The View's Meghan McCain and Abby Huntsman shout about their famous dads in wild debate on Trump and Russia

All three conservatives on "The View" clashed over President Donald Trump's relationship with Russia and Ukraine.

The president canceled his planned meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin after attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in the special counsel probe, and Trump claimed the move was in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine.

"I think if you look at the substance of the policy under the Trump administration when you're dealing with Putin in Russia, you could argue that they've been tougher than any administration since the Cold War," Abby Huntsman argued. "You can talk about the optics, you can talk about his tweets, which I actually hated that he tweeted canceling this meeting because that's not how you handle diplomacy."

"But no one ever talks about the actual issues and what's being done to combat Russia, because that's not the shiny object," she added. "No one cares about that, no one gives the president credit for anything that he does right. That's what I can't stand."

Host Joy Behar asked whether Trump could be trusted due to his newly revealed business ties to Russia, and she said the president appeared to be compromised by Putin.

"This didn't just happen in a vacuum," said Meghan McCain, who listed previous presidents' praise for Putin.

Behar pointed out that none of those presidents had pursued business deals in Russia that they tried to keep secret, and co-host Sunny Hostin said the timing of the cancellation was suspicious -- and she said his excuse was transparently false.

"Really, Sunny? Really, Sunny?" Huntsman said. "Trump has actually been tougher on Ukraine than President Obama was. The first thing he did was put sanctions on russia as it relates to the Ukraine -- that's the point I'm trying to make."

"I talked to my dad, who lives in Moscow, and deals with this every single day," added Huntsman, whose father is the U.S. ambassador to Moscow.

Huntsman lashed out at cable pundits who talk about diplomacy without insight into closed door negotiations, which she hinted she had due to her family relationship with the Russian ambassador -- and Ana Navarro challenged her to explain one of the year's most troubling spectacles.

"Abby, your dad was not in the alone time that Trump had with Putin in Helsinki -- nobody was," Navarro said. "It was Trump, Putin and some translator."

Huntsman refused to defend Trump's strange actions toward Putin in Helsinki, and Navarro said the election interference had also upset many Americans -- but Huntsman blamed the former president.

"Tell me what Obama did," Huntsman said.

Navarro said Obama threatened to impose stronger sanctions after the election, and Hostin said the former president had imposed Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia -- and that's when McCain jumped in.

"The Magnitsky Act happened because of my father, it had nothing to do with Obama," McCain said. "Let's get that very straight."