‘The View’ Co-Hosts Spend Entire Segment Forcing RFK Jr’s Wife Cheryl Hines To Answer For Her Husband

“The View” co-hosts spent an entire segment on Tuesday forcing Hollywood actress Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to defend her husband’s actions in the Trump administration.

The co-hosts interrogated Hines about her husband’s stances on vaccinations, his belief that the use of Tylenol while pregnant could be linked to a child’s autism and his support for President Donald Trump. Hines defended Kennedy against all of the criticisms, adding that he supports vaccines.

Co-host Sunny Hostin told Hines that Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump in the 2024 election was “striking” because the two had always had negative things to say about one another. While citing Hines’ new book, Hostin told the actress point-blank that she did not stop her husband from supporting Trump after friends voiced their concerns and told Hines that she had to stop him.

“This was striking given the Kennedy name and Kennedy legend with the Democratic Party,” Hostin said. “And you write in your book that friends called voicing concerns saying ‘you can’t let Bobby do this. He’s going to get Trump elected. You’ve got to stop him.’ Obviously, that didn’t happen. How did you feel about his decision to suspend his campaign and support Trump and did you share any concerns that you may have had about that?” (RELATED: SCOOP: Tylenol Maker Privately Admitted Evidence Was Getting ‘Heavy For Autism Risk In 2018)

“Well I always share all of my concerns with my husband. I had not been a political person … So with Bobby, that was a very difficult decision to make with President Trump. It was a crazy year and a half with Bobby running, and at the end of the day, President Trump and Bobby sat down and talked and yes, they did have a lot of common goals,” Hines said, mentioning drug costs as an example. “So it was very important for President Trump and for Bobby to work together and say, no, Americans are not going to pay more than other countries for our drugs.”

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When Hostin brought up vaccines, Hines assured that both Kennedy and Trump want Americans to have access to vaccines. Co-host Joy Behar accused Kennedy of “casting doubt” on the efficacy of vaccines. Hines pointed out that National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has paid more than $5.4 billion to those who have been injured by vaccines since the program began in 1988.

“But, so, the question is yes, to vaccines. Yes, 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.’ Can we listen to people when they say that instead of saying you’re crazy,” Hines said.

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg openly scoffed at the suggestion that Kennedy is a “medical professional” and lectured Hines about her husband’s credentials.

“Cheryl, now this is not your fight really to be fighting. This is your husband’s fight,” Goldberg began. “But I just want to say, I do want to say that you know he’s not a doctor and he’s not a professional. And often times when he’s talking, often times when he’s speaking, he’s speaking not with the best information that we can get because, yeah, you know, we can do a lot better with health stuff and there’s a lot of stuff he can do. And some of the things that he’s suggested, take it out of the hands of my doctor and me and my OB-GYN and me and I wonder, does it give you pause and are you able to say you know, that might not actually be so because I’ve got my experience and I’ve lived with this and I’m still here. So are you able to have those conversations with him?”

“I am able to have those conversations,” Hines replied. “And just to be clear, 90% of secretaries of HHS have not been doctors.”

Hostin then continued to lecture Hines about how most HHS secretaries have had some sort of background in science.

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