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

It's Tuesday and I'm kicking off the new year with Alyssa Farra Griffin.

This is behind the table. Okay, happy new year, Alyssa, we are here, we are back. How are you feeling?

I'm feeling good. it was actually a really fun

show I feel like there was so much news to talk about over the holidays we were all just

like chomping at the bit to get to it yeah I get nervous going into a

coming back from a break I'm always excited to be back with

the hosts and have you guys weigh in on things but sometimes it takes a minute to get our

sea legs again I feel like and even after a long weekend sometimes we're thrown

but I feel like we came out of the gate strong today.

There was so much to talk about.

I feel like everyone was kind of ready.

We had a nice long break.

Yeah.

Oh, I mean, I saw Joy like tweeting over the holidays.

I was like, she's clearly ready to be

back on TV. She's got opinions she needs to share. Well she had the extra

week because she was sick too. So yes I know I realize I hadn't seen her

in almost a month. Yeah no it's it's it was good to get everybody back. I was excited to be here. How were your holidays?

Wonderful. Very nice. Front end, my husband and I, to kind of protect our peace, took a trip, just the two of us in Herbie, we were in the

Smoky Mountains, it was super relaxing. Really beautiful down there. So beautiful,

hiked every day. And then the back end was like family and extended family and

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