Sunny Hostin YELLS at Dem Senator Fetterman for Reopening Government

After blowing her lid about Democrats crossing the aisle to reopen the government earlier in the week, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin found a target to direct the rage of her leftist extremism: Democratic Senator John Fetterman (PA). Hostin unloaded on Fetterman during Tuesday’s edition of The View, she literally yelled at him for flushing away all the leverage and political points the Democrats racked up by not paying federal workers and withholding SNAP benefits. And as Fetterman was schooling Hostin on her extremism, they conveniently had to go to a commercial.

Hostin wasn’t the first to question Fetterman, but she was the most confrontational and openly hostile. Something she likely felt comfortable with because Fetterman was appearing via a video connection and not actually in the studio.

“Well Senator, Bernie Sanders said the vote was a ‘horrific mistake.’ Governor Gavin Newsom called it ‘pathetic’ and ‘a surrender,’” she sneered. “Poll after poll found more Americans on both sides of the aisle blaming Republicans. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed the GOP. As you mentioned, Democrats had big wins last week so you had momentum.”

Her rage was clearly percolating and she finally unleashed it via a borage of bitter, angry questions that she yelled hysterically into the camera:

Why give in now?! Why bring a butter knife to a gun fight?! Are you willing to gamble that the GOP will negotiate on healthcare in good faith once the government reopens?! Because if that gamble is wrong, half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, their healthcare costs will skyrocket if you are wrong! And I believe you are wrong!

In his not-quite trademarked hoodie, Fetterman dismantled Hostin’s shrieking. “Well, first of all, you know, MTG is quite literally the last person in America that I’m going to take advice or to get their kinds of my leadership and values from. And now, if Democrats are celebrating crazy pants like that, then that’s on them,” he quipped.

Adding: “I don’t need a lecture from whether it’s Bernie or the governor in California because they are representing very deep blue kinds of populations and a lot of those things — a lot of those things were part of the extreme.”

Fetterman was trying to continue making his point that he “refuse[s] to weaponize the SNAP benefit for 42 million Americans,” but was interrupted by moderator Whoopi Goldberg with a commercial break (Click “expand”):

FETTERMAN: And I would like rather than cite MTG I’m going to cite one of the new governor elects saying that ‘my election is not a green light to continue this shutdown,’ because I promise you this isn’t a political gain. It is viewed by that by many of us, but the reality is 42 million Americans now not sure where their next meal is going to come from because we vote like that. Or people that haven’t been paid for five weeks now and that kinds of chaos. Those workers had to borrow more than half a billion dollars from their credit union just to pay their bills now. So, for me, we’re in the middle of this –

GOLDBERG: Senator. Senator, I have to ask you to hold up a second because we have to take a break and we will be right back.

It’s weird that Hostin was so adamant about withholding SNAP benefits, especially since she claimed she has family members who received them. Again, why didn’t Hostin take care of those family members since she’s a multimillionaire? Perhaps she’s lying, or perhaps they’re family members she doesn’t want to associate with but would more than happily weaponize for political points.

Prior to him being yelled at/lectured to, Fetterman’s first questioner was faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin, who repeatedly pestered Fetterman about growing Democratic discontent with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the calls for his ouster:

So, I want to ask you, why did you ultimately decide to support this agreement, and where do you stand on the growing number of Democrats who are calling for leader Schumer to step down in light of the shutdown deal?

(…)

And can I just follow up. Is leader Schumer, in your mind, the right leader for this moment for Democrats?

Fetterman articulated that the leadership fight wasn’t one of his concerns at the moment, but he was concerned by how the far-left wanted him to be more radical despite representing a state the Democrats lost in 2024.

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
November 11, 2025
11:17:22 a.m. Eastern

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ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Good morning, senator. So, you were critical of this shutdown from the outset saying, ‘it never should have happened, never should have come to this,’ even at times criticizing your own party. So, I want to ask you, why did you ultimately decide to support this agreement, and where do you stand on the growing number of Democrats who are calling for leader Schumer to step down in light of the shutdown deal?

SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN (D-PA): There’s a lot there. Well, first of all, it’s not like I agreed to that — I mean, I’ve been consistently — Now, remember, this all — that went back to March. I effectively kind of led the charge that it’s wrong to shut our government down and then enough of us realized that that’s just too risky and that’s too much chaotic — and then we kept it open and I know there was a lot of backlash for that, and I declared back then we will be right back at the end of September and I will be there, too, because it’s fundamentally the wrong thing.

When you’re confronting mass, mass chaos, you know, I don’t think you should respond with more chaos or fight with more chaos. It’s like, no, we need to be the party of order and logic and respond in a way. And now I refuse to weaponize the SNAP benefit for 42 million Americans. You know, that rely on feeding themselves and their family, or making flying in America, you know, less safe, or I refuse not to pay our military and all of the unions attached to all of this and people. So for me it’s like I don’t agree with that tactic to respond to circumstances that we’re confronting on this.

FARAH GRIFFIN: And can I just follow up. Is leader Schumer, in your mind, the right leader for this moment for Democrats?

FETTERMAN: I’m saying that it’s like that’s not really my concern right now. It’s not like a leadership situation, it is — we are living in the backlash of the election. It’s been effectively a year now. America decided to put us in the minority.

And now in terms of leadership right now, you know, what defines leadership? For me I think that’s order and logic and describing people exactly where we are at. And now, we were all energized by the election just last week. Now, for me I think it’s like, hey, let’s take the win on that. And now we know there is a lot of backlash to this kind of chaos and now voters are going to respond to more order and the more kinds of not violating our core values to plunge our country into chaos for 42 million Americans’ food security. That’s really part of the essence of the kind of people that I fight for.

Now we have to be able to disagree on these things and if you can’t — now as a committed Democrat that vote 90 percent of the Democratic line. Now, that might be a bigger problem with our party in some way that a committed Democrat from the most difficult and purple state in the country says, hey, you know, I’m trying to call balls and strikes in the middle of this chaos.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Well Senator, Bernie Sanders said the vote was a ‘horrific mistake.’ Governor Gavin Newsom called it ‘pathetic’ and ‘a surrender.’ Poll after poll found more Americans on both sides of the aisle blaming Republicans. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed the GOP. As you mentioned, Democrats had big wins last week so you had momentum.

Why give in now?! Why bring a butter knife to a gun fight?! Are you willing to gamble that the GOP will negotiate on healthcare in good faith once the government reopens?! Because if that gamble is wrong, half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, their healthcare costs will skyrocket if you are wrong! And I believe you are wrong!

[Applause]

FETTERMAN: Well, first of all, you know, MTG is quite literally the last person in America that I’m going to take advice or to get their kinds of my leadership and values from. And now, if Democrats are celebrating crazy pants like that, then that’s on them. And now, I don’t need — and I don’t need a lecture — I don’t need a lecture from whether it’s Bernie or the governor in California because they are representing very deep blue kinds of populations and a lot of those things — a lot of those things were part of the extreme.

And now remember what really needs to win — to win, the big win, is involving my state and other states and those things. And why have we arrived here after the election a year ago? We want to forget — we have to forget some of the things that cost us that election or now for me it’s like that’s why I’m trying to remind people that the extremism we can’t return to those kind of things and realize we need to find a way forward.

And I would like rather than cite MTG I’m going to cite one of the new governor elects saying that ‘my election is not a green light to continue this shutdown,’ because I promise you this isn’t a political gain. It is viewed by that by many of us, but the reality is 42 million Americans now not sure where their next meal is going to come from because we vote like that. Or people that haven’t been paid for five weeks now and that kinds of chaos. Those workers had to borrow more than half a billion dollars from their credit union just to pay their bills now. So, for me, we’re in the middle of this –

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Senator. Senator, I have to ask you to hold up a second because we have to take a break and we will be right back.