MSNBC host surprises 'The View' co-host by claiming Supreme Court is 'flagrantly corrupt'

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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Tuesday and said the Supreme Court is "flagrantly corrupt," which appeared to surprise co-host Sunny Hostin.

"The blatant corruption of a couple of these Supreme Court justices is John Roberts' problem. He is the chief justice, he has to police it to save his court and to save the legal system," the MSNBC host said.

Maddow and "The View" co-hosts discussed ethics concerns on the Supreme Court, specifically surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas, who has taken heat for accepting gifts from GOP donor Harlan Crow, and Justice Samuel Alito, who came under fire recently for flying an upside down American flag outside his home in the weeks following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

Co-host Sunny Hostin questioned Maddow's statement, but the MSNBC host stood by it.

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"I work at MSNBC. If there was a member of my family lobbying the White House chief of staff, saying, ‘overturn this election result,’ you think they’d let me cover that election result, let alone give a binding judicial ruling on that election result?" she said. It was a reference to Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, who sent texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to challenge then-President Trump's 2020 election loss.

Behar questioned whether