Joy Behar hopes to 'actually influence people's thinking' with her criticism of the Trump administration

"The View" co-host Joy Behar said she felt an work to talk retired astir President Donald Trump's medication connected Wednesday and said she hoped to power people's reasoning during a "Behind the Table" discussion. 

Producer Brian Teta asked Behar, who has been with the amusement for 26 years, what she likes astir doing the ABC speech amusement and wherefore she's been connected it for truthful long. 

"It's due to the fact that of the state to talk my mind, that has ever been the attraction," she responded, earlier talking astir different parts of her career. "I similar the radical I enactment with, fig one, I similar everybody." 

"I besides consciousness an work to talk astir the medication that we’re successful the midst of, and I consciousness similar we’re successful a privileged presumption to accidental definite things and that we, you know, we tin really power people’s reasoning sometimes, adjacent if it’s a small bit, that we’re successful a batch of occupation successful this state close now, and that I similar the thought that we tin accidental worldly that radical volition perceive to," she said.

Joy Behar attends a treatment of the View's "Behind the Table" podcast astatine 92NY connected October 8, 2024, successful New York City.  (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)

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Behar was besides asked astir the galore governmental figures she's gotten to interrogation connected the amusement and astir wherefore politicians travel connected the speech show. 

"We tin amusement them the mode they are successful existent life, the mode they truly are," Behar said. "I've met Hillary Clinton galore times. She's antithetic erstwhile she's moving for office, and she's each frightened to marque a mistake. When she's herself, she's precise funny. She should person travel connected ‘The View’ more, I deliberation astatine that time. In fact, idiosyncratic screwed her up, idiosyncratic successful her run said, ‘don’t spell on,' and it was a large mistake."

Behar said Clinton was a grandma, woman and parent and was overmuch much than conscionable idiosyncratic who ran for office. 

The co-hosts besides talked astir Sunny Hostin's viral question posed to erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris past twelvemonth during the 2024 campaign, arsenic Teta joked that the wide co-host had "single-handedly taken down the Democratic Party" erstwhile Harris' bungled reply went viral. 

Co-host Sunny Hostin speaks during ABC's "The View." (Screenshot/ABC News)

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Hostin defended her question astir whether Harris would person acted otherwise astatine immoderate constituent during President Joe Biden's archetypal term, saying it was 1 Harris should person expected. Harris memorably said she couldn't deliberation of thing she'd person done otherwise than the unpopular Biden, and the soundbite became fodder for the Trump run that Harris was much of the same.

"I knew it instantly erstwhile she answered it," Hostin said during the podcast conversation, erstwhile asked by Teta if she knew it would beryllium a viral moment. "Which is wherefore I asked the follow-up question, ‘is determination 1 thing?’ Because I knew, I could spot the soundbite and I knew what was going to happen, but I thought it was a truly just question and I thought it was a question that she would expect." 

Biden appeared connected the amusement successful May for 1 of his archetypal interviews since leaving the White House. 

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The erstwhile president blamed racism and sexism for Harris' nonaccomplishment during the conversation.

"I wasn’t surprised, not due to the fact that I didn’t deliberation the vice president was the astir qualified idiosyncratic to beryllium president," Biden said. "She is. She’s qualified to beryllium President of the United States of America. I was amazed due to the fact that they went the way of, the sexist route, the full route. I mean, this is simply a woman, she’s this, she’s that. I mean, I’ve ne'er seen rather arsenic palmy and a accordant run undercutting the conception that a pistillate couldn’t pb the country, and a pistillate of mixed race."

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