Kevin McCarthy says Matt Gaetz should get professional help after viral spat: 'He looks very unhinged'

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., should get professional help the morning after his rival video-bombed his live interview on CNN during the Republican National Convention.

"You know, he looks very unhinged," McCarthy said about Gaetz on Thursday. "I mean, a lot of people have concerns about him, and I'm not sure if he's on something, but I do hope he gets the help that he needs. But more importantly, I hope that young women get the justice they deserve when it comes to him."

McCarthy was referring to a House Ethics Committee probe into allegations Gaetz "engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct." The committee also noted that Gaetz denies all allegations.

The comments on Gaetz being purportedly "unhinged" followed the Florida lawmaker mocking McCarthy during a live CNN broadcast.

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"What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?" Gaetz mocked as McCarthy was not on the roster.

"[The] person who raised the issue, he‘s got an ethics complaint about paying, sleeping with a 17-year-old. That‘s the way they would go, so that‘s the biggest challenge we have," McCarthy said during the CNN interview, referring to Gaetz while ignoring his taunts.

"If you took that stage you would get booed off of it," Gaetz added.

Gaetz and McCarthy have had an infamously tumultuous relationship. McCarthy alleged on CNN that Gaetz had asked him to make the ethics probe go away, and then initiated a bipartisan effort to get him