{"id":213048,"date":"2025-10-14T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213048\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:30:08","slug":"sunny-hostin-and-cheryl-hines-clash-on-rfk-jr-s-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213048\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Hostin and Cheryl Hines Clash on RFK Jr.’s Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Cheryl Hines stopped by \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday in support of her new book, and while there, the hosts pressed her about her husband RFK Jr.\u2019s health advice and views. It got a bit tense at various points, with Hines even asking Sunny Hostin to let her finish speaking during one exchange.<\/p>\n

The moment came as Hostin called out Kennedy as the least qualified Secretary of Health in history. The host was quick to remind Hines and the audience that Kennedy has no scientific or medical background, which Hines pushed back on by noting that one of President Obama\u2019s Secretaries of HHS was an economist. <\/p>\n

Hines questioned why Kennedy\u2019s lack of medical or scientific experience made him less qualified than an economist, and also touted his record as a lawyer. But Hostin pushed back further.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe has also spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion, and I think it\u2019s just a very dangerous thing,\u201d Hostin said. \u201cI say it with the utmost respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that, Hines tried to use Hostin\u2019s mention of misinformation and disinformation to direct the conversation to the early days of the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s connected circumcision to autism!\u201d Hostin cut in.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay I finish?\u201d Hines retorted curtly.<\/p>\n

The actress then called out Anthony Fauci for initially saying that getting the vaccine would prevent transmission of COVID, calling that disinformation and misinformation. But to that, host Alyssa Farah Griffin cut in, reminding Hines that COVID was still a \u201cnovel virus\u201d at the time that everyone, including experts, were still learning about.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the conversation, the ABC hosts conceded that Hines should not have to take responsibility for her husband\u2019s actions, with moderator Whoopi Goldberg saying at one point that \u201cthis is not your fight, really, to be fighting,\u201d but noting that RFK Jr. won\u2019t come on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe View\u201d airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Cheryl Hines stopped by \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday in support of her new book, and while there,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,16884],"class_list":{"0":"post-213048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-the-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}