The View Spirals Out of Control — As Bitter Clash on School Choice Spills All the Way Up to Commercial Break
The View was in full-on spiral mode — as Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin interrupted each other numerous times in an intense clash over school choice.
On Wednesday morning, the panel discussed President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education. Griffin, who worked for Trump during his first-term, defended McMahon over her position on school choice.
Hostin then responded by citing a 2020 study that found wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school voucher tax credits. She went on to claim that the voucher system does not favor lower-income families; however, the conversation fell apart when Griffin interrupted her fellow co-host.
“Let me just finish this,” Hostin told Griffin.
And that Whoopi Goldberg ended the conversation and cut to commercial break.
HOSTIN: A 2020 study found that only about half of states with voucher programs require teachers to have a bachelor’s degree, require teachers to have training, required teachers to have licensing-
GRIFFIN: So that’s just not my experience. If I may get in just to make it a conversation-
HOSTIN: Wait, wait, because I have children and because I looked at the private schools-
GRIFFIN: I went to public school. I believe you got to go to private school.
HOSTIN: There is zero statistical significance-
GRIFFIN: You got to go to private school!
GOLDBERG: Nobody can figure out what’s being said here right now.
GRIFFIN: One last thing…
GOLDBERG: No, there is no last thing right now. We’re going to go to break and then we’re going to come back. Because you can’t — what’s happening is no one can hear anything anyone is saying…
GRIFFIN: [unintelligible]… We can talk!
JOY BEHAR: Well, that goes for you too.
GRIFFIN: I haven’t gotten a word in! She’s been talking for three minutes!
GOLDBERG: We’ll be right back.
HOSTIN: You talked the first four.
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