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The View: Behind the Table

Alyssa Farah Griffin On The Importance Of Journalists On The Front Lines

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Entertainment News, News, Tv & Film

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Farah Griffin sits down with executive producer Brian Teta and reflects on today's show where ABC News' Matt Gutman was escorted away from his live shot in Israel due to a security concern. She also discusses why World Mental Health Day is important to her and how she deals with family members who still support Trump despite her outspokenness against the former president. If you or someone you know needs help with mental health, contact The National Alliance On Mental Illness HelpLine at 1-800-950-6264. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Brian Tetta, executive producer of The View.

0:02.8

It's Tuesday and I'm here with Alyssa Farrar Griffin.

0:05.7

This is behind the table. Okay, we are here with Alyssa. Hi, Alyssa. Hi Brian. All right.

0:23.0

Today we were talking to Matt Gutman in Israel and mid-interview, he was carded away by security basically,

0:29.9

not that he'd down anything, but he was being ushered to safety.

0:33.0

It was really intense and of course we were all worried about his safety in the moment and he was a trooper and kept trying to do the interview and kept going until finally he had to drive somewhere else.

0:44.9

We got to check in with him later.

0:46.6

What was going through your mind when that was happening?

0:48.7

I mean, listen, war correspondence are just built different.

0:51.6

There's something that just go,

0:52.9

whether it's our incredible ones like James

0:55.4

we had on yesterday, Matt, I see some of my colleagues

0:57.5

at CNN, they're so ready in the moment

1:00.9

for everything around them.

1:01.9

But what the audience didn't see off air as we were doing kind of the sound check with him

1:05.6

is he was asking, he's like, can you hear the mortars and missile strikes in the background?

1:09.6

We couldn't in the way that the audio picked up, but it shows how close to danger he was.

1:14.8

I was nervous immediately because you know nobody we love Matt nobody wants to see

1:21.2

anything bad happen but it's so

1:23.2

powerful to have these folks on because it brings the war

1:26.7

home.

1:27.2

It makes us realize like even, you know, a journalist

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