The hosts of The View clashed on Friday over a new book exposing the decline of former President Joe Biden while he was in office.

The book, Original Sin from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson includes some shocking revelations. Alyssa Farah Griffin noted one on Friday’s The View, detailing a June 2024 fundraiser where Biden did not recognize George Clooney. While Griffin and Sara Haines found themselves irked by the revelations coming out of the book, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, and Sunny Hostin all argued it is time to move on from Biden and the 2024 presidential election.

Haines and Griffin both found themselves clashing with their co-hosts at one point on Friday.

“Which administration texted war plans to their brother?” Behar asked Griffin as she accused officials around Biden of hiding his decline.

Behar was referring to a New York Times report suggesting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared attack details in a private Signal chat with his brother and wife.

Griffin dismissed the question from Behar, saying it misses the point.

“Do we just keep lowering the bar because Trump is bad, nothing else is bad because Trump is bad? Nothing else is bad because Trump is bad?” Griffin asked her co-host.

“The ship has sailed. It’s out in the ocean somewhere with Biden, it’s over. Get over it!” Behar said.

“We have Trump because you guys screwed this up!” Griffin responded, adding, “With all due respect.”

“Alright, but does it help to go over the same material about Biden over and over again? I mean, really?” Behar said.

Behar eventually offered Navarro the “last word,” but things got briefly heated between her and Haines.

Navarro said:

I think we have too much to do right now — to fight the authoritarianism that we are facing on a daily basis and the lack of due process and the threats on our rights — to be relitigating this. And I think the reason that we have Trump is because Republicans are cut from a different cloth. And they didn’t mind, so many of them didn’t mind in 2016 voting for a sexual harasser who we heard boast about assault because they wanted to be in power. And in 2024, they didn’t mind voting for a twice-impeached guy who had been convicted of 34 felonies because they want it to be.

The co-hosts clashed after Haines accused Democrats of “taking a page” from Republicans on how to handle news about Biden’s stamina in office.

“Dems are actually taking a page from Republicans because Republicans didn’t want us to look at January 6th. They said, let’s just look forward. Don’t look at what happened on that day. Look over there. So in a way, it’s working,” Haines said.

“How did Joe Biden violate laws? And what insurrection did he lead?” Navarro asked.

“To ‘what about’ is not to get the point here,” Haines said.

The two talked over one another as Navarro told Haines she was blaming Trump’s victory on Biden’s “cognitive decline.”

“Ana, what I’ve said at this table multiple times is I didn’t think anyone was hiding a condition. The problem is aging is progressive. What he looks like today, he’s running for a four-year term, what will he look like next year, in four years from now?” Haines said.

Behar ended the debate by cutting to break and teasing that the “New York housewives show” would be back.

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