The View’s Sara Haines Defends Whoopi Goldberg After Fans Say Her 2-Week Suspension Isn’t Enough

“The View” hosts went toe-to-toe while comparing their feet on Monday’s episode of the talk show. 

Two weeks already??

Whoopi Goldberg made her return to. After a two-week suspension, following comments she made about the Holocaust, the host returned to the desk on Monday, and addressed her time away. After giving the camera and the audience a friendly greeting, co-host Joy Behar noted, “We missed you.”  “I missed you all too,” Goldberg replied before speaking about her time away.

Whoopi Goldberg's problematic comments on The View, which led to a two-week suspension for the longtime host, the popular show has announced not one but three exciting additions to the table.MORE: Whoopi Goldberg's replacement on The View revealed following suspension over Holocaust commentsEmpty chairs won't be a problem for The View, as in celebration of their 25th season, they are bringing back three of their longest running hosts to co-host throughout the month of February.Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, and Elisabeth Hasselback will be joining comedian Joy Behar, lawyer Sunny Hostin, and television host Sara Haines on the Hot Topics table.WATCH: The View star Whoopi Goldberg alleges the Holocaust wasn't about raceMORE: Sharon Osbourne breaks silence as Whoopi Goldberg is suspended from The ViewLongtime fans will be delighted to see some of the original panel members take back their old seats, even if not permanently. The original panel consisted of journalists Barbara Walters and Meredith, Star, who is a lawyer, television host Debbie Matenopoulos, and Joy, who has maintained her spot on the show. A post shared by The View (@theviewabc)The longtime co-hosts that are returning to the showElisabeth was part of the panel for a decade, until 2013, and has previously admitted to having been shocked when her contract wasn't renewed.

Following Whoopi Goldberg‘s suspension from The View in the aftermath of her remarks about the Holocaust during Monday’s episode, it sounds as though there is still plenty of tension at the daytime TV giant.

Zack Sharf Whoop Goldberg’s “The View” co-hosts Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin remained silent on the Wednesday, Feb. 2, episode of the ABC daytime talk show regarding Goldberg’s two-week suspension. ABC News president Kim Godwin announced in the evening of Tuesday, Feb., 1 that Goldberg would be suspended from “The View” following Goldberg’s remarks that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Behar started the Wednesday morning episode of “The View” by reiterating that Goldberg would be off the show for two weeks, then the hosts moved on to the “Hot Topics” segment.“You all saw the news,” Behar said.

NEW YORK -- With Tara Setmayer, a former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill, sitting in Wednesday as guest co-host for a second day this week, Whoopi Goldberg's colleagues on “The View” had virtually nothing to say about her two-week suspension for her comments on Jews and the Holocaust.At the top of the ABC talk show, co-host Joy Behar noted Goldberg's absence and said simply, with a tiny head tilt, “OK,” before moving on to other topics. The show went on with four co-hosts.Goldberg's suspension was announced by ABC News President Kim Godwin on Tuesday, the day after Goldberg said during a discussion of a Tennessee school board's banning of the book “Maus” that the Holocaust was “not about race ...

The hosts of “The View” are moving on to more pressing topics.

Maybe some topics are just too hot.

Whoopi Goldberg will not be on The View for two weeks starting Wednesday, February 2. The suspension follows her controversial remarks about the Holocaust and race on the Monday, January 31 episode.

Whoopi Goldberg has been slammed for claiming that the Holocaust 'was not about race ' because it involved 'two groups of white people'.

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two week from ET confirms that the 66-year-old co-host will not appear on the daytime talk show after comments she made on Monday's episode of about the Holocaust.«Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments,» Kim Godwin, President, ABC News, said in a statement to ET.

Whoopi Goldberg, 66, has been suspended from The View for two weeks due to her controversial statements about the Holocaust. The co-host and moderator had faced major backlash after she had said that the Holocaust was “not about race,” during a discussion about schools banning Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Despite her multiple apologies, ABC opted to suspend the co-host.

Meghan McCain, 37, spoke out against her former colleague Whoopi Goldberg, 66, over the comedian’s comments about the Holocaust in a tweet on Tuesday February 1. The former View co-host shared that she was reluctant to speak out against her old job, but she wanted to share how “heartbroken” she was to hear the controversial comments that Whoopi made, saying that the Holocaust was “not about race,” during Monday’s episode.

UPDATED, 8:42 AM: Whoopi Goldberg apologized again on The View this morning for her comments that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Saying that she “misspoke” Monday, Goldberg said on-air today that the Holocaust “is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race. Now, words matter — and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people.”

Whoopi Goldberg is responding to the backlash surrounding comments she made on Monday's episode of about the Holocaust. The panel was discussing the recent banning of, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, by a school board in Tennessee. «The Holocaust isn't about race.