WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg Cuts to Commercial Break After Getting SCHOOLED by RFK Jr.'s Wife Cheryl Hines

Today’s episode of The View got rather interesting…

No, Alyssa Farah Griffin did not wear a MAGA hat like she promised she would if President Trump freed the Israeli hostages (boo!)

But, RFK Jr.’s wife Cheryl Hines appeared as a guest, and the ladies used it as a chance to grill her about her husband’s positions on things like vaccines and Tylenol.

At one point, Whoopi Goldberg tried to pull a quick ‘gotcha’ by claiming that RFK Jr. should not be the head of the HHS because he is “not a doctor.”

But, Cheryl Hines shut her down immediately, schooling her on the facts.

“90% of Secretaries of the HHS have not been doctors,” Hines said.

That’s when Whoopi pulled a page from the George Stephanopolous playbook, cutting her off and going to commerical break!

Watch the moment here:

The View's Whoopi Goldberg cuts to commercial break right after getting DESTROYED by Cheryl Hines, wife of RFK Jr.

WHOOPI: "[RFK Jr.] is not a doctor."

HINES: "90% of Secretaries of HHS have not been doctors."

WHOOPI: "We have to take a break."

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Cheryl Hines is right, by the way.

The notion that RFK Jr. is not qualified for the position of Health and Human Services Secretary because he doesn’t have a medical degree is absolutely ludicrous.

In fact, the vast majority of HHS Secretaries have not been doctors and have not even come from medical backgrounds.

Grok broke it down:

The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) was established in 1953, and renamed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1980 (with education functions split off). There have been 26 confirmed Secretaries as of October 2025, including predecessors under HEW. The table below lists them all, with service periods and whether they held a medical degree (MD or equivalent, indicating they were licensed physicians)…

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Out of 26 Secretaries, 3 were medical doctors (Otis R. Bowen, Louis Wade Sullivan, and Tom Price). These individuals brought clinical expertise to the role, with Bowen being the first physician appointee in 1985. No others held an MD degree; most had backgrounds in law, public administration, or politics.

Cheryl Hines was also correct that one of Barack Obama’s HHS secretaries was an economist.

Grok provided some background on that:

Sylvia Mathews Burwell was President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from June 9, 2014, to January 20, 2017. She has a background in economics, with a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University and a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Before HHS, she served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a role heavily focused on economic policy.

Was she also not qualified for the role, Whoopi?

This wasn’t the only time Cheryl Hines put The View hosts in their place during today’s episode.

Watch this:

RFK Jr.’s wife has a raw moment on The View as she CLAPS BACK at criticisms of Bobby’s stance on vaccines.

Cheryl Hines played nicely at the beginning, but then she ended with a line that clearly upset Joy Behar.

BEHAR: “It seems as though Bobby and Trump are casting doubt on… pic.twitter.com/xBkmiavwO9

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RFK Jr.’s wife has a raw moment on The View as she CLAPS BACK at criticisms of Bobby’s stance on vaccines.

Cheryl Hines played nicely at the beginning, but then she ended with a line that clearly upset Joy Behar.

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BEHAR: “It seems as though Bobby and Trump are casting doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine, which makes Americans very nervous. So that’s the problem that we’re having.”

First, Hines pointed out that the government’s vaccine injury compensation program has only paid out $5.4 billion to victims over the past 39 years.

But it was her next line that started some tension:

HINES: “Can we do better? Can we make [vaccines] them safer? Can we listen to parents who say, ‘My child got the vaccine and changed and stopped hitting markers, stopped developing the way they were developing.’ Can we listen to people when they say that, instead of saying, ‘You’re crazy’”?

This statement clearly upset Joy Behar, who came back with: “But you want to listen to scientists.”