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Retired host Barbara Walters on Friday returned to The View to celebrate the show's 4000th episode. The self-congratulatory edition featured Walters bragging, "We had some very serious political discussions. We had very serious guests. We had the president." The co-host enthused, "When Obama came on the show that was a very big deal, a sitting president on the daytime show."
Joy Behar, a former host returned on Friday and praised the President's 2012 guest shot: "He knew that his constituents out there wanted to see him and he wanted them to vote him for. This is a good audience fo Obama."