On Tuesday’s The View, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar teamed up against Fox News Channel’s Jedediah Bila to defend Hillary Clinton’s record on her email scandal by arguing that it was no big deal. Behar began by alleging the FBI “found nothing” on her server, despite the fact that the investigation is still underway. From there, Goldberg jumped in to rant about how Clinton’s staff should’ve warned her not to send those emails over her personal server if they really were “so classified.” In the end, Goldberg outright denied that there was anything wrong with what Clinton did, saying repeatedly, “At the end of the day, they weren’t classified.”
The segment began by FNC’s Jedediah Bila bringing up Clinton’s trustworthiness as an issue with voters. Joy Behar asserted that the FBI “found nothing” on her server, despite evidence to the contrary. Then Whoopi Goldberg decided to go on an all-out rant defending Clinton on her email scandal, scoffing that they were even “classified” to begin with.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Here's what I say about the e-mails. It’s what I asked her. How is it if these were so classified, classified, okay, that nobody who got those e-mails said, hey, Hil, maybe you shouldn't be sending this across this? Nobody said Jack until she said she was running. I find that amazing.
Bila pushed back saying that Clinton should’ve known what emails were important enough to not send over her private server. To that, Goldberg got confrontational and asked Bila, “Have you ever been Secretary of State?” Goldberg added, “I’m going to assume that she did know her job” and that “[S]omebody should have noticed that, my God, that's classified” and warned her if they really were classified.
Behar and Goldberg also made sure to praise Clinton’s fortitude during the Benghazi hearings.
Behar gushed,“And that same woman who was in the Benghazi hearings who stood, like, so strong, is the same one that's going to be debating this guy in these debates where he knows nothing. So Americans are going to see the truth very shortly.
Goldberg added,
“And the other thing is they spent nine hours, 12 hours with her saying, what happened over in Benghazi, what happened in Benghazi, what happened! And you know, they asked -- there was nothing else they could have asked. The last thing they could have said was how long did it take you to give birth. That was the only question they didn't ask.”
It’s easy to see why Goldberg and Behar can stick their heads in the sand though when even the nation’s top newspaper makes the same arguments defending Clinton.
See the full transcript from May 17th’s The View on ABC below.
JOY BEHAR: They found nothing.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Here's what I say about the e-mails. It’s what I asked her. How is it if these were so classified, classified, okay, that nobody who got those e-mails said, hey, Hil, maybe you shouldn't be sending this across this? Nobody said jack until she said she was running. I find that amazing. [audience claps] And the other thing is they spent nine hours, 12 hours with her saying, what happened over in Benghazi, what happened in Benghazi, what happened! And you know, they asked -- there was nothing else they could have asked. The last thing they could have said was how long did it take you to give birth. That was the only question they didn't ask.
RAVEN SYMONE: They asked that off screen.
GOLDBERG: That's right. Because you get the answers you don't want or you think there's more isn't a good enough reason to put the country -- because this is after all about us. This really is about our country. It's not about who wins or loses. It's supposed to be about what we want.
BEHAR: And the same woman who was in the Benghazi hearings who stood, like, so strong, is the same one that's going to be debating this guy in these debates where he knows nothing. So Americans are going to see the truth very shortly.
JEDIDAH BILA: For the e-mails though, remember, she decided what e-mails to turn over. She made deletions on that server that we didn't know about.
GOLDBERG: Why didn't the people who got the e-mails -- because I have to assume they were more than just her daughter. I'm assuming she sent them to other people in government.
RAVEN-SYMONE: Colin Powell.
PAULA FARIS: No, that's different. Colin Powell didn't go to the lengths of setting up a private server in his home.
GOLDBERG: Somebody should have said then.
BILA: I hear what you're saying.
GOLDBERG: But nobody did. That's what makes me -- and I know it doesn't matter what I think but I am untrustworthy of people who wait and say, now they're classified. Now they're classified but everybody's seen them already.
BILA: That's my argument against her though. Because a lot of that information is born classified. That means she as secretary of state is supposed to know based on the content, not the indication.
GOLDBERG: Can I just ask you a question?
BILA: Yes.
GOLDBERG: Have you ever been secretary of state.
BILA: I have not but she has and I expect her to know her job.
GOLDBERG: I'm going to assume that she did know her job and other people -- she was there an awful long time to be screwing up that badly if we listen to them. She was there several years so somebody should have noticed that, my god, that's classified.
BILA: I think she should have been the person that notice that.
GOLDBERG: But they weren't classified and they weren't classified -- at the end of the day they weren't classified until the government just classified them.
