Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines clashed on The View with co-host Sunny Hostin on Tuesday over the medical qualifications of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be the Department of Health and Human Services head.
Appearing on the ABC talk show to promote her memoir, Unscripted, Hines was taken to task for RFK Jr. choosing to suspend his 2024 U.S. Presidential campaign and back Donald Trump on the election trail. Trump won the election and, in return for Kennedy’s support, chose him to become the DHHS head.
“With Bobby, that was a very difficult decision to make with President Trump. It was a crazy year-and-a-half with Bobby running. And at the end of the day, President Trump and Bobby sat down and talked and, yes, they did have a lot of common goals,” Hines told a questioning Hostin, while adding she did not personally endorse any Presidential candidate ahead of voting day.
Asked if she supported her husband’s decision to support Trump’s candidacy, Hines answered, “It was complicated, right?” as her husband had moved over two years from being a Democrat to working for President Trump. Hines and Kennedy have been married since 2014.
Co-host Joy Behar, while recognizing Kennedy as her husband and insisting she was being put on the spot to defend him, still pressed her on RFK Jr., questioning the “efficacy” of vaccines. Hines responded that all vaccines were “an important part of our healthcare,” but insisted they could be made safer and parents claiming their children had health impacts after taking a vaccine shot needed to be heard from.
But Hostin then went back on the offensive and sparred with Hines over the qualifications of RFK Jr. to be the DHHS head, with The View co-host claiming he has “spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion, and it’s just a very dangerous thing. I say it with the utmost respect.”
Hines, at that point, attempted to respond to allegations of misinformation by circling back to the COVID era, but was quickly interrupted by Hostin. Hines then interjected: “May I? May I finish?”
She then told a silenced Hostin: “When people, Fauci, were saying when you get the vaccine, you cannot transmit COVID, it will stop COVID, that was disinformation.” Hines had cited Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The conversation ended with co-host Whoopi Goldberg thanking Hines for appearing on The View to answer vital questions about people’s health, before inviting her to return to the TV show. “Really?,” Hines replied with faux exasperation, before adding: “I would love that.”
