Should Hunter Biden Have Attended State Dinner? | The View

>> I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THAT WITH HIS SON. I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO IT. >> DO YOU WISH THERE WAS A DIFFERENT PERCEPTION? >> THAT'S NOT REALITY. REALITY IS WHETHER SOMEBODY IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THEIR INSULIN, AND THE PRESIDENT HAS MADE CHANGES. REALITY IS WHETHER SOMEONE HAS A JOB. REALITY IS WHEN THEY CAN GO VISIT THEIR GRANDMA AGAIN IN AN

ASSISTED LIVING. THOSE ARE PEOPLE'S REALITIES, NOT WHO IS SITTING WHERE AT A STATE DINNER. >> Sunny: OH. OKAY. [ APPLAUSE ] >> Ana: LOOK. I'VE KNOWN -- I'VE KNOWN JOE BIDEN SINCE HE WAS A SENATOR FOR ABOUT 20-SOMETHING YEARS. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH HIS LIFE HAS BEEN MARKED BY LOSING NOT ONE CHILD, BUT TWO CHILDREN. >> Sunny: YEAH. >> Ana: ONCE YOU'VE LOST A

CHILD, I THINK YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY DETERMINED -- IT'S EVEN MORE URGENT AND A BIGGER ISSUE THAT YOU WILL NOT LOSE ANOTHER ONE. >> Sunny: YEAH. >> Ana: THE HUNTER BIDEN STORY, THE SCANDAL, THE THIS, THE THAT, IT'S ALSO A STORY OF A FATHER'S LOVE, AND EYJOE BIDEN HAS NEVER AND WILL NEVER GIVE UP ON HIS SON HUNTER AND WILL NEVER TREAT HIM LESSER THAN. HE IS

A FATHER FIRST. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. THAT'S WHO HE IS. THAT IS PART OF HIS HEART. THERE WAS 380 PEOPLE AT THIS DINNER. IT'S NOT LIKE HUNTER WAS SITTING AT MERRICK GARLAND'S LAP. IT WAS A BUNCH OF PEOPLE -- >> Whoopi: THAT VISUAL. >> Ana: HUNTER BIDEN HAS BEEN ABLE TO GET OUT OF ADDICTION IS BECAUSE JOE BIDEN EMBRACED HIM ENTIRELY THE ENTIRE TIME. >>

Sunny: YEAH. >> Ana: WHEN HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT, WHEN HE WAS CANDIDATE, WHEN HE WAS OUT OF OFFICE, AND WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT. >> Sunny: I WAS GOING TO ADD TO THAT. [ APPLAUSE ] WHAT SEEMS TO GET LOST IN ALL OF THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN IS HIS ADDICTION. HE'S AN ADDICT. HE HAS HAD THIS ADDICTION FOR MANY YEARS, AND TO VARIOUS THINGS, AND I

WONDER WHERE OUR COMPASSION IS. WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT WELL, THIS IS NEPOTISM, AND PERHAPS IT IS, AND I HATE NEPOTISM. I THINK THINGS SHOULD BE EARNED AND NOT GIVEN, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT IVANKA GOT, YOU KNOW, THREE CHINESE PATENTS AFTER HER DINNER WITH PRESIDENT XI FROM CHINA AT MAR-A-LAGO. THERE'S NO PROBLEM WITH THAT. >> Sara: WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT

THAT. >> Sunny: WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT OTHER PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT. THAT IS TRUE NEPOTISM, AND THIS IS, I THINK LIKE YOU SAID, A FATHER TRYING TO KEEP HIS SON WHO SUFFERS FROM ADDICTION CLOSE BECAUSE WHEN YOU SUFFER FROM ADDICTION, YOU ALWAYS SUFFER FROM ADDICTION. >> Sara: THE BIDENS -- I DON'T FAULT THE BIDENS FOR INVITING HIM AT ALL. AS A

PARENT INVITING YOUR SON. WHAT I TAKE ISSUE IS HE SHOULD HAVE SAT THIS OUT IF WE'RE BEING HONEST. THE PRIDE YOU TAKE IN YOUR FAMILY -- THIS HAS BEEN A BIG STRUGGLE AND WE HAVE ADDICTION IN OUR FAMILY. IT'S NOT LOST ON SOMEBODY WHO ADDICTED, THAT'S A LOT FOR A FAMILY AND HE'S, YOU KNOW, WITH GOD'S WILL IS GETTING OUT OF IT, BUT HE JUST GOT

CHARGED WITH A FELONY CHARGE MISDEMEANOR. YOU'RE GOING TO A DINNER WHERE YOUR DAD IS FRONT AND CENTER. HE'S TRYING TO CAMPAIGN, AND FOR ME, LIKE, I ONCE LIED AND HIT A MAILBOX AND I COULD BARELY LOOK MY DAD IN THE EYE FOR A MONTH. SIT IT OUT. SIT AT HOME AND, LIKE, JUST FOR A MINUTE. LIKE, TAKE A SEAT. THIS IS ABOUT YOUR SEAT. >> Alyssa:

THERE'S HISTORIC DISTRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS AND I FULLY OWN THAT MANY IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAVE UNDERMINED TRUST IN IT, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING A LOT OF AMERICANS LOOK AT AND THEY'RE, LIKE, THEY ARE THE ELITES PUTTING ON THEIR TUXES AND GOING TO DINNER. IF I WAS CHARGED WITH A FELONY AND MISDEMEANOR, I WOULD NOT BE AT A STATE DINNER WITH THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN

THE PLANET. I THINK THE OPTICS WERE BAD, AND STAFFERS WERE TRYING TO TALK HIM OUT OF IT, AND MERRICK GARLAND IS NOW SEEN HOBNOBBING WITH THIS. >> Whoopi: I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A DIFFERENT TAKE RIGHT QUICK. IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE HUNTER SAID, I DON'T WANT TO GO AND HIS DAD SAID, I WANT YOU TO GO BECAUSE I NEED PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT, YEAH, YOU DID SOME

BAD STUFF, BUT I'M YOUR DAD AND YOU'RE HERE BY MY SIDE. I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO JUST ASSUME THAT JOE SAID, HEY. BRING ALL THE KIDS BECAUSE IT WAS HIS COUSIN AND ALL KIND OF -- 50 BIDENS WERE THERE. NOT JUST ONE OR