Monday marked the beginning of season 29 for ABC’s The View. Back from their summer hiatus, the liberal ladies were just as unhinged as ever as they decried President Trump’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. Co-host Joy Behar suggested that Trump was going to have the National Guard launch a literal “war” against American civilians. Meanwhile, co-host Sara Haines proclaimed that the money used to support the Guard was better spent on one night of shelter for the homeless, rather than deterring murders.
Behar started her comments by seeming suggesting that crime was not an issue and the crackdown was just “a big distraction from the fact that his approval rating is in the toilet right now.” She also seemed to suggest Trump was going to use the National Guard to launch a “war against your own people” via the National Guard, huffing that he was elected as an “anti-war candidate”:
Point two, didn't he run on being an anti-war candidate. The MAGA people who voted for him, one of the reasons they liked him is because he was against war. He took on Bush. I guess that didn't include war against your own people in your own country.
She was followed up by Haines who falsely claimed the National Guard was not effective in D.C. despite the fact the murder rate dropped to nearly non-existence and violent crime dropping by nearly 50 percent.
Haines ridiculously argued that money would be better spent on giving the city’s homeless population one (1) night of shelter, rather than the many nights of life for the people not murdered:
HAINES: Yes, that's clearly what he is saying here. But the bigger part with him constantly sending in the National Guard is it's not effective. So you can concede, Alyssa, as you are pointing out there are crime problems in our cities, there absolutely are, but what would be more effective is not treating the symptom but the root causes. They could take the equal amount of money that they dispensed into D.C. and house every homeless person for a night.
BEHAR: But then they wouldn't have an issue!
HAINES: But that's my point. Politics is less about solutions and more about politicking. If they wanted to solve the problem they could infuse money into these communities.
Co-host Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, also denounced the money being spent on the National Guard deployments. “I think we need to do a much better job, but not necessarily militarizing the police,” she said. “Let's aid the police, let’s send people who have mental health training so that we can help people that are emotionally disturbed.”
She also wanted to spend the money on “affordable housing” and “feed[ing] the hungry.”
At the top of the segment, moderator Whoopi Goldberg was up in arms over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raiding a Hyundai factory under construction Georgia and arresting illegal immigrants. She claimed, without evidence, that the U.S. invited the illegal immigrants in to specifically build the factory.
“Did you know they were here to build a plant to create American jobs?” she asked. “You asked people to come in and build this for you. You asked them in. You said, here is the job and then you say, ‘oh, and we're arresting you.’”
Fake Republican Ana Navarro proposed that the reason the Trump administration raided the site was because “they want to conflate crime and immigration. They want to terrorize vulnerable communities.”
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin insisted the crackdown was only all about “politics” since “the midterms are coming.” She want to “caution Democrats” because “he's trying to goad them into saying ‘there is no problem with crime this this whole country.’”
“I think we have had this cycle where Democrats can down play an issue, the border and some crime in cities and then Trump swoops in and overcorrects in the most massive way,” she griped.
Welcome to season 29 of The View.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 8, 2025
11:21:35 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So here is a question. You know, last week, a Georgia Hyundai plant where over 450 people were taken into custody suspected of living and working illegally. Over 300 of them were South Korean. Did you know they were here to build a plant to create American jobs?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh, wow.
JOY BEHAR: And they rounded them up.
GOLDBERG: And they rounded them up. And, I mean, let's be real. Let's be real. This isn't about sanctuary cities. This isn't about rounding up rough, bad people. This is about y'all being pissed off about something. Because if this was about rounding up people who were bad for the country, you all would be doing a totally different kind of job. That is my opinion and that's what I'm putting out because none -- you asked people to come in and build this for you. You asked them in. You said, here is the job and then you say, ‘oh, and we're arresting you.’
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: So, I also think you can’t separate the politics from this. The midterms are coming. I think Trump has had –
BEHAR: Not soon enough.
FARAH GRIFFIN: -- control of the House, the Senate and the White House. And what he's trying to do and I caution Democrats, he's trying to goad them into saying ‘there is no problem with crime this this whole country.’ He wants people to take –
GOLDBERG: We know better than that.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I know, but I think we have had this cycle where Democrats can down play an issue, the border and some crime in cities and then Trump swoops in and overcorrects in the most massive way. I have never supported having troops in American cities, it doesn't make sense, it's not the way to police the streets.
