Meghan McCain dubs Sen. Sanders 'godfather of the Squad,' presses him to condemn anti-Israel rhetoric

The View" co-host Meghan McCain challenged Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Wednesday for not speaking out against progressive lawmakers who have made anti-Israel statements, singling him out for being "the godfather of the Squad."

In the past couple of years, a group of progressive U.S. representatives, also known as "The Squad," has taken heat for controversial comments about the Jewish state. Most recently, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., faced censure for seeming to equate U.S. and Israeli "war crimes" to the actions of jihadist terror groups like Hamas and the Taliban. Omar later said she was not making a "moral comparison" between the two. Still before that, she claimed that "Israel has hypnotized the world."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. also appeared to call Israel an "apartheid state" in May amid warring between Israel and Hamas, to which McCain tweeted, "Every SINGLE elected Democrat in congress should have to answer if they agree with Ocasio-Cortez that Israel is an apartheid state."