Megyn Kelly confronted Elisabeth Hasselbeck during a heated exchange on The View on Tuesday, escalating tensions between the former colleagues after Hasselbeck criticized her during a fill-in hosting stint. Hasselbeck, serving as a guest host for the second day, directly challenged Kelly during a discussion about Trump’s recent Iran attacks. “How dare you tell a military person who has sacrificed their lives for our nation, in our uniform, when they are sacrificing their lives in our uniform—how dare you tell them or their families or our nation what they died for?” she asked, referencing Kelly’s past comments on the war in Iran. When co-host Joy Behar warned Kelly that Hasselbeck was known for her fiery rants, Hasselbeck responded, “I’m not afraid of her.” Kelly retaliated by mocking Hasselbeck’s past departure from The View in 2013, when she was fired after frequent clashes with her left-leaning co-hosts. “Elisabeth was too weak to handle the ladies of The View and even the morning set on Fox and Friends,” Kelly said, highlighting their history of conflict. Hasselbeck had later joined Fox and Friends as a co-host, working alongside Kelly for two years before leaving the show in 2015. The exchange revealed a lack of camaraderie between the pair, with Kelly accusing Hasselbeck of retreating from public scrutiny to avoid criticism. “She ran from the public square into exile so she could avoid mean people saying unflattering things about her—and there are many to say,” Kelly said. She further mocked Hasselbeck’s return to the spotlight, questioning her authority to dictate conversations about the Iran conflict. “Now she thinks she’s going to come back for a day and be the arbiter of appropriate conversation around the war we just launched in Iran? Please.#megyn_kelly #the_view #elisabeth_hasselbeck #joy_behar #fox_and_friends
