The View Takes on Malibu Fires, the War on Iraq, Children and War, and Movie Theaters

Today, Wednesday the 10^th of January, The View welcomed back Barbara Walters. She joined the three other regular co-hosts Joy Behar, Rosie O'Donnell, and Elisabeth Hasselback.

The show began with the following statements regarding Donald Trump (in summary):

O'Donnell: "He's at it again."

Walters: "That poor, pathetic man."

Walters: "He just can't let go."

O'Donnell: "The man is obsessed with me."

Trump's latest season of The Apprentice aired this past week with disappointing popularity, to which O'Donnell referenced as having tanked. The statements made above are already, less than half an hour after the closing of today's show, making headway in entertainment news.

The company immediately moved on from this issue, turning to the destructive fires in Malibu, California as of late.

Malibu Fires

Thought to be a result of global warming, many houses in California have recently been burning to the ground. Suzanne Somers, upon viewing her own demolished house, states, "What can you do with a tragedy except look for opportunity to grow spiritually and emotionally?"

Behar responds to the issue of global warming by questioning, "Maybe Al Gore was right." She continues to conclude that should he run for president again, he could win (even though, as she states, he already did).

War on Iraq

Later today, President Bush will be giving a press conference to speak about the deployment of 20,000 more soldiers to Iraq. Hasselback states that she would support this decision "contingent upon the fact that they are gone soon after."

O'Donnell shares information that the number of surviving soldiers is higher in this war than any other due to advancement in modern medicine, but there are too many amputees returning than there is room to treat for them. Behar adds, "And they're kids."

Children and War

Walters questions O'Donnell, "How do you explain war to your children?"

Multiple recent house fires have occurred in California, leaving practically no remnants of what stood before.

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