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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The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 60 million Americans suffer from insomnia each year. One of those people is filmmaker Alan Berliner. Having made the personal documentaries The Sweetest Sound and Nobody's Business, Berliner decided to turn the camera on himself and his family once again to follow his attempts to overcome sleeplessness in HBO's Wide Awake: Portrait of an Artist as Insomniac. TVGuide.com recently discussed the project, which premieres tonight at 8 pm/ET, with the New York City-based cineaste.

TVGuide.com: How'd you sleep last night?Alan Berliner: Actually, last night, I had a terrible night's sleep.

TVGuide.com: So it continues?Berliner: Yeah. It's gotten better, but every night is an adventure for me. Last night just happened to be a tough one. I fell asleep OK, but I woke up after five hours and couldn't fall back asleep again.

TVGuide.com: Did making Wide Awake prove to be therapeutic at all?Berliner: It did, on many levels. The first thing is, I understand so much more about the condition and my predicament. I know more about the physiology and the psychology of what I'm going through. That in itself was very valuable. It's funny — during the course of making the film, I would clip every newspaper and magazine article having to do with sleep and there are these top 10 sleep-hygiene rules that are almost exactly the same everywhere, and they're printed year after year after year. You see the same tips. They're basic, but as a society we tend not to follow them.

TVGuide.com: As a culture, we're not valuing sleep enough?Berliner: Western culture is antithetical to good sleep habits. In the Victorian era, people averaged about nine hours of sleep. Obviously, with the advent of the lightbulb, that opened up the night. So now we're averaging seven hours a night. That number will never go up. According to many doctors I talked to, we're living through the greatest experiment in sleep deprivation in the history of human beings.

TVGuide.com: Did you come across any theories explaining sleep disorders that might surprise people?Berliner: Well, there are like 80 types of insomnia, and they keep adding new ones in medical journals. There are psychological components, biological components, genetic components.... It's a very elusive target. Then there are small things people may be just doing wrong, like drinking alcohol before they go to sleep or having their bedroom temperature too warm. But one interesting thing I found when talking to several doctors is that what is often diagnosed as hyperactivity in children and treated with Ritalin may be just a cause of chronic sleep deprivation. So children may be overcompensating because they feel tired, and Ritalin may be totally uncalled for.

TVGuide.com: I've never heard that.Berliner: Doctors are finding more and more links between health issues and sleep. I was shocked to read that there are more highway fatalities from people falling asleep at the wheel then all of the drug- and alcohol-related fatalities combined.

TVGuide.com: Wide Awake doesn't always portray you in a positive light. Did you have any reservations about selling it for broadcast on HBO?Berliner: Not at all. It's a real, first-person film about my life. I wanted it to be honest, so foibles are part of the experience. It was a chance to make a film about sleep from the inside out. It was a big challenge, but my wife was open to it. She gave birth to our baby in the middle of making the film, so that made it even more difficult. He's 3 now, and he falls asleep at 8 o'clock on the dot. He's a very good sleeper.

TVGuide.com: A lot of people are happy with being oblivious to the suffering their neuroses cause for those around them. Was it difficult to confront your own hang-ups and how they affect your wife and family?Berliner: Yes, of course. But I've always made films about my life and family, so they're used to it. I'm the maker of the film, but I'm also the subject. As I lay awake at night wondering if I'm going to fall asleep, it gets maddening, but it was also an incredible research opportunity. So I obsessed about sleep, and that was tough on those around me. But since completing the film that obsession has faded a little bit, and I've gotten into a little bit better flow with the rest of my family.

TVGuide.com: But like you said before, you still battle with sleeplessness.Berliner: Sure, I still deal with it on a daily basis. I was worried before we talked, because I didn't sleep well last night and I didn't know how well I'd be able to answer your questions.

TVGuide.com: All in all, I think you did just fine.