Companies. 45 years and counting, powered by cable. Next, 2024 indepeent president ial candidate robert f. Kennedy jr. And his Vice President ale running mate campaigning in austin, texas. They focus on several topics cluding putting an end to chronic diseases, reduci the National Debt and protecting constitutional rights. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next Vice President of the United States, nicole shanahan. Hi, everyone. Thank you. To you all, thank you to the brave and Innovative Minds here today. Thank you to all of those who are healing this country and healing americas soil. I want to talk about soil. Soil isnt much of a political issue these days. When they surveyed the public and asked what do you care about most, you can get things like immigration, abortion, inflation, guns, the deficit, the wars. But theres never a check box for soil. I love soil, too. For me, soil is an important issue, but it is part of something much bigger. I would like to talk about that bigger thing today. Healing the soil says we are going to heal this country from the ground up. Yes. The foundation of a Nations Health is its soil. It is also the air and water, it is the economic infrastructure that supports life itself. And it has to be treated and respected as a public good. Thus, a most basic responsibility of our government. Moms, you all get this. You know that Health Comes First and then we can do other things. For too long our nation has neglected its foundation. We have spent trillions of dollars on foreign wars while our domestic infrastructure has fallen into disrepair. We have propped up wall street white main street businesses have shuttered their windows. We have funneled unimaginable wealth to billionaires i know them all and i can tell you most of them dont care that millions of americans have fallen into poverty while they have fallen into wealth we have never seen. It isnt just that our soils are depleted. Our people are, too. American finances are depleted and they are drowning in debt. Americans boss whose health is depleted, what i have seen through my life is that every one of those conditions can absolutely be healed. The healing starts when you get experience. It starts when you make it a priority. The healing starts when you start deceiving yourself that everything is fine. The healing starts when you are willing to look at the root of the problem and get to work. That is what we are going to do. Our politicians have been more concerned with slandering each others personal lives, they have ignored these warning signs and turned their gaze away from the foundation of National Health instead they dilute themselves with faint ambitions and lose themselves to the temptations of power and money. I am sick of it. It is not just soil that is absent from the checkboxes. You will not see chronic disease even though it affects over half of americans. You dont see decaying infrastructure on that list. You will not see corporate capture, you might see Climate Change but you will not see them addressing the root causes of forever chemicals in our water supply and in our food. Where is that . You will rarely see fentanyl mentioned even though their kids are dying from it or skyrocketing depression act for the childcare affordability crisis. We have to talk about these things and open our hearts to them. Robert f and i will look where all of the other politicians have failed to go. We are going to do something about it. This Incredible Movement of people have already started to make a difference. Has anybody noticed the new talking points coming out from the democrats and republicans . I heard trump talking about block chains and bind in talking about the epa taking Drinking Water seriously. And you know what . Im counting each and every one of these is a when win. The pressure we are putting on them to put this together seriously is already working. Lets keep it going. We care about what the political establishment has neglected. That is one of the big reasons i have entered politics. Up until last year, i was a heavy democratic donor because i believed if i could get the ear of party leaders, they would implement common sense policies. When i did get there ear, they would smile and nod but somehow nothing ever seems to get done. Our efforts become laden with all kinds of distortions. In my more cynical moments, i wonder if they were just after my money. I am not a cynical person. I supported them because i trusted they were sincere in wanting to make positive change. I think many of them want to. They cant. They cant because they are beholden to Party Politics in the insider games of washington dc. They cant actually do anything because they are tangled in these corporate interests. They are stuck in a locked congress and federal agencies. Most politicians are trapped there and as a result, we are all trapped there. Or, we were trapped there until now. Because robert f. Kennedy, jr. Is here and he is taking charge for all of us. Thats all about to change. Two years ago, i wanted to change and i looked outside of the party. I started two years ago looking outside of the party for someone who has the experience, the wisdom and wherewithal to leave this kind of transformation. I could not find anybody until i looked into robert f. Kennedy, jr. Since listening to those early interviews and seeing him out day after day and that selfie line. There is Something Special for him to get out hitting the pavement day after day. He is in a class all of his own. I met hundreds of these politicians. I never met a candidate like this. This transcends politics. He is willing to look at images from the perspective of solving them with longterm strategies and understands the need for healing on a national level. You want to know why he knows how to do this . The last 40 years of his life that is what he has been doing with this life. Each and every day