MSNBC’s Joy Reid Breaks Silence on Her Biden Hot Mic Moment: ‘Let’s Not Do War at All’

MSNBC’s Joy Reid broke her silence on her hot mic F-bomb moment when asked about it on Monday’s episode of The View.

On The ReidOut last week, the host apparently didn’t know her mic was hot when she reacted to a statement by Joe Biden about the southern border:

BIDEN: If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border now and I’d fix it quickly… And Congress needs to get it done.

REID: Starting another fuckin’ war.

Sara Haines asked, “I want to ask you, because as people that wear microphones every day, we can relate to this. But, last week, you had a hot mic moment that caught some attention. Let’s just say you used some colorful language. Who doesn’t?”

“Not me. I’m a Christian!” Reid joked.

Haines continued, “It seems like you were criticizing President Biden for starting another war. I don’t think you’re alone in concerns of that, but is that true? Like, what was behind this?”

“Well, I’m going to hit that with a cute, ‘No comment!'” Reid said while laughing. She continued:

No, but what I’m going to say is, I am a person that, I’m a steady “war no more” kind of Christian. I’m a Red Letter Christian. I don’t believe in war whether it is the governor of Texas literally trying to start another civil war over an issue that his party could solve tomorrow. There’s literally a bill that they just could pass, right? And do the border security issue.

Or whether it’s in the Middle East. I was deeply against the Iraq war. I’m an anti-war person, and so, you know, I don’t want to say that there’s any side that specifically to blame here. But I think the idea — I think for most Americans — we’re war weary. I think we’re all weary of conflict, and we would like to see us progress economically, socially, try to bring this country back from the brink of racial hatred. Let’s not do war at all.

Sunny Hostin agreed, saying, “Yeah. Let’s not kill people. What’s happening in Gaza has shaken everyone. Like, let’s not do that.”

Whoopi Goldberg interjected, “And if it happens — and if you find that war is happening — at least let us know who’s gotten hit, because I haven’t heard very much about the three young people who lost their lives that night. And I want to hear more.”

The three soldiers, all from Georgia, were killed last week by an Iranian-backed drone strike in northeastern Jordan. They were Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24; Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23.

Watch the clip above via The View on ABC.