>> ladies and gentlemen, welcome

the nexte united states, robert f kennedy junior. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. thank you, austin. what a start -i want to start by thanking some of the people

who appeared today. jonathan moody for hisic jessica, jp sears, who my brother was side-by-side ngthpaw people who remained funny. willie d, thank you for coming down from houston. and ryland englehart who gave his lifeo getting us better food. s volunteers. were there, those are the champion signature gatherers. we have an historic day in texas, we ended at 267,000 signatures.

[applause] mr.nedy: that's more than any presidential candidacy in thst texas and in the history of our country. the texas legislature changed the rules in the last session to double the number of signatures collected because they thought no one would be able to do it. the pundits, you heard them from the beginning of the campaign, saying it would be■get on the bn the ballot in texas. if you can get on in texas, we [l applause -- applause] mr. kennedy: texas gave us 45

days to collect sigtures, got more than double the amount we need. an i was just upstairs talking to the team, i was just completing the signatures and they said we o new york tonight. new york is the next one, we have 10 days now to complete. 45 days, the hardest states are new york and texas. we have more than we need in new york already. and the dnc has done everything in their power to s e going to get on the ballott in every state. i want to thank l you who are part of it.

and i want to say a cple of words about nicole. che nicole, we have seen throughout our history that people who -- presid candidates who chose unknownt hn into a lot of problems because those people who are inexperienced in national politics, whethey are exposed to it, they collapse. anyd ofssues they have are looking bad.d they end and i have watched nicole since the day of our announcement. ordiry because shethrough has did not spend her lifetime thinking i am going to be vice

i called her on the telephone and said do you want to be vice president of the united states? she said let me think about it and then we had dinner three nights ler and she said i am going to do it. and, you know, i'm worried about it. i know how people are going to hold up, but you walking into a buzz saw where you are d, damed. through this for most of myoing adult life. but to have that land onou in two weeks or three or four o be able to withstand it and to come up a ae every time --

every time i see her speak, i fall a little bit more in love her becauseial candidates -- most candidates we have tod, they sound like they are doing a satire. in the stuff they are talking about is inane, cliched, simplifications, number sticker slogans. that is not what you hear from nicole. you hear a lecture about soil. th no political scientist in theé world that would tell yu you've got to do a lecture on ld le it. no one would tell her to do that, no one would advise her, yet she does it and we all love her because we see the integrity.

we see the compassion for other people, for creatures with whom we share this planet and you do he our political leaders. you don't hear we a giant family and the soil is part of it, plants are part of it and that is what we need to heals cotry. two days ago i did a podcast with a guy called john camp and he is a young -- he has a podcast himself, but he is a young farmer and he cannot have the camera on him because the h can only use technology for certaur

i was able to see him through a camera, but he cannot use it. i had to promise i would never show the film. he is an extraordinary guy, andy with right eyes and a long beard down to hear. and i asked him about his life and he told me liket he has in eighth grade education. -- the amish leave school after eighth grade, but he hadhis extraordinary knowledge of the soils, plants, agricultural systems,mmunology on which he has made himself a global expert. said -- i said i spend a lot of time talking with scientists, with people who have a lot of letters behind their name. and i love listening to them

talk because they have expertise, a grasp of a particular area of knowledge where you understand that you are listening to exiential truths that they have devoted their lives to understanding. i felt like i was again listening to a professor a and 5 years ago, he was a pesticideal. his father is one of the bstpess o and in amish country. a few years ago they had pest problems on their farm and they found the more pesticides they ed, they were consulting with professors on how to kill this pest in the next and the next. the morey

sicker plants got, the more pests came in they rented a piece of parallel to the piece they had been treating. they grew balance on parallel -- they melon parallel tracks without pesticides to see what would happen. the ea been saturated for years, plants were overwhelmed. on the track that was untreated, not a single test appeared. he said it was like a knife line between the rows of crops. one was healthy, the other was decimated. he said that prompted him and his fr conference on pesticides and ln to a speaker talk about it. his father took the olunch an',

we will never use it again and they have now become -- he pledged himself into a study of plant immunology. not plants had immune and now he is one of the world's experts. he has 4 million farmers who follow him. he has developed a way of using -- growing plants with productivity, without using pesticides. and he says that they treat the pests with nutrients because the nutrients will bolster the immune system and the native immune response of the plant. i told him about a study, a very important study years ago. it is called guier and was

published in 2000 at the end of the 20th century. it was a cdcd study, done by a from johns hopkins. they were looking at the decline in infectious disease mortalities between 1900 and 2000 when there was an 80% decline. people were getting measles, tetanus, cholera, all these other diseases, but thre killing. the infectiouslity of measles was 10,000 people per year1900 but by 1963, it 4 year and almost all the people were malnourished, mainly black kids from the mississippi delta. what this study found is that

