to talk about regulatory policy. how much, if this story is talking about what the biden administration ising trying -- is trying to do ahead of a potential trump administration, how much have candidate donald trump's staff talked about targeting specific regulations? how much are members of congress looking to target specific regulations? guest: which ones is the hard question because we don't know what is going to fall into the lookback period because we don't know when it's going to be but what i can say is that i've heard from colleagues at the government accountability office that they are getting a lot more requests from members about whether certain things count as rules and could be subject to the c.r.a. host: this is dan in palm bay, florida. republican. dan, we're talking regulations with sarah hay. caller: hi, yeah i wondering, i was wondering what regular laces

-- regulations, what biden regulations are they planning on handcuffing donald trump with? i mean, don't they realize that donald trump's economy was way better than joe biden's? everyone sees that. i mean, there's no denying that. unless people were just tkhraourbal like your guest appears to be or she's -- host: dan, i think our guest knows quite a bit about >> we will leave this program. we take you live to austin, texas for remarks by 2024 independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy, jr. and his running mate nicole shanahan. you are watching live campaign 2024 coverage on. -- campaign 2024 coverage on c-span.

[no audio] >> can you hear me now? there it is. bobby. hi, everybody. my daughter and i are part of the team here in texas, our home state, the help gather the 100,000 signatures needed to get bobby on the ballot. and we have done it. [applause] one thing i want to stress about the plan this summer in texas, we will organize the state for bobby, and we will recruit a lot of people in the process. the positioning got a lot of people excited in support for

bobby and we have thousands of people supporting him now. thank you all for being here. we intend to bring youthful energy to the polls in november and make bobby the next president of the united states. [applause] [speaking spanish] and for everybody who wants a better country for your family, viva, kennedy, vamos, kennedy. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former pussycat doll, jessica soto. >> make some noise, austin. >> how are you feeling out there?

are you excited to see bobby? me too. well, for those of you who don't know me, and there's a lot of you that don't know me, i'm a former pussycat tall. thank you. we still got it. unfortunately, i was vaccine injured by the moderna gene therapy shots and my life and health was ripped from me unfortunately. it turned into lupus. so i have lupus now. i'm not going to give up and i'm also not going to back down. i'm speaking out for the vaccine injured. do we have any vaccine injured tonight? i'm so sorry this is happening to you but i'm telling you hollywood has turned very weird. i guess it's always been this weird. i had no idea. but it's despicable what it's done to our country, pushing these horrible vaccines under the public that are just killing

people, taking people's lives. anyway, i'm so grateful for bobby kennedy and i know he's going to be the next president of the united states. what do you think? let me hear you. bobby/shanahan, bobby/shanahan. all right. we are getting warm. i don't know if you have seen the documentary "who is bobby kennedy?," yes, and if you have not, you have to share it with your friends, because it shows what an incredible man he is, what a warrior he is in a fight to save our country. i have every confidence in my soul to know that he can do it. if you asked me who is bobby, he's the next president of the united states. let's go, bobby. [applause] thank you, guys. >> please welcome co-founder of

kiss the ground organization and agriculture advocate ryan engelhard. [applause] >> yes. can i get a little love? can i get a little energy here? [applause] my name is ryland engelhard and it feels historic to be here. does it feel like a historic moment for you? so i just want to say that i kind of feel like for us -- like forest gump, meaning i'm not sure how i got appeared to give this talk -- got up here to give this talk. there's a line from a rumi

quote, which says start some big, foolish project like noah. this is a big, foolish project. can i get an amen? so i just wanted to say, for the last 20 years, i have been spending my life championing ideas, movements and missions when they were perceived as crazy, and i'm going to give you a couple examples of that. so, in my 20's, i had the opportunity to grow a family business that was a small restaurant in san francisco that was a transformational gaming parlor called cafe gratitude. thank you. and we brought the -- this is

2004. there was no almond milk in grocery stores. true story. and we were able -- i remember telling my brother, i said, carry, we are going to go to los angeles and we are going to change the world with raw food, gratitude, community, and sacred commerce. he looked at me with his cynical eyes and he said, you are crazy. that's never going to happen. seven years -- seven restaurants later and millions of meals served, we opened seven restaurants in southern california. and now we can get almond milk in every starbucks around the world. so i say that to say seeing things before they become seen in the collective.

the next thing. so my work in the restaurants brought me to new zealand. i was brought there to be a sustainability expert on our restaurants in los angeles and went with a little arrogance, of, like, i know. and i found myself sitting in a panel discussion called can human beings sustain life on planet or? and five of the six experts said no. in the sixth was a guy who said -- and the sixth was a guy who said if we understood our role in relationship to nature and the importance of soil, we could actually regenerate the earth. and at that moment, i had never even conceived of how life could

get better in seven generations, and in that moment, i saw these dots being connected, the way that soil, plants, trees, grasses and the whole carbon cycle work, and i saw that we actually could heal and regenerate our planet. i got back to los angeles and i'm serving my plant-based food in the restaurant and it became my ministry. everywhere i went, i was telling people about healthy soil and regenerative agriculture, and people had no idea. so i thought, all right, well, the idea's time has come, that regeneration is possible. so i stepped away from the comfort and success of the restaurants and started a nonprofit in my garage called

