Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined "The View" on Tuesday, in what has become a regular stop on the presidential campaign tour. Warren went in depth on her plan for a wealth tax and gave viewers the satisfaction of completely ignoring Meghan McCain.
According to a report by Yahoo, the clip of the lack of exchange has been viewed more than 200,000 times.
Elizabeth Warren on The View expertly pitches her wealth tax and explains how she'll pay for universal childcare, $800B into public education, etc. without increasing middle-class taxes. The cherry on top is Liz not even acknowledging Meghan McCain's rude interruption attempts. pic.twitter.com/HKs0HXY7qL
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) January 7, 2020
"I don't have plans that increase taxes on the middle class. I've found a way to pay for every plan I have without increasing taxes on the middle class," Warren said. "Universal child care for every baby age zero to five, universal pre-k, $800 billion into our public schools, universal college, and $50 billion for historically Black colleges and universities, and cancel student loan debt."
Almost the entire speech was made pushing through McCain — who constantly interrupted, attempting to "add one little thing." Though, McCain was not entirely shut out of the show, having a back and forth about the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Under questioning from @MeghanMcCain, @ewarren — who called Soleimani's killing "an assassination” — now says “of course” he’s a terrorist pic.twitter.com/nS4OCRFdv8
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 7, 2020
"I don't understand the flip-flop," McCain told Warren, while she read out quotes from Warren in past interviews calling Soleimani both a "murderer" and a "senior foreign military official," and asked her to explain her word choice. "Do you think he is a terrorist?"
Warren did agree with the assertion of the terrorist label but continued to push against the decision as having not made the American people more safe.
"Soleimani was a bad guy, but the question is 'what's the right response?' The job of the president of the United States is to keep America safer. And having killed Soleimani does not make America safer," Warren said, before noting Trump's Twitter threats against Iranian cultural sites. "We're having to pull American citizens, civilians out of the entire region because we fear for their safety. We've stopped the work against ISIS with our allies. And we have a president who is tweeting out threats of war crimes."
In the end, many viewers commended Warren for not being taken off message by McCain's interruptions and hoped the exchange would finally be the interaction that teaches McCain to wait her turn.
