The host, Chuck Todd: What do the other senators really think when they hear the president trash John McCain?
Claire McCaskill, former Democratic senator from Missouri: It hurts everybody's heart. You know, listen. John McCain and I had battles. He battled with all of us at one time or another. But he was an incredible man and what he went through. I don't know what's wrong with this guy [Trump]. How do you punch down to someone who was a POW and is dead the same week, you reverse sanctions against a guy [North Korea's Kim Jong-un], because you say you like him, who starves his people and kills his family for power? It is beyond weird. And I think it shows some real mental problems with this president that he feels the need to go after somebody who is dead.
Chuck Todd: There is a virus in part of the Republican Party that cheers this. They're excited when it happens. And they send crazy notes to Cindy McCain and Meghan McCain and people like that.
Carlos Curbelo, former Republican member of the House of Representatives: That's right. Part of the base is politically intoxicated. And when did it become normal or OK, in our country, to criticize, to attack, at a personal level, this is not a policy disagreement but to personally attack someone who sacrificed for our country? And I was happy to hear Marco Rubio say that he disagreed with it today. But I think Republicans need to be stronger in saying-- this is wrong.
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