'The View' host scolds Democrats for not walking out of Trump speech

"What I saw when Rep. Al Green stood up and said, you don't have a mandate to take away Medicaid, and he was tossed out, I expected the rest of his Democratic caucus, the rest of his colleagues, to walk out with him," she said on Wednesday. 

"Because alone you can survive, but together you thrive. That is the energy that we need. They should have stood with him in solidarity. And we had Karine Jean-Pierre here on this show yesterday, and she said we have to have a sense of urgency as we move forward, and we cannot do it the way we have in the past. This is not normal. It is a five-alarm fire," Hostin continued. 

Hostin urged the Democrats to stop playing by the rules. 

"You can't play by the rules with a party that has thrown away the rule book. You cannot do it," she concluded.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin praised Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., for her rebuttal to Trump's speech, but suggested the Democratic protests on the House floor fell short.

"I thought that Elissa Slotkin was masterful, and I think she gave Democrats the winning message that they flailed to have [sic]. But I thought the antics on the floor were not helpful. I don't think that waving a cane is the optics that the Democrats want in this," she said. 

She also said that the Democratic lawmakers holding up paddles and signs were ineffective. 

Griffin asked, "Who was advising these people?"