Kennedy an environmental lawyer by trade has little in the way of medical and public health qualifications.

His appeal to Republicans is largely centered around his vaccine conspiracies.

I spent two-and-a-half hours this week with Bobby Kennedy Jr., Lutnick told CNN.

Former Republican presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks ahead of a live interview with US commentator Tucker Carlson and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, during the finale of the Tucker Carlson Live Tour at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on October 31, 2024. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during the finale of the Tucker Carlson Live Tour at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on Oct. 31, 2024.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/Getty Images

Now a baby is born with 76 vaccines because in 1986 they waived product liability for vaccines.

And heres the best one, they started paying the people at the NIH, right?

They pay them a piece of the money for the vaccine companies.

Lutnick insisted that Kennedy wanted to personally review the data on vaccines to prove that they were actually safe.

Weve seen those people muck about, not very successfully.

On Friday Vice Presdient Kamala Harris weighed in on potentially unprecedented influence that might be granted to Kennedy.

He once expressed support for a national abortion ban.