't go

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into a public building unless you take this intervention. You know, I think

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my opinion is the same as the vast majority of Americans that the government shouldn't

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be able to force you to take a medicine that you don't want. We

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are in complete agreement on that, sir. And let me ask you this

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this past couple of weeks, there's been a little bit of a kerfuffle around

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your thoughts on abortion, which of course is going to be made a huge

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issue by Democrats. Can you clarify your stance as on that issue. Yeah,

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I mean my stance is it's the woman's It's up to women to choose.

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Every abortion is a tragedy. Everyone is a trauma. But I don't,

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you know, I've been fighting for medical freedom my entire career and for

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bodily autonomy, and I don't trust bureaucrats to the government to make those decisions

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now in the last months of a pregnancy. I think for elective abortions,

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I think the government does have an interest in protecting a viable baby, So,

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you know, I that's my opinion it so maybe a late term ban

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would be acceptable. But do you believe it is the federal government's responsibility or

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should it be left up to the states. I'm comfortable with that, like

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we did under row Vy way with that being left up to the states,

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you know, But I would say in the you know, prior to viability,

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that woman should have a right to choose. And in fact, even

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in the Red states, the states that have you know, since the Roe

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v Decision, the termination of roe view waide rights that have come down in

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every election, I think in nine different states, including very very red states,

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the public has voted to keep the option open. So I think Americans,

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you do feel that a woman's right should be respected. What are your

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thoughts on our two biggest foreign policy issues? Right now Ukraine and Israel,

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and I realized that's a big question, but I'd kind of like to get

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your feel for what your foreign policy would be. Yeah, I would settle

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the Ukraine War. The Ukraine War should never have happened. President Biden twice

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offered us extremely generous I mean, Putin offered extremely generous settlements. Once in

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April twenty twenty two, the settlement was initialed is Lensky's signed by Putin,

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and Putin was withdrawing all troops from the Ukraine as before the real killing started.

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And you know what Putin wants is for us to agree to keep NATO

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out of Ukraine, which I think is a legitimate demand. And so you

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know, I would, I would stop the hemorrhage of money. That money

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should be coming to our country. We need it now. There's fifty seven

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percent of Americans don't have enough, can't put their hands on a thousand dollars

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if they have an emergency. We have a poverty problem in this country.

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We you know, we we can't afford to be the policeman in the world.

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Israel is you know, listener, I am against war, but I

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think we've only fought one war in the past one hundred years, that has

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been a moral war, and that was World War Two because we were attacked

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and it was a defensive war. And I think Israel's the same position today.

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It was attacked by Oz, and OZ has pledged to its annihilation.

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I'm Oz has a and it's cobbitant. It has a chartered provision that says

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that any negotiation with Israel is against Islamic law and except as a ruse,

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and the only negotiating position they have is the extermination of all it chees and

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the annihilation of Israel. And so I don't think there's room to negotiate with

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adversary like that, and it has to be has to be removed. And

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so I support Israel's right to defend itself. Israel, like any other country,

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has a right to self defense. One last question, and this is

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a big one. The southern border is a big issue because we've had such

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a huge influx of people come into the country that we may or may not

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know who they are. What would President Kennedy do at the southern border.

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I would secure the border, shut it down. I've been to the border,

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spent a lot of time there. I've made a documentary about it and

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the station that's causing our problem our country. I believe that we should have

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wide gates so people who come in to our country legally and wait in line,

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who go through the process, that they should have a quicker pass to

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citizenship. But people coming across the border that is not okay. And no

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country can survive with the kind of influx and eyes on nine million people in

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three years coming across illegally. It's destroying our country and we can't tolerate it.

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And I think one other thing is we launched our ballot access. As

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you know, I have to get on the ballot in all fifty states.

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President Trump and President Biden will automatically be on the ballot. I have to

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go get a million signatures. I need to get twelve thousand in the state

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of Colorado. We launched our ballot access yesterday. Colorado has unique rules that

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require me to get fifteen hundred signatures in all eight congredi and each of all

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eight congressional districts. So we are you know, we're launched, so you'll

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see people on the street. If you're interested in helping us with this effort,

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please call it. Kennedy twenty four dot com. I will be in

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Denver at the anger see at Stanley Marketplace. You're gonna be at the Hangar

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at Stanley Marketplace, Yeah, on Sunday PM. Three pm on Sunday,

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and I hope to meet any of you there. Who are you don't want

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to come out and say hi and come to a rally. I am going

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to add this to my very widely read blog. Mister Kennedy. It's been

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a pleasure speaking with you today, and it's certainly given us a lot to

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think about, especially in a state where we have as many independents as we

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have. I'm guessing you're gonna do You're going to do pretty well here,

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just if you can get on the ballot. We'll see you on election Day

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Sunday from three to five. You can go to a rally for Robert F.

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Kennedy Junior at this Stanley Market Stanley Hanger the Hangar at Stanley Marketplace.

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And uh. I hope you enjoy your time here in Colorado, as brief

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as it might be. Well. I always enjoyed Colorado. I'm looking forward

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to being there. My son is going to come with me and a couple

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of other family members. All right, I'm looking forward to meeting people.

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Well, fantastic it's happening Sunday. Thank you so much for your time today,

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sir. Thank you