McCain labels Kissinger protesters ‘low-life scum’

US senator John McCain had a blunt message for demonstrators chanting for the arrest of Henry Kissinger at a Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing: “Get out of here, you low-life scum.”

The protesters, from the Code Pink anti-war group, drew the ire of the Arizona Republican who chairs the committee after some of them approached Kissinger as he took his seat at a hearing on global security.

Members of the group held up handcuffs and anti-Kissinger signs and called for his arrest for “war crimes”.