The American television channel ABC suspended the actress and presenter of its program "The View" for two weeks on Tuesday for a comment in which she denied that the Holocaust was racially motivated. 

In a statement, ABC News 

President Kim Godwin announced the suspension immediately and for two weeks for Goldberg's "wrong and hurtful." 

In the first show since the longtime host was suspended Tuesday night for controversial comments, she made about the Holocaust this week, Joy Behar opened the episode with only a brief mention of the absence. 

The hosts, including Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and conservative guest co-host Tara Setmayer, 

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's upcoming closed media speech to the Federalist Society on Friday.