he is doing it. Healing is not only about policies but getting to work and getting it done and doing it without worrying hissing off your corporate donors. This is the objective leadership we have all been craving. Words are weak. How nice would it be to put the trust that our leadership is putting the health of the nation first . To put resources from the war machine into the peace economy . We so desperately need a department of transportation that is competent at fixing roads not led by a career politician. We need actual, objective on conflicted people running our agencies. We need to clean up our polluted water supply and broken railways and we cant do it when our agencies are corrupted. So, robert f. Kennedy, jr. Will help us restore the integrity of our food supply because our sta will be run by a farmer. Our educational system, qualified teachers and not the government will run the classroom. We are going to tackle the Mental Health crisis with guidance from doctors who put health above pharmaceutical bonuses. It is only going to be that kind of set up that will help us not to feel trapped in government. Natural healing is not about policy but how we communicate with each other. Its about love, trust and respect and a lot of people have been turned off by politics not only by the failure of government but because the way these political conversations are are happening. You can barely call them conversations in fact. Its more like a shouting match and each side agrees the other side is horrible. If we will heal as a nation we have to stop seeing each other that way. We have to respect each other enough to actually listen otherwise how will we restore any semblance of coherent conversation . How will we remember how lucky we are to be protected by the constitution of the United States. We are so lucky. We will remember how lucky we are once we stopped taking each other out and realizing the essence of our relationship is what makes us capable of appreciating this beautiful country. When you actually have a conversation with someone on the others. You realize there is a lot more in common than you think. Even when you take on one of those wedge issues you discover people in this country are not monsters. Im talking about things like guns, abortion and immigration. Most of us are caring human beings but our political culture tries to convince us otherwise. It defies us into warring opinion tribes and how are we going to heal when we talk to each other like that . How do we attack Chronic Health for not speaking coherently to one another . I have allied myself with robert f. Kennedy, jr. Because nothing i have ever heard him say is designed to make you hate his opponent. There is no meanness. There is no mockery. This is his nature. He gives people the benefit of the doubt and listens carefully and that is the quality of leadership that our country needs the most right now. Our independent candidacy is not separate from the left or right it draws from both and reaches outside of the left and right to. A lot of our Innovative Solutions come from outside Convention Politics in the round of alternatives. I know that sounds so radical but it should not. I have seen the power of these alternative ways of thinking in my own life. I have used alternative healing practices and learned that these practices have been used for centuries. I have seen alternative agricultural practices reinvigorate land and invent innovators of criminal justice restore lives. I know it is possible to step outside frozen habits and what is possible when we become independent. I am really happy to welcome right now this wonderful man on stage. Lets welcome him now. Please welcome our next president , Robert F Kennedy junior. 0 this is a day of affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change. We recognize full human equality of all of our people. Not those of a particular bridge race religion but to all people. We must do it for the simple and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do. We are told that our nation is hopelessly divided but i found Something Different as i traveled this country. I have noticed in the upwelling of optimism i have before. Something is stirring in us saying it does not have to be this way. And so, i come here today to declare independence from the tyranny of corruption. To do that, i must first declare my own independence. Independence from the democratic party. And from all other political parties. I have not made this decision lightly. It is painful for me to let go of the party of my uncles, father, grandfather and great grandfather. My sacrifice is nothing compared to the risk our Founding Fathers took. They knew if the revolution failed every last one of them would be hanged and they chose to place everything on the line. Jefferson turned to the president and said live or die, survivor parish from this day on i am with my country. I am going to make that same pledge to you today so i can stand before you as every leader should stand before you free from partisan elite, backroom deals, serving only my conscience, my creator in you. Every president enters office wants to work with people across the aisle but none of them ever does that. They cant, they have already chosen aside. I am going to build coalition from both sides of the aisle. Except for the small minority of Public Officials that are actually corrupt ill tell you a secret. Isnt that ultimately what we want . Liberation from a system that robs us of our health, wealth and hope, our patriotism and our sense of ourselves as a good and capable people. His healing our divided nation possible . Lets go take back our country. I am a real american, i know what is right, fight for your life. Welcome the next president of the United States robert f. Kennedy, jr. Robert f kennedy thank you everyone and thank you austin. I wanted think some of the people here today. My