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McCain noted that she feels there are some \"legitimate criticisms\" one can make about the \"squad\" of freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.

\"I have never gotten more heat in my entire career in my entire life than I have for the criticism of congresswoman Omar's stance on Israel,\" McCain said. \"Stick to the politics.\"

\"The problem is you're making this about race. You're making this about racism. You're making this about what's truly American, and it's all these old racist dog whistles that have plagued this country for so long,\" she said of Graham's comments.

A frustrated McCain said that \"it can't just be me and Geraldo\" -- referencing Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera, who voiced his disapproval of Trump's remarks on Twitter -- rebuking Trump's comments.

\"Someone has to come out against this. This is petrifying,\" she said, adding, \"It's humiliating for me on TV right now. Someone has to say something other than me and Geraldo.\"

Sad to watch my friend @realDonaldTrump take low road regarding @AOC of the Bronx, @RashidaTlaib of Detroit @AyannaPressley of Boston & @Ilhan of Somalia & Minneapolis. Let's stick to issues & steer clear of language that's xenophobic even racist. @POTUS you're better than that.

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) July 14, 2019

\"Let's stick to issues & steer clear of language that's xenophobic even racist. @POTUS you're better than that,\" Rivera had written.

\"The View\" co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin also spoke out against the president's attacks on progressive Democratic congresswomen.

\"This is very dangerous. You don't want to be telling people to go back to their country because if we gotta go, you're going too,\" Goldberg said Monday.

.@WhoopiGoldberg speaks out against Trump's tweets on the Democratic congresswomen: \"This is very dangerous. You don't want to be telling people to go back to their country because if we gotta go, you're going too.\" https://t.co/jhwvRaXeoV pic.twitter.com/bQAt72WOut

— The View (@TheView) July 15, 2019

\"If you are not Native American, you don't belong here either,\" Goldberg added. \"They're the first Americans. The rest of us – whether we got here on top of the boat or beneath the boat – we all got here from somewhere else.\"

Hostin called attention to the number of users on Twitter that liked Trump's tweet. \"What does that say about those people and the people we live with every single day in our country?\" she said.

.@sunny reacts to Trump's tweets on Democratic congresswomen, recalling a time with her grandmother when she was told “go back to your country”: “I never thought the day would come when I would hear that from the president of the United States of America.” https://t.co/jhwvRaXeoV pic.twitter.com/VAA8iiJn8w

— The View (@TheView) July 15, 2019

Hostin recalled a story from her childhood where her grandmother was told to go back to where she came from after speaking to Hostin in Spanish in an effort to teach her the language.

\"I remember being told, 'Go back to Africa,' and all this nonsense,\" she said. \"I thought, 'Those people are just hateful and ignorant and racist.' I never thought a day would come when I would hear that from the president of the United States of America. Ever.\"

On the silence from a large majority of the Republican Party regarding Trump's comments, Behar said that \"the Republican leadership is disgraceful right now.\"

Every episode of ABC's award-winning talk show \"The View\" is now available as a podcast! Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, Stitcher or the ABC News app.

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