A red state governor who survived the blue wave had zero tolerance for “factually incorrect” statements on “The View” as she called out one co-host for attempting to “twist” her words.
Before the release of her new book, “Unapologetic: Clarity and Conviction in a World Gone Crazy,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) joined the ladies of ABC’s weekday coffee klatch. Flanked by co-hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin, the newly re-elected governor defended President Donald Trump’s policies and her own arguments from leftist linguistic games.
After talking about efforts to improve education and the economy in her state, Sanders was confronted by Navarro about the president’s position from his “60 Minutes” interview, where he labeled his own deportation policy “too tough.”
On Sanders’ position that Trump focused on “violent, criminal illegals,” Navarro insisted, “I have to stop you there because the majority of the people that are being detained and deported do not have violent criminal convictions.”
To that, the governor fired back, “That’s not what I said,” and made clear, “You’re not gonna twist my words around. What I said was the president was right to focus on those people. I think we have to have a secure border, and I think he did that. At the same time, I think he is right to be reflective and say there were certain people we shouldn’t have cracked down on.”
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders reacts to Trump saying his deportation policies were “too tough”: “We have to have a secure border and I think he did that. At the same time, I think he is right to be reflective and say there were certain people we shouldn’t have cracked down on.” https://t.co/SW6CfT4zAz
— The View (@TheView) November 9, 2026
Leading up to the check on the co-host, Navarro first demonized White House chief of staff Stephen Miller with debunked claims about the first Trump administration and asked, “I’m wondering if you agree with him, and if he actually believes that, how do you reconcile elevating Stephen Miller, the architect of some of the most draconian immigration policies that we saw in Trump 1 when you were there, and now in Trump 2, including family separations and the Muslim travel ban? How do those two things — make it make sense, because it makes no sense to me.”
Sanders, who served as White House press secretary during the first Trump administration, replied before getting cut off, “I think the first thing is the president was exactly right to secure our border and to put an intense focus on violent, criminal illegals. I think that was the right place. I think it needed to happen-”
As had been reported, in his “60 Minutes” interview with CBS News correspondent Ross Douthat, the president addressed his willingness to work on immigration with the Democrats, suggesting the policies “hurt” him in the midterms, “I think it might be too tough, yeah.”
Trump makes surprising admission about immigration crackdown: ‘Too tough’ https://t.co/Mzq1hrZzYZ via @BIZPACReview
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) November 9, 2026
Meanwhile, the governor shared the story of pediatric nurse Jennifer Ann Morton, who was killed by a drunk-driving illegal alien who, though deported under the first Trump administration, returned under President Joe Biden’s administration, reminding that open border policies have had tragic impacts on American lives.
Before shifting gears to talk about Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R) effort to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Hostin invited her own rebuke from Sanders after taking umbrage with “illegal” terminology while attempting to claim that 97% of illegal aliens “did nothing criminal.”
“I do wanna say people aren’t ‘illegal,’ they’re ‘undocumented,'” said the co-host, prompting the governor to push back, “Well, actually, if you break the law, that’s the definition of illegal.”
“People aren’t illegal. They may commit crimes, but they’re not illegal,” reiterated Hostin, only for Sanders to point out that the claim was “factually incorrect.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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