'Don't fall asleep on this': The View warns Trump's new threat is real

The co-hosts of "The View" are growing increasingly worried about President Donald Trump's pledge to run for a third term. Trump ally Steve Bannon said he and others are working on a plan to sidestep the 22nd Amendment and ensure Trump can serve a third term.

The 22nd Amendment says that no person can be elected to the presidency more than twice. That includes the vice president, as both the president and the vice president are elected to office.

Whoopi Goldberg noted that "up until now" the GOP in the House and Senate has been unwilling to push back on Trump.

"Are you gonna let this happen?" Goldberg asked the audience. They shouted "no!"

Alyssa Farah Griffin, one of Trump's many communications directors in his first term, said that when Trump and individuals close to him start signaling these things, "I really pay attention."

She said she suspects Trump will challenge the 22nd Amendment in court, claiming he's entitled to a third term because his first and second terms weren't consecutive. The amendment doesn't say anything about them being consecutive, only that two terms is the limit.

"With a lot of judges in positions of power because Trump put them there, it's possible that, perhaps, they could rule in his favor. So, I say don't rule out what he's saying," Griffin continued.

"Did you see Marco Rubio's face in that video?" Ana Navarro said with a chuckle. "He looked like a hostage! He's saying, wait, you mean I'm not next?"

Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, recalled Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's appearance on the show, in which Hostin asked whether a third Trump term was possible. At that point, Sotomayor said that the law had never been tested before.

"That told me everything that I needed to know," Hostin said of Sotomayor's point. "Because I think that she is a very faithful constitutionalist. But she also understands that the Constitution can be interpreted as a living and breathing thing, as opposed to this thing that was written eons ago."

The same people saying he could never have a third term, Hostin explained, are the same people who say that Roe v. Wade will never be overturned and Trump wouldn't deport non-criminal immigrants all over the country. She believes that Trump will do whatever it takes to remain in power.

"Look, part of the reason we're talking about this — and part of me always thinks, they want to own the liberals. They want to troll us. They want to trigger us. All of those things. But that doesn't mean we don't take them seriously," said Navarro. "Part of the reason he's done crazy abuses of power is because he can. Because he's getting away with it without any pushback or oversight from Republicans."

She acknowledged that there have been some Republicans on TV willing to say that they would be against something like that.

"This is a guy who has authoritarian envy," Navarro continued. "He goes around to these countries and he loves the — you know, he wants the parades. He wants the arches. He wants the ballrooms. He wants to be the emperor. He wants to be the authoritarian. Paying no attention to the Constitution — that's the way Ortega did it, that's the way Chavez did it. That's the way Maduro does it. That's the way Putin does it. So, I would say, do not fall asleep on this, and Republicans — every single elected Republican should be getting asked right now, 'Would you be in favor or against Donald Trump running for a third term?' And if they don't say anything, if they don't answer, vote them out!"