Thread by @kasie

I interviewed @RobertKennedyJr on @CNN. A recent poll showed him winning 21% for president.
 
He has made controversial statements, and now that he’s running he sometimes says he did not say them.
 
It’s important to know what is true. Here is what he said to me today:

KASIE: You said no vaccines are safe and effective.

KENNEDY: “I’ve never said that.”

He did. We played the clip for him.

He said he is not anti-vaccine, but he told me he doesn’t think any should be mandated for schoolchildren.

KENNEDY: "No. I would be against mandates at all."
KASIE: “For any vaccines for children?
KENNEDY: "For any vaccine."

Kennedy has said Ashkenazi Jews were most immune to COVID, a comment decried as antisemitic.

He told me: "I can understand why people were disturbed by those remarks. They certainly weren't antisemitic... I wish I hadn't said them, but, you know, what I said was true."

Kennedy also once compared COVID lockdowns to the Holocaust, which his wife called “reprehensible.”

He told me: "No, she's not right. But it was something that needed to be said at that time. ... What you're doing is misleading the public right now."

I asked him about a conspiracy theory that the government was involved in Jan. 6.

He told me: "I don't know. I don't have any way of knowing.”

Watch the full interview here:

https://twitter.com/jeffstorobinsky/status/1735701864610476468