Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to do a much-touted exclusive with the ladies of The View on Friday, but much like everything Harris is involved in, it quickly devolved into a mess.
Promoted as the Vice President's "first in-studio talk show appearance since taking office" turned into far less than a polished and friendly sit-down talk about her work over the last nine months thanks to a sudden outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus among hosts on The View.
THIS MORNING - A ‘VIEW’ EXCLUSIVE: Vice President @KamalaHarris sits down with #TheView co-hosts LIVE for her first in-studio talk show appearance since taking office — watch at 11e|10c|p on ABC. pic.twitter.com/oan94QN5n3
— The View (@TheView) September 24, 2021
Abruptly, after Friday's show had already started and just before Harris was set to join the ladies of The View at the table, hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were pulled from the set after their COVID test results came back positive despite both hosts saying they're fully vaccinated.
Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro have to leave The View after the A block upon testing positive for COVID. Both indicated they are vaccinated. Meanwhile- Vice President Harris apparently is waiting backstage. Behar now taking questions from the audience. An absolute train wreck.
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 24, 2021
Coming back from commercial break, host Joy Behar said "we're back — and there seems to be something happening here that I'm not 100 percent aware of, can someone please apprise me of the situation?"
A crew member then told Navarro and Hostin they needed to step off set.
"So shall I introduce the Vice President?" Behar asked. "Okay, so..." she began before being then being told to stop her introduction.
"No?" Behar asked. "Shall we dance? Let's do a tap dance," she continued, a bit thrown off before trying to transition to commercial while they figured things out.
Here’s the moment The View co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were pulled from the show’s set over their positive COVID test results:pic.twitter.com/fJc3Ip1C0A
— The Recount (@therecount) September 24, 2021
The crew shared then that "everything's just being done just to be as safe as humanely possible, so what we're going to try to do now is an interview with the Vice President remotely, right in a couple minutes, so that's the plan. We're going to talk to her from another room," they said to audible disappointment from the studio audience.
"So we're going to talk to her remotely?" Behar asked.
"Even though she's here," the crew confirmed.
"Even though she's in the building," Behar repeated before finally successfully throwing to commercial.
When they came back from the break, Vice President Harris was, indeed, in some secondary room in front of a camera with an iPhone headset dangling from her ear to make the back-and-forth interview work.
And… Kamala Harris joins The View from somewhere else in the building when 9 min left in the hour. Harris wearing a consumer earpiece instead of an IFB. Behar just coughed for the second time on the show. Harris now comparing border patrol agents on horseback to days of slavery.
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 24, 2021
FINALLY!!! #KamalaHarris #TheView pic.twitter.com/uoDZFWf9Sb
— ???? (@aloragarooo) September 24, 2021
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