The View cohost Sara Haines breaks down in tears upon learning she's biologically related to 2 U....

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Haines discussed her episode of "Finding Your Roots" live on "The View," where host Henry Louis Gates Jr. informed her of her past.

The View cohost Sara Haines breaks down in tears upon learning she's biologically related to 2 U.S. presidents

Haines discussed her episode of "Finding Your Roots" live on "The View," where host Henry Louis Gates Jr. informed her of her past.

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Sara Haines cries on 'Finding Your Roots' in a clip shown on 'The View'. Credit:

There's officially presidential blood in *The View* family.

Cohost Sara Haines broke down in tears upon discovering that she's related to two United States presidents, with the reveal coming amid *Finding Your Roots* host Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Thursday morning visit to the Hot Topics table.

After giving *The View* cohosts a quick history on another one of Haines' relatives, a German man who abandoned a woman he impregnated in the 1700s, the show cued up a clip from Haines' full *Finding Your Roots* episode that revealed Haines' shocking genealogical ties to one of the Founding Fathers.

'The View' Hot Topics table on Feb. 5, 2026.

"Do you know who that is?" Gates Jr. asks Haines in the footage, while he shows her a portrait of John Adams. "He looks like a lot of people in my history book," Haines replies.

Upon realizing that it's the second president, Gates Jr. informs her, "He is your third cousin, nine times removed!"

The 48-year-old throws her head back and laughs, eventually resting her face in her hands before looking up with tears streaming down her face.

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"Oh my God. I'm related to a president!" Haines says, laughing and crying at the same time. "And he was a good one!"

Back at the Hot Topics table, Gates Jr. then exclaims that Haines is therefore, "related not to one president, but to two presidents," as Adams' son, John Quincy Adams, later became the sixth president in 1825,.

"We only had one other guest in the history of the series who was related to a president, unhappily so, and that was Michael Moore, who was related to Herbert Hoover," Gates Jr. recalled. "You are our first guest happily related to two United States presidents!"**

Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg for 'The View'.

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Gates Jr. traced Haines' relationship to the Adams presidents through her maternal grandfather, who was born in Kansas, whose mother was related to Henry Adams, Haines' 11th great-grandfather who was born in England and later settled in Massachusetts.

Nearly all of *The View *cohosts have appeared on* Finding Your Roots* — except for Alyssa Farah Griffin, whom Gates Jr. formally invited to be on a future episode while he sat at the table. Earlier, Gates Jr. uncovered a troubling bit of history for panelist Sunny Hostin, who learned on the show in 2024 that her ancestors owned slaves.

On the episode, Hostin learned that, in addition to her Puerto Rican ancestry, she also had Spanish lineage in her blood, and that her fourth great-grandfather was a merchant "who was likely involved in the slave trade" in 1800s Spain, and "owned at least one human being," the host told her at the time.

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC.* Finding Your Roots* airs Tuesdays on PBS.

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