kiss the ground. [applause] who has seen the film "kiss the ground?" at this time, no one knew what regenerative agriculture was. now who knows what regenerative agriculture is? i just want to give a shout out to to nicole shanahan, the vp for bobby and this campaign. she has been a visionary in understanding regenerative agriculture as one of the most amazing solutions and actually showed up and was an advocate, supporter and executive producer on both the " kiss the ground film" and the common grounds film that's been out in theaters and is coming out in september. so i did not say this in the beginning but i am one of the cofounders of kiss the ground but i'm actually here as an

individual -- i am actually here as an individual. and about a year ago, i was sitting on the toilet and i watched bobby kennedy's first campaign video. and i was weeping into -- weeping in tears, so moved by the truth and the authenticity of his being. yes. i started to think, my god, if that man can be the president of the united states of america, wow. it just -- so i'm sitting on the toilet, moved to tears. i send everybody that video. then i take a picture of myself with tears weeping down my face and put it on social media and i say a psychic once told me that my job in life is to point at

things and i'm pointing at bobby kennedy for president of the united states of america. and as we know, when we put our neck out there, and courageously express our values and who we are, we become a bigger target. that next day, i got two phone calls. you cannot put that information -- you cannot support bobby kennedy because your relationship to a nonprofit. i understood -- i understand the legalities of it, so my tail kind of went between my legs, i kind of stuffed it and i went on for a year sort of in silence. and then, four weeks ago, i had the opportunity to be at another fundraiser in austin.

that fundraiser ended with a sweat lodge where 40 of the supporters were there in a sweat lodge with bobby and it was heat on the rocks and sweat and prayers and song. can i get a little amen? the future president of the united states of america was sitting in a sweat lodge praying that we may be better human beings. we may be better stewards of this earth and be better to each other. that we may love each other. that we may be humble and learn publicly. and so i'm -- there's all this stuff happening in there and i'm still dealing with my -- i'm like, i'm not sure i have something to say in here. and i have this whisper on my heart that says, ryland, you would not be who you are today

if you didn't have people championing your life. and it's your job to champion bobby kennedy's life. [applause] so that came through. i share that prayer that i shared that prayer in the sweat -- i shared that prayer in the sweat. on the drive home, i committed. i started this nonprofit. it's been the most important thing in my life besides my children and my wife and i'm going to give that up because this is a more important mission in this now moment. [applause] so i just want to say -- i let go of that. i let go of the security of that selected go full out to champion this campaign's success.

bring them on. all right. i have 55 seconds. thank you. so i just want -- just walk with me. how lucky are we that we have a presidential candidate who for the last 30 years has been protecting nature and loving mother earth? how lucky are we that we have a president who can do 20 pull-ups and meditate and is a falconer? how lucky are we to have a president that is not a sock puppet for the corporate apparatus? [applause] this is historic, you guys, and it's not going to happen without you. we need to give something up.

bobby and nicole are sacrificing. they are taking the sacred office. they are taking this on and they are giving something up. they don't need to do this. what are we going to give up to make sure this happens? we will need to give our time, money, resources, and most of all, need to stand in our courage and speak our true. with love in our hearts. thank you. [applause] the final thing i will say is -- i opened with a rumi quote and i will close with one. there's a field out beyond right doing in wrongdoing -- right doing and wrongdoing and in fact there's a president out beyond

donald trump and joe biden. i will meet you there. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it one more time for ryland ingle heart. [applause] now please welcome to the stage comedian and freedom fighter jp sears. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. please give it up one more time for ryland ingle heart. we have some passion. kind of makes you want to go storm the capitol, doesn't it? bring your spears. come on. man, it's a pleasure to be here. are you excited to see bobby

kennedy? are you disappointed you have to watch me? yes. all right. i love it. we will be going around to check your proof of vaccination cards before we bring bobbio. i'm curious. i love to get a sense of the room. who has seen some of my work before? [applause] wow. i am honored. wow. i am the guy you normally watch while you are sitting on the toilet with your pants around your ankles. i have heard tonight we are going to keep our opinions on if that's ok with you, austin. we like to keep it weird. you already have yours off, sir. that's great. very progressive of you. i will have you read a story to my kindergarten class. i will tell you, one of the reasons why i'm such a fan of bobby, i have gotten to know him

over the past four years, i look at the world and what concerns me the most is the world my son is going to live in, and i'm curious, how many of you will have kids? to me, that's just the highest purpose in life. i look at my son and he's a divine miraculous droplet from god. he just melts my heart. the little guy is getting big. he's 163 weeks old now. he's beautiful. he's a little over three. i have learned being a father, having toddler's, just like having your best friend, someone who is incredibly happy all the time, also being super suicidal, he just wants to play and try to kill himself. are those -- probably. i love it. to me, the cutest thing about my

son being a toddler, just how clumsy he is. an example. mother's day, he's just standing next to me and he will over -- and he fell over. i was like, son. you could be the president one day. no? [applause] he likes ice cream, he can barely talk, still poops himself. another four years, i think we are pretty good. you all are very sweet. there's some crowds i do that to and i pick out people in the audience. it's super entertaining to watch their reaction. just kind of like -- that's a vaccine side effect kind of thing. it's good. i love my little guys.

