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Meghan McCain snaps at The View’s Sunny Hostin and audience over Republican Will Hurd’s comments on Trump impeachment

McCain, earlier in the episode, also snapped at co-host Joy Behar, "I have a copy of the Constitution on my nightstand, so please don’t talk to me about the Constitution. It’s very important to most conservatives.” This drew her flak on social media
PUBLISHED NOV 22, 2019

‘The View’ co-host Meghan McCain, in the latest episode of the talk show, snapped at her co-host Sunny Hostin and the audience present. On Friday, while discussing the impeachment hearings, the conservative co-host got into a heated debate with her colleagues over the belief -- especially that of a majority of Republicans -- that President Donald Trump did not commit an impeachable offense.

Co-host Joy Behar, earlier in the episode, noted that “some of the testimony made Watergate seem quaint by comparison”. The show quickly cut to testimonies from diplomat Gordon David Sondland and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council.

Behar added that to her and to everyone else it should appear that the president did indeed committed an impeachable offense, asking, “Why is it that support for impeachment hearings is going down for Americans, and Trump’s approval ratings -- I can’t even say it, it’s making me nauseous -- are going up?”

Co-host Abby Huntsman, another conservative, commented that it was an embarrassment that “more Republicans haven’t seen this as an abuse of power by any means,” adding, however, that the Democrats had played it wrong and that the impeachment hearings were too boring for most people to stick to TV screens all day. 

McCain, however, during her turn said, “Impeachment ratings are down five percent and it is actually independent voters responsible for this.” She then referred to the comment of Republican congressman Will Hurd -- a moderate who was not up for re-election -- where he said, “An impeachable offense should be compelling, overwhelmingly clear and unambiguous, and it is not something to be rushed or taken lightly. I have not heard evidence proving the president committed bribery or extortion. I also reject the notion that holding this view means supporting all of the foreign policy choices we have been hearing about over these last few weeks.”

Behar immediately snapped at her and said, “He (Hurd) must be deaf. He said he hasn’t heard it. We all heard it!” McCain retorted, “I think the point of this show is we do all, every panelist in the show lives in a different world, has a different view… There are people in this country and there are congresspeople like Mike Turner who are not convinced what happened was an impeachable offense. I don’t make the rules.”

She added, “Democrats have gotten out over their skis so many times. I can remember coming on this show last year thinking Muller had this locked and loaded… The problem is there is a distrust. Including from people like me of who to believe at this point. I have been told time and time again that ‘He’s going to jail. He’s getting impeached. He’s X. He’s Y’ and I think for Republicans, it doesn’t matter.”

When Behar asked, “ What about the Constitution?”, McCain shot back with, “I have a copy of the Constitution on my nightstand, so please don’t talk to me about the Constitution. It’s very important to most conservatives.”

McCain’s Constitution comment earned her a lot of hate on Twitter. Comedian Marie Connor tweeted, “If Meghan McCain is an expert on the Constitution because she has a copy on her nightstand, then every trucker paying an hourly rate at a cheap motel is a religious scholar.”

Blogger Xilla Valentine quipped, "Every time #TheView trends on Twitter I know it's has something to do with Meghan McCain." Writer Lauren Baratz-Logsted tweeted, "If Meghan McCain wants everyone to defer to her on the Constitution because she keeps a copy on her nightstand, then how about Meghan McCain deferring to Sunny Hostin on all legal matters, since @sunny is an actual f***ing lawyer?"

Twitter user FierceFrankie1 wrote, "'I have a copy of the Constitution on my night stand' @MeghanMcCain is so exhausting! You have copies of the Constitution all over your house yet slander service men and women who testify under testimony that Trump has repeatedly violated the Constitution. B***h please."

What happened after the Constitution comment earned her more ridicule. Co-host Sunny Hostin said that she was shocked to hear Hurd say that. “In my view, it says more about Will Hurd than it says about the evidence,” said Hostin. “I think anyone who was listening heard nine people testify as to what they saw, what they heard.”

She added, despite interruptions from McCain, “I will also say that it tells me that he is complicit, the Republican Party has enabled this president, continues to enable this president.” McCain, once again cut her flow, and asked, “You’re slandering a CIA agent [Hurd]?”

Hostin, however, stuck to her point. She said, “For him to sit there and say that the evidence has to be overwhelming and that he heard no overwhelming evidence -- I want to know which hearings he was sitting at.” 

When the audience applauded Hostin’s comment, McCain made a snide remark: “It’s easy to get a cheap applause line here. It just is. It just is, and that’s fine. Take your cheap applause line.” When Hostin responded that it wasn’t a “cheap applause line” and that the audience agreed with her, McCain yelled, “Let me speak!”

Hostin fired back with, “You have been speaking a lot.” As all the other co-hosts continued to a loud heated-debate about the impeachment hearing, a visibly sullen McCain said quietly, “We have to go to commercial.” On cue, Behar announced they were going to take a break and return with a different topic. 

McCain’s comments earned her the wrath of many on Twitter.

Writer Tara Dublin tweeted, "Nepotism poster child @MeghanMcCain is married to the publisher of The Federalist and abuses her privileged platform by pushing their gaslighting propaganda bullsh**ery on the daily #FireMeghanMcCain"

Queer activist Charlotte Clymer wrote, "Dear producers of @TheView: I would like to point out that unlike Meghan McCain, I have actually read my copy of the Constitution and sworn an oath in uniform to defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I would make an excellent replacement." 

'The View' airs weekdays at 2 p.m. ET on ABC.

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