'The View' melts down over latest Biden book, slams CNN for 'hawking' it

The View co-hosts melted down on Tuesday while discussing the new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson about the cover-up of former President Joe Biden's decline while in office with a few deflecting criticism of Democrats and instead slamming the reporting itself Co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg Ecstasy Behar and Sunny Hostin criticized President Donald Trump throughout the discussion wondering why it was key to learn about the Biden cover-up now amid what they claimed were Trump's atrocities early in his second term Tapper and Thompson's book Original Sin President Biden's Decline Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again was circulated Tuesday All he is doing is hawking his book on CNN and he's flanked by other people Brian Stelter and Van Jones also hawking his book Behar commented referring to Tapper When did CNN become a place to hawk your book Is Wolf Blitzer coming out with a cookbook she questioned BIDEN TELLS 'THE VIEW' HE WASN'T SURPRISED HARRIS LOST BLAMES SEXISM AND RACISM When is Jake Tapper going to write about the cognitive decline of the person in charge right now Behar sought earlier in the discussion Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin defended Tapper and Thompson saying And this is where I take issue with various folks on the left They're We stand with journalists We stand with the free press When they re going after their opponents like Donald Trump but when they critically cover Democrats Oh no they re lying It s fairy dust It s not true Griffin noted that criticism from Biden's family was to be expected as his granddaughter Naomi Biden rebuked the book calling it political fairy smut With political figures attacking these two how is that pro-democracy How is that pro-fourth estate to say 'Oh but when you come after Democrats suddenly you're liars' Griffin added BIDEN MADE HARRIS CAMPAIGN A 'NIGHTMARE ' DESTROYED HER CHANCES BY STAYING IN RACE TOO LONG AIDES CHARGEGoldberg questioned the sources in the book and inquired why they weren't able to come forward during his presidency If you re telling me that hundreds of people knew that he was not able to do his job then where the hell was everybody Goldberg requested Hostin noted that Tapper had declared the bulk of the reporting from the book came after the poll before directing her criticism at former Trump bureaucrats who wrote books after serving in his first term What I do think that we should be very very concerned about are the people who were in the Trump administration that did hold on to information about how Trump was conducting the presidency saw they could make money off of their book Hostin explained We re talking about former national prevention adviser John Bolton who came on the show hawking his book and I informed him 'Why didn t you say something before ' Former Attorney General Bill Barr he wrote a book didn t say anything while he was in there Former Secretary Mark Esper and that White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham all of them knew what Trump was who he was how he was doing it CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREBiden sat for an interview with The View in early May addressing criticisms of a fitness cover-up his initial decision to run for re-election and his later decision to exit the race Former first lady Jill Biden also joined the former president as the pair shot back at accusations of a cover-up calling the various books about the former president wrong They are wrong Joe Biden revealed before Jill Biden jumped in to say that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us The former first lady insisted the former president worked nonstop at the White House