Elisabeth Hasselbeck made her return to The View on Monday, and quickly sparked some discourse at the Hot Topics Table.

The first Hot Topic of the day surrounded the U.S. and Israel launching a joint attack on Iran, despite President Donald Trump previously insisting on the campaign trail he would “stop wars” during his term. Whoopi Goldberg opened up the discussion, asking her co-hosts if they believe Americans will “support another military operation in the Middle East right now.”

Ana Navarro said she doesn’t think Americans “are 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 endgame is.” While she clarified that she is “not an Iran expert,” Navarro said that as an American, she had “mixed feelings” to the news, particularly celebrating the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while also having “anxiety” about “going into war without congressional approval.”

“I am furious that the American people have not been brought into this,” she shared. “I am furious that we are doing this alone. Yes, Israel is part of it, but I look at Donald Trump and I look at Netanyahu, and I see two leaders who I think think politically, they benefit from war.”

After explaining that “Netanyahu is facing criminal charges for corruption back home,” while Trump is facing “low numbers” in addition to the Epstein files, Navarro said she thinks Trump has “changed since Venezeula,” noting that the president has “made comparisons” between Venezuela and Iran.

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“I don’t know Iran, I know Venezuela. Maduro was a piggly little third world dictator. Venezuela is not Iran,” she said. “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 is not that.”

While Navarro claimed Trump “in love with this idea of being a conqueror or an emperor,” Hasselbeck chimed in to say she “so respect[s]” where Navarro is coming from, but that “it’s very easy to have political concussion at this point.”

“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 and now war,” she explained.

She said that Americans are understandably “fatigued with the idea of war,” noting the repercussions, including the loss of American soldiers. However, Hasselbeck ultimately argued that “a disgusting, disgusting terrorist regime ended” with the death of the Ayatallah, and deemed the airstrikes “a strategic move geopolitically” by choking the oil supply to China from Iran.

After Hasselbeck told her co-hosts that she “absolutely trust[s] that this is best for our nation,” Sunny Hostin attempted to make a point, though Navarro interjected.

“What makes you think that the regime has ended?” she asked Hasselbeck.

Goldberg urged Navarro to “hold on” and let Hostin make her point, though Navarro and Hasselbeck continued going back and forth. Eventually, Goldberg had to step in and mediate.