so help me God so help me God congratulations Mr secretary I want to begin by thanking president Trump for giving me this extraordinary opportunity and I I want to introduce my family and thank them for being here um my wife Cheryl my cousin Anthony Shriver my daughter kick my other daughter Kira katalina Catalina Shriver Joey Shriver Jackson Hines and emiris Kennedy and I want to thank all of you for your support and uh throughout this whole 2 and 1/ half year Journey um i i i my first time in this hble office was in 1961
and I came here to meet my or 1962 I came here and I had a meeting with my uncle who was president and where we talked about the environment he was involved deeply as we all know in restoring physical fitness in this country um he challenged at one point during his administ ation he challenged Americans to do a 50-m walk which I ultimately did but I remember the day that my father completed his walk we were staying at um at uh up at um Camp David and my father came in after 18 hours walking on
the cnno toe path with his feet bleeding and blisters on them um my father had a one of his best friends was Al Lowenstein and Al Owen Cena ult ultimately was a congressman from New York who was assassinated himself in 1980 but Al Owen Cena started the dump Johnson movement to get rid of President Johnson and and and the Vietnam War and at the time that he started it people just thought it was a Fool's errand and ultimately he asked my father to run for president against Johnson my father wouldn't do it at that time
and he asked je McCarthy McCarthy did and he joined that campaign and my father ultimately ran and Johnson then dropped out so alen succeeded and although Al was on the other side now running against my father with Jee McCarthy my father wrote him a note a quote from Emerson where he said if a single man land himself firmly on his own ideal and there abide the whole wide world will come around to him for 20 years I've got up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I
can end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country on August 23rd of last year God sent me president Trump all right and he gave me he's now given me he's kept every promise that he's made to me he he kept his word in every account and gone Way Beyond it I'm so grateful to you Mr President a lot of people told me that I couldn't trust president Trump I better get it in writing and we did a handshake and everything that he told me he was going to do he has done right and I'm
so grateful to him and I've told you before I genuinely believe that you are a pivotal historical figure and you are going to transform this country at a time when we see all of the indish of democracy now in tatters in our country we see the rise of the military industrial complex the rise of totalitarianism these attacks on our Constitution and this breathtaking epidemic that is disabling our people president Trump has promised to restore the American dream in this country a healthy person has a Thousand Dreams a sick person only has one 60% % of
our population has only one dream that they get better president Trump has promised that he's going to restore America's strength but we can't be a strong Nation if we have a weak citizen R if people are sick 60% of our our people are sick 77% as president Trump mentioned of our children cannot qualify for military service and we need a man on a white horse now we need somebody who who is willing to come in and has the spine and the guts and the strength to challenge orthodoxies to stand in the way of vested interests
and to break institutions that have turned against our democracy president Trish on again and again that he is that hero and most recently I greatly appreciate and I called you the day that you announced the termination of usaid my uncle started us Aid in 1961 for humanitarian purposes to put our country on the side of the poor it has been captured by the military industrial conflict it has become a Sinister propagator of totalitarianism across and War across the globe and very few people understand how Sinister this agency really is and president Trump saw that and
he stood up to it with a master stroke and we want to do the same thing with the institutions that are stealing the health of our children we need a revolutionary figure and you are that figure and I'm very grateful for you for giving me this opportunity I want I want to recognize some of the the Allies that I've had in this battle for a long time Senator ran Paul Senator Ron Johnson Senator Roger Marshall Margery Taylor green and and Buddy Carter who've all been champions of the maaha agenda before I even came along I'm
very grateful for you for standing strong thank you very much president Mr secretary I'd like to ask what plans do you have immed at HHS now that you're SW in sir he's going to be running it he's going to do a great job find out a lot of secrets that have been maybe kept from us but he's going to come up with some solutions to some big big problems self problems I think he's going to go down in the record books I really have confidence this group has great even Rand has confidence if I ask
you Mr secretary you plan to fire anyone immediately or what are your plans on day one which I guess is today our plans are radical transparency and returning gold standard science NIH FDA and CDC to end ending the corruption ending the corporate capture of those agencies getting rid of the people on those panels that have conflicts of interest we can do unored and unimpeded science rather than uh uh the kind of product that is coming out of those agencies today Mr secretary may I ask um how do you address concerns that um some Americans may
have at your stance on vaccines and if when people actually hear what I think about vaccines which is common sense which is vaccines should be tested they should be safe everybody should have informed consent people people are reacting because they hear things about me that aren't true they hear characterizations of things that I've said that are simply not true and they hear what I have to say actually about vaccines everybody supports it all right Mr Kennedy car question over from Lindell TV what's your message to Democrats in the Senate that fought so hard to keep
you from taking this position and congratulations by the way president Trump has promised be the president for all Americans and he has said to me that he understands that there's no such thing is Republican children or Democratic children all of our children need to be protected and whether you're in a blue state or red state I'm going to do everything I can to work with you whether you're Democrat or Republic and restore child's health in this country Mr secretary great job great job thank you all very much
