Co-hosts of ABC’s The View carefully navigated their differing opinions on whether Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago constituted an olive branch or naked opportunism.

The Morning Joe hosts said on MSNBC Monday that they hoped their visit to President-Elect Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate would help to “restart communications” between the media and his new administration. It was a far cry from Brzezinski’s tearful pre-election appearance on The View when she warned of the country’s “descent into fascism” if Trump re-took the White House.

On Monday, Ana Navarro declared, “I will never sit with him,” before continuing:

I think there’s a lot of people who are probably looking at what Joe and Mika did and find it opportunistic. There are people who change their stripes, or maybe their spots, I should say, today, depending on who is in power and what benefits them. I don’t know that that’s what they are doing, and to me, it’s a to-be-determined situation, because right now, it’s the transition. We don’t know what he’s going to do as president. We don’t know what they’re going to do if he commits abuses of power as president. So, you know, everybody has to live with their decision. Everybody has to look at themselves in the mirror. I’m good.

Co-hosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin said they believed the Morning Joe hosts “absolutely” made “the right decision” to talk with Trump.

“You have the conversations or nothing happens,” Haines said of opening the dialogue.

Griffin added, “I don’t think this is opportunistic, but I think they recognize that 75 million people voted for this guy. He will be in power, short of something like an impeachment, for the next four years.”

Sunny Hostin remained adamant that Trump can’t be trusted.

“I don’t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story,” Hostin said. “So maybe they’re not journalists in the true sense. Maybe they’re saying that they’re opinion journalists, but we have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news.”

“I’m going to wait and see what I’m dealing with, as I’ve said since the election, because I don’t know,” Whoopi Goldberg declared. “I’m going to wait. I’m going to have some popcorn, and when I have something to say, I will say it.”

Watch the clip above via The View on ABC.

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