The View co-host Ana Navarro has tested negative for COVID-19 TWICE after being ...

The View co-host Ana Navarro says she has tested negative for COVID-19 twice after she was whisked off the stage with co-host Sonny Hostin earlier today before they were scheduled to greet Vice President Kamala Harris.  

Co-hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin were booted from Friday morning's live broadcast after returning the positive results at the eleventh hour. The bombshell news caused chaos on the show's set and forced Harris to delay her interview, which was eventually conducted via video link from another room at ABC's New York studios.   

Navarro, who only co-hosts the show a few times a week, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday night that she is 'tested weekly' and has since tested negative for the virus twice.  

'All of sudden it turned into an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm,' she told Cooper.   

She told Cooper she and Hostin were taken to their dressing rooms where they received an antigen and a PCR test and had to wait there until they got their results. Navarro declined to reveal Hostin's results, but revealed her original test was a 'false positive.' 

Navarro and Hostin were sitting on stage alongside co-hosts Joy Behar and Sara Haines shortly after 10am Friday as they prepared to welcome Harris to their table. But the introduction was dramatically interrupted by showrunner Teta, who yelled for Hostin and Navarro to leave the room.

'I had just been told in our ears that we are,' she said when Cooper rolled the tape showing the stunned reactions of the two women, 'We're like: "What did you just say? Did I just hear you right?" And this was in the middle of live TV.'  

As the women were finding our about the rapid test results came back positive, co-host Joy Behar could be heard on the show, which aired live earlier today, saying: 'There seems to be something happening here that I'm not 100 per cent aware of. Can someone please reprise me on the situation?' 

As Navarro and Hostin made their exit, Behar tried to keep the showing moving forward with the Harris interview, but it was ultimately delayed and the Vice President later appeared via video call. 

'As you know, Anderson, the show must go on,' Navarro told Cooper on his show. 

Earlier today, an ABC insider accused The View of 'monumental failure' after the two co-hosts were pulled from their chairs, claiming it was a 'security risk.'  

'This is a monumental failure on the part of the showrunner Brian Teta, ABC News' Kim Goodwin and Disney's Peter Rice,' the anonymous insider exclusively told DailyMail.com.

'This is a national security risk. Had Sunny and Ana actually met Kamala, she would've been at risk. What an utter waste of her time. I doubt we'll be able to book her again.'

Behar and Haines were left on stage, scrambling to fill air time. The pair spent several minutes taking viewer questions in scenes described by one columnist as 'an absolute train wreck.' Harris was eventually set up in a back room, and conducted a shortened interview with Behar and Haines remotely.   

The ABC insider says Friday morning's broadcast blunder was indicative of the chaos that occurs behind the scenes at the daytime show. 

'It shows how poorly mismanaged the show is... Kim Goodwin and Peter Rice need to step in and take control of this show, as it truly is a s**t show that they both have no control over.'

The ABC insider told DailyMail.com that Behar - who is 78 years old - has been particularly concerned about contracting COVID, and that lax testing had put the veteran star at risk. 

'Joy is an elderly woman pushing 80, regardless of her vaccination status, she needs to be protected and they have failed in their duty of care,' the source fumed. 

'Over the summer, Joy had been very vocal to ABC management about her concerns returning to the studio, they could've exposed her to great danger.

'Remember Joy was one of

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