President Barack Obama’s Thursday morning apperance on The View was one for the record books.

The telecast was the show’s most-watched episode ever, according to Nielsen Research. More than 6.6 million Americans tuned in to watch the president gab with Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on everything from the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico to Justin Bieber and Snooki Polizzi.