Rosie O'Donnell believes her on-air 2007 argument with Elisabeth Hasselbeck was staged by producers. Discussing the clash on ABC's The View when O'Donnell first served as a cohost almost two decades ago, during an Australian radio interview, O'Donnell did not mince her words. "The whole thing, I think, was a set-up," O'Donnell said on Nova's Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel program on Monday, October 6.