brother who was one of the few people who remain funny during the pandemic. Thank you for coming in from houston and Riley Englehart and our three texas volunteers. They were a part of the team and signature gatherers. We have a historic data in texas. Just under 250,000 signatures. [applause] more than any other president ial candidacy in the history of texas. And in the history of our country. The Texas Legislature says, they change the rules that double the number of signatures needed to be collected because they thought no one would be able to do it. But you heard them from the beginning of this campaign saying it would be impossible for us to get on the ballot and we got on the ballot in texas and if we can get on in texas we can get on everywhere. [applause]\ Robert R Kennedy i was just upstairs talking to the team as i was completing the signature and they said we are on the way to new york because that is the next one for us we are 10 days out we have 45 days between new york and texas. We already have more than we need a new york. [applause] the dnc has done everything in their power to stop us and will continue to do that but we will get on the ballot in every single state. I want to thank all of you. I want to say a couple of words about nicole. When we chose nicole, we have seen throughout our history president ial candidates who chose unknown candidates as their Vice President s and have historically run into problems because those people who are inexperienced and national politics, when they are exposed to it, they collapse. Any issues they have are amplified and they end up looking bad. I have watched nicole since the day of our announcement and what she has been through is extraordinary. She did not spend her lifetime taking on Vice President of the United States and i called her on the telephone and asked her do you want to be the president Vice President of the United States . She got back three days later and said im gonna do it. Im worried about it and other people are because you dont know how people are going to hold up where you are vilified, defamed. Ive been going through this for all of my adult life. But to land on you in a two week, four week. Period and come up and give a speech like that. [cheering] Robert F Kennedy junior most candidates today feel like they are doing a satire of veep. Its vanity and decay and Bumper Sticker slogans. That is not what you hear from nicole. You get a lecture about soil. There is no political scientist in the world that would tell you you have to do a lecture on soil, they will love it. No one would tell her to do that or advise her and yet, we all love her because we see the authenticity, the integrity, the compassion for other people, the creatures with whom we share this land and you dont hear that from our political leaders. We are all part of a giant family. The micros are part of it, the soil, the plants are a part of it. Thats what we need to start healing this country. Two days ago i did a podcast with a young podcaster, he is a young, amish farmer and he cant have the camera on him because the camera can only use technology for certain purposes. I was able to see him through the camera but he cant use it and i had to promise him i would not show the film anywhere. He is an extraordinary guy a handsome, young guy with the long beard. I asked him about his life and he has an eighth grade education. He had this encyclopedic knowledge of the soil, plants and agricultural systems and agricultural immunology. He said i spent a lot of time because of my career talking to scientists and physicians and people who have a lot of the letters behind their name. I love listening to them talk because they have an expertise in the grasp of an area of knowledge where you understand you are listening to existential truths that they have devoted their lives to understanding. That is how i felt, i felt like a Kid Listening to a professor at harvard. He knew so much about it in about 15 years ago he was a pesticide dealer. His father was one of the biggest pesticide dealers and fertilizer dealer in ohio and the amish country. A few years ago after having pest problems they found the more pesticide they applied after consulting with professors about how to kill this past in the next pest the more pesticide they applied the sicker their plans got and they rented a piece of land that was exactly parallel to the peace they had been treated but it had not been treated and they grew melons on parallel tracks and tried it with no pesticides to see what would be happening in the area that had been saturated for years the plants were overwhelmed with pests but on the untreated track not a single pest appeared. He said it was like knifes lying between the crops. It prompted him and his father to go to a seminar on pesticides and listen to a speaker talk about it. His father took the two boys out to lunch and he said we are done, we will never use it again and they have become into a study of plant immunology. He did not even know plants had immune systems. He is now one of the worlds experts on it. He has 4 million farmers that follow him and developed a way of agriculture and rowing prance growing plants without pesticide. They treat the plants with nutrients instead because the nutrients will boost the immune system and i told him about a study that i read years ago in the name of the study is from gu yr. Published at the end of the 20th century and it was a cdc funded study. In scientist from Johns Hopkins looking at the decline in Infectious Disease between 19002001 the diseases did not disappear. People were still getting measles and cholera but they were no longer killing people. The infection mortality of measles was 10,000 a year in 1900 but by 1963 it was 400 a year and almost all the people infected were malnourished. What this study found was that all medical interventions, vaccines, antibiotics and surger