The U.S. strikes on Iran that gave Ayatollah Khamenei a killer headache were also giving much of The View “anxiety,” during the Monday edition of the ABC News show. In addition to claiming that toppling the Islamic regime would not help women in the country, the liberal ladies compared the strikes to Russia invading Ukraine and predicting over one million U.S. casualties. They also accused Trump of having no plan what so ever and of wanting to conquer the world. Luckily, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was back at the table and put them in their place, in the most polite way possible, of course. Claiming the strikes gave her “such anxiety,” fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro whined that Trump “thought Venezuela was incredibly successful” and wanted to try something similar with Iran. Ignoring how obviously different the one-night raid and arrest of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was compared to the massive air and missile defense campaign of the current conflict, Navarro invented her own reason to be bad at Trump by falsely suggesting he was treating them the same: I don't know Iran. I know Venezuela. Maduro was a piddly little third-world dictator. Venezuela is not Iran. Iran has terrorist cells all over the world that they can activate. Venezuela was one and done. They went in there, they extricated Maduro and that was the end of that. This certainly -- this is not that. He's already told us it could be four or five more weeks of strikes. We are seeing retaliation by the Iranians that the Venezuelans didn't have the ability to do.   On The View, Ana Navarro claims the strikes on Iran are about Trump trying to conquer the world and to distract from the Epstein files: "I also have such anxiety, I am furious that we are going into war yet again without congressional approval. I am furious that the American… pic.twitter.com/3st4x3Edbi — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 2, 2026   Navarro also suggested Trump was trying to conquer the world. “So I think that -- that he's in love with this idea of being the conqueror and the emperor after Venezuela. He has this Napoleon complex! He thinks he's Alexander the Great!” she exclaimed. Hasselbeck responded by complimenting Navarro on her ability “to broadly think about it and have heart in it,” but argued that she might have a “political concussion,” where “you can't see the depth of what is going on because you are just being constantly barraged by information or political opinion and now war.” She proceeded to actually acknowledge all the good that could come from regime change in Iran, like women being free (which the show supposedly stood for) and how this continued to threw a wrench into China’s plans, possibly preventing a full military confrontation (Click “expand”): I do think it's threefold. One, we have 47 million Iranian women who now have the hope of freedom. That's a good thing. Okay. We have a disgusting, disgusting terrorist regime ended and the people finally have hope to create their own nation again. Okay. So that's the hope. When we zoom out into geopolitical realm, okay - which is not my specialty, either, but I 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 have now reduce it had 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 and we should be America first.   Elisabeth Hasselbeck is back on The View and she brings a voice of reason, pointing out that Iranian women will have freedom again and this helps the U.S. with a possible confrontation with China: "I do think it's threefold. One, we have 47 million Iranian women who now have the… pic.twitter.com/BUNTHVyRC1 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 2, 2026   Chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin raged about how “this is an unconstitutional war, it's an illegal war” because “He didn't go to Congress, didn't go to the U.N.” First off, Trump did inform the Gang of Eight earlier last week. Second, nowhere in the Constitution did it say the U.S. needs to get approval from the U.N. Hostin shrieked about how there was supposedly no plan in any form and equated the U.S. striking Iran (a decades-old enemy who had repeatedly killed our people) to Russia invading Ukraine and invoking that war’s casualty numbers as something that could happen to U.S. forces: Also, what I will say is it's very easy to start a war, right? Without a plan. It's very difficult to end a war. We've seen in Russia, invading Ukraine, thinking that it was going to be over. It's five years later, 610,000 Russians are either maimed or killed. No. 1.2 million Russians maimed or killed. We’ve got 600,000 Ukrainians maimed or killed. That war is not over.   Sunny Hostin equates the U.S. strikes on Iran to Russia invading Ukraine and they'll be over 1 million casualties: "The bottom line is that this is an illegal war, this is an unconstitutional war. Only Congress can wage war... (...) Also what I will say is it's very easy to… pic.twitter.com/wRiy4Knzo6 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 2, 2026   Given the important nature of the current event they were discussing, the Iran strikes spilled over into the show’s B-block. Shaking her head at Hasselbeck, moderator Whoopi Goldberg tried to rain on her optimism that eliminating the Islamic regime would improve things women in Iran: Well, I just think we all have to remember that because we don't know what's coming next, we don't know how safe women are going to be. We don't know. We don't know. The key here is we don't know because it would be great if it happened and it happened the way we want it to happen and people found that freedom, but I'm not -- I'm not optimistic because, you know, when you have -- when you throw in religion and you throw in male dominance and sometimes when you -- you know, all kinds of stuff. You have to surf a lot of this. And if you don't know what's going on all you can do is -- all we can do is talk about what we see.   Whoopi dismisses the mass anti-Islamic sentiment in Iran and claims even after the regime is overthrown the Iranian men will still want to subjugate their women: "Well, I just think we all have to remember that because we don't know what's coming next, we don't know how safe… pic.twitter.com/lRe6kr9qAQ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 2, 2026   Hasselbeck came prepared and had producer Brian Teta show a side-by-side image of how free the women of Iran used to be before the Islamists took over. “[T]his is now the time for the Iranian people to stand and do what they need to do,” she said. “And right now, these women have hope. 47 million women have hope. Women -- people who are gay are not being thrown off buildings. Women will not be mutilated and murdered.” Toward the end of the B-block, Hostin started going off again on how Trump didn’t consult Congress, but co-host Sara Haines interjected with some facts: “Sunny! Sunny, just to mention. The other presidents that have gone in without congressional approval, Biden, Obama, Clinton, George H.W., Reagan. I would be more upset that Congress ceded this power than mad that the president didn't check with Congress.”   