Chaos on The View as Ana Navarro ignores Alyssa Farah Griffin amid heated argument with Sunny Hostin: ‘You’re wrong’
“Hold on, Ana, we’re on television!” Joy Behar said, attempting to break things up.
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- The View descended into chaos Friday morning as Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin began the episode with a heated exchange.
- Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted to cut in, with Navarro ignoring her in the moment.
- “Guys, I’m eight months pregnant, can we all have a chance to speak? What are we doing?”
Within the first few minutes of its Friday broadcast, The View descended into chaos involving a clash between Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin amid a wider discussion about geopolitics, Venezuela, and Greenland.
Tensions rose shortly after Joy Behar introduced a Hot Topics discussion about the United States’ recent international dealings, including a raid on Venezuela and speculation that the nation might soon seek control of Greenland.
Hostin quickly doubled down on thoughts she previously expressed about the “kidnapping” of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and her speculation that the U.S. would “take the head of state of Venezuela and take the oil” in the country for its own use. “How is that okay, but [taking] Greenland isn’t?” Hostin asked.
“Let’s look at some facts. Venezuela is a dictatorship. Greenland is not. Denmark is our ally, Greenland is our ally, we have military bases and operations in Greenland, Denmark is part of NATO, as we are, we’re part of one big alliance,” Navarro replied, days after she expressed both support for the ouster of Maduro, but also criticism for the methods that the United States took in extracting him from the country. “Venezuela is a place where they kill, jail, and torture the opposition, where they repress human rights.”
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She stressed, “My point is we can’t make an equivalency between Greenland and Venezuela. We lose the point if we do that.” Hostin clapped back, “No, we don’t, the law is the law, it is an unlawful thing we did in Venezuela, and it would be unlawful if we did it in Greenland.”
Later, Hostin told Navarro frankly that “you’re wrong,” with Navarro repeating the sentiment back to Hostin: “Okay, well, I think you’re wrong.”
After that, things got even more heated, with the pair clashing over their ideals on the issue, speaking over each other after Navarro expressed that she won’t feel that Donald Trump’s raid on Venezuela will be a successful mission until there are, as Griffin jumped in to assert, “free and fair elections” in the South American country.
“If I could get in here just real quick,” Griffin said, attempting to add something else to the conversation, with Behar joking that she could “try” to speak if she wanted to.
Navarro and Hostin continued to argue with each other, with Griffin repeatedly trying to break the chat up to interject her own view.
“Guys, there’s a…” Griffin said, trailing off before trying again a few seconds later. “Guys, okay, can I…”
She again repeated, “Okay, guys…” while Navarro and Hostin argued, ignoring Griffin’s multiple attempts to cut in.
“Hold on, Ana, we’re on television!” Behar said, raising her own voice toward Navarro. Griffin then turned toward an off-camera member of production, raising her hands in exasperation.
“Guys, I’m eight months pregnant, can we all just have a chance to speak, like, what are we doing?” the former Trump White House staffer said, breaking the tension as the audience laughed and Navarro took a sip from her mug.
Griffin was finally able to speak her point, voicing how she thinks “free and fair elections” and “the opposition leader” being elected in Venezuela could lead to making “the entire Western Hemisphere a safer place” in her estimation.
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Later, Navarro and Hostin argued once again, with Navarro telling her, “Today, as we sit here…it’s already a moot point, because it’s already happened and we picked the guy out.” Hostin — a legal expert and former federal prosecutor — told her colleague that “the law should never be a moot point.”
A frustrated Navarro fired back, “Sunny! It’s theoretical, we already plucked the guy out, so, right now we have invested billions of dollars,” before asking, “What do you think we should do? Return him to Venezuela? Is that what you think we should do?”
The show quickly went to a commercial break moments later, with the panelists moving on to different topics as the episode continued.
Both Navarro and Hostin have been vocal about the U.S.’ tactics in Venezuela, with Hostin stressing several times this week that she thinks the raid to capture Maduro was illegal. The White House responded to the cohost’s remarks on Monday in a statement in EW.
“Only President Trump had the strength and courage to actually arrest Maduro for committing narcoterrorism against the United States,” the statement alleged, going on to call the cohosts “liberal pundits” who “will flip-flop on anything — even holding criminal drug lords accountable — in order to attack President Trump.” (EW reached out to a representative for The View for comment.)