“He’s gone through so much in his life,” Ana Navarro said.

*The View *producer calls Joe Biden’s health ‘concerning’ after shocking on-air interview with Jill Biden

"He's gone through so much in his life," Ana Navarro said.

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- *The View* producer Brian Teta called Jill Biden's update on Joe Biden "concerning."

- Dr. Biden visited the show earlier this week to promote her book, *View From the East Wing*.

- "They deserved to be traveling the world and going to all the places," Ana Navarro added.

*The View* producer Brian Teta has admitted that, after former first lady Jill Biden stopped by the talk show for an interview earlier this week, he felt her health update on Former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer was a "concerning" development in the politician's health journey.

During a *Behind the Table* podcast recap of the episode with Republican panelist Ana Navarro, who inquired with Dr. Biden on the air about the former president's cancer battle, the pair lamented her characterization of her husband's daily life.

"I still can't reconcile how they missed it," Navarro said of Joe's stage IV prostate cancer, which has metastasized to his bones.

Navarro further reflected, "When I asked her how Joe was doing, she just said, 'Okay.' She didn't say 'great,' she didn't say 'feeling strong,'" to which Teta replied, "I asked her backstage exactly the same way, and, yeah, it was concerning."

Jill Biden on 'The View'.

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Jill's response made headlines Tuesday, after she said she didn't think her husband would've been fit for a second term in office as a result of the surprise cancer diagnosis, which came after he'd already bowed out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place on the ballot against Donald Trump.

"Not from what I know now," Dr. Biden said when Alyssa Farah Griffin asked if she thought her husband could've had a solid run in the White House until he was 86. "Who knew? It was so shocking to get a cancer diagnosis."

On *Behind the Table*, Navarro said that Jill's response made her "a little sad" because "Joe has been in great physical shape, he's been an athlete, and he deserved — *they* deserved — to be traveling the world and going to all the places" after they left office.

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Navarro, whose husband, Al Cardenas, is a prostate cancer survivor, said that the topic hit close to home for her as she sat with Jill at the Hot Topics table.

"Metastasized to his bones means a very painful cancer. I hate it," Navarro said, while Teta said that they're "praying for him" to recover.

Navarro finished the segment by calling Joe an "eternal optimist" who's "gone through so much in his life," after he lost two children, including Beau Biden, who died in 2015, and Joe's infant daughter, Naomi, who died at age 1 in a 1972 car crash.

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"It made them more empathetic throughout their lives. Nobody could give a hug and give condolences and sympathies and encouragement like Joe Biden could," Navarro observed. "I know I received it when my mother died, from him, and I know he did it time and time again with families of fallen soldiers, and when they visited cities after disasters where people had lost their homes, had lost their lives. I miss [in a president] that kind of humanity and ability to empathize, the ability to feel other people's pain."

Listen to Navarro and Teta discuss Biden's diagnosis above.

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