all medical interventions, vaccines, antibiotics, and surgeries have almost nothing -- less than 3% impact in the decline in mortalities. butet the decline to immune sys allowed -- an allowed oranges to be brought so that people could eat them. refrigerators allowed fresh food peoples kitchens. sewage treatment and water plants, nutrition, sanitation. t wod give us good immune systems. it was the same lesson that we need to start bolstering our immune systems, the things god gave us. the soils. [applause] mr. kennedy: and good food does

not come from chemical agriculture. good health does not come in a syringe. and we are a sick country today. 6% of american kids had chronic disease when my uncle was president. it is the biggest issue, trillion dollars, five times the beds budget. we arendintwo or three times more than the europeans and yet, we have the worst outc. the more we spent, the unhealthr get. but what is us not to see that? whau feed the beast

that makes us sick? it is the corrupt political system, this inversion of our democracy. don't you want a healthy country? [applause] mr. kennedy: we have two presidents running today, one is the current president. they have had for years in office. they could not be more different. if you look at their personalities, dispositions, how they relate to the world, the ideology that drives them, they articulate all the time that they could not be more different. the sues they are disputing are a narrow window is what nicole was saying. guns, abortions, the border,

trans rights. these issues are important, but none of them are existential. none of them are issues that really matter to you, to me, to our children. the issues that matter they never talk about. nicole says they are starting talk about it because our campaign is forcing them to do it. applause] mr kennedy: we have a $34 trillion debt. the service on the debt is costmo defense budget. within five $.50 out of every dollar will go to servicing the debt. within 10 years, 100 percent of every dollar in wilgo to the debt. have you ever heardent trump talking about ending the

debt crisis? have you heard president biden talking about it? they cannot(d talk about it because they ran up the debt. half of that $34 trillion came from them. president trump spent $8 trillion, ran u$8 trillion during his term. it was more attime then every president from george washington to george w. bush. 283 years of history. trump came into office and said current came into office. i'm going to run it like a business. -- i will read it like a business. i am a businessman. trust me. i'm going to run it like a business-- exactly. closed [laughter] all of our businesses. 3 million businesses. who would do that? you want a president who will close down all our businesses?

we have two presidents who have shown hereli shifted $4 trillion from the american me this is an existential issue for our country. we cannot keep running on this debt. we need to figure out a way invest get things that will actually improve our economy ratherre wars. president trump and president biden former president trump did say he the war machine. but then he brought john bolton into rhe [crowd booing] he put a swamp creature in charge of draining the swamp. then two weeks ago, he gave a bigr huto speaker johnson and president biden and they

agreed to send $64 billion more over to ukraine. ro wouldn't you rather that 64 billion dollars be spent here in the united states? [cheers and applause] don't we need that country, don't weoney here in our country to improve our schools? to improve our health care system? to figure out ways to end this mental health epidemic which de? last year we had the highest suicide rate in our history. we have the highest cancer rate ur history. the highest heart disease rate. it's not justse or neurological disorders afflicting our kids.

on in my consideration, one in eve4kids it's not just the obesity it's not just the food allergies. th disease.diabetes that is debg this generation. it is all of these other entries making our kids and our people sicker and sicke and sicker. have you ever had president trump talk about how he's going to end the chronic disease epidemic? no. don't you want a president who will be thinking about those things? [cheers and applause] when i get into office, i am going to end the chronic disease [cheering]

one of the reasons i asked nicole to be my vice president, e shspent a lifetime thinking about it and understands it. need a government that is makinghis our priority in this country, to give us a generation of healthy children. don't you want that for your country? and we want to end the lying by our government? don't you want a government that is going tl you the truth? when iiingith kate, everyone tested the government. it may's deathi waa kid, everyone td s a kid, everyone trusted the government. people actually were part of the fact that they pay their taxes.

they considered it a civic duty because they trusted their government to spend it well and to almost unimaginable y.the first time people understd the government actually lies to us was five months before my uncles election. spy plane was n over russia. it flew at 60,000 feet, invisible to the eye and invisible to the re-dock. it was a top secret program, nobody in the world knew about the program. the pilot was under orders to mmituicide. he had a shot heposeto give himself if he ever got shot down. he couldn't be shut down because it was so secret, but there was a russian spy at langley who told them how to do it. they excluded it, and alan dulles, the head of the

caa, told the president to lie about it. it was illegal for us to be flying under pressure. and eisenhower went out there and he lie the next day the russiansproded- pilot. the holding was exposed and americans said, oh my god, the government lies to us. when my uncle was killed in 1963, the iestigation of the warren commission, is that it was a lone gunman. 60% of americans that the government was lying again. in 1973, the pentagon papers released 26 volumes that showed , the government had been systematically -- hundreds of government offis en systematically lying to us, and american symon said, oh my god -- a majority of americans,