in 12 years, i'm going to throw a gender reveal party and have him tell us what he is. he hasn't told us. i don't know how elsie would find out -- we would find out. it's old news at this point but i find it corrupt when the biden administration declines to give bobby secret service. yeah. i think it's corrupt but i think it's a good thing. like, do those -- those secret service agents are not used to someone who can move, do pull-ups. he's right there. we make sure that she's just going to be there -- he's just going to be right there. pretty good. they are going after trump a little bit, aren't they? i will be here and not say

anything. here is how i feel. i don't like political corruption. >> he is not the biggest fan of trump. all these indictments, they arrested president trump. i care about our country. i got stressed out and then i realized i live in a country where they arrested president trump. that is the reality. i just wish they would have filmed it for an episode of cops. he already lives in florida where all the episodes are filmed. imagine the film crew and officers sneaking up to trump's

trailer, you hear screaming and domestic violence inside, they kick the door down, milani is on the floor crying with a black high, and then trash trump is standing there. no shirt on, jeans down to hear and then he takes off trying to get away, sprinting across fairways, tucker carlson is driving. they take off like oj in the white bronco. they are drunk and they rolled the car, trump takes off on foot. he almost got away, but then you cut to the interview with the cops, what happened out there? perpetrator almost got away but

then we heard a sound in the swampy pond, like someone saying this is the best hiding spot, a very strong hiding spot. they will never find me here. then we look over there and find the criminal, got him. not too long ago president trump , i do not agree with everyone about anything or something like that. everyone about everything? he said something that did not sit well with me talking about rfk, said he has fake vaccine information. i was like out of all people on earth that you accuse, still proud of operation work speed.

warping dna, very proud of it. that joke did not go good. i've never said that before. remind me never to say this joke again. do you remember the day rfk was announcing his vice president pick? a lot of us where like it's not aaron rodgers? . he is a good quarterback. when bobby announced he was switching to independent some of you look like you had two diets hair back to its natural color. and who read bobby's book the real anthony fauci?

a very literate crowd, be proud of your selves. fatty disappeared pretty quickly after that book. he was like i'm going to retire and hide for the rest of my life. i love watching how bobby thinks about things. thousands of references, good cause to be suspicious. the way i look at him is just like i don't trust him because he did not throw the first pitch out well. did you see that a few summers ago? you cannot trust a guy who throws that badly. is bill gates here tonight? wouldn't it be funny if he gave vaccine injections as

inaccurately as algae throws? gets your jugular, problem solved. before i get out of here, i want to say sometimes i get concerned and i tend to be optimistic, but i get stressed out. i think about our children, we are authoring the landscape of the world they will live in. right now we are authoring that landscape and i look at what we are up against and i get forgetful and when i get forgetful i get bummed out. i look at the corruption, what is controlled. big tech, censorship, mainstream

media, different pieces of the government. three letter agencies. i think there is nothing that we have to stand up against that power. but then i remembered two things, we have god on our side. i truly do believe that. and we have bobby kennedy. and what i have realized why i loved bobby and why he resonates with a shockingly growing number of people, he would be amazing in office. so much good would happen. there is something more magical, people are seeing what he represents and we are finding

that in ourselves. a selflessness, a mentality that says it is better to die on my feet and live on my knees. chances are most of us will not have to die on our feet, but a willingness is the only way to live. we see bobby model that and it inspires me and it would be my hope that he wins the election and if that does not have weather is funny business i would also say he has started a movement. it has been unlike anything in our lifetime, a grassroots movement where people are awakening and i would say what you love, let's have more of

that from you. that is one of the things that this man is here to teach us, he is not just a political candidate, he is working on behalf of god, our future generations. does that make sense? so i will leave you with this from my redheaded perspective, i look at beautiful awake people and i see two categories, category number one, people who see what is going on, do not buy into the narrative and they are stressed out living in fear, angry a lot. not good quality of life. in another category, they see the same things, but they have good quality of life.

they are happy and life feels good. the difference that i see between those categories, following category number one as an awake person using your brain or category number two, the difference i see is people taking action or not. what i have found, my own small contribution, i say words, i do not claim to know the truth, i say what i think. when people take action i see a contribution to the world. that creates peace in people because when you take action and say what you think and let your actions follow-through you have these of mind that change can happen because you feel it on a

visceral level and that is why i say if the election does not go the way we want we want it, but we have already won because something we've learned is to take action, do more of what he is modeling and we live in a time where the power is shifting. real change in our country has to start at the cellular level and we are the cells in the body of america. if this makes any sense to you i challenge all of us to level up our contributions, small cells that we are are incredibly magnificent. if we align, say what we think

and then let our actions be in alignment with hearts, souls, minds and words say i would dare say we win. with that said, inc. you for having me, it has been a pleasure. go team kennedy. good night. >> let's hear it one more time for jp sears. [applause] ♪ >> please welcome member of the ghetto boys and host of the billy d live podcast, billy d.

