1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,220
Can you tell us how the meeting went, what you discussed?

2
00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:03,600
It went very well.

3
00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,180
President-elect Trump was very thoughtful on the issue.

4
00:00:11,340 --> 00:00:16,180
He asked me to chair a commission on vaccine safety.

5
00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:17,280
Vaccine safety.

6
00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:17,600
Yeah.

7
00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,040
And scientific integrity.

8
00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,140
It's kind of ironic, while you were up there,

9
00:00:24,420 --> 00:00:28,580
some executives from BHP, a mining company, were up there.

10
00:00:28,580 --> 00:00:35,060
How concerned are you that he will not pursue fossil fuels as he has said he would

11
00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:40,280
and may try to roll back some of Obama's policies on clean energy,

12
00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,220
which has been something that you've been very interested in.

13
00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,140
I was vocal about my support for clean energy,

14
00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,840
and President Trump told me that he's a very strong supporter of solar energy.

15
00:00:52,840 --> 00:01:00,040
You know, I'm going to be focusing on this issue for the White House.

16
00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,820
Finally, if I can ask you, how do you think your father, Uncle Teddy,

17
00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:13,260
President Kennedy himself would think about what is to be a President Trump?

18
00:01:13,260 --> 00:01:15,580
What do you think their thinking would be?

19
00:01:15,660 --> 00:01:19,800
Well, I think that, you know, President Trump can be any kind of President that he wants to be.

20
00:01:20,740 --> 00:01:26,480
He's probably come into office less encumbered by ideology or by obligations

21
00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,280
than anybody that has been in political office,

22
00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:35,140
who has won the presidency at least probably since Andrew Jackson.

23
00:01:35,140 --> 00:01:40,320
So, you know, I think we'll see what happens.

24
00:01:40,820 --> 00:01:44,120
Did you request the meeting or did he call, did his team call you?

25
00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:44,480
He called.

26
00:01:44,820 --> 00:01:48,460
And what is it that you're looking for in terms of policy on the vaccines?

27
00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:54,080
To make sure that we have a, that we have scientific integrity

28
00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,560
in the vaccine process for efficacy and safety of vaccines.

29
00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:07,480
President-elect Trump has some doubts about, about the current vaccine policies.

30
00:02:07,660 --> 00:02:09,200
He has questions about it.

31
00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,320
He says his opinion doesn't matter, but he, but the science does matter.

32
00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,280
And we ought to be reading the science and we ought to be debating the science.

33
00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:27,060
And, and that everybody ought to be, you have to be assured that the vaccines that we have,

34
00:02:27,140 --> 00:02:31,580
he's very pro-vaccine, as am I, but that they're as safe as they possibly can be.

35
00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:33,560
And you said he's pro-solar energy.

36
00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,320
You said he supports solar energy.

37
00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,240
He told me that he was a big fan of solar energy.

38
00:02:39,060 --> 00:02:40,620
You seem like you don't believe it.

39
00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,180
Oh, I, I, I'm very happy to hear it.

40
00:02:43,180 --> 00:02:49,420
Did you guys talk about you taking any type of an official role in the transition or in the administration?

41
00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,580
He asked the chair of commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity.

42
00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:55,120
And what did you say?

43
00:02:55,220 --> 00:02:55,920
I said I would.

44
00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:58,160
Thank you, sir.