Cheryl Hines takes on The View Sunny Hostin vs. RFK Jr.

Limit your enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines clashed The view with co-host Sunny Hostin on Tuesday about her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s medical qualifications to become head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Appearing on the ABC talk show to promote his memoir, Unscripted, Hines has been criticized for RFK Jr.’s choice to suspend his 2024 U.S. presidential campaign and support Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Trump won the election and, in exchange for Kennedy’s support, chose him to become head of HHS.

“With Bobby, it was a very difficult decision to make with President Trump. It’s been a crazy year and a half with Bobby’s candidacy. And at the end of the day, President Trump and Bobby sat down and talked and, yes, they had a lot of common goals,” Hines told Hostin, while adding that she had not personally endorsed any presidential candidate before Election Day.

Asked if she supported her husband’s decision to support Trump’s candidacy, Hines responded, “It was complicated, wasn’t it?” because her husband had gone from being a Democrat to working for President Trump in two years. Hines and Kennedy have been married since 2014.

Co-host Joy Behar, while acknowledging Kennedy as her husband and insisting she was put on the spot for defending him, still pressed her on RFK Jr., questioning the “effectiveness” of vaccines. Hines responded that all vaccines were “an important part of our health care” but insisted they could be made safer and that parents claiming their children had health effects after receiving a vaccine shot needed to be heard.

But Hostin then went back on the offensive and sparred with Hines over RFK Jr.’s qualifications to be head of HHS, with The view co-host saying he has “spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion, and it’s just a very dangerous thing. I say that with the utmost respect.”

Hines, at this point, attempted to respond to the misinformation allegations by harkening back to the COVID era, but was quickly interrupted by Hostin. Hines then interjected: “Can I? Can I finish?”

She then told the silenced Hostin: “When people, Fauci, were saying when you get the vaccine you can’t transmit COVID, it will stop COVID, that was misinformation. » Hines was referring to Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The conversation ended with co-host Whoopi Goldberg thanking Hines for appearing on The view to answer vital questions about people’s health, before inviting him back on the TV show. “Really?” Hines responded with mock exasperation, before adding, “I would love that.”