>> yesterday, until yesterday i did not now a lot about the kennedy campaign. i know he is very real. yesterday a friend came on my podcast and we had a spirited discussion about the future. [indiscernible]

unfortunately, there are people that their job is to figure out how to divide us. those people are lurking in this room, i hope they are not, we are not going to make it alone. we are all in this together and we won't make it without each other. i can promise you that. 43% of americans identified as independent. this year, even more americans identified as independent. that tells me we've got a real strong chance of seeing our mr.

kennedy, robert f kennedy, and nicole shanahan in the white house. that is a real possibility. and it is a real probability. let me tell you why being an independent voter is important. it fosters critical thinking, promotes diverse perspectives and assures decisions are made -- are you understanding what i'm saying? it is important that we know decisions are made based on your beliefs, not loyalty. we've got to get away from that.

so check this out. i want you to repeat after me. 2024, all right. i will say 1, 2, 3 and i want you to say 2024, kennedy shanahan. 1, 2, 3. when i say kennedy you say shanahan. when i say shanahan, you say kennedy. that's what i'm talking about. ♪ >> independent presidential candidate will be tomorrow with his running mate. >> kennedy junior is making headlines with his running mate

choice. >> this could be a serious run but he will need a vice presidential pick. >>'s favorability is higher than his rivals and he is strong support from different corners. >> we wants america to live up to her highest ideals. to be exempt lee terry -- example he area again. we want america to be a peacemaker, a moral authority, we want our children to grow up as i did in a country for which they feel love and pride. i want a partner with strong ideas about how to reverse threats to democracy and read him and i found those qualities in a woman who grew up right

here in oakland. the daughter of immigrants who overcame every obstacle and achieved the highest levels of the american dream. that is why i am proud to introduce to you my hello lawyer, a brilliant scientist, a warrior mom, the next vice president of the u.s., nicole of shanahan. [applause]

>> as recently as one year ago i did not think much of bobby kennedy and a friend today pulled me aside and said please do me a favor, listen to an interview one time. i did and for the first time i felt hope for democracy again. i am making this move as in independent because i have been finding it harder and harder to

find leadership that represents issues close to my heart. the failure of both parties to protect has contributed to the decline of this country. that's why i see many disillusioned with their parties. if you are disillusioned i welcome you to join me, a disillusioned democrat, to heal america. we deserve a real election of optimism. that is what bobby kennedy gives us a chance at. >> millions are not going to vote at all, they are withdrawing from democracy. nicole and i are going to give

them another choice. >> his time -- it is time to focus on unifying values rather than division, anyone who never considered an independent ticket, i extend the same invitation to you that my friends did to me. please listen to bobby kennedy in his own words. take a look at his vision, a vision i hear. >> we are running to heal the symptoms of an ailing america, to heal divisions, mental and spiritual in as a goal ills. >> i will work to make america a country of peace, compassion,

that is prosperous and free. i have seen miracles that the human spirit can accomplish. resilience and i have seen capacity to heal. and what is possible for the human being is possible for our nation. >> cole and i will unite, that is our path to victory. >> doing me and robert f kennedy junior in the healing of america, we have got this. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome the next vice president of the united states, nicole shanahan. >> hi, everyone. thank you to you all, take you to the brave and innovative minds today, thank you to those who are feeling -- feeling this country and healing american soil. i want to talk about soil. [applause] >> soil is not much of a political issue. when they surveyed the public and ask what issue do you care

about, you can choose things like immigration, abortion, inflation, guns, the deficit, the warriors. but there has never been a checkbox for soil. i love soil. i important issue but it is part of something much bigger. i would like to talk about that bigger thing today. healing the soil says we're going to heal this country from the ground up. yes. the foundation. a nation's health is its soil. it is also the air and the water , the economic infrastructure that's of life itself.

it has to be treated and respected as a public good. that is the most basic responsibility. moms, you get this. you know that health comes first and then we can do other things. for too long our nation has neglected its foundation. we've spent trillions on foreign wars while domestic infrastructure has fallen into disrepair. we have propped up wall street while businesses shuttered their windows. we have funneled wealth to billionaires. i know them all. and i can tell you most of them do not care that millions have fallen into poverty while they

have fallen into wealth. it is not just that our soil is depleted, people are too. americans whose finances are depleted and they are drowning in debt, americans whose health is depleted and you are barely getting through the day without pain. americans whose hope is depleted and they struggle with depression and despair. but what i have seen is everyone of those conditions can be healed. but healing starts when you get serious. healing starts when you make it a priority. healing starts when you stop deceiving yourself that everything is fine. when you are willing to look at

the root of a problem and work. that is what we're going to do. our politicians have been more concerned with slandering each other, they have a nord warning signs, turned their gaze away from national health and they delude themselves with vain ambition and lose themselves to the temptation of power and money. i am sick of it. it is not just soil absent from the issues that have taken over political discourse. you will not see chronic disease even though it affects have of americans. you will not see decaying infrastructure. you will not see corporate

capture of federal agencies. you might see climate change, but not the root causes of forever chemicals in water and food. where is that? you will never see fentanyl mentioned. or skyrocketing depression, the childcare affordability crisis. we have to talk about these things, open our hearts to them. well, robert f kennedy and i are going to look where the politicians have failed. yes. we are to do something. honestly this movement of people has made a difference.

has anyone noticed new talking points from democrats and republicans? i heard donald trump talking about blockchain. in biden saying the epa is taking feedback in drinking water -- deep bass in drinking water seriously. and i'm counting each and every one of these as a win and i hope you will. the pressure we are putting on them to work on this is working for all of us, let's keep gawain. yeah. we care about what the establishment has neglected. that is one big reason why i have entered politics.

