The View Is Shocked to Go Up Against a REAL Conservative Woman Who Pushes Back

Nicholas Fondacaro
November 9th, 2026 4:08 PM

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The View’s open refusal to speak with real conservatives (let alone conservatives who would actually push back) had left them out of practice when they spoke with Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR), on Monday. Huckabee Sander didn’t back down as the ABC News co-hosts rudely interrupted her several times, whined about her use of politically incorrect words, and she didn’t put up with their nonsense.

In responding to a question about President Trump’s 60 Minutes interview were he had suggested his approach to deportations might have been too harsh, Huckabee Sanders tried to share the story of Jennifer Ann Morton, a children’s hospital nurse in Arkansas who was killed by illegal immigrant. Co-host Sunny Hostin didn’t care about the nurse at all as she repeatedly interrupted to defend illegals (Click “expand”):

HUCKABEE SANDERS: That person was deported during Trump one, came back under the Biden administration, and now she is no longer living in my state, taking care of some of the most vulnerable children in our state. That shouldn't happen. The President is right to secure our border and make sure the people who are coming are coming because they want to do the right thing, coming because they want to add to the community, because they want to work jobs -

HOSTIN (interrupting): What about the 97 percent of those that he deported that did nothing criminal?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: And I think the president is right to say and I think if you listen to what he said he's saying we shouldn't have cracked down in those spaces. Look, we have an incredible -

HOSTIN (interrupting): A lot of people died -

Speaking of illegals, Hostin would interrupt Huckabee Sanders to scold her for using the term “illegal” and used the laughable liberal argument that “people are not illegal.” Huckabee Sanders didn’t let that nonsense stand (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN (interrupting): Let me move on. But I do want to say people aren't illegal they're undocumented.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: Well actually, if you break the law that's the definition of illegal. So.

HOSTIN: People are not illegal. They may commit crimes they are not illegal. But let me move on.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: That's factually incorrect.

HOSTIN: It's not. Trump is standing by Pete Hegseth, saying he has confidence in his ability to do the job.

 

 

Things soon heated up as the two continued to clash.

As Hostin gleefully talked about outgoing Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) saying he’ll file Articles of Impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Huckabee Sanders scoffed at Hostin for treating him as a serious politician. Hostin would interrupt Huckabee Sanders multiple times (Click “expand”):

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HOSTIN: Even Thomas Massie has said he plans to trigger an impeachment vote this week.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: Thomas Massie is not the person I would lean on for my quotes of the day.

HOSTIN: Well, do you think Pete Hegseth survives?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: I hope that the President is empowered to keep and build the team that he needs in order to keep our country safe. I think that in a leadership -

HOSTIN (interrupting): Do you think Hegseth is doing a good job?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: I think that Pete Hegseth, let me tell you, he loves our country, he is unlike any of us sitting here, he's put on a uniform and fought to defend it.

HOSTIN (interrupting): Do you think he's doing a good job?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: He has serve and sacrificed. I think he has an incredibly difficult job.

HOSTIN (interrupting): Do you think he's doing a good job?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: I think from the things I have seen personally, yes.

“Thank goodness Congress has the ability to impeach,” Hostin snapped as moderator Whoopi Goldberg cut off the back and forth to go to a commercial break.

 

 

Following the break, Huckabee Sanders was asked about Trump’s comment that he had jokingly asked UFC founder Dana White to be his new White House press secretary (her old job).

She noted the common adage that “Donald Trump is his own best spokesperson.” “He is very accessible. You know this,” she said while pointing to co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin. “He loves to engage directly with the press on a day-to-day basis. And I think he's doing just fine going out there on his own and he does a lot of interviews.”

Ignoring all that, Hostin again interrupted to scoff to falsely claim he never engages with the press. Huckabee Sanders, once again, made a fool of her (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: He doesn't like to engage with the press. He threw out three press outlets from the White House briefing room.

[Applause]

FARAH GRIFFIN: He does on his terms. He did 60 Minutes.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: At the same time the press complains about not having freedom of the press they're literally standing in the Oval Office asking the President questions. Hard to really take that seriously when they're having that direct interaction with the press.

“That's actually for us. They're doing that for us,” Goldberg interrupted.

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Following Huckabee Sanders answering a question about how her faith had gotten her through some of her roughest moments in life, Goldberg ridiculously interjected and claimed South African refugees were actually illegal immigrants because Trump brought them in through a legal program. The interview was then quickly ended without an opportunity for a Huckabee Sanders’ rebuttal (Click “expand”):

HUCKABEE SANDERS: And I'm proud that I've been a White House press secretary, I'm proud as a governor, I'm proud that I'm a wife and I'm a mom, but those are not the things that are my identity. My greatest identity, the only true peace and fulfillment that I have and will ever get is my identity in Christ. It is only in that that I think you have that everlasting, life-altering confidence and peace. And so, that's what the book is hopefully people will read and feel is the unapologetic love and life for Christ that I have.

GOLDBERG: Well, that's wonderful to hear. I wanted to point something out to you that Donald Trump did bring in people kind of illegally when he brought in the South Africans because he felt they were getting murdered. I just wanted to point that out because apparently everybody has - everybody doesn't have to do it the same way, I guess, and so you can decide these people are in danger and so you pull them out. But our thanks to you, Governor Huckabee, for coming and talking about your new book Unapologetic.

It was obvious that The View cast couldn’t keep their crazy under control when faced with a real conservative woman who wasn’t there to be a punching bag or a roll over yes-man.

