‘Listen To What I’m Saying!’ RFK Jr. And NBC Reporter Get In Heated Exchange Over Removing Fluoride In Water
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got in a fiery exchange with NBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard over removing fluoride from America’s public water systems.
The NBC News journalist interviewed the former independent presidential candidate from Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday morning following President-elect Donald Trump’s win in Tuesday’s election.
Prior to Trump’s victory, Kennedy vowed he would advise the GOP nominee to put pressure on health agency’s to remove fluoride in America’s public water system. He claimed during his interview with Hillyard that fluoride was lowering the IQ of children.
HILLYARD: You also talked about fluoride in the U.S. water supply. You would see to ban fluoride in the U.S. water supply?
KENNEDY: I would advise the water districts that are currently using it that there is a lot of new science out there. In fact, there’s a federal judge decision by an Obama appointed judge on October 4th of this year in which he sent the EPA back to the drawing board and said, you’ve never done the safety studies on it, by the way —
HILLYARD: And so what does that look like without debating, without going back and forth on the science.
KENNEDY: It’s lowering IQ in our children.
HILLYARD: What would you — on January 2025 we’re 3 months away here, what would you actually do?
KENNEDY: I think fluoride is on it’s way out —
HILLYARD: And how would you make that happen? This is your chance is what you’re suggesting to me. How would you make that happen?
Kennedy: Listen to what I’m saying! And then I’ll tell you. I think fluoride is on the way out because that court decision, I think the faster that it goes out, the better. I’m not going to compel anybody to take it out, but I’m going to advise the water districts about their legal liability, their legal obligation to their service, to their constituents. And I’m going to give them good information about the science. And I think fluoride will disappear.
Watch the clip above via MSNBC.
