During a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump and the heads of the various agencies, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a massive announcement that shook everyone.

“We are trying to refocus the press and get them to pay attention to the chronic disease epidemic, as you’ve asked us to. We have now 38% of American youth are pre-diabetic. This was unknown 30 years ago. Every child that becomes diabetic, there should be a headline about them. We have 100 million adults who are prediabetic or diabetic,” the HHS director said.

“And we have now, the autism rates have gone from most recent numbers we think are going to be about one in 31. They are going up again. From one in 10,000 when I was kid. We are going, at your direction, we are going to know by September. We have launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we will be able to eliminate those exposures,” he said.

“It’s so big. Think of that. It was one in 10,000 children had autism. And now it’s one in 31. Not 31,000. 31. That’s a horrible statistic, isn’t it?” the president said.

“There’s got to be something artificial out there that’s doing this. So you think you’re going to have a pretty good idea?” he said before Kennedy gave a date.

“We will know by September,” the HHS director said.

“There will be no bigger news conference than that. If you can come up with that answer where, if you stop taking something, you stop eating something or maybe it’s shot. Something is causing it. It can’t be, it can’t be from 10,000 to — can you imagine that? That’s a big number!” he said.