Hey, welcome to Latina to Latina, a Bustle podcast. I'm Alicia Menendez, your host and

contributing editor at Bustle. My dad called me and he said, I just saw you on CNN. You look devastated.

And I was like, it's just so unfair. And he said, you were great, but you're going to lose your job.

And the opposite happened.

My career took off.

That was Sunny Hosten, one of the co-hosts of The View.

A former lawyer and a federal prosecutor, she broke into television as a legal analyst.

So how did she do it?

Why did she do it?

And how does she stand up to the trolls every day?

Sunny, you're going to get so much time to talk today. You're not going to know what to do with yourself. I was going to say, I'm always interrupted on a daily basis. I can't believe. I'm going to be

I want you to finish thoughts. I want you to take a thought from the beginning to the end. You are now a co-host on the view.

Yes. Was this the dream?

It wasn't, actually. You know, I feel like I've had different dreams and I think it's okay. I've finally given myself permission to be okay with the difference, the different dreams rather.

But my dream was always to give voice to people that don't have a voice

and so you know law school made so much sense to me and I loved um being a federal prosecutor I I just

it meant everything to me and that was always going to be the dream.

And then TV happened to me.

So now I have a new dream.

It happened to you where you went out and pursued it.

That's a great question because people always ask me, how did you get on the view?

You know, I was very happy being a lawyer.

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