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

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.

“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.

“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!”

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.

“The View” producer shakes head in horror after 3 cohosts motion toward their privates: ‘Sorry, Brian’

Sara Haines, Whoopi Goldberg, and Sunny Hostin made hand gestures that twisted Brian Teta’s face into a frown live on the air.

The View producer Brian Teta got an eyeful — as did viewers at home — when three cohosts motioned toward their privates during a discussion about childbirth.

During a Thursday morning Hot Topics chat about the backlash SmartLess podcast host Jason Bateman received after questioning pop star Charli XCX over her decision to not have children, Sara Haines revealed that colleague Joy Behar once jokingly jabbed her for birthing more kids after her first baby.

“I remember thinking after I had one, I’m not doing this again,” Behar, 83, said of having only one child, before Haines, 48, cut in to recall Behar asking, “Why would you do that again?” when she got pregnant after the birth of her first of three eventual children.

“She did it three times,” Behar said, to which Haines replied, “Well, we did it more than that, but there were three babies!”

The audience laughed as Haines continued the energy, exclaiming, “At this point, they fall out,” while motioning downward before apologizing to an in-studio audience member. “Sorry for the man in the front that just got the visual of my…”

Haines trailed off and subsequently apologized to her producer. “Sorry, Brian!” she said.

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Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, 70, then got in on the action, making a similar hand gesture as she asked, “Did she just call it a…” as the camera cut to Teta, who shook his head and grimaced over the developments at the Hot Topics table.

Sunny Hostin, 57, also joined in, mimicking the gesture toward her privates while adding, “She made, like, a motion!”

It was announced earlier this week that the last remaining cohost at Thursday’s table to become a parent, Alyssa Farah Griffin, will soon go out on maternity leave beginning Feb. 17, as she prepares to welcome her first child with husband Justin Griffin.