But Chicago, for example, over Labor Day weekend eight people were murdered and 25 plus people were hit with stray bullets. That deserves a response. It deserves a law enforcement response. It should be in coordination with the federal government. It should be the state and local officials that should lead it. But he has this way of speaking to people's anxieties and when they feel they are not safe in their communities regardless of what the macro stats say he taps into that. It’s the grievance politics
BEHAR: I lot of the authoritarians do that. This is nothing new around the world. When they become autocrats --
FARAH GRIFFIN: But some of it is legitimate.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: Chicago's issues have been going down as many cities have. Some go up, they go up and down and up and down, but to come in and talk -- and to bully and say we are sending in ICE. You're not supposed -- why are you sending in ICE?
ANA NAVARRO: Because they want to round up immigrants, they want to conflate crime and immigration. They want to terrorize vulnerable communities. And J.B. Pritzker the governor of Illinois had a very strong response to this. And one of the lines that stuck with me was, ‘authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.’
Now, what does that mean? That means that when you see human rights violations, when you see civil rights violations, when you see masked men dragging people through the streets and beating people's dashboards in and windows in, film it! Amplify the truth so America can see what is happening in our streets!
It also means do not get violent. Do not play into the hands of Donald Trump and his minions. They want a confrontation. Be smart. Be truthful. And Chicago was out in the streets this weekend. Chicago was out there protesting. They are not going –
BEHAR: Isn't a lot of this a big distraction from the fact that his approval rating is in the toilet right now? 52 percent of Americans say the economy is getting worse. 24 percent say it's getting better. Also the Epstein thing hangs over his head! So, a lot of this is a big distraction.
Point two, didn't he run on being an anti-war candidate. The MAGA people who voted for him, one of the reasons they liked him is because he was against war. He took on Bush. I guess that didn't include war against your own people in your own country.
SARA HAINES: Yes, that's clearly what he is saying here. But the bigger part with him constantly sending in the National Guard is it's not effective. So you can concede, Alyssa, as you are pointing out there are crime problems in our cities, there absolutely are, but what would be more effective is not treating the symptom but the root causes. They could take the equal amount of money that they dispensed into D.C. and house every homeless person for a night.
BEHAR: But then they wouldn't have an issue!
HAINES: But that's my point. Politics is less about solutions and more about politicking. If they wanted to solve the problem they could infuse money into these communities.
HOSTIN: That is the point that I was goings to make because I think that's very important. People should know that the National Guard it costs us, taxpayers, $1 million a day to have them there.
GOLDBERG: And you see what they're doing. They’re cleaning D.C.
HOSTIN: They're picking up trash, picking up litter. That is not why, I think, our members of the armed forces joined to serve. They don't join to serve to police citizens. They join to serve to protect our country
GOLDBERG: Or to pick up garbage.
HOSTIN: - from outside forces. That in and of itself is a problem.
The other thing is I completely agree with you, Alyssa, I agree with you, Joy, there is a crime problem in this country, yes, it's gone down, yes, people are afraid. We want to address crime. I'm a former prosecutor. Yeah, I don't like crime. I think we need to do a much better job, but not necessarily militarizing the police.
Let's aid the police, let’s send people who have mental health training so that we can help people that are emotionally disturbed. Let's have people that are -- that are doctors that can help with mental health, again. Let's also do something about affordable housing because we know that people can't live. Let's help -- why can't we use some of that million dollars to feed people because feed are hungry!
GOLDBERG: If they actually cared about hungry people, we would have never seen anyone burn $29 million worth of food that we already -- you know, listen, it's not about any -- all of these solutions are brilliant and smart, but this is not about any of that. This is about something totally different.
And quit trying to make everybody think that people who come to this country are coming to fight. I met lots of people who want to come to this country because they want a better life. They still want to come here. You know, so stop making them the enemy. They are not the enemy. They are not the enemy. We will be right back.