 

 

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

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ABC’s The View
November 9, 2026
11:33:53 a.m. Eastern

(…)

GOV. SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Listen, I can tell you this story. Everybody likes to talk about and use examples and there was a woman, Jennifer Ann Morton, she’s a pediatric nurse in my state. She should be alive today, if it had not been for an illegal immigrant that killed her on her way to work because they were driving drunk. That shouldn't have happened.

That person was deported during Trump one, came back under the Biden administration, and now she is no longer living in my state, taking care of some of the most vulnerable children in our state. That shouldn't happen. The President is right to secure our border and make sure the people who are coming are coming because they want to do the right thing, coming because they want to add to the community, because they want to work jobs -

SUNNY HOSTIN (interrupting): What about the 97 percent of those that he deported that did nothing criminal?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: And I think the president is right to say -

[Applause ]

 - and I think if you listen to what he said he's saying we shouldn't have cracked down in those spaces. Look, we have an incredible -

HOSTIN (interrupting): A lot of people died --

HUCKABEE SANDERS: We have a broken immigration system. We should not make it harder to break the law in order to come here the right way than we do to -

We've made it a 10 to 12-year process for somebody to come through our system. It shouldn't be that way. We have to fix the system. But you cannot fix the system until you've secured the border. He had to do that first. He did that. And I am hopeful that the President's comments will be taken seriously by Democrats and they will come together and actually work on a real solution because it's going to require both parties doing that.

HOSTIN (interrupting): Let me move on. But I do want to say people aren't illegal they're undocumented.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: Well actually, if you break the law that's the definition of illegal. So.

HOSTIN: People are not illegal. They may commit crimes they are not illegal. But let me move on.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: That's factually incorrect.

HOSTIN: It's not. Trump is standing by Pete Hegseth, saying he has confidence in his ability to do the job. As efforts to impeach the Defense Secretary are ramping up. Even Thomas Massie has said he plans to trigger an impeachment vote this week.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: Thomas Massie is not the person I would lean on for my quotes of the day.

HOSTIN: Well, do you think Pete Hegseth survives?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: I hope that the President is empowered to keep and build the team that he needs in order to keep our country safe. I think that in a leadership -

HOSTIN (interrupting): Do you think Hegseth is doing a good job?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: I think that Pete Hegseth, let me tell you, he loves our country, he is unlike any of us sitting here, he's put on a uniform and fought to defend it.

HOSTIN (interrupting): Do you think he's doing a good job?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: He has serve and sacrificed. I think he has an incredibly difficult job.

HOSTIN (interrupting): Do you think he's doing a good job?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: I think from the things I have seen personally, yes. Pete Hegseth came into my state and he stood and helped swear in other members of the military, talked about what that means, the service and the sacrifice that comes with it.

Anybody in that position is going to face difficult challenges, but the President has to be empowered to decide who his team is. He has to have the confidence in those individuals. And ultimately it's not Pete Hegseth it's not Stephen Miller, it's the president's administration, and we have to look to him to see what his vision is, how he's carrying that out, and listen to the things he's saying.

And I think he made some of those things very clear, specifically on immigration, where he thinks he can do better, where he thinks he can turn the tide. And I thinks the president who sets the tone and sets that message.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Okay. Okay.

HOSTIN: Thank goodness Congress has the ability to impeach.

GOLDBERG: We're going to come back with more with Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders when we come back.

(…)

11:42:27 a.m. Eastern

HUCKABEE SANDERS: Listen, at the end of the day, Donald Trump is his own best spokesperson. He is very accessible. You know this [points to Alyssa Farah Griffin]. He loves to engage directly with the press on a day-to-day basis. And I think he's doing just fine going out there on his own and he does a lot of interviews. And so, if he doesn't fill that slot for a little while I think it's okay for people to hear directly from the president.

HOSTIN: He doesn't like to engage with the press. He threw out three press outlets from the White House briefing room.

[Applause]

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: He does on his terms. He did 60 Minutes.

HUCKABEE SANDERS: At the same time the press complains about not having freedom of the press they're literally standing in the Oval Office asking the President questions. Hard to really take that seriously when they're having that direct interaction with the press.

GOLDBERG (interrupting): That's actually for us. They're doing that for us, but let's get to Alyssa.

FARAH GRIFFIN: Really quickly, I want to ask about your book Unapologetic, you open about surviving cancer, a devastating car accident, governing through tragedy, being a mom, your biggest policy fights. What made you want to share the more personal parts of your life in this book?

HUCKABEE SANDERS: Well, the whole goal and purpose of the book is that I'm unapologetic in my faith. And I think that so often people misunderstand how faith works. They think that if you are a believer that life gets easy when, in fact, it can often be quite the opposite. It's not that faith prevents us from the difficulties and from the struggles, but it's what helps us get through it.

And I'm proud that I've been a White House press secretary, I'm proud as a governor, I'm proud that I'm a wife and I'm a mom, but those are not the things that are my identity. My greatest identity, the only true peace and fulfillment that I have and will ever get is my identity in Christ. It is only in that that I think you have that everlasting, life-altering confidence and peace. And so, that's what the book is hopefully people will read and feel is the unapologetic love and life for Christ that I have.

GOLDBERG: Well, that's wonderful to hear. I wanted to point something out to you that Donald Trump did bring in people kind of illegally when he brought in the South Africans because he felt they were getting murdered. I just wanted to point that out because apparently everybody has - everybody doesn't have to do it the same way, I guess, and so you can decide these people are in danger and so you pull them out.

But our thanks to you, Governor Huckabee, for coming and talking about your new book Unapologetic. It is out now. You can scan the QR code to buy a copy. And we of course we will be right back.

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