Meghan McCain has announced that
she is leaving the view let's
watch.
>> I'm just going to rip the band
aid off I am here to tell all of
you my wonderful co hosts and
viewers at home that this is going
to be my last season here
at the view I will be here through
the end of July to finish
out the season with all of
you which I am grateful for.
>> So it was a little bit of
a shock announcement.
I don't think most people
expected it.
And we should have
a discussion about whether or
not this is good news for the view.
I mean, you might have your
personal feelings toward
Meghan McCain.
I certainly have expressed by own
personal feelings toward her, but
she does give some.
Reasons for why she has made this
difficult decision.
Let's watch.
>> This was not an easy decision.
It took a lot of thought and
counsel and
prayer and talking to my family and
my close friends.
And look COVID has changed
the world for all of us and
it changed the way at least for
me the way I am looking at life,
the way I'm living my life the way
I want my life to look like.
And when I said goodbye to all of
you in the studio, over a year and
a half ago, I had just found out I
was Pregnant.
I left the city very
quickly because my OB-GYN wanted
me to leave, because he wasn't sure
about how COVID could possibly
impact pregnant women.
I came to the DC area which is
where my husband and
I have always split time and it's
where I grew up splitting time and
we have this incredible life here.
We're surrounded by my family his
family by friends by this
incredible support unit.
And I think as any new mom knows
when I think about where I want
Liberty to have her first steps and
our first words I just have this
really wonderful life here that
ultimately I felt like
I didn't want to leave.
>> And of course if she's going to
announce anything, she's going to
bring up the most important person
that she mentions repeatedly on
that show her father, let's watch.
>> This show is one of the cans
down greatest, most excellarating,
wonderful privileges of my entire
life.
And I have had so many
amazing experiences in my life and
this is definitely one of the top.
It is a privilege to work alongside
such strong, brilliant,
intelligent, incredible
broadcasters like the four of you.
You are the most talented women on
all of television and hands down.
And it has been so incredible to be
able to do this with you.
Before I came on to the show,
I didn't want to join the show,
as I think I've talked about in
the past and it was my dad
who encouraged me to do it.
He said that I could never give up
an opportunity to work on
such an iconic show and
to work with Whoopi Goldberg.
And he was right.
It was one of the last things he
told me to do before he died.
And since we've been here,
the last four years together we
have won an Army.
We've gone to number one we've been
parodied on Saturday Night Live.
We were on the cover.
My personal favorite
of the New York Times magazine
is the most important
political show in America.
We have all interviewed every
presidential candidate.
This is the show in America.
>> So let's discuss, right?
Because well I have my issues with
Meghan McCain.
I don't know if the view is
going to make headlines ever again,
like unless they find someone who
is the equivalent of Meghan McCain.
>> Of course, >> Right?
So and I gotta be honest,
It's kind of entertaining.
As much as I hate to admit that,
I hate that it's considered
an important political show by
the New York Times.
I don't think that's the case.
I hate the arguments that
Meghan McCain makes.
But am I entertained by the back
and forth?
Of course I am.
That's why we talk about it every
once in a while on this show.
>> Yeah, like no when they do
the mutual iros is awesome, right
like, you guys want let me finish.
But Megan, you won't stop talking.
[LAUGH] Okay.
Anyways, look in terms of our
leaving, they'll replace her with
another conservative and
they'll be outrageous.
The producers are not Stupid they
know what's entertaining, right?
I mean, right now they're probably
talking to Omarosa.
Let's keep it real.
Okay, guys who knows
by the Kayleigh McEnany.
Right now is desperate for
that job is my guess.
>> I think actually
Kayleigh McEnany would
be the equivalent like.
Totally.
>> Yeah.
>> She's right now saying to her
agent, I will murder you if you
don't give me that job.
>> Yeah. >> I don't know if she's
under contract somewhere else.
So I don't know those details.
Okay.
So now in terms
of why she's leaving,
I think she's telling the truth
that it's mainly going to DC right.
And so it's not like some like
thing like,
I can't take it anymore.
I'm going to go to DC.
She just basically wants to live in
DC rather than New York.
They should review.
But is there a component of it that
is having to deal with all
the hate?
Yeah, I'm sure there is right.
And by the way, even though
we critique her all the time,
I definitely have sympathy for
her because it is a tremendous
amount of critique and
is a tough thing to handle.
So >> No, she's.
>> Yeah.
>> Listen, I never really got
the sense that she enjoyed this
job, or to be quite honest with you
working in media at all.
Like she seemed to lack
curiosity about the news,
she seemed to complain about
The environment she was working in,
regardless of where she worked.
I feel like it was something that
she just kind of fell into because
she was blogging throughout her
father's presidential run that got
her job at The Daily Beast and then
she just kind of like went with it.
Meghan McCain.
She gets to make decisions that I
think a lot of women are super,
super envious of.
She's a new mom.
She gets to live wherever she
wants, she gets to spend
as much time with her children or
her child as she wants.
