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Vietnam after they tortured him for five years. and all of those speeches were seen as a rebuke to trump not because trump was ever mentioned in those speeches but because all of the characteristics mccain was celebrated for everyone knows trump is not praised for. >> hes lack in all of those traits. you said youre at a loss of words, general. but what it does say about this president that he is making the late senator john mccains funeral seven months later about himself? >> its amazingly disap...

United states couldnt go to a senator from his own partys funeral because the family didnt want him there? i mean, and theres just no doubt that that has infuriated trump ever since, that he was sort of left out of this national celebration. and remember that day. all of the speeches were about mccains bipartisan record, what a great military person he was, what a great colleague he was in the senate, how he famously had a streak of forgiving people. remember he led our approach to vietnam after...

You here if we can move on, a handful of republican senators -- you mentioned this -- they have spoken out against the presidents comments. but the response has been really quite tepid. even senator lindsey graham appears to be rolling over in his grave now. why havent -- why hasnt there been a stronger rebuke from mccains friends? >> yeah, don, this is fairly interesting because the other day i got in a twitter conversation, something i swore i wouldnt do, with a friend of mine who was mad beca...

His grave now. why havent -- why hasnt there been a stronger rebuke from mccains friends? >> yeah, don, this is fairly interesting because the other day i got in a twitter conversation, something i swore i wouldnt do, with a friend of mine who was mad because i said that americans should put or that republicans should put the country ahead of party as it related to this national security designation on the border. and this gentleman was really angry at me. and, you know, we -- i knew that if i c...

Lets see those x-rays. >> add trumps x-rays next to the tax returns to the list of things public wants to see, powerful rebuke from bob kerrey, vietnam veteran himself. and while responses from sitting republican elected officials is not been as scathing, trump may be on an island, even within his own administration. politico -- for the most part dont want to touch this with a ten-foot pole. a current senior white house official said white house aides are making an effort not to discuss it in po...

>> isakson is seen as more of an even tempered senator. hes not one for a lot of public criticism of his colleagues or the president. the fact that hes doing this gives you a sense of the issue. that said, its hard to know what this actually means. there have been previous occasions weve seen where one senator has made a public rebuke of the president either to be slapped down by the president or none of his colleagues have followed. whether this means anything or is just an interesting blip, i ...

Even the fact that it happened before the latest back-and-forth. jackie kucinich is with me and kirsten powers. good morning to you both. id like to start with whats so relevant and important this morning and thats what the senior republican senator of georgia, isakson is doing in standing up to the president. kirsten powers, the rebuke from this republican senator, its really just him this publicly and this forcefully. we have mitt romney and a few others. i wonder if you think hell be followed...

The rebuke from the senate with the vote on the emergency declaration and also a rebuke on policies in the middle east as well. weve seen them more willing to push back against the administration and its policies. the president did or said or tweeted a number of remarkable things over the weekend. its still very stunning to me that the president is still going after a deceased united states senator. we know he does not like john mccain and know he held grudges against john mccain for a litany of...

We dont know. i want to read from the "new york times." we were all wednesdayering what the president was doing over the weekend or -- all wondering what the president was doing over the weekend, maggie writing no golf or activities other than a rare visit to church so president trump did what he could do. he tweeted. its to counter inactivity because he was bored, rachel? >> seems to be the working theory right now? there was a clear rebuke in the senate, 12 senators voted against his emergency...

Say and rebuke what we all know to be white supremacy, thats a problem, while you trample on the legacy of john mccain. >> go ahead. >> yeah, look, the reality is that the president sees everything through the eyes of him. and the american public has figured this out. i know folks on the left have not. they continue to call him all sorts of names and say that hes a white supremacist or a racist or whatever the case may be. and this is not about the presidents viewpoint. this is about the preside...