Thursday, January 15: Kenan Thompson, Jesse Williams

The View

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.3 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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'The View' co-hosts weigh in on the president's response to protesters clashing with law enforcement following a second shooting in about a week involving ICE in Minneapolis. Then, the co-hosts question if the search of a Washington Post journalist's home is an attack on journalism. Plus, the co-hosts react to people finding comfort in shows where characters are good at their jobs that some are calling “competency porn.” Kenan Thompson talks working with his heroes on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ looks back on his iconic sketches on the show and shares the inspiration behind his new children’s book, 'Unfunny Bunny'! Jesse Williams discusses his new documentary 'Hoops, Hopes & Dreams’ and shares what surprised him the most while studying Martin Luther King Jr. for the film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	Battleground Minneapolis.
0:36.0	The president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to end Minneapolis protest after another shooting by an ice agent ignites more outrage.
0:46.3	But as the mayor lashes out...
0:48.3	I've seen conduct from ice that is disgusting and is intolerable.
0:52.3	And the governor makes a call to action.
0:55.2	If you see these ice agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Help us create
1:01.7	a database of the atrocities against Minnesotians. Has this administration already lit a fuse
1:07.6	that could make tensions explode? To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.
1:14.6	Then, Keenan Thompson has taken you behind the scenes of his 23rd season of S&L and introducing
1:21.6	you to the Unfunny Bunny. Plus, actor-director and producer Jesse Williams talks about showing
1:26.6	how basketball changed the game in America in the new documentary, Hoops, Hopes, and Dreams.
1:33.3	Here come Hot Topics with Whoopi!
1:38.3	Sarah Haynes, Joy Behar, Anna Navarow, Sonny Hosten, and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
1:47.0	Now let's get things started.
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