the americ government, a crac lies to its people. we all know every time we see a governmenticiaon tv whether it is a president, vice president or anybodye, o assumption is, isn't it, that ifs?hat is not your assumption, you are not paying attention. [laughter] [applause] a lot of times reporters will say to me, you are telling americans not to trust their government. you get to the presidency and north american trusts you, how are you to vern? i say to them, i am going to make the government trustworthy. [applause] i get to office, we will issue, on day one, an executive order saying that if any government official

who lies to the american public in conjunction with their official duties will immediately be fired. [cheers andlaus don't you want a president who will not lie to you no matter what? that is the first thing we need to do to start healing thedivid. the reason we all hate each oth' nonof us trust any of the instutions that are supposed to be telling us the truth. we all think have an agenda. either a democrat agendaarepuic. we don't trust enough enforcement agencies anymore becaus they are lying to us and taking sides. we don't trust the press anymore. when i was a kid, the job of the press was to maintain a fierce

skepticism towards government pronouncements. my father said to me when i was a littleoy, people in authority lie. and ourcry is not to trust the experts. that is n a feature of democracy. our job is to respect people in power who are leading us, but to always question what they say to us. that is the job of a -- [applause] that's the of a citizen in a democracy. nico ang tgive you a government that will not, ions, it lied to the american people, if we -- [applause]

we are going to tell americans think they don't want to hear. we are going to tell whatever --wi transparently because that's what we need in a democracy. we are going t put all of our an read it 24 hours aso every day. [applause] if somebody is paying $4000 for seat, he will be able to find that out right away. [applause] because it's your money. isn't it your money? [murmurs approval] they forgot it your money. they are treating it like it's their own money and they can mocracy. we are going to restore faith in the democracy that you need to

have faith, but by earning that fate, earning that trust. i tell people the truth from day one. we are going to heal the divide. president trump cannot heal the divide in the divide and cannot heal the divide. they both acknowledge the country divided in a way that is more toxic, more dangerous than at any time since the american civil war. but they are not able to do anything about it because they isio they are telling you to hate other people. 'do that and end the divide. we have to fd [applause] president trump president biden are the products of that toxicityof hatred.

if we want to have more of the same, you should v for president biden or president trump, because you overdtwhat '. you're going to get more of the same. they have already shown you what they're going to do in four years. ifu7 you want another four years of that, you should work for them. if nicole and get into office, everything is going to change. everything. [applause] >> wheu office! [laughter] mr. kennedy: when i get into office. and don't you want them to change? is there anything you want to keep the change? >> no! mrkennedy: that is why we need to go out and get valid signatures in all these other states and then we will get the country back. ç

once again a morut around the world, that exemplifies democracy around the that is raising children that are healthy and showing the rest of the world. a lot of people say, we can't overcome ts stuff because we are already too far down the road. do you believe that? [crowd shouts "no!"] that is why you are here today, because don't believe that from it at i'm pretty something, we have terrible problems in is country. we have economic crises. but we also have the greatest class ofprenntrs of any country in the world. [applause] politicians only say that kind their country, we are the greatest, nobody has thinlike us. and in fact, if you talkeurope n america or africa or asia, thewf america's problems, we still

have their entrepreneurial spirit and the entrepreneurial class like no other in the world . people really believe that they can achieve new things and that they are not locked into systems. we have that and we are seeing it all over our country today. we have the capacity our country. we have the sickest country in the world. the highest disease burdenany. in covid, we had 50% of the covid deaths. we only have 4.2% of the world's population. i don't know why people are getting awards for this. we literally had the worst record of any nation in the world. and the cdc said, well, it's americans are so sick. [applause] h. oh, [laughs] we have the highest neurological

disorders. the cdc said the average americanhoree point eight chronc diseases. they had obesity, they had asthma, they had -- give me another one,-- rht. and one other thing -- [laughter] and that is why they died. nobody has chronic disease like us. we are the sickest country in w but, we also have the best these new alternative medicine physicians and functional medicine physicians. [cheers and applause] and holistic medicine and naturopaths, and all of these people doing thingbo else is doing. we have the capacity. we have a terrible illness problem, but we have a greater capacity to heal.

all of these problems are solvable problems. when we need somebody. we need a leader who will be able to summon the best and brightest of americans and put us in a direction, entirely new direction. if we vote for trump or biden, we wil for shanahan, u will get something completely different. you'll get healing. [cs ] we need to wind downhechin we need to bring that money home and invest it here. [cheers and applause] we have the corporations against us, all the institutions that they now control, the press, the regulatory agencies, congress,

all against us. but wee pele on our side. we will go up and take back our country. i want to thank all of you -- e] thank y for your commitment to our country, to this campaign. thank you all very much! [cheers and applause]