Michael Moore, Elisabeth Hasselbeck Tangle Over Osama Bin Laden (Video)

"The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is outraged by Michael Moore's assertion that Osama bin Laden should have been put on trial

The man's new memoir is called "Here Comes Trouble," which turned out to be a not-so-surprising prediction that things weren't going to go smoothly when famously liberal Michael Moore swapped Osama bin Laden viewpoints with famously conservative "The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

In short: the Oscar-winning documentarian said that, like the Nazis and Charles Manson before him, bin Laden deserved to stand trial. Hasselbeck's outraged reply, and we paraphrase: "What?!?!?!"

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"My point is that the way we show the world that we're different is that we give even the most heinous person their day in court," Moore said.

"You're telling me Osama bin Laden deserves a trial?" an increasingly angry Hasselbeck asked. "Where? In New York City? Absolutely not! How dare … and why, because Casey Anthony's trial went so well?"

Moore's new book includes a further rundown of his opinions on the May death of bin Laden, which he shared with TheWrap in an interview in May.

Check out the video below to see the heated Moore/Hasselbeck exchange, including the moments when "View" co-hosts Barbara Walters and Joy Behar jumped in to agree with Hasselbeck (a rare occurrence):

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