Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he will not apologize for calling protesters “low-life scum” at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing earlier this week.
“I think they’re terrible people,” McCain said of Code Pink, the women-led grassroots peace and social justice group that protested the hearing, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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“Of course I was outraged, and I am still outraged,” he told CNN. “It’s one thing to stand up and protest. It’s something else to physically threaten an individual, particularly an individual who has served so much to his country.”
