Sara Haines Is Happy To Be An Independent

The View: Behind the Table

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Haines joins executive producer Brian Teta to discuss how she interpreted James Carville's recommendation that Democrats "play possum" while the Trump administration continues to slash the federal workforce, she answers a listener question about being an independent and resisting pressure to pick a side, and reflects on taking part of a trend on TikTok about "getting coffee" with her younger self. 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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0:16.3	I'm Brian Teta, executive producer of The View.
0:19.6	It's Tuesday and I'm here with Sarah Haynes.
0:22.7	This is behind the table.
0:28.0	Hello, Sarah Haynes.
0:29.3	Hello, Brian.
0:29.9	How are you today?
0:30.7	I'm good.
0:31.2	Happy to have you back on the podcast.
0:33.1	Now, we've been talking a lot about what's been going on in politics on the show.
0:37.4	And one of the things that's come up is, and he's been coming up a lot lately, is political
0:41.4	strategist James Carville.
0:43.3	And he's saying that if you disagree with what's happening right now with the current administration,
0:48.1	the best thing to do is to sit back and allow President Trump and the GOP do and the fallout
0:53.4	will happen.
0:54.9	Do you agree with that?
0:57.6	I've gotten a lot of different responses from those. Well, yeah, because I think different people interpret it. He said play possum. And that is a strategic act of playing, pretending you're dead.
1:04.8	And I mention that because right now everyone says, you know, be loud, be the resistance.
1:10.5	They don't say this, but like, all I can
1:12.6	think of is, do we storm the Capitol? Do we hold up signs? All those things. What James Carville is saying is
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