"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin recognizes that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is in trouble, but she isn't certain it's due to a recent mistake of weapons being halted to Ukraine.
Speaking on the show Thursday, co-host Whoopi Goldberg played a clip of Trump saying he didn't know who ordered the shipment of weapons to be stopped, but it wasn't him, and he wanted the shipment to be sent. Goldberg noted that Hegseth was seated directly to Trump's left.
Trump was hammered over the matter Wednesday by a reporter asking what it says about his government that someone could order something so significant and Trump wouldn't be aware of it.
"So, who's going to take the fall for — who is in charge — what is going on?!" Goldberg exclaimed.
"It's very scary. I'll tell you the truth. Now I'm getting scared," Behar said, noting that the incompetence at such high levels of government is dangerous for the country.
But it was Griffin who recalled Trump's promise that he'd "have a deal on day one" of his administration to stop the war in Ukraine. Instead, Trump has had hour-long calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where Putin turned around and bombed Ukraine and killed civilians after.
"And Trump sees that," Griffin said. "And I think he thinks it's insulting American strength, and he's responding to that."
"Look, I want to know who's in charge," said Sunny Hostin. "Why doesn't the commander in chief know that there was a pause in military aid? That scares the heck out of me!"
She pointed to Hegseth, who doesn't have top advisers in key roles at the Department of Defense.
"The head person doesn't even have any help. We in trouble. We in danger," Hostin said, a call-back to Goldberg's role in the film "Ghost."
The panel went on to discuss the concerns lawmakers had that Hegseth didn't have the experience to take on such a massive role. There's a fear, they agreed, that because of that, Trump won't be willing to get rid of him because it would prove the Democrats were right.
Griffin said that knowing Trump as she does, his head might be on the chopping block, but "I don't know it's in relation to this."
"Because I think Ukraine and Russia is such a sensitive issue with MAGA, but I'm not convinced Hegseth is going to last six months," she said.
Goldberg said what bothers her most is that while the Trump administration is "fooling around, people are dying," not only in Ukraine but across the globe due to aid cuts and more.
