The morning after a Connecticut judge granted convicted murderer and Kennedy relative Michael Skakel a retrial, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Skakel’s cousin, appeared on The Today Show in an interview with Matt Lauer, where the 59 year-old radio host defended Skakel’s innocence, or tried to.

Kennedy relative Michael Skakel, who was convicted in 2002 of killing a 15 year-old named Martha Moxley in 1975, has been granted a retrial. Skakel allegedly bragged on the night of Moxley’s death: “I’m going to get away with murder. I’m a Kennedy.”