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The View: Behind the Table

Ana Navarro's Bruce Springsteen Moment That Meant Everything

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ana Navarro sits down with executive producer Brian Teta to react to Donald Trump admitting he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial hardships, sharing why she found the comments so striking. She also weighs in on Billy Bob Thornton’s take that celebrities don’t need to speak out on politics—and explains why she strongly disagrees. Ana shares the story of how she got backstage to meet Bruce Springsteen and why attending his concert reignited her sense of activism. She and Brian also recap their night at the Disney Upfront parties, including the one person in the room Ana was especially grateful to thank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, it is Thursday, May 14th.

0:02.2

I'm here with Anna Navarro and the lovely, the talented Chacha Navarro. Does she have your last name? No, Cardness. Oh, that's nice. That's nice for you and Al. I had to throw him a bone. So I didn't know that. We learned something new about Chacha today. There we go. All right. So you won't take his name, but the dog did. Exactly

0:23.1

Exactly I didn't know that. We learned something new about Chacha today. There we go. All right. So you won't take his name, but the dog did. Exactly. Exactly. All right. Let's just dive right in because this week,

0:32.6

as President Trump departed for a state visit to China, He was asked if he considers America's financial problems

0:38.5

when he's negotiating with Iran. And he said, not even a little bit. The only thing that matters

0:43.8

when talking about Iran is that they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about

0:48.0

America's financial, Americans' financial situations. This was astounding to me because

0:52.7

obviously it's something that's going to be clipped and

0:54.8

played again and again by Democrats. What did you think about this? Well, the astounding part is that he

1:01.4

said it out loud. It should not be astounding to you or to any other American who has lived in

1:07.6

this country for the last year and a half that this is an actual fact that he doesn't care about what Americans are going through

1:15.9

in their financial crises.

1:17.6

And, you know, I mean, this cannot be a more tone-deaf administration.

1:25.2

This is the most tone-deaf administration of my lifetime. And I'll say this. Look, I think

1:29.7

if we want to be frank about it, there is no doubt that Joe Biden and his administration missed the

1:38.0

fact that Americans cared and were going through economic issues.

1:49.9

He should have acknowledged it, addressed it, and tackled it far more aggressively.

1:58.2

But you can accuse Joe Biden of having been deaf, but he wasn't tone deaf because he was not,

2:04.1

certainly at the same time that Americans were going through economic hardship.

2:09.2

Joe Biden was not out there enriching himself off the presidency.

2:20.1

Joe Biden wasn't out there carrying around a rendition, a mock-up of a ballroom that's now costing $1.5 billion.

2:30.4

He wasn't going around there talking about the repainting of the reflection pool that started at $1.5 and is now at $15 million.

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