Sparks flew on Friday’s (pre-recorded) episode of The View as ABC co-host Ana Navarro referred to as out co-host Sunny Hostin for her help of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. All week, Hostin was proclaiming that America’s arrest of Maduro was “unlawful” and “illegal.” Since Navarro wasn’t on the present for many of the week, it was her first probability to counter, demanding to know if Hostin’s resolution was to return the dictator to energy.
The strain between Navarro and Hostin was simmering all through their first Sizzling Subjects section.
The present was kicked off by Hostin and fill-in moderator Pleasure Behar suggesting there was some form of cognitive dissidence between Republicans cheering Maduro’s arrest whereas opposing the thought of taking on Greenland (Click on “increase”):
BEHAR: Additionally one other query , why are they okay in opposition to Greenland however not about Venezuela?
HOSTIN: That was my query as a result of, I imply, his feedback have been forceful. They have been robust. You already know, Greenland isn’t owned by the US, nor ought to it’s owned. It isn’t on the market.
BEHAR: Neither is Venezuela.
HOSTIN: Neither is Venezuela neither is its oil ours.
“I really like you,” Navarro famous earlier than ripping Hostin’s false equivalency between Venezuela and Greenland/Denmark. “However let’s take a look at some details,” she mentioned. “Venezuela is a dictatorship. Greenland isn’t. Denmark is our ally. Greenland is our ally. We’ve navy bases and operations in Greenland. Denmark is a part of NATO as we’re, so we’re a part of one massive alliance. Venezuela is a spot the place they kill, jail, and torture the opposition, the place they repress human rights.”
Ana Navarro truly confronts Pleasure Behar and Sunny Hostin on their false equivalency between Venezuela/Maduro and Greenland:
“NAVARRO: However let’s take a look at some details. Venezuela is a dictatorship. Greenland isn’t. Denmark is our ally. Greenland is our ally. We’ve navy bases… pic.twitter.com/iu9JNPfsPf
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 9, 2026
Navarro went on to make the purpose that they lose creditability by conflating the 2, however Hostin wasn’t having it and began shouting:
NAVARRO: My level is we can’t make an equivalency between Greenland and Venezuela. So let’s simply not. We lose a degree if we try this.
HOSTIN: No, we do not! The legislation is the legislation! It’s an illegal factor that we did in Venezuela and it might be illegal for us to do it in Greenland.
The 2 clashed once more when Hostin began screaming in regards to the U.S. taking Venezuelan oil. Navarro shouted again that the Venezuelans needed to promote the oil to America As a result of Maduro stole it. Their yelling drowned out the remainder of the solid (Click on “increase”):
HOSTIN: So that you suppose it is okay that we took the oil?
FARAH GRIFFIN: If I may get in right here simply actual fast
NAVARRO (to Hostin): Do I believe it is okay? Venezuelans suppose it is okay that we’re taking the oil as a result of Maduro stole it.
HOSTIN: Do you suppose that is authorized?!
BEHAR: Hey, guys.
NAVARRO: It would not matter.
HOSTIN: THE LAW DOESN’T MATTER!
NAVARRO: It’s already performed! With what we’ve got invested we’ve got to verify it’s profitable!
BEHAR: Maintain on! Ana! We’re on tv!
FARAH GRIFFIN: I am eight months pregnant. Can we’ve got an opportunity to talk?
Navarro argues that it do not matter if the U.S. will get Venezuelan oil so long as the Venezuelan individuals are okay with it. Hostin has a MELTDOWN and begins screaming over everybody:
HOSTIN: So that you suppose it is okay that we took the oil?
NAVARRO: Do I believe it is okay? Venezuelans suppose… pic.twitter.com/PmzGj1hPBJ
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 9, 2026
Hostin couldn’t management her rage, even snapping at different co-hosts for making the purpose it was good {that a} murderous dictator was out of energy. Probably aggravated with getting sounded over earlier, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin made the purpose that so-called “worldwide legislation” was unenforceable as Hostin needed it:
HAINES: To me, once more, I additionally am okay with the Venezuela — possibly not the way it was dealt with however I see the distinction —
HOSTIN: All people’s okay with breaking the legislation.
HAINES: No.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Worldwide legislation is barely enforceable if it is enforced. We’re not implementing it in Ukraine.
Regardless of listening to the reality, Hostin was nonetheless whining about worldwide legislation not being adopted. Navarro, seemingly having had sufficient of her co-host, demanded to know if her resolution was to only hit Maduro with a return to sender stamp and ship him again to Venezuela:
NAVARRO: Effectively Sunny, it is theoretical. We already plucked the man out so proper now we’ve got invested billions of {dollars} and months
HOSTIN: So, we’re simply going to proceed the crime?
NAVARRO: Effectively, what do you suppose ought to we do, return him to Venezuela? Return him? Is that what you suppose we should always do?
Spinning her wheels, Hostin advised, “he must be tried within the Worldwide Felony Court docket. I do not suppose the US has jurisdiction over him.”
Navarro calls out Hostin, asking if she thinks we should always return Maduro to energy:
HOSTIN: The legislation ought to by no means be a moot level.
NAVARRO: Effectively Sunny, it is theoretical. We already plucked the man out so proper now we’ve got invested billions of {dollars} and months –
HOSTIN: SO, we’re… pic.twitter.com/EHThEwbrTR
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 9, 2026
Hostin’s advised made no sense. Her argument all week was that the arrest itself was unlawful; earlier within the section she even referred to as the arrest a “kidnapping.” After lastly getting referred to as out that the last word conclusion to what she was complaining about would result in Maduro getting reinstalled as dictator, she needed to shortly pivot. In keeping with her personal argument, the ICC couldn’t even attempt him as a result of the arrest was “unlawful.”
