i m dave briggs. it is 5:30. st. patrick s day was festivus in the white house. we ll get to that. little tout where tdoubt where president s head is. while allies mourn the attack in new zealand, the president unleashed a twitter barrage. the question is why. he was busy lurching. among grievances, gm, autoworkers union, snl reruns, hillary clinton, rmt, evobert m and fox news and the late john mccain. he criticized him for his ties to the controversial russian dossier. also going after mccain for his vote against repealing obamacare. and a strong response from mccain s daughter, she tweeted in one will ever love you the way they love my father. i wish i had been given more saturdays with him. make spend your with your family instead of on twitter obsessing
this weekend for his attacks on twitter at late senator john mccain. president trump still upset over a vote mccain cast in the senate in 201 against a slight repeal of obamacare, a lean repeal. president trump saying it is a stain on his legacy. mccain s daughter meghan shot back at trump in a stijing rebuke cite writing no one will ever love you the way they loved my father. i wish i had been given more saturdays with him. maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine. this is the spat still something president trump holds as a grudge. remember in 2015 when he launched his campaign for the presidency, president trump criticized the arizona senator saying he was not a war hero after he was captured as a prisoner of war in vietnam. boris sanchez at the white house. natasha lynn stat is a
doesn t mean that i don t respect his service to our country. i disagree with that decision that was made and i think that you can be criticized for that decision. amanda, megan mccain tweeted a cons, cowl u actually a couple of them. one of them was taken down. one of them she said that my father, john mccain is living rent free in donald trump s head. she also put out no one will ever love you the way they love my father. i wish i had been given more saturdays with him. maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine. what do you make of that, amanda? it s really sad that the president of the united states would put the daughter, someone who lost her father in the position of having to defend his grave. but this isn t really about john mccain. president trump wants to distract from the real questions about the russia investigation and shut down internal republican criticism. a few weeks ago he said that
years of campaigning to repeal and replace. the late senator s daughter, megan mccain, tweeted in response, no one will ever love you the way they loved my father. i wish i had been given more saturdays with him. maybe spend your with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine. but the president didn t stop there. yesterday he tweeted so it was indeed just proven in court papers, last in his class in papers, john mccain that sent the fake dossier hoping to have it printed before the election. his condition is getting worse. it s something we talked about in the last two years. we re getting to a point, joe, where reason will tell you something is wrong. it may have been too early to be emotionally jumping to those conclusions. i regret that.
maybe spend more with yours instead of on twitter obsessing over mine. he hasn t specifically addressed her comments himself. something notable, the silent from prominent republicans except for senator lindsey graham who was a very close friend of john mccain. i ll read you what he tweeted here. senator lindsey graham writing, as to senator john mccain and his devotion to his country he stepped forward to risk his life for his country serving honorably under difficult circumstances and was one of the most consequential senators in the history of the body. nothing about his sefs will everen changed or diminished. notably, no mention of president trump or his comments. s in 2015 president trump said john mccain was not a war hero. the grudge, even though senator mccain passed away seven months ago lives on. thank you. and joining us now, senior political analyst and a