We need to talk about what just happened on The View, because honestly, we’re not sure even Hollywood screenwriters could make this up.
Sunny Hostin — a woman who is paid real American dollars to give legal analysis on national television — told the audience yesterday that she has “psychic abilities.” Not as a joke. Not as a bit. She said it with the straight-faced sincerity of someone ordering a salad. “I believe I have psychic abilities.” On ABC. During a show that is supposed to be about news.
Oh, but it gets better. She explained that her *grandmother* had psychic abilities and passed the “gift” down to her. Apparently, when Hostin was five years old, she “dreamt a number” and her family won money from it. And that childhood dream is now, thirty-something years later, her qualification for analyzing FBI investigations on network television.
Joy Behar — JOY BEHAR — had to be the voice of reason. She cracked: “One psychic and four psychos!” When Joy Behar is the one pumping the brakes on your segment, you have driven so far off the road that GPS can’t find you.
Now here’s where Hostin took her crystal ball and aimed it directly at FBI Director Kash Patel. The topic was the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie — a genuinely tragic missing person case that everyone hopes is resolved safely. But instead of focusing on the facts of the case, Hostin used it as a launching pad to attack Patel and the entire FBI under his leadership.
“Where is Mrs. Guthrie?” Hostin demanded, as if Kash Patel personally misplaced her. She called the FBI “deeply incompetent” and said “the best of the best are not there” anymore. Coming from a woman who just cited her psychic grandmother as a source, this is… something.
There are currently 93,000 open missing person cases in the FBI’s database. Ninety-three thousand. Were those also Kash Patel’s fault? Were the cases that went cold under Louis Freeh, Robert Mueller, and Christopher Wray also caused by bad leadership? Or is it only a crisis when a Trump appointee is running the bureau?
(Spoiler: it’s the second one.)
Alyssa Farah Griffin — who’s supposed to be the show’s “conservative” voice but mostly just agrees with everyone nervously — actually made a decent point for once. She noted that the recent Charlie Kirk assassination case wasn’t solved by the FBI at all. It was local law enforcement and a family tip that cracked it. So maybe, just maybe, the FBI’s track record on these cases isn’t exactly a new development.
But Hostin wasn’t interested in nuance. She was too busy connecting invisible dots between Patel, The Atlantic’s latest hit piece, and her own supernatural intuition. She even brought up Patel’s defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic, saying “the defense to defamation is the truth” — which is technically correct but also completely irrelevant when your opening argument was “I’m psychic.”
This is what passes for political commentary in 2026, folks. A major network television host on ABC — owned by Disney, watched by millions — is sitting at a table citing her grandmother’s psychic gift as evidence while simultaneously accusing the FBI director of incompetence. There’s no punchline here because the show IS the punchline.
We’ve been saying for years that The View isn’t a news show. It’s a group therapy session for people who are still mad about the 2024 election. But yesterday they crossed into new territory. They went from “biased commentary” to “one of our hosts believes she can see the future and also the FBI director is to blame for a missing person.”
At this point, ABC should just lean into it. Replace the news desk with a round table and some tarot cards. Bring in a Magic 8-Ball as a co-host — at least it would give balanced answers. “Will the economy improve?” *Signs point to yes.* See? Already more useful than Sunny Hostin’s grandmother’s ghost.
The scariest part isn’t that Hostin said it. It’s that nobody on the panel told her to stop. Nobody said, “Hey Sunny, maybe let’s not cite psychic visions when we’re discussing a real missing woman and a real FBI director.” They just nodded along like she was reading a weather report.
One psychic and four psychos. For once, Joy Behar nailed it.