until last year, i was a heavy democratic party donor because i believe that if i could get the ear of party leaders they would implement commonsense policies. when i got there ear -- when i got their ear, nothing seemed to get done and their efforts were laden with distortion. in my cynical moments i wonder if they were after my money. but i am not a cynical person so i supported them because i trusted they were sincere in wanting to make positive change. i think many of them want to, they cannot.

they cannot because they are beholden to party politics and the insider games of washington, d.c., they cannot do anything entangled in these corporate interests, stuck in hammerlock in congress and aral agencies. most politicians are trapped and we are trapped. or we were trapped there until now. [laughter] [applause] >> because robert f. kennedy, jr. is here. [laughter] he has taken charge for all of us and that can change. two years ago i really wanted change. i started two years ago to look

outside the party for someone who has experienced the wisdom and the wherewithal to lead this kind of transformation. i could not find anyone until i was introduced to robert f. kennedy, jr.. yeah. since listening to those early interviews with him and seeing him out day after day, the selfie line is out of hand. he has got something special that gets him out there day after day, pounding the pavement or the smooth and. he is in a class of his own, no comparison. hundreds of politicians, hundreds and i never met a candidate like this. this transcends politics. whoo! he is willing to look from the

perspective of solving them with long-term, cohesive strategies and he understands national healing on a foundational level. want to know why he knows how to do this? the last 40 years of his life, that is what he was doing. he will keep on doing it. each and every day he is doing it. national healing is not only about policies, it is getting it done and doing it without worrying about your corporate donors. since this is the objective leadership we have all been craving, words are weak. how nice would it be to put the trust in our leadership to put the health of the nation first? how nice to put resources from

the war machine into the piece economy -- the peace economy. we need a department of transformation that is competent on fixing roads. we need actual, objective, un-conflicted people. not career politicians or corporate donors. we need to clean up our water supply and we cannot do it when our agencies are corrupted? so robert f. kennedy, jr. will help us secure the integrity of our food supply because usda will be run by a real farmer. i cannot wait for that. we will restore the spirit of our educational system by allowing qualified teachers, not

the government, to run the classroom. and you know what? we are going to tackle the mental health crisis with guidance from doctors who put health above pharmaceutical bonuses. it is only going to be that set up that will allow us to feel trapped in government. national healing is not just about policy, it is how we communicate, love, trust, respect and a lot of people have been turned off not only because of failure, but because of the way political conversations are happening. the tone and how they talking to each other. you can barely call them conversations. it is a shouting match and each

side agrees the people on the other side are abhorrent. we have to stop thinking of each other that way. we have to respect each other enough to actually listen, otherwise how will we restore semblance of coherent conversation. [applause] >> how will we remember how lucky we are to be protected by the constitution of the united states? we are so lucky. we will remember how lucky we are when we stop taking each other out, realizing that the essence of our relationship is what makes us capable of appreciating this country.

so, you know, when you actually have a conversation with someone on the other side, republican, democrat, you realize there is more in common than you think. even when you take on a wedge issue, you discovered that people, we are not monsters. guns, abortion, immigration, most of us are caring human beings. our political culture tries to convince us otherwise. it divides us into warring opinion of tribes and how are we going to heal when we talk like that? how will we tackle problems if we are not speaking coherently? that is another reason why i have allied myself with robert f. kennedy, jr..

because nothing i have ever heard him say is designed to make you hate his opponents. there is no meanness, no mockery. this is not a campaign strategy, this is his nature. he always gives people the benefit of the doubt and listens carefully. that is the quality of leadership we need most right now. our independent candidacy is not separate, it draws from left and right. it reaches outside of the left and the right. our most innovative solutions come from outside politics in the realm of alternative. yes, i know that sounds radical.

i have seen the power of alternative ways of thinking, i have used alternative practices to restore my fertility and many of these practices have been used for centuries. i have seen alternative agricultural practices regenerate land and i've seen criminal justice restore ruined lives. i know what is possible when you think with an alternative and creative mindset, what is possible when we step outside of frozen habits, when we become independent. [applause] >> so i am really happy right now to welcome this wonderful man on stage. let's welcome him now, please welcome our next president, robert.

robert f kennedy junior. >> this is a day of affirmation, a celebration of liberty. experienced in the name of freedom. we are not on a chain. we must recognize the full human equality of all people, not any particular religion or race, not just for the wealthy, but to all of the people. for the fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do. >> a new twist for the countries most famous clinical dynasty, robert.

>> trying to heal a divided nation and return power to the people. [applause] >> we are told that our nation is hopelessly divided, but i found something different as i traveled the country. i witnessed optimism that i have never seen before. something is stirring in us that says it does not have to be this way. i am here to declare independence from corruption which robs us of affordable lives, belief in the future and respect for each other. to do that i must declare my own independence.

independence from the democratic party. and from all other political parties. i have not made this decision lightly, it is painful for me to let go of the party of my uncles, father, ran father in both of my great-grandfathers. my sacrifice is nothing compared to the risk our founding fathers took when they signed the declaration of independence. they knew if the revolution failed they would be killed. they placed everything on the line. when john adams put his pen down, he turned to those present in said sink or swim, live or die, survive or parish, from

this day on, i am with my country. i'm going to make that same pledge to you today so that i can stand before you as every leader should stand before you, free of partisan allegiance, backroom deals, a servant to my conscience, creator and. every president enters office promising to unite the nation and work with people, none of them ever does. they have already chosen a side. i will not have that problem, i will build coalitions from both sides. and except for the small minority of public officials who are corrupt, i'm going to tell you a secret, they want liberation from a system that has captured them.

isn't that what we all want? liberation from a system that robs our wealth, health, patriotism, ideals, freedoms and sense of ourselves as a good and capable people. in healing our nation, is it possible? let's take back our country. god bless you and the united states of america. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome the next president of the united states, robert f kennedy junior.

