"The View" began Friday with commentary on Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) opposition to some of President Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees.
Trump attacked McConnell from the Oval Office Thursday, alleging that the senator's votes against Cabinet picks weren't about the nominees, but rather McConnell's personal animus toward him.
Announcing the segment, co-host Joy Behar called McConnell, "The man who got us into this mess. He stole a Supreme Court seat from [Barack] Obama, voted to acquit Trump after the insurrection, and even endorsed him for president again.
"Thanks for nothing, Mitch. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."
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The panel cracked jokes about ways that the now Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. may try to solve bird flu by "driving over them in Central Park" — alluding to his admission to dumping the body of a bear cub in the greenspace after he'd hit it elsewhere and loaded it into his trunk.
However, Sunny Hostin stepped in to talk about the appointees, leaving her nearly "speechless."
"I don't even know what to say. Like, we're in trouble. Like, this is bad," she quipped, a throwback to Whoopi Goldberg's famous quote from the film "Ghost."
"You know, I usually have something to say," Hostin continued. "I — I don't even know what to say. We're talking about RFK Jr., who is like — he definitely is an anti-vaxxer — being responsible for a $1.7 trillion agency. And one of the things that I'm most concerned about are those that are most vulnerable in our country: children and the elderly."
She went on to comment, "Republicans want to cut Medicare and Medicaid. Medicaid, at this point, if it's scaled back, it's given 22 million Americans access to healthcare. Nearly 80 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid. They're targeting the Affordable Care Act. The people that need healthcare the most are going to be affected. I'm just so disgusted and devastated. We are in trouble!"
Republican strategist Ana Navarro lambasted lawmakers like McConnell and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), "who is a doctor,' and who "know better." Cassidy voted to confirm Kennedy despite being outspoken against him for several days before.
