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Update: Money Matters for Rosie's View

Rosie O'Donnell, Donald Trump Hal Horowitz/WireImage.com,Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com

Rosie O'Donnell's departure from The View is all about time and money.  

Despite Donald Trump's claim that he helped push the outspoken O'Donnell off the talk show, ABC execs had hopes that she'd stay put. Unfortunately, a source tells me, the network failed to put its money where its mouth was.  

"She definitely was not pushed out," my source just told me. "She asked for a specific amount of money and they responded with a three-year contract at a reduced price. Frankly, someone at [ABC] should be fired for the negotiations."

O'Donnell shot a home video this morning in her View dressing room. She posted the video on her blog just as today's show went on the air with the big news. "We couldn't come to terms," O'Donnell says in the video of the contract talks.

Joy Behar also chimed in. "It won't be easy," she said of a Rosie-less View, "but I will survive."

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