‘The View’ Guest John Fetterman Cut Off Mid-Sentence… Twice: ‘Oh, Shoot!’
The View experienced a very surprising bit of technical trouble on Thursday’s (December 5) episode when it came to the guest of the day. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman joined in via video call to discuss some of the biggest political subjects of the day, such as the Hunter Biden pardon and Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks. Halfway through his third answer, about his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, his video feed cut off mid-sentence, with the screen plunging to sudden blackness.
“Oh, we lost him!” Joy Behar said.
“Oh, shoot, I wanted to hear what he’d say,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, who’d asked him the question he was responding to, then said.
“We lost the satellite,” Behar continued.
“Oh, well, it does happen,” Whoopi Goldberg then said before sending the show into commercial.
Upon returning, Griffin apologized to him for the “technical difficulties” and restated her original question to allow him to answer in full.
The segment then continued without a hitch — mostly — as the senator responded to that and subsequent questions about fears of political retribution on the left, how Trump won more young male voters over this election, and Trump’s plan to deport migrants en masse. However, as Fetterman finished his answer to the last question, moderator Whoopi Goldberg became visibly animated.
“John, I gotta go,” she eventually whispered over him. “I’m glad that you came to us today.”
.@SenFettermanPA to #TheView: “It’s undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really politically motivated. But I also think it’s true that the trial in New York for Trump, that was political as well… In both cases, I think a pardon is appropriate.” pic.twitter.com/2KuCg4N4i3
— The View (@TheView) December 5, 2024
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To be honest … even though I am and have always been a Republican, I am liking Fetterman more and more as time goes on due to his honesty and clear-headed thoughts.
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He seems to be more of an independent than a Democrat. Maybe the stroke changes his beliefs, 🤔?
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He seems to have recovered nicely from having to use the computer to read questions allowing him to answer questions. He is sounding much more rational than 99% of the other democrats in office.
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He does sound more rational than other democrats, thats not a high bar though.
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I am feeling the same way. He's logical and fair.
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Never thought I would be saying this, I wholeheartedly agree
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I'm not. He is a mental midget.
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Yeah, that seems to be the consensus among Republicans, myself included. You can add seemingly open-minded to that.
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Can someone teach Sara manners? She constantly interrupts and talks over them!
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Agree so does sunny
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The only reason I'm starting to like fetterman is he sounds like he wants to have honest debate.
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So sick of these leftist morons who never let their guest speak, even democrats get shafted coming on their show, they recently got the most viewers they ever have had simply because people love watching them loose their mind and most people can’t stand the SPEW
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I think anything that discusses American politics isn’t worth watching any longer, including National News. Billionaires control all the air waves and fear retribution from a Trump administration. Politicians lost their backbones during his first administration and have only gotten worse. The representative style government is being stripped from the people and handed to a select few much like the oligarchs in a Putin-style regime.
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So true! Wouldn't it be nice to find someone willing to stand up to Trump and prosecute him for all the crimes he has committed? We live in a country where Martha Stewart goes to prison but Trump still walks free!!
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Agree - he is thoughtful about his responses which is a ray of sunshine on the left (and some on the right). He's definitely hard-core democrat in terms of his voting record; although that may change.
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Sunny is a puffed up narcissist, who manipulates the truth (at best) or lies to uphold her far left and/or self-serving narrative. She is tiresome and hard to watch - I hope she is fired and I rarely hope for anything bad to happen to anyone; however, she is asking for it by her behavior.
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I think he needs to regroup what he is and to whom
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Mabey, just mabey, he has a little sense, and knows that right and wrong, is more important than left and right.
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Bravo well said exactly isn't it more important to do the right thing than it is to do what your party wants to do even if it's wrong it's about time we go back to what's surrounded around the dollar bill it says in God we trust. Should start there and end there
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