From Daily Mail: Sara Haines offered fellow View host Sunny Hostin some rare pushback on-air Monday – after the latter claimed the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran are ‘unconstitutional.’
Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, first told the panel: ‘It’s an illegal war. He didn’t go to Congress. He didn’t go to the UN. He didn’t go before the American people, and that’s why, at this point, only 27 percent of Americans approve of these actions.
‘And I don’t believe, I don’t have any confidence that Donald Trump has any sort of plan.
‘Maybe he has concepts of a plan, but he does not have any sort of plan,’ Hostin conclude, riffing off an unflattering phrase made famous by the conservative on the campaign trail in 2024.
Haines answered by naming other presidents who deployed members of the US military without congressional approval.
“[Joe] Biden, [Barack] Obama, [Bill] Clinton, George H.W. [Bush], [Ronald] Reagan,” she said. “So I would be more upset that Congress has ceded this power, than mad that the president didn’t check with Congress.”
Moments earlier, guest host Elisabeth Hasselbeck had clashed with Hostin over the military strikes in Iran, saying she supported Trump’s decision.
Hasselbeck’s statement threw Hostin into a rage.
“I thought this president wanted to win a Nobel Peace Prize for peace,” she said. “That is not what I’m seeing. I am not seeing America first. I think people that voted for Trump, I was not one of them.
“I think you were,” she told Hasselbeck. “Those people wanted America first.”
Hasselbeck proudly admitted to voting for Trump, saying the alternative was far too unappealing.
After a commercial break, Haines joined the conversation by noting the Islamic Republic regime’s history of censorship and harming protestors.
“The Iranian people are amazing, and they deserve to live outside of this leader and this regime, but they also have had media blackouts,” Haines said. “Any dissidents…they could be killed. They’ll just be killed.”
“So I just don’t think we know yet how long this [lasts] or what it looks like, but there are some benefits to this country if indeed it could go smoothly. It just remains a cautious optimism.”
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