Appearing on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Friday, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas said senators who opposed universal background checks in the failed Toomey-Manchin bill were cowardly and “beyond feckless.”

Costas said, “there’s a large number–or was a large number–that were beyond feckless to craven and cowardly and caved in front of the NRA and wouldn’t even vote for something as simple as a universal background check.”