The View finally addresses fellow ABC host Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, clarifies 'silence': 'We're...

Ana Navarro thanked the show's viewers for "demanding truth and courage from us," adding, "You deserve it. We will give it to you." The View finally addresses f

Ana Navarro thanked the show's viewers for "demanding truth and courage from us," adding, "You deserve it. We will give it to you."

The View finally addresses fellow ABC host Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, clarifies 'silence': 'We're still here'

Ana Navarro thanked the show's viewers for "demanding truth and courage from us," adding, "You deserve it. We will give it to you."

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September 22, 2025 12:22 p.m. ET

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After two episodes of silence, the ladies of* The View* are speaking out about fellow ABC personality Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. **

"Now, look, did y'all really think we weren't gonna talk about Jimmy Kimmel?" Whoopi Goldberg began Monday's broadcast, drawing laughs from her cohosts. "I mean, have you watched this show over the last 29 seasons? So you know no one silences us."**

The EGOT winner took a moment to affirm to her friends in Italy who reached out over the weekend that "we're still here" and "still broadcasting." She then clarified why they chose to stay mum on the situation at first.**

"When the news broke last week about Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, we took a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it first. We did the same thing with Stephen Colbert," Goldberg explained, referencing *The Late Show*'s cancellation in July. "Then our show was on tape on Friday. But we are live here today and we're getting into it now."

'The View' cohosts.

ABC pulled *Jimmy Kimmel Live* off the air indefinitely on Wednesday after the late-night host made comments about the "MAGA gang" and how it reacted to Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the Sept. 10 assassination of far-right conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

"We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel remarked on his show.

The decision to suspend the show came just hours after FCC chair Brendan Carr made a podcast appearance, during which he called for local broadcast affiliates to preempt the show and that Disney punish Kimmel for engaging in "some of the sickest conduct possible."

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"To be clear: you can not like a show and it can go off the air. Someone can say something they shouldn't and get taken off the air. But the government cannot — *cannot* — apply pressure to force someone to be silenced," Goldberg said. "And you may be surprised to see who agrees with us at this table, because it blew us away."**

The footage then cut to several clips of Sens. Rand Paul, Chris Murphy, and Ted Cruz in which they denounced Carr's decision to intervene in the situation. "Both sides and the middle of the aisle are saying, 'You don't do this. This is not how we work,'" Goldberg commented. "But you know who still doesn't have a clear message about all of this?"

She went on to show a clip in which President Donald Trump suggested that it was up to Carr whether or not programs that were "against me" should be allowed to keep their TV licenses. **

"No it's not up to Brendan Carr! It is not up to him! I don't understand how you are the man in charge of the nation and you still don't know how the First Amendment works," Goldberg declared, before asking the show's legal expert Sunny Hostin if she'd like to remind him.

"Freedom of speech undergirds our democracy and our founders were very, very clear on that," Hostin said. "Our founders drafted the First Amendment specifically to protect the rights of citizens who criticize the government."**

Jimmy Kimmel on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'.

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She noted that the "Supreme Court time and time again has reinforced its support for the law of the land, the first amendment: freedom of speech and freedom of the press." Hostin continued, "I know very well what the freedom of speech means, I know all of you know very much what the freedom of speech means, and the president of the United States should know what freedom of speech means."

Ana Navarro began by thanking the show's viewers for "demanding truth and courage from us," adding, "You deserve it. We will give it to you." **

She pointed out how "ironic" it is that Kirk, who "stood for freedom of speech" and debate, is now being used to "cancel" critics. "I don't understand how in this country — where the First Amendment to the Constitution was to guarantee freedom of the press and freedom of speech — the government itself is using its weight and power to bully and scare people into silence," she said.

Navarro then noted that she lived through both a right-wing dictatorship and left-wing dictatorship in Nicaragua. "This is what dictators and authoritarians do! It does not matter the ideology," she emphasized. "At first, they come for the people with big platforms. At first, they silence the press. But then they come for all of us. Because their intent is to scare us into silence and self-censorship." **

Navarro pointed to the Trump administration barring the Associated Press from the Oval Office and defunding NPR and PBS as evidence of this behavior. "That is not how the First Amendment works," she stressed. "And I will say to you all — to all of us — look, we have seen tech titans going to the Oval Office. We are seeing media moguls, publishers of newspapers, we are seeing all of them try to make the peace with Donald Trump. A bully always comes back for more. So they need to stand up, and we need to demand the same from ourselves."

After the commercial break, Alyssa Farah Griffin added that it was important to remember the precedent that a move like this sets given that "the pendulum swings in this country" both ways.**

"Donald Trump is not going to be in power for 100 years. It may feel that way to a lot of people right now," she said. "There will be a time that the left is back in power and I think the same conservatives that are backing this position, this crackdown on free speech, do not want a left-wing president policing what can be said on TV, how you can criticize your government. Think about the precedent it sets down the road." **

Goldberg reminded viewers that all of this is "fundamentally in our hands" as voters. "We make these decisions," she said, adding that the* The View *will continue to "fight for everybody's right to have freedom of speech" moving forward.**

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC.

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