Overview

• Appearing on ABC’s The View to promote her memoir Unscripted, Hines faced sustained questions about her husband’s performance as U.S. health secretary.
• Sunny Hostin called Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “the least qualified” HHS leader and warned about misinformation, while Hines cited his environmental law career and work on Monsanto’s Roundup cases.
• Co-hosts highlighted Kennedy’s unsubstantiated claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, which medical professionals and decades of research dispute.
• Hines characterized Kennedy’s 2024 move to end his independent campaign and support President Donald Trump as “complicated,” adding she was initially “guarded” about the shift.
• The hosts said they want Kennedy to appear on the show; Hines noted he considered it, said she advised “maybe don’t,” and joked that his previously reported “brain worm” “ate a little bit of his brain and died.”