[applause] >> thank you, everybody. thank you, austin. what a start -- i want to start by thanking some of the people who appeared today. jonathan moody for his music, jessica, jp sears, who my brother was side-by-side during the pandemic, one of the few people who remained funny. willie d, thank you for coming down from houston. and ryland englehart who gave his life to getting us better food. and texas volunteers.

they were there, those are the champion signature gatherers. we have an historic day in texas, we ended at 267,000 signatures. [applause] mr. kennedy: that's more than any presidential candidacy in the history of texas and in the history of our country. the texas legislature changed the rules in the last session to double the number of signatures collected because they thought no one would be able to do it. the pundits, you heard them from the beginning of the campaign, saying it would be impossible to

get on the ballot and we got on the ballot in texas. if you can get on in texas, we can get on everywhere. [l applause -- applause] mr. kennedy: texas gave us 45 days to collect signatures, got more than double the amount we need. and i was just upstairs talking to the team, i was just completing the signatures and they said we are on our way to new york tonight. new york is the next one, we have 10 days now to complete. 45 days, the hardest states are new york and texas. we have more than we need in new york already. and the dnc has done everything

in their power to stop us and will continue to do that, but we are going to get on the ballot in every state. i want to thank all of you who are part of it. and i want to say a couple of words about nicole. when we chose nicole, we have seen throughout our history that people who -- presidential candidates who chose unknown candidates for their vice president have historically run into a lot of problems because those people who are inexperienced in national politics, when they are exposed to it, they collapse. any kind of issues they have are

amplified and they end up looking bad. and i have watched nicole since the day of our announcement. what she has been through has been extraordinary because she did not spend her lifetime thinking i am going to be vice president of the united states. i called her on the telephone and said do you want to be vice president of the united states? she said let me think about it and then we had dinner three nights later and she said i am going to do it. and, you know, i'm worried about it. i know how people are going to hold up, but you are walking into a buzz saw where you are derided, defamed. i'm used to it, i've been going through this for most of my adult life. but to have that land on you in

two weeks or three or four weeks, and to be able to withstand it and to come up and give a speech like that where every time -- every time i see her speak, i fall a little bit more in love with her because you do not see vice presidential candidates -- most candidates we have today, they sound like they are doing a satire. in the stuff they are talking about is inane, cliched, simplifications, number sticker slogans. that is not what you hear from nicole. you hear a lecture about soil. there is no political scientist

in the world that would tell you you've got to do a lecture on soil, they would love it. no one would tell her to do that, no one would advise her, yet she does it and we all love her because we see the integrity. we see the compassion for other people, for creatures with whom we share this planet and you do not hear that from our political leaders. you don't hear we are part of a giant family and the soil is part of it, plants are part of it and that is what we need to heal this country. two days ago i did a podcast

with a guy called john camp and he is a young -- he has a podcast himself, but he is a young farmer and he cannot have the camera on him because the amish can only use technology for certain purposes. i was able to see him through a camera, but he cannot use it. i had to promise i would never show the film. he is an extraordinary guy, a handsome, young, 35-year-old guy with right eyes and a long beard down to hear. and i asked him about his life and he told me like most amish he has in eighth grade education. -- the amish leave school after eighth grade, but he had this extraordinary knowledge of the

soils, plants, agricultural systems, immunology on which he has made himself a global expert. he said -- i said i spend a lot of time talking with scientists, with people who have a lot of letters behind their name. and i love listening to them talk because they have expertise, a grasp of a particular area of knowledge where you understand that you are listening to existential truths that they have devoted their lives to understanding. i felt like i was again listening to a professor at harvard because he knew so much about it and about 10 or 15 years ago, he was a pesticide dealer. his father is one of the biggest pesticide and fertilizer dealers in ohio and in amish country.

a few years ago they had pest problems on their farm and they found the more pesticides they lied, they were consulting with professors on how to kill this pest in the next and the next. the more they applied, the sicker plants got, the more pests came in they rented a piece of land parallel to the piece they had been treating. they grew balance on parallel -- they grew melons on parallel tracks without pesticides to see what would happen. the area that had been saturated for years, plants were overwhelmed. on the track that was untreated, not a single test appeared. he said it was like a knife line

between the rows of crops. one was healthy, the other was decimated. he said that prompted him and his father to go to a conference on pesticides and listen to a speaker talk about it. his father took the boys out to lunch and they said you're done, we will never use it again and they have now become -- he pledged himself into a study of plant immunology. he did not plants had immune systems, but they do. and now he is one of the world's experts. he has 4 million farmers who follow him. he has developed a way of using -- growing plants with productivity, without using pesticides. and he says that they treat the

pests with nutrients because the nutrients will bolster the immune system and the native immune response of the plant. i told him about a study, a very important study years ago. it is called guier and was published in 2000 at the end of the 20th century. it was a cdc funded study, done by a scientist from johns hopkins. they were looking at the decline in infectious disease mortalities between 1900 and 2000 when there was an 80% decline. people were getting measles, tetanus, cholera, all these other diseases, but they are not killing.

