The fragile truce is over. The cold war between the hosts of The View and their corporate bosses at ABC has erupted into a full-blown, public war, live on the air. In a shocking and unprecedented sequence of events on Tuesday, a tense argument between Whoopi Goldberg and Alyssa Farah Griffin spiraled into an open rebellion, culminating in co-host Ana Navarro standing up and delivering a defiant manifesto against their own network before the feed was abruptly cut.

The show began under a cloud of palpable tension, days after ABC yanked it off the air for defending Stephen Colbert. Deciding to address the elephant in the room, the hosts began a discussion about the “risky situation” and the corporate pressure to stay silent. It was then that the first crack appeared.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, the panel’s conservative voice and a veteran of the high-pressure Trump White House, argued for a pragmatic approach. “We have to be strategic,” she cautioned. “You can’t win the war if you get thrown out of the army. There’s a way to handle this without burning the whole house down.”

Whoopi Goldberg, the show’s revered moderator, immediately bristled at the comment, her face hardening. She cut Farah Griffin off. “No, no,” Whoopi said, her voice low and stern. “That’s the company line, Alyssa. That’s what they want us to believe. This isn’t about one job or one show. This is about the principle of being able to speak without looking over your shoulder in fear. Some things are more important than the job.”

The exchange became a tense, personal standoff. Farah Griffin argued that they had a responsibility to the hundreds of people who work on the show, while Whoopi shot back that their primary responsibility was to the truth and to their audience. The air was thick with conflict, and it was clear the panel was fracturing under the immense pressure from the network.

As the argument reached a fever pitch, with producers likely screaming in the hosts’ earpieces to go to a commercial, Ana Navarro had heard enough. In a move that broke every rule of daytime television, she pushed her chair back and stood up from the table, commanding the camera’s attention.

“No. We’re not going to do this,” Navarro declared, her voice ringing with passion. “We’re not going to be divided. We have been spoken to, we have been warned, and we have been told to be silent.” She paused, looking directly into the camera, speaking for her colleagues and to the millions watching at home. “And we have something to say. We refuse to stay silent any longer!”

It was a declaration of open mutiny. In that moment, she unified the entire panel—even a stunned Farah Griffin—against their corporate bosses. It was a stunning, electrifying moment of television.

It was also the last thing viewers saw. The screen immediately flashed to black. ABC had pulled the plug again. But this time, it wasn’t to prevent a controversy; it was in response to a full-blown, on-air insurrection.

The hosts of The View have now crossed the Rubicon. They have turned their private battle with network executives into a public war, daring ABC to fire the entire panel of one of the most successful and culturally relevant shows in television history. The question is no longer what the hosts will do next, but what an enraged and cornered network will do in response. The TV war has officially begun, and the first shot was just fired live from the stage of Studio 23.