Joy Behar hopes to actually influence peoples thinking with her criticism of the Trump administration

“The View” co-host Joy Behar said she felt an obligation to speak out about President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday and said she hoped to influence people’s thinking during a “Behind the Table” discussion.Producer Brian Teta asked Behar, who has been with the show for 26 years, what she likes about doing the ABC talk show and why she’s been on it for so long.“It’s because of the freedom to speak my mind, that has always been the attraction,” she responded, before talking about other parts of her career.“I like the people I work with, number one, I like everybody.”“I also feel an obligation to speak about the administration that we’re in the midst of, and I feel like we’re in a privileged position to say certain things and that we, you know, we can actually influence people’s thinking sometimes, even if it’s a little bit, that we’re in a lot of trouble in this country right now, and that I like the idea that we can say stuff that people will listen to,” she said.Behar was also asked about the many political figures she’s gotten to interview on the show and about why politicians come on the talk show.“We can show them the way they are in real life, the way they really are,” Behar said.

“I’ve met Hillary Clinton many times.She’s different when she’s running for office, and she’s all scared to make a mistake.

When she’s herself, she’s very funny.She should have come on ‘The View’ more, I think at that time.

In fact, somebody screwed her up, somebody in her campaign said, ‘don’t go on,’ and it was a big mistake.”Behar said Clinton was a grandma, wife and mother and was much more than just someone who ran for office.The co-hosts also talked about Sunny Hostin’s viral question posed to former Vice President Kamala Harris last year during the 2024 campaign, as Teta joked that the liberal co-host had “single-handedly taken down the Democratic Party” when Harris’ bungled answer went ...