the infectious mortality of measles was 10,000 people per year in 1900. but by 1963, it was 400 per year and almost all the people were malnourished, mainly black kids from the mississippi delta. what this study found is that all medical interventions, vaccines, antibiotics, and surgeries have almost nothing -- less than 3% impact in the decline in mortalities. they attribute it the decline to immune systems that allowed -- and they allowed oranges to be brought so that people could eat them. refrigerators allowed fresh food peoples kitchens. sewage treatment and water plants, nutrition, sanitation.

things that would give us good immune systems. it was the same lesson that we need to start bolstering our immune systems, the things god gave us. the soils. [applause] mr. kennedy: and good food does not come from chemical agriculture. good health does not come in a syringe. and we are a sick country today. 6% of american kids had chronic disease when my uncle was president. it is the biggest issue, 4.3 trillion dollars, five times the beds budget. we are spending two or three times more than the europeans

and yet, we have the worst health outcomes. the more we spent, the unhealthier we get. but what is it that is causing us not to see that? what causes us to feed the beast that makes us sick? it is the corrupt political system, this inversion of our democracy. don't you want a healthy country? [applause] mr. kennedy: we have two presidents running today, one is the current president. they have had for years in office. they could not be more different. if you look at their personalities, dispositions, how

they relate to the world, the ideology that drives them, they articulate all the time that they could not be more different. the issues they are disputing are a narrow window is what nicole was saying. guns, abortions, the border, trans rights. these issues are important, but none of them are existential. none of them are issues that really matter to you, to me, to our children. the issues that matter they never talk about. nicole says they are starting to talk about it because our campaign is forcing them to do it. [applause] mr. kennedy: we have a $34 trillion debt. the service on the debt is

costing more than our defense budget. within five years, $.50 out of every dollar will go to servicing the debt. within 10 years, 100 percent of every dollar in taxes will go to the debt. have you ever heard of president trump talking about ending the debt crisis? have you heard president biden talking about it? they cannot talk about it because they ran up the debt. half of that $34 trillion came from them. president trump spent $8 trillion, ran up $8 trillion during his term. it was more at that time then every president from george washington to george w. bush. 283 years of history. trump came into office and said current came into office. i'm going to run it like a business.

-- i will read it like a business. i am a businessman. trust me. i'm going to run it like a business. -- exactly. then he closed [laughter] all of our businesses. 3 million businesses. who would do that? you want a president who will close down all our businesses? we have two presidents who have shown here willing to do this. he shifted $4 trillion from the american middle. this is an existential issue for our country. we cannot keep running on this debt. we need to figure out a way to invest get things that will actually improve our economy rather than more wars. president trump and president biden former president trump did say he was going to end the war machine. but then he brought john bolton

into run the n.s.a.. [crowd booing] he put a swamp creature in charge of draining the swamp. then two weeks ago, he gave a big bear hug to speaker johnson and president biden and they agreed to send $64 billion more over to ukraine. [crowd booing] wouldn't you rather that 64 billion dollars be spent here in the united states? [cheers and applause] don't we need that country, don't we need that money here in our country to improve our schools? to improve our health care system? to figure out ways to end this mental health epidemic which is

destroying our children? last year we had the highest suicide rate in our history. we have the highest cancer rate in our history. the highest heart disease rate. it's not just chronic disease or neurological disorders afflicting our kids. one in every 22 boys in my consideration, one in every 34 kids. it's not just the obesity epidemic. it's not just the food allergies. the autoimmune disease. diabetes that is debilitating this generation. it is all of these other entries making our kids and our people sicker and sicker and sicker. have you ever had president trump talk about how he's going to end the chronic disease epidemic? no. don't you want a president who will be thinking about those things? [cheers and applause]

when i get into office, i am going to end the chronic disease epidemic. [cheering] one of the reasons i asked nicole to be my vice president, because she spent a lifetime thinking about it and understands it. we need a government that is making this our priority in this country, to give us a generation of healthy children. don't you want that for your country? [applause] and we want to end the lying by our government? don't you want a government that

is going to tell you the truth? when i went skiing with kate, everyone tested the government. it may's death when i was a kid, everyone tested -- when i was a kid, everyone trusted the government. people actually were part of the fact that they pay their taxes. they considered it a civic duty because they trusted their government to spend it well and to tell them the truth about it. that is almost unimaginable today. the first time people understood the government actually lies to us was five months before my uncles election. a cia spy plane was shot down over russia. it flew at 60,000 feet, invisible to the eye and invisible to the re-dock. it was a top secret program, nobody in the world knew about the program. the pilot was under orders to

commit suicide. he had a shot he was supposed to give himself if he ever got shot down. he couldn't be shut down because it was so secret, but there was a russian spy at langley who told them how to do it. they excluded it, and alan dulles, the head of the caa, told the president to lie about it. it was illegal for us to be flying under pressure. and eisenhower went out there and he lied. the next day the russians produced the final -- pilot. the holding was exposed and americans said, oh my god, the government lies to us. when my uncle was killed in 1963, the investigation of the warren commission, is that it was a lone gunman.

