for the democratic nomination for president and a new poll has him at 19%. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. here s my conversation with robert f. kennedy jr. robert, president biden has a bust of your father in the oval office. when you see that, what do you think? i m honored by it. you know, i have a lot of admiration for president biden for the service that he s given to our country. i ve known him. he s been my friend, my close family friend for 40 years. you know, there s nothing personal about this campaign. i am not going to run a mean spirited campaign against president biden. he and i just differ really dramatically on the issues like the war, like censorship, like the control of wall street and the big corporations, of our federal government and the pharmaceutical companies and also the use of fear as a governing tool. i think our country is headed in a bad direction. that s why i m running, but not because i lack personal affection for president biden. i
robert f. kennedy jr. robert, thank you so much for being here. president biden has a bust of your father in the oval office. when you see that, what do you think? i m honored by it. you know, i have a lot of admiration for president biden for the service that he s given to our country. i ve known him. he s been my friend, my close family friend for 40 years. you know, there s nothing personal about this campaign. i am not going to run a mean spirited campaign or a personal campaign against president biden. he and i just differ really dramatically on the issues like the war, like censorship, like the control of wall street and the big corporations of our federal government and the pharmaceutical companies, and also the use of fear as a governing tool. i think our country is headed in a bad direction. that s why i m running, but not because i have a lack of personal affection for president biden. is he too old to have a second term? you know, i don t think age should be
federal government and the pharmaceutical companies and also the use of fear as a governing tool. i think our country is headed in a bad direction. that s why i m running, but not because i lack personal affection for president biden. is he too old to have a second term? you know, i don t think age should be a metric for us limiting presidential power. i mean, bernie sanders is 81. a lot of people would support him. so i think the only question we have when you get to a certain age is do you have the mental acuity. i am not going to judge president biden s mental acuity. i ll leave that to other people. i ve just seen a poll that says you re at 19% among democrats in a race against president biden. at what point do you think he s obligated to debate you?
robert f. kennedy jr. robert, thank you so much for being here. president biden has a bust of your father in the oval office. when you see that, what do you think? i m honored by it. you know, i have a lot of admiration for president biden for the service that he s given to our country. i ve known him. he s been my friend, my close family friend for 40 years. you know, there s nothing personal about this campaign. i am not going to run a mean spirited campaign or a personal campaign against president biden. he and i just differ really dramatically on the issues like the war, like censorship, like the control of wall street and the big corporations of our federal government and the pharmaceutical companies, and also the use of fear as a governing tool. i think our country is headed in
already a divergent from what republican leaders have been talking about, having universal access to healthcare, not necessarily universal coverage. trying to reign in government involvement in healthcare, but it sounds like the president-elect wants to have a lot of government involvement in healthcare. so it will be remains to be seen how he will cover everybody. shepard: conservatives have been against that idea in concept over time. is anyone changing his or her mind or that or is opposition boili boiling? we ll see. donald trump made clear that he plans to use twitter as a governing tool and just the same way as his tweets and from democrats as well, sort of embarrassed congressional leaders into backing off of a plan, for example, to sort of nix the congressional ethics office. they backed off that amid backlash. donald trump took credit for that. he said i ll do the same thing