And so if she's got the resources
and the means to do it,
why not take advantage of that and
be happy?
>> Yeah. >> Right?
>> No, no.
And that's what I was going to say,
too. It's a point of privilege and
I don't say it in a negative
way, right?
But yeah,
the folks on the view make tons and
tons of money and
here she is, in some ways,
turning down tons of money.
You could even give her credit for
that, say she wants to spend time
with her kids and do whatever she
wants, but It's a privilege because
her family's incredibly wealthy.
So she doesn't need the extra
couple of million dollars a year or
however much they get paid.
>> Jeff Rutherford says
the propaganda is so strong she
named her daughter Liberty.
I noticed that too when she said
Liberty I'm like, Who's Liberty?
Has to be the child.
Yeah.
>> I live in a glass house.
I name my son Promithius.
>> Thats true. >> And my
daughter Joyce.
>> So [LAUGH] >> I also want to go
to the reaction from Whoopi
Goldberg to this announcement.
Let's take a quick look at that.
>> Your dad was very smart.
He wanted you to be here with us
because I think he thought
we could help toughen you up for
what was coming, which was.
>> So true.
>> This wonderful Baby you were
going to have and his departure so
It was an honor.
When he said please take my child.
[CROSSTALK] He didn't say like he
said that he Did say that >> It's
pain in the ass >> So,
it's really something,
that's right.
That's right >> [LAUGH] That was
an amazing reaction.
No, but like Whoopi Goldberg was
like your father was a smart man.
You're a whiny little brat.
And he begged us to take you and
toughen you up and
make you somewhat mature.
And we're like, fine, we'll do it.
Like that's that's the way it
came across to be.
That was amazing.
>> Yeah, that was really weird.
>> Really >> Yeah.
And it was kind of
an interesting admission to that,
like, powerful senator wanted us to
put his daughter on the show.
So we did.
Okay, so that's how it works.
>> No, she thinks that's
totally fine.
It's all good and normal.
By the way, I do think that
we should just take a quick look.
Just reflect on Meghan McCain's
legacy over at the view.
Wonderful video put together by our
producer Aishwarya.
Let's watch.
>> Please welcome our new co host,
Meghan McCain.
[NOISE] >> I think what's
exhausting is
coming on the show every day and
being told that Republicans don't
care about anything.
We just want people to die.
We want children not
to be educated.
Nothing matters.
Mike Pence left a game and
I understand Stand that you said
it was an act of quote,
systemic oppression.
So have I left your football game
would you think that I would
be behaving in the same way?
>> You're not the Vice President,
>> Every woman on this show at one
point or another canceled culture
has tried to remove one of us from
this show for one reason or
another and by some miracle,
we're all still here and I think
the greatest miracle is still me.
>> One of the weird parts about
being pregnant during the pandemic
is the world doesn't get to see my
body changing.
Because clearly guys really seeing
me from the waist up and one of
my biggest fears coming back to
the show, when we inevitably hope
to come back to the show is what
the media's reaction will be to the
weight that I gained being pregnant
and then if I don't lose that fast.
>> And in Mainstream media,
when you talk like that it puts
us on the defense.
>> In places I think even as me
just like the only conservative in
the entire world left on
mainstream media.
>> Ask you Megan >> I thought I
was going third.
I actually wanted to hear what
the ladies had to say.
So can I go last?
>> I have you up first.
[LAUGH] Ans so I went in.
>> Yeah, there's a lot of
conflicting information about
social distancing, which that means
stay six feet apart from people
when you're out in public.
Why do you think some people think
this is an overreaction?
>> Well, when they write,
wrapping the card behind your head,
should I wrap?
[LAUGH] >> Listen,
daytime television
is not about informing people.
Let's keep it real.
It's like the time slot for Maury,
it's the time slot for for
stuff like this.
So.
>> I actually disagree with you a
little bit on that because a lot of
people do watch this show and they
get influenced, being influenced
more by Whoopi than they do.
Meghan McCain, right?
And Whoopi is like the protector
of the establishment.
>> Hm-mm. >> So anytime,
anyplace Progressive comes on.
She's like,
what do you got people doing?
What?
Why don't just wait your
turn, okay?
>> We get to do tax me,
trying to tax me.
Don't tax me.
>> Yeah.
>> She doesn't like taxes.
>> No, exactly.
So they do have some influence.
And I know that's just almost like
bloopers.
Okay.
And.
<< No no I think that was actually
a fair representation of Meghan
McCain's contribution to the show.
<< Okay, fair enough,
but they do need a conservative
she filled that role.
I do have some sympathy for her in
terms of the hate that she got,
right?
But she was wrong.
[LAUGH] All the time non stop, so
we had to at least correct
the record.
A Tribute to one of our members in
the bonus episode was so wonderful.
And to uncle
of mine who passed away.
We're going to get a little
personal there but we'll see you
guys there, right now.