60% of americans that the government was lying again. in 1973, the pentagon papers released 26 volumes that showed 10 years, the government had been systematically -- hundreds of government officials had been systematically lying to us, and american symphony said, oh my god -- a majority of americans, the american government, a democracy, lies to its people. we all know every time we see a government official on tv whether it is a president, vice president or anybody else, our assumption is, isn't it, that they are lying to us? if that is not your assumption, you are not paying attention. [laughter] [applause] a lot of times reporters will say to me, you are telling americans not to trust their government.

if you get to the presidency and north american trusts you, how are you going to govern? i say to them, i am going to make the government trustworthy. [applause] the day that nicole and i get to office, we will issue, on day one, an executive order saying that if any government official who lies to the american public in conjunction with their official duties will immediately be fired. [cheers and applause] don't you want a president who will not lie to you no matter what? that is the first thing we need to do to start healing the divide. the reason we all hate each other's because none of us trust any of the institutions that are

supposed to be telling us the truth. we all think they have an agenda. either a democrat agenda or a republican agenda. we don't trust enough enforcement agencies anymore because they are lying to us and taking sides. we don't trust the press anymore. when i was a kid, the job of the press was to maintain a fierce skepticism towards government pronouncements. my father said to me when i was a little boy, people in authority lie. and our job in a democracy is not to trust the experts. that is not a feature of democracy. our job is to respect people in power who are leading us, but to always question what they say to us. that is the job of a -- [applause]

that's the job of a citizen in a democracy. nicole and i are going to give you a government that will not, under any conditions, it lied to the american people, if we -- [applause] we are going to tell americans think they don't want to hear. we are going to tell you whatever -- we will operate transparently because that's what we need in a democracy. we are going to put all of our budget on blockchain so every american can read it 24 hours a day. [applause] if somebody is paying $4000 for a hammer or $6,000 for a toilet seat, he will be able to find that out right away. [applause]

because it's your money. isn't it your money? [murmurs of approval] they forgot it your money. they are treating it like it's their own money and they can keep secrets from us and that is not what happens in a democracy. we are going to restore faith in the democracy that you need to have faith, but by earning that fate, earning that trust. i tell people the truth from day one. we are going to heal the divide. president trump cannot heal the divide in the divide and cannot heal the divide. they both acknowledge the country divided in a way that is more toxic, more dangerous than at any time since the american civil war. but they are not able to do anything about it because they see that division. they are telling you to hate other people. you can't do that and end the divide. we have to find common ground. [applause]

president trump president biden are the products of that toxicity, of that hatred. if we want to have more of the same, you should vote for president biden or president trump, because you overdid it what you're going to get. you're going to get more of the same. they have already shown you what they're going to do in four years. if you want another four years of that, you should work for them. if nicole and i get into office, everything is going to change. everything. [applause] >> when you get into office! [laughter] mr. kennedy: when i get into

office. and don't you want them to change? is there anything you want to keep the change? >> no! mr. kennedy: that is why we need to go out and get valid signatures in all these other states and then we will get the country back. we will get the country that you deserve, the country that is once again a moral authority around the world, that exemplifies democracy around the world. that is raising children that are healthy and showing the rest of the world. a lot of people say, we can't overcome this stuff because we are already too far down the road. do you believe that? [crowd shouts "no!"] that is why you are here today, because you don't believe that from it at i'm pretty something, we have terrible problems in this country. we have economic crises. but we also have the greatest class of entrepreneurs of any country in the world. [applause]

politicians only say that kind of thing about their country, we are the greatest, nobody has seen anything like us. and in fact, if you talk to people in europe or latin america or africa or asia, they will say, despite all of america's problems, we still have their entrepreneurial spirit and the entrepreneurial class like no other in the world . people really believe that they can achieve new things and that they are not locked into systems. we have that and we are seeing it all over our country today. we have the capacity to rebuild our country. we have the sickest country in the world. the highest disease burden of any. in covid, we had 50% of the covid deaths. we only have 4.2% of the world's population. i don't know why people are getting awards for this. we literally had the worst

record of any nation in the world. and the cdc said, well, it's not our fault, it's because americans are so sick. [applause] >> yeah. oh, [laughs] we have the highest neurological disorders. the cdc said the average american who died from covid had three point eight chronic diseases. they had obesity, they had asthma, they had -- give me another one, diabetes -- right. and one other thing -- [laughter] and that is why they died. nobody has chronic disease like us. we are the sickest country in the world. but, we also have the best physicians in the world. these new alternative medicine physicians and functional

medicine physicians. [cheers and applause] and holistic medicine and naturopaths, and all of these people doing things nobody else is doing. we have the capacity. we have a terrible illness problem, but we have a greater capacity to heal. all of these problems are solvable problems. when we need somebody. we need a leader who will be able to summon the best and brightest of americans and put us in a direction, entirely new direction. if we vote for trump or biden, we will get the same thing. if we vote for shanahan, you will get something completely different. you'll get healing. [cheers and applause] we need to wind down the war

machine. we need to bring that money home and invest it here. [cheers and applause] we have the corporations against us, all the institutions that they now control, the press, the regulatory agencies, congress, all against us. but we have people on our side. we will go up and take back our country. i want to thank all of you -- [applause] thank you all for your commitment to our country, to this campaign. god bless you, and god bless america. thank you all very much! [cheers and applause]♪

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