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Things Get Heated Again on ‘The View’

Apr 8, 2019  •  Post A Comment

ABC’s daytime chat show “The View,” which has been generating headlines lately over a clash years ago between former regulars Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters, is at it again.

Conservative panelist Meghan McCain and liberal Joy Behar, who often find themselves at odds with each other during political discussions, went at it Monday while discussing the Trump immigration policy and the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg interceded after things became uncomfortably frosty, saying: “So here’s the deal. Here’s what’s not gonna happen today: We’re not going to do this. Everybody gets a conversation piece, everybody gets to say their piece, and we don’t need to comment if we don’t like what we’re hearing. Just let folks talk.”

By that time Behar had apparently forgotten the point she was trying to make, and the whole thing apparently blew over.

The clip is below. Things get more heated as the clip progresses, with sparks flying around the 5-minute mark …

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