‘The View’ Host Apologizes After ‘Heated’ Debate

The hosts of The View are finding it more difficult to get through “heated” discussions about politics, especially on Wednesday, when one host was chastised several times for interrupting the others.

The chaotic opening segment about Donald Trump’s $5 million immigration “gold card” for rich foreign would-be immigrants ended with Sunny Hostin becoming exasperated as her co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin insisted on cutting down her point that Trump favored non-white immigrants over those who “look a certain way.”

Griffin, who’s long insisted that Trump’s rise to power has little to do with his dog whistling about race, just couldn’t help offering a counterpoint to Hostin before she could even get her words out.

“This is what people voted for,” Griffin said as the hosts took turns giving their respective takes. But as Hostin tried to make the point that ICE is “not really going into Canada and looking for those Canadian people that are jumping back and forth” because they aren’t brown-skinned people, Griffin repeatedly cut her off.

“This is a misnomer, it’s not Canadians that come across the northern border,” Griffin interjected. “The northern border crisis—no,” she continued as Hostin tried to continue talking where she’d left off. “It’s people coming from other parts of the world!”

She continued again and again talking out of turn as Hostin tried to finish, until her co-host finally hung her head and said, “Can I just finish what I was saying?”

It got worse later when Whoopi Goldberg tried to make the point that immigration is going down because Trump is “threatening people.” Griffin again jumped in to say it was “the same way Kamala Harris said ‘Do not come,’” when she went to the southern border.

By that time, she’d cut Goldberg off twice already—and Goldberg had to get stern in order to get a word in and throw to break: “Just let me finish now this time!”

When they returned, Goldberg explained to the audience that her co-hosts were “feeling passionate,” as Hostin looked on, clearly annoyed, from her seat.

“We only have, in all, 37 minutes, to get everything out,” Goldberg said at the top of the next segment, offering to continue the conversation in case “folks had more to say.” Hostin replied only, “I don’t.”

Griffin, expressly aware that the comments had been directed at her because of the constant interruptions, acknowledged her behavior. “I know it gets heated and I don’t mean to step on people when I do that,” she said, by way of semi-apology. “I’m working on interrupting.”