‘The View’ addresses Bill and Hillary Clinton’s decision to testify before Congress about Jeffrey Epstein: “I think the Clintons are playing chess while everybody else is playing checkers”

The View weighed in on Bill and Hillary Clinton agreeing to testify before Congress about the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and whether that means President Trump will have to, also.

Whoopi Goldberg kicked off their discussion, posing the following to the Hot Topics Table: “Call me crazy, but I have a dumb question. If former President Clinton is testifying, don’t Americans want to hear from You-Know-Who, who should be testifying?”

Joy Behar replied, “Well, it seems like, to me, first of all, Trump is mentioned in the files 38,000 times. So that’s why they keep talking to him about it.”

While Behar noted that the Clintons agreeing to testify “opened up the floodgates” for Trump and others mentioned in the Epstein files, citing “Bill Gates and whoever else is in there.”

“And remember that [Bill] Clinton had to testify under oath about Monica Lewinsky, and so he set the precedent that a sitting president can testify,” she added.

Goldberg asked that if Trump “has been given such a wide breadth, does this mean that President Clinton doesn’t have to testify,” leading to some thoughts from Sunny Hostin.

“Well they’ve agreed to, certainly,” she shared. “And I think the Clinton’s are playing chess while everybody else is playing checkers, because they’ve already actually submitted sworn affidavits to this House committee. I’ve read them. They are in-depth and astute. But I will say this, I think you’re right, Joy. I think the fact that a former president is testifying in front of the House committee pursuant to a subpoena, sets a high precedent, sets a bar, for any president to be called before this committee.”

Hostin noted that the Supreme Court “sort of held that presidents have almost absolute immunity” in 2024, though she cited “little wiggle rooms.”

“Because what they found was that ‘former presidents have absolute immunity for actions within their conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority, presumptive immunity for all other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts,’” she said. “So I would suspect that being on an island with Epstein, or being somewhere else with Epstein, or hanging out with Epstein, allegedly is not an official act.”

Hostin added, “So I would think that because the Clinton’s are testifying—and let’s remember that Hillary Clinton knows how to testify to a committee because she sat for 11 hours for Benghazi. So she does just fine in front of a committee. So I suspect that President Trump will definitely, if he’s subpoenaed, try to invoke the Supreme Court’s ruling, but I don’t know if that’s going to pass constitutional muster.”

Goldberg agreed, “I don’t think it will either.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.