Former co-hosts Walters and Joy Behar returned to the show for the celebration. On September 5, 2016, prior to the premiere of season 20, ABC aired a documentary entitled "The View: 20 Years in the Making", which featured notable moments from the show and several personalities involved in the show's history, hosted by Behar. On November 8, Behar, Jedediah Bila, Candace Cameron Bure, Sara Haines, and Sunny Hostin hosted a primetime Election Night special of the show, which aired on Lifetime. On November 11, a "Flashback Friday" episode was aired along with a Veteran's Day tribute, featuring the return of original co-hosts Jones, Meredith Vieira, and Debbie Matenopoulos, alongside Behar. Walters was unavailable to attend the reunion. In March 2017, the show had its first remote broadcast from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Five episodes were filmed in front of the Tree of Life at Disney's Animal Kingdom, featuring pre-recorded segments with co-hosts Behar, Bila, Haines, Hostin, Paula Faris, and Whoopi Goldberg exploring Epcot, Magic Kingdom, and Disney's Hollywood Studios. James Cameron came on as a guest on March 9, giving a preview of Pandora – The World of "Avatar". Other guests included Sherri Shepherd, John Stamos, Ariel Winter, Eric Stonestreet, Audra McDonald, Mandy Moore, Tom Bergeron, and chefs Masaharu Morimoto and Art Smith, with musical performances by Andy Grammer and Train. On August 11, 2017, ABC re-aired the show's first episode, which originally aired on the same date 20 years prior. On November 7, 2019, the series celebrated the airing of its 5,000th episode, with Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, and former executive producer Bill Geddie appearing as guests. The following month, Darlene Love performed her song "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" alongside Jason Derulo on the December 20 episode, which Love has done annually since 2015. On March 11, 2020, the series began airing without a live studio audience for the first time since its debut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 17, 2007, during a discussion regarding the Iraq War as well as the Bush administration's policies, O'Donnell rhetorically asked, "655,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Who are the terrorists? …[ I]f you were in Iraq and another country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?"