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Elisabeth Hasselbeck was one of the hosts of The View<\/em> from 2003 to 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n During the 2006-2007 season, Hasselbeck had an unforgettable on-air argument with then co-host, Rosie O’Donnell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Hasselbeck reflects on the spat during her appearance on The View<\/em>‘s companion podcast, Behind the Table<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Elisabeth Hasselbeck<\/a> may have made her return to The View, <\/em>but she doesn’t like to return to her worst day there.<\/p>\n Hasselbeck, 48, recently spoke about an explosive day on the talk show in 2007, where she and co-host\u00a0Rosie O’Donnell<\/a>\u00a0got into a heated verbal clash over O’Donnell’s alleged lack of support for the troops during the Iraq War. Discussing the moment on The View<\/em>‘s companion podcast, Behind the Table<\/em>, Hasselbeck remembered it as a moment that “determined something.”<\/p>\n “It’s wild, that split-screen moment<\/a>. It determined something. It determined who was coming back,” she shared. “It was a stressful day. It’s not a day that I love. It’s a significant day because I can look back at it now with maturity and think my position would be the same.”<\/p>\n Hasselbeck doubled down on not changing anything about the argument, briefly considering, “[I would’ve] maybe tried to be a little bit more physically calm, but I don’t know. I was so passionate about the issue.”<\/p>\n “For me, I think that I’m proud to have spoken on behalf of the military, and I’m proud that this is a program that allowed even that passion to be shared. It’s ugly. It’s not a fun thing to look at.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n Getting through the rest of that show and that day on set was difficult for Hasselbeck, who says, “I probably cried through the rest of the day.”<\/p>\n “I feel like it created this awful human rift, and I’m not sure it’s ever worth it for that. I do think we’re created for unity. I don’t think we’re created to have discord, dissension. I think we’re meant to have unity and connection. Even if I can’t see like you see, I like to see where you see it from. I love to get someone’s point of view on something and have love anyway, in that.”<\/p>\n Hasselbeck credits that moment with helping her land a job with Fox News, noting, “It’s why I got hired at Fox, actually. Roger Ailes was like, ‘I saw that, you’re hired.’ “<\/p>\n Discussion of the on-air spat arose in Oct. 2025, during an interview with Australian radio show Ricki-Lee, Tim Joel<\/em><\/a> when O’Donnell claimed that former View<\/em> producer Bill Geddie had staged the chaos<\/p>\n “Our producer [was] not an on-the-fly kind of guy,” O’Donnell said. “He wasn’t like, Mr. Let’s-Go-To-a-Split-Screen.’ That was prepared. The whole thing, I think, was a setup.”<\/p>\n