Clearly, Hostin was not used to getting critical pushback to her lunacy.
To twist the knife just a bit bit, Farah Griffin chimed in simply earlier than the industrial to notice that Hostin’s new concept was a horrible one too: “I do not suppose the Worldwide Felony Court docket is constant in how we prosecute crimes as a result of Russia remains to be in Ukraine and no person is holding them to any worldwide requirements! You see all around the world!”
The transcript is beneath. Click on “increase” to learn:
ABC’s The View
January 9, 2026
11:03:16 a.m. Japanese(…)
JOY BEHAR: So, will extra Republicans communicate out, or is that it?
SARA HAINES: I certain hope so.
BEHAR: Additionally one other query , why are they okay in opposition to Greenland however not about Venezuela?
SUNNY HOSTIN: That was my query as a result of, I imply, his feedback have been forceful. They have been robust. You already know, Greenland isn’t owned by the US, nor ought to it’s owned. It isn’t on the market.
BEHAR: Neither is Venezuela.
HOSTIN: Neither is Venezuela neither is its oil ours. But, we went in, we took the president – I referred to as it a kidnapping as a result of I consider that is what it’s – and we took the pinnacle of state of Nicaragua — not Nicaragua, sorry.
ANA NAVARRO: I want.
HOSTIN: Venezuela and take the oil and are going to place the cash — I believe they are going to put the cash in offshore accounts. So how is that okay however Greenland is not?
[Crosstalk]
NAVARRO: Okay. I really like you however making a comparability between.
HOSTIN: I do know you disagree. It is illegal.
NAVARRO: However let’s take a look at some details. Venezuela is a dictatorship.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
NAVARRO: Greenland isn’t.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
NAVARRO: Denmark is our ally. Greenland is our ally. We’ve navy bases and operations in Greenland. Denmark is a part of NATO as we’re, so we’re a part of one massive alliance. Venezuela is a spot the place they kill, jail, and torture the opposition, the place they repress human rights.
BEHAR: So is Russia! So is North Korea!
NAVARRO: Okay, yeah.
[Crosstalk]
My level is we can’t make an equivalency between Greenland and Venezuela. So let’s simply not. We lose a degree if we try this.
HOSTIN: No, we do not! The legislation is the legislation! It’s an illegal factor that we did in Venezuela and it might be illegal for us to do it in Greenland.”
(…)
11:05:21 a.m. Japanese
NAVARRO: Here is my concern although, I do not contemplate the Venezuela mission achieved or a victorious mission till each single political prisoner is launched.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And there is free and truthful elections.
NAVARRO: Till there’s free and truthful elections. Till there are not any overseas hostages. Till there’s democracy and freedom.
HOSTIN: So that you suppose it is okay that we took the oil?
FARAH GRIFFIN: If I may get in right here simply actual fast
NAVARRO (to Hostin): Do I believe it is okay? Venezuelans suppose it is okay that we’re taking the oil as a result of Maduro stole it.
HOSTIN: Do you suppose that is authorized?!
BEHAR: Hey, guys.
NAVARRO: It would not matter.
HOSTIN: THE LAW DOESN’T MATTER!
NAVARRO: It’s already performed! With what we’ve got invested we’ve got to verify it’s profitable!
BEHAR: Maintain on! Ana! We’re on tv!
FARAH GRIFFIN: I am eight months pregnant. Can we’ve got an opportunity to talk?
[Laughter]
(…)
11:07:44 a.m. Japanese
HAINES: To me, once more, I additionally am okay with the Venezuela — possibly not the way it was dealt with however I see the distinction —
HOSTIN: All people’s okay with breaking the legislation.
HAINES: No.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Worldwide legislation is barely enforceable if it is enforced. We’re not implementing it in Ukraine
[Crosstalk]
HAINES: As we’ve mentioned all week right here, two issues might be true. We can’t like the way it was dealt with however I do need a greater life for the Venezuelans and all the pieces that is taking place there.
HOSTIN: I don’t suppose Trump cares in regards to the Venezuelans!
HAINES: Greenland is an ally. And I believe that Denmark is an ally and we don’t betray our associates. That’s what —
FARAH GRIFFIN: That’s what China does. China bullies its associates. We do not try this.
NAVARRO: Let me put a pin on this, on the Venezuela concern. Look, I believe the query of whether or not it was authorized is a reliable query and concern that must be debated and answered.
HAINES: Sure.
NAVARRO: However at present as we sit right here, January eighth it is already a moot level as a result of it already occurred and we picked the man –
BEHAR: Right now’s the ninth.
NAVARRO: So, we’re not going to – The ninth. It is already —
HOSTIN: The legislation ought to by no means be a moot level.
NAVARRO: Effectively Sunny, it is theoretical. We already plucked the man out so proper now we’ve got invested billions of {dollars} and months
HOSTIN: So, we’re simply going to proceed the crime?
NAVARRO: Effectively, what do you suppose ought to we do, return him to Venezuela? Return him? Is that what you suppose we should always do?
HOSTIN: I believe that he must be tried within the Worldwide Felony Court docket. I do not suppose the US has jurisdiction over him.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I do not suppose the Worldwide Felony Court docket is constant in how we prosecute crimes as a result of Russia remains to be in Ukraine and no person is holding them to any worldwide requirements! You see all around the world!
BEHAR: Trump will take Greenland, open a on line casino, after which bankrupt it. We’ll be proper again.
