RFK Jr. On if He Would Consider Running the CIA: ‘Yes I Would, But I Would Never Get Senate Confirmation’

Carlson: “A lot of roads lead back, unfortunately, to our most powerful intelligence agency. Would — if you were asked, would you run it, would you become CIA director if you were asked?”

Kennedy JR.: “I would never get — yes, I would, but I would never get Senate confirmation. As you know, the intelligence agency are protected by very, very powerful committees in the Senate and in the House that are already into the project. And the people who serve on those committees are people who wouldn’t, you know, they would not — they, they would — they’re safeguarding that directorship. And I would be very, very dangerous for those committees. So I don’t think that —“

Carlson: “And yet, in his — you know, in your joint appearance on Friday, President Trump introduced you by saying that he plans to, if elected, establish a commission to declassify the remaining documents around your uncle’s murder in 1963.”

Kennedy JR.: “Yeah.”

Carlson: “And I — and I think everyone at this point knows the truth. Which is, the CIA is implicated in that, those documents protect CIA, maybe among others?”

Kennedy JR.: “Well, whether they do or not, I mean, it’s odd that they’ve not allowed them to be released.”

Carlson: “What could possibly be the explanation?”

Kennedy JR.: “More than 60 years after my uncle’s death, almost 65 years — 62 years after his death, and None of the people who were implicated in that crime are alive now.”

Carlson: “Yes.”

Kennedy JR.: “The last ones have died off in the last year or two. And so, it clearly is to protect the institution.”

Carlson: “Yes.”

Kennedy JR.: “And that’s wrong. It’s just wrong. And it is wrong for Democrat and it’s wrong for Republicans.”

Carlson: “It’s just interesting, though, that a bipartisan list of presidents these six decades have kept those files classified.”