v.a. and they knew it. that s why when i had my dispute with him, i had such incredible support from the vets and from the military. the vets were on my side because i got the job done. i got choice. no, actually, no, none of that is true. here are the facts. senator mccain played a leading role in the veterans choice bill. it was initially signed into law in 2014 by president obama giving veterans more freedom to seek medical care outside of the v.a. system. in 2018 president trump signed an expansion of the bill that mccain spearheaded and president obama made law. that s why it s called the john s. mccain the third and samuel r. johnson v.a. maintaining internal systems and strengthening integrated outside networks act of 2018 and the president should know that because he signed it. now few republicans at this point have spoken out about president trump s attacks of john mccain but former ohio governor john kasich tweeted
i think it s pretty disgusting when the president of the united states decides to attack someone who is regarded as an american patriot and war hero seven months after he died. the fact is that a president obviously is gnawing trying to hit back at mccain for some reason, it s been something inside of him. he has not been able to control it, and now he comes out and attacks john mccain in this way when john mccain obviously ca t can t. i know john mccain, i worked with john mccain. he was a dedicated public servant. but if john mccain p.
runs through donald trump s heart that i don t think people can underestimate. and he does get a great deal of satisfaction out of that. so while i m not a diagnostician, either, for mental health orders, there is a piece of this that is almost sociopa sociopathic, that he likes to hurt people. you don t have to be a professional to see these traits come out in it. back now with former chief of staff leon panetta. president trump has been going after john mccain now for his military service, he s gone after him for his academic record, his remembers.
this, enough donald trump, enough. john mccain was an inspirational public service and sacrificed so much for our country and the former governor is also a cnn senior political commentator with us today. when you look at this and you re outspoken, but why are so few of your fellow republicans taking the same approach? careerism over leadership, you know. i m in office, i want to stay in office, i kind of like it. i m a united states senator. i m like a flamingo. i get to flap around and be important and sometimes you can be addicted to a job like that. when you think about the fundamentals of our country, george washington said two terms, right? these folks, they get in there and want to be in there forever. i think their problem is, they don t want to get heat from the base. they don t want to have a face a primary. i understand it. it s tough to do that, but the we is why are you there? are you there just to be in office? are you there because you re building a career there or woul
something to make things a little bit better and to excuse this kind of behavior, to me it s it s on them, but it s also on donald trump, what s he trying to do? he said the veterans love him. that bill was named after sam johnson. sam johnson was in the congress and he was a p.o.w. if you meet him, he s got an arm that doesn t function very well. john mccain couldn t even raise his arms. i knew john since 1982. we went into congress together. we loved him. we admired him and he was a dear friend of mine and he always showed courage. that was the thing about mccain. he is the standard for the way we need to think about the fact that do the right thing and over time it ll work. former chief-of-staff for the rnc says that president trump is doing exactly what his supporters want and what they expect i don t agree with that can you okay. we re going to listen to what he says and then we re going to talk. let s roll this. the question of what s