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The View: Behind the Table

Alyssa Farah Griffin: 'You Have To Talk To People You Disagree With'

The View: Behind the Table

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4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Farah Griffin sits down with executive producer Brian Teta to discuss the latest debates at the Hot Topics table, why she is urging for Americans to have dialogue with people they disagree with and what she would say to President-elect Trump in a meeting after MSNBC anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reopened lines of communication with him. Have a question or want advice from Brian or a co-host? Call or text us at (917) 960-3037 or leave us a message here: https://woobox.com/kaoojs. Messages may be used on a future podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:32.1

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

0:35.4

This is behind the table.

0:40.2

Hello, Alyssa. Hello, Brian. All right. It is two weeks post-election today. How about that? Yeah,

0:45.4

it's going fast. Not really. We've had some really good debates at the table over the last

0:50.7

week or so post-election. They've been heated but respectful, which I think is always the goal at the view.

0:56.1

How have you felt about the debates we've been having?

0:58.6

I like it.

0:59.7

So I, to be honest, I find it more interesting and more like substantive for those of us

1:06.9

at the table and those of us listening when we really have more disagreements.

1:10.0

And I think in kind of the tail end of the election, we were all, well, we're not aligned on policy, really

1:15.0

at all. We were all aligned in supporting Kamala Harris. But now it's like, okay, so this is

1:20.4

the reality we live in. Right. The American public voted for Donald Trump. I worked for him.

1:24.6

I know him. I actually, this is the weird thing. I actually probably agree with more of his, I definitely agree with more of his policies than I do Vice President Harris. For me, it's more of a character vote. But now we have to live in the world that he's in. And I want to speak for the many people I know and love who voted for him, who I think are awesome people. I want to speak about the policies that he's actually right on because not everything about him is catastrophic and is something that's

1:48.0

going to be damaging. There's a lot of good he could do in a second term. And also just like have

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