WATCH: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Eviscerates Ana Navarro’s Iran Narrative In Return To ‘The View’

The View’s liberal co-hosts melted down Monday over President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran, with Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin blasting the operation while guest host Elisabeth Hasselbeck stood nearly alone in defending the president’s show of force.

The segment opened with Goldberg pointing to the growing U.S. death toll and asking whether Americans were ready to back another military operation in the Middle East.

“So I want to note that this morning, a fourth soldier was declared dead. So are Americans going to support another military operation in the Middle East right now? I mean, we’ve had kind of a checkered past in going into the Middle East and not taking care of business. So I open it up,” Goldberg said.

Navarro responded first, saying support would depend on whether Trump clearly explains the mission and its endgame. She acknowledged feeling relief at reports that Iran’s Ayatollah was dead, but quickly pivoted to attacking Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I don’t think they’re going to support it if the president of the United States does not make a case and clearly explain why we went in there and what the end game is,” Navarro said.

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“The View” guest co-host SHUTS DOWN panel’s hysteria over Trump’s strategic strike on Iran.

Ana Navarro suggested Trump was starting a war to distract from the Epstein Files.

The conservative co-host answered with three points that tore her narrative to shreds.

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She added that she was “furious” the U.S. was “going into war yet again without congressional approval” and accused Trump of politically benefiting from conflict.

Still, it was Hasselbeck who delivered the clearest defense of the operation, arguing that Americans are exhausted by war but that strength is sometimes necessary to secure peace.

“I shall respect where you come from Ana on this, and your ability to broadly think about it and have heart in it. I also think it’s very easy to have political concussion at this point where, and I actually had a concussion a year ago, one of the side effects of losing depth perception — where you can’t see the depth of what is going on, because you’re just being constantly barraged by information or political opinion and now war. Understandably, the Americans are fatigued with the idea of war. We get that. We sit here. We know the repercussions of it, including a death. And I do want to say our hearts are with the families of those fallen soldiers. Your sacrifice will not be squandered. This war will be won.”

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Hasselbeck then laid out what she said were the broader stakes, pointing to hope for Iranian women, the fall of a terror regime and the larger geopolitical effect of disrupting oil flows to China.

“I do think it’s threefold. One, we have 47 million Iranian women who now have a hope of freedom. That’s a good thing. OK, we have a disgusting, disgusting terrorist regime ended, and the people finally have hope to create their own nation again, so that’s the hope. When we zoom out and do political realm, OK, which is not my specialty either, but we have a ton of friends in the military who specialize in this, we see that this is actually avoiding a boots on the ground war with China when we are able to choke their oil supply, and the president and our military are exemplary in doing so right now. They’ve cut the oil supply from Venezuela, and they’ve now reduced it and choked the oil supply to China in Iran, and now what that does is presumably prevent China from having an absolute stronghold on the globe. So this is a strategic move geopolitically that we may not fully understand, but I absolutely trust that this is best for our nation. We should be America first.”

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Navarro challenged whether the regime had truly ended, prompting Hasselbeck to reply, “Well, the absolute Ayatollah is dead.”

Sunny Hostin then jumped in with a legal attack, calling the conflict illegitimate from the start.

“I was just going to say, the bottom line is that this is an illegal war. This is an unconstitutional war. Only Congress can wage war. That’s the first thing. I think we have to call a thing a thing. So this is an illegal war,” Hostin said.

She went on to argue that Trump had no real strategy and mocked him as having only “concepts of a plan.”

When the show returned from break, Sara Haines offered a more cautious take, saying the fall of Iran’s top leadership could be good news if it truly weakens one of the world’s leading state sponsors of terror. But even she warned that what comes next remains uncertain.

Goldberg closed by saying she was watching carefully but was not optimistic, arguing that outside powers cannot simply decide who should lead Iran next.

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