FBI Director Kash Patel raised some eyebrows over the weekend by partying and pounding beers with the U.S.A. Olympics Men’s Hockey Team following their gold medal win over Canada. Of course, this irked the liberal ladies of ABC’s The Views. While the Cackling Coven calling Patel unserious, during Monday’s show, they argued that the FBI’s time would be better spent preparing for an apparent coming war with Iran and retaking the swaths of Mexico that were captured by a cartel fighters.
“I don't even know what Kash Patel was doing there,” groaned co-host Ana Navarro. “Honey, you’re not playing.”
While complaining that “the world doesn't feel settled or stable,” co-host Sara Haines suggested that it was the job of the FBI director to deal with global disorder. Topping the list of what she felt should be Patel’s priorities was somehow dealing with the narco terrorists who launched attacks across Mexico and were battling the Mexican Army; even ahead of domestic cases:
HAINES: Beyond the money, it's the optics for me. Because I’m a little old school. But I like when the law enforcement and directors of FBI were like serious and like borderline boring. Like I don't want to see them, I want to know they are hard at work because there's so much going on. Today we wake up hearing about the head of a Mexican cartel being killed and we know there was a shooting and someone died at Mar-a-Lago.
HOSTIN: Nancy Guthrie is still missing.
HAINES: Nancy Guthrie is missing.
It was a hypocritical demand since The View had previously came out against the Trump administration launching strikes on nacro-terrorists from Venezuela.
The View whines that Kash Patel was in partying in Milan with the USA hockey team and not stopping the cartel takeover of Mexico and not preparing for war with Iran by dismantling their global terrorist network. pic.twitter.com/axYQoE1w32
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 23, 2026
“He’s already under scrutiny for a thousand reasons, because this administration has not been the defining of competence,” Haines added. “So, I think when you have someone like that with all that's going on and then that's what you see, I just think it's a bit of an insult to the American people.”
Filling in for co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was away on maternity leave, never-Trumper Amanda Carpenter argued that Patel should be focus on Iran given the military buildup in the Middle East and their global terror network:
It's not just the optics. He is not doing the job. If you look at the threats we are facing in the world, right now there is a huge military buildup outside of Iran. We might be on the brink of war. Iran has terrorist networks all around the world and he is chugging beer instead of paying attention to this!
How was the FBI supposed to take part in a war against Iran? It’s one thing to point out domestic cases that should be focused on, but to point to international conflicts and suggest they were somehow in the FBI’s purview was more unserious than they claimed Patel to be.
Speaking of which.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who was the only cast member not in the studio because of the snow, claimed that other FBI agents told Patel to go to the Olympics because they wanted him out of the office so they could do their jobs in peace and quiet:
Maybe the folks in the FBI say, ‘yeah, Kash, go do that’ so they don't have to deal with him because they know he doesn't know what he's doing. They know that he is incompetent. They know that he is just -- he is a joke and he is a joke in the rest of the world, and because for most of the people working in the FBI it is not a joke. They are the ones whose eyes are on the ball.
Whoopi suggests the rest of the FBI told Patel to get out of the office to get their "incompetent" boss out of their hair so they could do their jobs:
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 23, 2026
"I'm going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in the FBI say, 'yeah, Kash, go do that' so they don't have to deal with… pic.twitter.com/Fjof0tBmGn
Before switching topics, Carpenter and Navarro suggested that Patel and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth were just alcoholics drinking on the job. “I mean, who else gets to chug beer on a job like this as an appointed official?” and “Have you met Pete Hegseth?” they said respectively.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 23, 2026
11:05:48 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: I don't even know what Kash Patel was doing there. I mean, he was -
SUNNY HOSTIN: He was chugging beer with the team.
NAVARRO: Honey, you’re not playing. And he's behaving like he is a member of Animal House, that show.
SARA HAINES: Beyond the money, it's the optics for me. Because I’m a little old school. But I like when the law enforcement and directors of FBI were like serious and like borderline boring. Like I don't want to see them, I want to know they are hard at work because there's so much going on. Today we wake up hearing about the head of a Mexican cartel being killed and we know there was a shooting and someone died at Mar-a-Lago.
HOSTIN: Nancy Guthrie is still missing.
HAINES: Nancy Guthrie is missing. There’ just –Right now, the world doesn't feel settled or stable and you’ve the head of the FBI and the visual of chugging a beer in the locker room. I just think that it doesn’t – He’s already under scrutiny for a thousand reasons, because this administration has not been the defining of competence. So, I think when you have someone like that with all that's going on and then that's what you see, I just think it's a bit of an insult to the American people.
[Crosstalk]
AMANDA CARPENTER: It's not just the optics. He is not doing the job. If you look at the threats we are facing in the world, right now there is a huge military buildup outside of Iran. We might be on the brink of war. Iran has terrorist networks all around the world and he is chugging beer instead of paying attention to this!
(…)
11:07:38 a.m. Eastern
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I'm going to look at this from a positive spin on. I'm going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in the FBI say, ‘yeah, Kash, go do that’ so they don't have to deal with him because they know he doesn't know what he's doing. They know that he is incompetent. They know that he is just -- he is a joke and he is a joke in the rest of the world, and because for most of the people working in the FBI it is not a joke. They are the ones whose eyes are on the ball.
(…)
11:08:32 a.m. Eastern
CARPENTER: I mean, who else gets to chug beer on a job like this as an appointed official? Seriously. Seriously.
NAVARRO: Have you met Pete Hegseth?
(…)
