HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grabs snakes on Dr. Oz’s patio in Florida

PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS, KYMA) - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video Monday, showing him removing two southern black racer snakes from the Florida home of Dr Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The footage, filmed at Dr. Oz's waterfront property in Palm Beach, shows Secretary Kennedy cornering the two nonvenomous snakes on a patio and grabbing them up off the ground.

His wife, actor Cheryl Hines, can be heard saying, "Honey, honey…why?" as Kennedy wrangles the reptiles.

He then jokingly tells Hines that the snakes were venomous moccasins, also known as cottonmouths, while she pleads with him to let them go.

"Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz's patio," Kennedy wrote in a caption online.