‘The View’ Audience Audibly Gasps After Elisabeth Hasselbeck Says ‘You Guys Force Masks on Everybody’

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who returned to The View as a guest cohost while Alyssa Farah Griffin is on maternity leave, had a lot to say to her fellow cohosts.

During the Wednesday, March 4, broadcast, the panel — which consists of Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin — discussed U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s recent performance review that saw both political parties come down on her immigration policies.

While many have condemned Noem’s words and actions following the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good at the hands of law enforcement, the former Survivor contestant, 48, strongly supported how President Donald Trump’s administration is handling the border.

“I love people. I think all lives matter to God, and we’re in uncommon times, so we need to have uncommon sense about things like this,” Hasselbeck, who was once a full-time View cohost, prefaced.

“Yes, there will be mistakes made, but I think if Kristi Noem were up for a promotion right now, and she put forward the statistics that zero illegals released into the U.S. for 10 months straight have not crossed, that nearly three million aliens have left the United States, that we have the lowest murder rate in 125 years, that fentanyl trafficking is down 56 percent at the border and daily encounters have gone down 96 percent,” she said, citing statistics provided by the Department of Homeland Security. “We need a strong border, especially now with our current global situation.”

While Hasselbeck continued to hammer her points home, Hostin, 57 — who called the deaths of Good and Pretti, both 37, “a murder” and “not a mistake” — argued, “Let’s not be dismissive about the fact that Secretary Noem is wholly unqualified for her job. She has zero empathy. She is not taking responsibility for what she did.”

As the View hosts continued to debate what is right and wrong when it comes to how border control is being handled, Haines, 48, pointed out to Hasselbeck, “As a woman, and you should be able to relate to this point, a man comes at me with a mask and a gun, I’m taught instinctively to fight or flight. … The way [immigration raids have] been carried out is the problematic part.”

When Goldberg, 70, tried to refer back to Haines’ point about masked and armed authorities, Hasselbeck changed topics completely, shouting: “This is the party of masks. You guys force masks on everybody in the United States. … I just can’t. I can’t. I love you, but I can’t.”

As the audience audibly gasped and appeared stunned, Goldberg simply said that a public health crisis like the global Covid-19 pandemic is “a whole different thing.”