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Following Grammy winning musician Taylor Swift's pledge to use her influence to speak out against "disgusting rhetoric" in politics, co-hosts on "The View" weigh in on the pressure artists experience to be politically active. Huntsman went on to say why the position celebrities are in is a catch 22. "If they don't speak, they don't care about it and then when they do speak, [they] are alienating half of [their] followers." It was what you did," Behar continued. McCain pointed out that everyday, she and her co-hosts "divide people." "There are places and spaces you and I – all of us – we go into that… we are unwelcome for what we say ... "I couldn't even imagine not being political and not using my voice ... But I think some women aren't like the women of 'The View,' and it's ok for me." Swift, 29, told Elle now that she's turning 30 she feels "informed enough" to speak to her 114 million followers about politics. We have a big race coming up next year."

Although Joy Behar and Meghan McCain have had multiple heated exchanges on The View, a TV Insider tells PEOPLE that the co-hosts “get along” when the cameras aren’t rolling. “But when [co-host] Whoopi [Goldberg] isn’t there, things get a little off the rails,” the insider adds. “And what works is the conflict. That’s what makes it interesting.” On Monday’s episode of the talk show, the two women — who have a habit of butting heads on the program — found themselves at odds while discussing President Donald Trump‘s tweet about Senator Amy Klobuchar. But it wasn’t until McCain tried to give her opinion on the subject that things really took a turn. RELATED: Meghan McCain and Joy Behar Are ‘Totally Fine’ After Heated Exchange on The View, Source Says “Can I say something now?” she asked. “Is that okay, Joy? Do I have permission to speak now on Amy Klobuchar? Bush tribute on the show in December. However, a source later told PEOPLE the two women were “totally fine” following the exchange.

Famed author and The View co-host Meghan McCain will join Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Jon Meacham, Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science, at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at Vanderbilt University for a wide-ranging discussion of the politics that impact American life in 2019. Tickets are free and will be available to the public on a first-come basis beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5. Visit the TicketWeb event page to reserve tickets. Many first came to know McCain on the campaign trail with her father, the late Sen. John McCain, during his 2008 presidential run. She launched a blog that gained an avid readership and critical acclaim. It propelled her into a career as a political journalist, TV analyst and book author known for her conservative values and connection with younger audiences. Since her father’s Aug. 25 death, Meghan McCain has stepped further into the national discourse, using her platform on The View as an opportunity for candid conversation about politics and their everyday effects on Americans. She holds a degree in art history from Columbia University and is the New York Times best-selling author of three books. The Chancellor’s Lecture Series strives to connect the university and the Nashville community with intellectuals who are shaping our world. For more information about the series, visit the Chancellor’s Lecture Series website, email cls@vanderbilt.edu or follow @Nick_Zeppos on Twitter.

In contrast, aside from the commemoration of the dead, Americans mostly have seen funerals as solemn reminders of how frail and transitory life is for all of us, and how our shared fates should unite even the bitterest of enemies. Mr. Wellstone’s Minnesota funeral was meant to be a commemoration of a life of public servant well lived. Mr. McCain and President Trump were hardly friends. In not-so-veiled allusions, daughter Meghan McCain received loud applause for blasting Mr. Trump, as if she had delivered a partisan campaign speech: “We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.” Former President Barack Obama used his time similarly to reference Mr. Trump, with similar not so subtle attacks, “Much of our politics can seem small and mean and petty. He contrasted Mr. McCain with Mr. Trump’s policies on illegal immigration and the summit with Vladimir Putin, “[McCain] respected the dignity inherent in every life, a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators.” Once a funeral is turned into politics, then politics takes on a life of its own. Why are funerals of celebrities and politicians turning into extended and televised political rallies? Partly, the volatile Donald Trump and his frantic political and media critics are locked in a crude, no-holds-barred war against each other — waged everywhere nonstop. Partly, everything in America has become politicized. Not even the dead escape it. Politicizing funerals will not end well.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and former Sen. Joe Lieberman, two former friends of Sen. John McCain, say Meghan McCain's pointed criticism of President Donald Trump in her speech at the Arizona Republican's memorial service on reflected the character of her…

Donald Trump’s name was never mentioned but Barack Obama delivered a broadside at the president when he spoke at the memorial service for John McCain in Washington on Saturday and decried “insult and phony controversies” in politics and public life. John McCain: bipartisan leaders gather to say farewell to senator Read more Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Republican Senator from Arizona who died last Saturday, also issued blistering criticism of Trump’s politics when she spoke at the event at America’s national cathedral. He called on us to be better than that.” Play Video 0:50 At the start of the service, Meghan McCain had delivered a tearful, bitter denunciation of Trump’s politics to the gathering of the Washington elite, including the president’s own daughter, Ivanka Trump. He fought a rancorous public feud with Trump until his last breath. Most dramatically, he sank his own party’s attempts, not long after Trump took office in 2017, to repeal Obama’s flagship Affordable Care Act that allowed millions more Americans to have health insurance. Trump was not at Saturday’s memorial service, at McCain’s own discretion. Instead the president, who has said only a few grudging words about the Arizona senator all week, reportedly left the White House while the event was under way, not even watching on television. As Bush and then Obama, by McCain’s invitation, gave eulogies, the White House reported that Trump had arrived at his golf course. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers, and several members of the administration were at the cathedral. Obama also said: “While John and I disagreed on all kinds of foreign policy issues, we stood together on America’s role as the one indispensable nation, believing that with great power and great blessings, comes great responsibility.

At John McCain’s memorial service, Meghan McCain says "The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great."

The family of the late Sen. John McCain say goodbye following a memorial in the Arizona capitol rotunda.