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S.E. Cupp has tested a lot and guested throughout the years as well. She was in consideration to be chosen.

Yes exactly that and they wanted to move both of them back to GMA once they got Meghan & Abby. It seems like Sara Haines new show was in the works for a couple years because the GMA Day or whatever is called now, Michael Strahan was gonna get his own show after he left Live! and Michael wanted Sara on the show. The only thing that stood out was a quote from Whoopi "Paula is not a journalist, Barbara Walter is a journalist" thats the only shady thing I read. I agree with you Whoopi is not GMA type host.

I have read the book and in my opinion it was more like an Oral History of The View in details and wasn't just gossip in my view. The Barbara Section specifically talks about it. The Rosie section was chaotic and The Whoopi section is more talking about whats going on now and how ABC wanted to transform The View into another hour of GMA.

I will never look at Barbara or Rosie the same again. Though I do love Rosie I feel Rosie has a lot of unresolved issues with her childhood that is causing her to have outbursts of anger and thats why she may not be all there when she may get angry, which is why a lot of the staff is in fear of needing to call human resources. A lot of what is said about Whoopi her behaviour has changed over the years. In 2014/2015 Whoopi would SCREAM over the table and not let one person speak with their own opinion. Yes there are days where she is coming for Sunny but not as hard or nearly to the degree as she would back in 2014/2015. What I am getting off of this is that Whoopi was in distress during that time just with the show had a lot of shake ups to the point where you don't know who is even coming on or not with different guest co-hosts every single day.

I actually like this guest co-host and I like that she says "I may not know everything but you may know better from a legal stand point" I like that she considers more points of view than her own.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is coming back to guest on The View in the spring to promote her book for the first time since she pretty much left.

YES!! I hope you got tickets to a Friday show because I BET its much different without Whoopi and with Ana there with Joy moderating!

I like what Sherri said "My faith should never be forced upon anyone thats not how God works" Paula agreed with that. Although the stories of them having "Missions in life" to help someone see God I found that to contradict with what they were saying. But I don't find Paula or Sherri forcing their views there just sharing there stories in the podcast and it helps myself understand why they believe in God. I think thats the point of Paula's podcast.

I could see that happening considering she is good with Meghan, she also wished Whoopi a happy birthday, I don't think she minds Joy, I am sure she loves Abby cause of Fox news and she knows Sunny since Sunny guest co-hosted a lot back then and probably likes her because of her faith. So its a safe zone for her to come on I would say pretty much as long as Rosie is not there lol

This is going to break the table! I think the reason why we don't have Elisabeth's perspective is because she has own perspective coming out THE SAME DAY. https://www.amazon.com/Point-View-Fresh-Faith-Freedom/dp/0525652760

It is Call Me By Your Name. Love that movie!! I am in love with Armie Hammer!

Oooo those commercial breaks would of made for some good TV, even better the actual show! @Wonderwunman73 thanks for the details!

I actually just re-watched it actually and I see where your coming from I think she definitely initiated it because when you watch that live its hard to follow all you hear is a bunch of people talking or screaming over one another. The reason why Abby had to talk louder and then Sunny was because Meghan was shouting and they couldn't hear one another and it was getting misheard because you can't hear anything when Meghan is talking over them. Abby and Sunny were trying to have a debate/conversation which is why I respect Abby even though I disagree on some of her politics because she at least tries to have a clear debate and conversation and most importantly act like a respectful adult. Meghan definitely initiated the chaos during Segment 1.

I am glad Whoopi shut it down and was like "STOP". That first segment was a mess coming from all directions and you can tell Whoopi was not pleased.

I hope she gets her own intro on the opening credits now too this coming week. She deserves one!