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This is a global player original podcast. He lacks any relevant government, financial, management,

or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed.

These facts alone should be disqualifying. But he has personal qualities related to this job,

which for me pose even greater concern. I've known Bobby my whole life we grew up together. It's no surprise that he

keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He's always been charismatic,

able to attract others through the strength of his personality, his willingness to take risks and break the rules.

I watched his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the path of drug addiction.

His basement, his garage, his dorm room were always the center of the action,

where drugs were available and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in

a blender to feed to his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.

If there are more damning words, it's hard to imagine what they would be. And the person

you heard speaking there is the one surviving child of John F. Kennedy, first cousin

to Robert F. Kennedy, who today is facing confirmation hearings to be America's next health

and human services secretary. Caroline Kennedy hasn't spoken out before because she's been in an ambassadorial role, the US

ambassador to Australia.

But now she says on the day that Robert F. Kennedy is going before senators to ask for one

of the biggest jobs in American government, she thinks it's time to tell America what he's

really like. Welcome to the Newsagents, USA.

It's John. It's Emily. And we should say that this afternoon and the rest of this week, we will see the confirmation hearings of three of the

biggest, arguably most controversial players in Trump's new administration. Cash Patel, who's

going for head of the FBI. He's somebody who was writing children's books about the wicked

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