Hostin whines that Trump didn't get approval from the U.N., which he doesn't need to do. She also claims Trump "doesn't have any sort of plan" for the strikes and Sara Hanes jumps in to note Democratic president hadn't gotten congressional approval either: HOSTIN: That's why at… pic.twitter.com/BTvQhnQPCe — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 2, 2026   The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 2, 2026 11:07:22 a.m. Eastern (…) ANA NAVARRO: But I also have such anxiety! I am furious that we are going into war yet again without congressional approval. I am furious that the American people have not been brought into this. I am furious that we are doing this alone. Yes, Israel is part of it, but, you know, I look at Donald Trump and I look at Netanyahu and I see two leaders who I think – think politically they benefit from war. (...) 11:08:02 a.m. Eastern NAVARRO: I think that's where a lot of Americans are. That, you know, we're happy that the ayatollah is dead, he's brutal, brutal regime. And let me just say one more thing. Trump has, I think, changed since Venezuela. I think Venezuela -- I think he thought Venezuela was incredibly successful; and he's been making comparisons with what happened in Venezuela with what's happening in Iran. I don't know Iran. I know Venezuela. Maduro was a piddly little third-world dictator. Venezuela is not Iran. Iran has terrorist cells all over the world that they can activate. Venezuela was one and done. They went in there, they extricated Maduro and that was the end of that. This certainly -- this is not that. He's already told us it could be four or five more weeks of strikes. We are seeing retaliation by the Iranians that the Venezuelans didn't have the ability to do. So I think that -- that he's in love with this idea of being the conqueror and the emperor after Venezuela. He has this Napoleon complex! He thinks he's Alexander the Great! WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Right. Right. NAVARRO: But Venezuela is not Iran. ELISABETH HASSELBECK: I mean, I respect – I so 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 was losing depth perception where you can't see the depth of what is going on because you are 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, right? We sit here and we know the repercussions including the death and I want to say our hearts are with the families of those fallen soldiers. Your sacrifice will not be squandered. This war will be won. I do think it's threefold. One, we have 47 million Iranian women who now have the hope of freedom. That's a good thing. Okay. We have a disgusting, disgusting terrorist regime ended and the people finally have hope to create their own nation again. Okay. So that's the hope. When we zoom out into geopolitical realm, okay - which is not my specialty, either, but I 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 have now reduce it had 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 and we should be America first. (...) 11:11:02 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: The bottom line is that this is an illegal war, this is an unconstitutional war. Only Congress can wage war and declare war. And so, that's the first thing. I think we have to call a thing a thing. So, this is an illegal war. This is a presidential war. I will also say I think what Ana was about to say, did the regime really change? No. At this point, Donald Trump has come out and said I had some choices for who would lead, but they are dead now, too. And so, now you have people that are in Iran pick their own people. So, you don't have a regime change, just like you don't have regime change in Venezuela. Also, what I will say is it's very easy to start a war, right? Without a plan. It's very difficult to end a war. We've seen in Russia, invading Ukraine, thinking that it was going to be over. It's five years later, 610,000 Russians are either maimed or killed. No. 1.2 million Russians maimed or killed. We’ve got 600,000 Ukrainians maimed or killed. That war is not over. I thought this was going the president of peace. I thought this president wanted to win a Nobel Peace prize for peace. That is not what I'm seeing. I am not seeing America first. (…) 11:18:50 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: Well, I just think we all have to remember that because we don't know what's coming next, we don't know how safe women are going to be. [Shakes her head at Hasselbeck] We don't know. We don't know. The key here is we don't know because it would be great if it happened and it happened the way we want it to happen and people found that freedom, but I'm not -- I'm not optimistic because, you know, when you have -- when you throw in religion and you throw in male dominance and sometimes when you -- you know, all kinds of stuff. You have to surf a lot of this. And if you don't know what's going on all you can do is -- all we can do is talk about what we see. But I -- I am cautiously watching to see who is going to end up becoming the leader. And it is not somebody I think we need to appoint. This is up to the Iranian people to make that decision. We can't just drop somebody in because then we're back with the shah. HASSELBECK: Without a doubt. And I think Whoopi, just as a point that even the President himself has said and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has said that this is now the time for the Iranian people to stand and do what they need to do. GOLDBERG: Yes. HASSELBECK: But when you look at what women looked like and were treated like, we have a before and after - [side-by-side image of how women were treated before and after the Islamic regime took over] - before this regime and after, this is before and here is after. And right now, these women have hope. 47 million women have hope. Women -- people who are gay are not being thrown off buildings. Women will not be mutilated and murdered. GOLDBERG: I hope you're right. HASSELBECK: Ad I think there' such hope and it takes strength to find peace and America should be first at that always. GOLDBERG: Yeah, well - [Gets cut off by crosstalk from Navarro] NAVARRO: Here’s the thing, though, I remember -- and I hope you're right. I hope for the sake of the Iranian people and for the sake of the world, for America's sake, I hope you're right, but I remember 1989 when the Ayatollah Khomeini died and we thought this over and this is going to be great and a worse guy came up. (…) 11:21:03 a.m. Eastern NAVARRO: Here's a lot that Donald Trump has to say and do and I think it starts with Congress. I just think that they are our elected representatives and he needs to give them the respect of giving them the information and making them part of the decision. [Crosstalk] HOSTIN: That's why at this point this is an unconstitutional war, it's an illegal war. He didn't go to Congress, didn't go to the U.N. he didn't go before the American people. And that’s why, at this point, 27 percent of Americans – 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 -- [Applause] HAINES: Sunny! Sunny, just to mention. The other presidents that have gone in without congressional approval, Biden, Obama, Clinton, George H.W., Reagan. I would be more upset that Congress ceded this power than mad that the president didn't check with Congress. GOLDBERG: I'm mad about all of it, quite honestly. We will be right back.