On Thursday, Republican Arizona Senator John McCain lashed out at protestors, who were interrupting a hearing with former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

According to reports, some of the protesters from the anti-war group Code Pink had gone closer to Kissinger when he attended the hearing on global security of the Senate Armed Forces Committee. While seeing the protestors approaching Kissinger and disrupting the hearing, McCain, who was chairing the hearing, shouted at protestors and called their protest 'disgraceful'.

The senior United States Senator from Arizona also said to have the protestors arrested if they continue to make noise. He also called them 'low-life scum'.

Kissinger has served as Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. McCain said that Kissinger worked for the country with great honor. McCain also apologized to Kissinger.

According to reports, the interruption lasted for more than two minutes. After that, some officers led the protesters away. The angry McCain said, "I have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable as the last demonstration that just took place".

Code Pink, an NGO that calls itself a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end US funded wars and occupations, said that it was trying a civilian's arrest on the former National Security Advisor for his alleged role in the bombings of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

McCain served in Vietnam and has a special connection with Kissinger, and according to some people, McCain was returning a favor done by Kissinger. According to the reports, when McCain was behind the bars in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, Kissinger had refused to bring McCain back to home to end the war. Kissinger said that McCain would be brought back as other prisoners.