Chaos ensued on ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday when co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin got into a lengthy heated debate that only calmed down after Whoopi Goldberg kicked the show over to commerical for a timeout.

The segment began with the hosts discussing former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie jumping into the 2024 GOP primary. Hostin almost immediately went after Griffin by noting that she previously worked for both Pence and former President Donald Trump.

Griffin argued that she believes Christie’s motives are noble and that he is trying to “save the Republican Party from Trump’s influence.”

But Hostin interjected and called Christie a “spineless” and “soulless” non-factor. Hostin then took a shot at Griffin by saying she wanted to “hear more” from Pence.

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“What scares me, Alyssa, is you are incapable of defending a man that you worked for,” she said, “that you know of, and you’re saying that you need to hear –”

“Oh, no no. Why don’t you ask me a question, rather than–” interrupted Griffin.

“I did ask you a question,” said Hostin, who began to continue to her point.

“You just accused me of something, so why don’t you let me actually answer?” Griffin shot back.

“Nope,” Hostin told her. “I’m going to finish what I’m going to say.”

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Hostin continued her anti-Pence diatribe, which led to Griffin remarking that “Sunny likes to make it personal with me! Are you gonna give me a chance to answer?”

Hostin ignored Griffin — who took serious exception.

“This is absurd!” Griffin said. “This is not what the show is about. This is Barbara Walter’s legacy. Let a woman speak.”

The segment continued to descend into chaos with all of the hosts shouting over each other at different moments before Whoopi declared “I can’t hear anybody saying anything…Maybe we need to figure out how we do this again! Let’s have this break and let’s figure out how we’re going to make this work!”

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South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott joined “The View” on Monday and it did not take long for the gloves to come off.

The show began fairly light-hearted with Scott speaking about his 2024 presidential campaign, but ended up sparring with co-host Sunny Hostin after she pressed him to define “systemic racism.”

The conversation began when Griffin asked Scott about his optimistic message and his running on his life story of having overcome great adversity to live the American dream. Then, Hostin hijacked the conversation and attempted to spar with Scott over his positions.

The interview got so tense at one moment that Goldberg asked the crew for help when she was demanding Scott stop talking so they could cut to commercial.

The segment took a massive turn when Scott tried to answer a question from Goldberg.

Hostin began asking Scott a question, to which he turned to Hostin to look at her directly — which resulted in him turning his back on Goldberg, Sara Haines, and Ana Navarro.

“That was me talking to you, so I’d love that, shall I come next to her?” Goldberg said as she left her chair to sit next to Hostin. “Your back looks pretty damn good from here,” Navarro said to Scott.

As Scott proceeded to talk, Goldberg apparently had issues diverting the show to commercial, requesting help from the show’s staff.