The cohosts of The View finally addressed the elephant in the room at the start of Monday’s (September 22) live show. Moderator and cohost Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the day by addressing why she and the others hadn’t yet talked about ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid public pressure by the FCC chairman.

“Look, did y’all really think we weren’t going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel? I mean, have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons? So you know, no one silences us. And to all my friends in Italy who reached out, you have to know it’s OK. We’re still here. We’re still broadcasting,” Goldberg said in a fiery intro. “When the news broke last week about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, we took a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it first. We did the same thing with Stephen Colbert. Then our show was on tape on Friday, but we are live here today, and we’re getting into it now.”

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