The View co-host Sunny Hostin went on national television and got the basic facts of a murder case wrong.
All hell then broke loose.
And now Megyn Kelly is daring The View to put this guest on on the air and face what they started.
Karmelo Anthony was recently sentenced to 35 years for stabbing Austin Metcalf to death at a 2025 high school track meet. The jury found Anthony was the aggressor — he entered the tent where Metcalf and his team were, told Metcalf, “Touch me, see what happens,” and things turned physical before Anthony used a folding knife to stab him. Austin Metcalf died in the arms of his twin brother, Hunter.
Hostin argued on *The View* that Anthony may have been simply defending himself. “We also have to look at self-defense here, because there seems to be two systems of justice at play in this country, and there have been for a very long time,” Hostin claimed.
She said another issue was that Metcalf severely outweighed Anthony, claiming Metcalf weighed 200 pounds while Anthony was only 130 pounds. That was wrong. As the New York Post reported, Metcalf was 6’0 and 200 pounds, while Anthony was listed at 5’11 and 162 pounds.
Hostin also said she didn’t believe Anthony “had a jury of his peers” and suggested jurors shouldn’t have rejected Anthony’s claims of self-defense. The jury, having heard all of the actual evidence, disagreed.
Jeff Metcalf appeared on Fox’s *The Will Cain Show* and was asked about Hostin’s remarks. He did not hold back.
“They don’t know me,” Jeff said. “They don’t know Hunter, Austin — they don’t know Karmelo. They’re looking for their 15 minutes of fame or their clickbait or their clicks. They’re looking to monetize the death of my son.”
“If that woman said that, she has no idea about the facts of the case, but she wants to spew her public opinion on a platform that reaches millions of people every day,” he told Cain. “Do I have that platform? No, but today I have a little platform to say what I’d like. She is completely wrong.”
And then Jeff Metcalf did something that put The View in a corner.
“She is completely wrong. And if they want to take me and call me and ask me to be on ‘The View’ with them, I would gladly fly up there and let me talk to all of you.”
On *The Megyn Kelly Show*, Kelly played the clip of Jeff Metcalf, including him saying he’d “gladly” fly up to New York and do the show to respond to Hostin.
Kelly’s response was short and sharp.
“Oh, do it, I dare you. Do it. If those women of The View have any spine whatsoever, they’ll do it,” Kelly said. “They’ll take him out. This is a grieving dad of an actual murder victim at 17 years old and he’s offering to come on your show and talk truth about what happened in this case.”
Kelly went further, walking through exactly why the self-defense argument failed in court. “Anthony dared Metcalf to put his hands on him. He wasn’t afraid. He was provoking him.”
“You cannot claim self-defense when you provoked the action against yourself. You cannot taunt someone, beg someone to lay hands on you and then when they do so, stab them in the heart and say, oh, gee, I was just defending myself.”
That’s not a legal technicality. That’s the basic logic the jury applied after sitting through the whole trial — something Hostin did not do.
Jeff Metcalf criticized those who politicized his son’s murder or framed it through a racial lens, saying he never wanted that to happen. “The two things I said on one of the first interviews I ever did was, ‘Please don’t make this about race, please don’t politicize it,'” he said. “But they chose to do both.”
“We don’t see color. So, all I see is character in people. I don’t care what color you are,” the father said.
Jeff also spoke about what happened inside the courtroom when the verdict came down. “They weren’t there for the sentencing and they were not there for victim impact statements. They left that poor child up there by himself. As soon as the verdict was read, he was guilty, his family and some other advocates left the courtroom and turned in their badges,” he said.
When Megyn asked about reported death threats, Jeff said they are a “daily occurrence of vile texts, actual phone calls” and that he turns them “over to law enforcement.”
None of that made it onto The View. What made it onto The View was a host getting the weight of the victim wrong while questioning a jury verdict she watched from a television studio.
A team of attorneys announced they will represent Anthony pro bono, review the trial record, and pursue all available avenues of appeal. So the case is not over, and the media attention is not going away. Which makes it all the more striking that Hostin weighed in with bad facts while the father of the victim was sitting right there, willing to talk.
The View built a platform on hot takes and emotional arguments. Jeff Metcalf is offering them something rarer — a man who was actually there, who buried his son, who sat through every day of that trial, and who says Sunny Hostin got it wrong. The question is whether the show has the nerve to find out.
Don’t hold your breath.
Sources: Mediaite; Fox News; Primetimer; Newsweek; TMZ; The Megyn Kelly Show (SiriusXM)