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Whoopi Goldberg Begs Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin to “Tone it Down” on ‘The View’ During Tense Argument

It’s election day, and tensions are high on The View. With all of us bracing for one of the most consequential midterms in years, the co-hosts are feeling the heat too, and the stress bubbled over in the form of a tense fight between Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin on today’s episode.

Griffin said she was becoming concerned about rhetoric on the far-left, telling the table she thinks liberals have “become so negative in how they talk about the other party,” but Hostin immediately questioned her, asking, “who are are these ‘far-left people?’ Cause I don’t think you can ‘both sides’ this.”

She added, “the far-left did not storm the Capitol,” but Griffin pulled out Hostin’s comments from last week’s episode, telling her she had “called white republican women cockroaches.”

Big mistake.

Hostin quickly corrected Griffin, telling her she’d misquoted what she actually said, which was: “Suburban women are now going to vote Republican. It’s almost like roaches voting for raid.”

As Griffin attempted to walk back her comment, Hostin instructed her, “let me answer that,” but she didn’t get far as the table erupted into multiple conversations until moderator Whoopi Goldberg calmed the chaos.

“Here’s what I’m gonna ask you to do,” she practically shouted over her co-hosts. “I’m gonna ask you tone it down a bit, ’cause I can’t hear anything. No one can hear what’s being said.”

Hostin, with the table now silent, continued her defense, saying Griffin had “just said I called white women roaches, which, my mother is a white woman. So I wouldn’t say that. Second of all, what I used was a metaphor, really more of a simile. And I said, white women republicans, I just read a poll that the suburbans are now voting republican. That is like roaches voting for raid.”

As Griffin said she knew what Hostin was trying to say, Hostin told her, “let me finish,” and explained that she had pulled the roaches line from John Leguizamo and had previously said it on The View in reference to Latino voters, but “nobody had anything to say about it” then.

Hostin continued by explaining more context of the roaches comment, while Griffin tried to interject.

“Sunny, we’ve heard your point. I’m trying to make you consider a perspective you haven’t before,” she said, but Hostin talked right over her, accusing Griffin of “twisting” her words.

“Don’t say I called white women roaches, because I didn’t,” Hostin said, as Griffin tried to get a word in, but Goldberg knew the segment was long gone at that point.

“We’re gonna go to break,” she told the camera. “We’re going to break. I can’t take it.”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.

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