Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the youngest cohost of ABC's The View, opens up to TV Guide about her pregnancy, fighting for the Right, and the future of the talker minus Rosie.

TV Guide: Congratulations on your pregnancy! Did you plan it so you could deliver during November sweeps?Elisabeth Hasselbeck: No. If I could have planned it, I would already have a 1-year-old right now! [She and her husband, New York Giants quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, have a 2-year-old daughter, Grace.]

TV Guide: How would you describe this past year on The View with Star Jones Reynolds' acrimonious departure and Rosie O'Donnell's tumultuous arrival and precipitous decision to leave? Hasselbeck: Exhilarating. And fun. TV Guide: C'mon! Wasn't it kind of like reliving Survivor but with better food? Hasselbeck: It's very different. Underneath these blonde highlights, I'm a fighter. I like to have someone who is as passionate about this world as I am. I found that in Rosie this year. It's been such a privilege to have the most bare-knuckled, honest conversations with her. When someone as strong as Rosie steps in, you either step up or you get disempowered.

TV Guide: Wait! Isn't liberal Rosie a bully who makes Elisabeth cry? Hasselbeck: Absolutely not! Ro and I have become friends. We e-mail each other, we talk about art, we go out together with our kids. I feel such trust for her. Because we so openly take such opposite positions politically, we have made a concerted effort to get to know each other personally.

TV Guide: How would you answer those who call Rosie an obnoxious loudmouth? Hasselbeck: I'd like to know the last time someone called a man out there, who was giving an opinion backed up with fact, a "loudmouth." It takes a man to say something completely heinous, chauvinistic and racist for people to even bat an eye.

TV Guide: Your big YouTube moment was an emotional spat with Barbara Walters over the morning-after pill. Why were you so upset? Hasselbeck: That situation gets me fired up. It amazes me that people will storm Washington for trees, and yet we don't stand up for the lives of the unborn. It's a personal cause.

TV Guide: Were you fired up enough to want to quit The View? Hasselbeck: I never have been. I'm a person of strong faith. I believe that God has a plan for me to be here, and I believe that I'm a better citizen because of this job — using my mouth and my mind for political causes and social issues.

TV Guide: You scored an invite to the prestigious White House dinner for England's Queen Elizabeth. How? Hasselbeck: Obviously in the media there are only a select few championing the conservative movement. Maybe that's why. I had to go to Barbara for a little queen etiquette first. [Laughs]

TV Guide: The search for a new cohost is beginning. Is it time for a man on The View? Hasselbeck: We used to have Men's Day Wednesday and that was a blast, but I think women feel safe with women. We're different enough!

TV Guide: Do you want another conservative voice? Hasselbeck: I can take care of the conservative side. I prefer someone who I can have a good sparring match with. I consider myself a contemplative conservative — I'm not so set in my ways that I'm never going to change.

TV Guide: You recently cohosted Fox & Friends. Is the rumor true that you're leaving The View to take a job with a Fox News show?Hasselbeck: Fox & Friends was fun, but it was intense doing a morning show. Coming back from that I had a newfound respect for what Barbara had done and what Meredith [Vieira] is still doing.

TV Guide: OK, so in five years you'll still be on The View? Hasselbeck: I would love to do this show as long as it's in existence. I really feel like we're serving our viewers. I love that.

TV Guide: What else is coming up for you? Hasselbeck: I'm working on a children's clothing line. There might be some onesies in Target soon. And hopefully we'll get out some children's books within the next year. I may be talking politics and celebrities on The View, but I'm a designer and an artist by nature.

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