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To deal with immigration. But first the senior senator from arizona has endured insult after insult this week. At one point labelled songbird john, a reference to his time as a p. O. W. And while discussing votes for cia director gina haspel who mccain opposes, white house special assistant kelly sadler said, quote, it doesnt matter, hes dying anyway. Heres the white houses apology for those comments. Does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks or comments again, im not goin...

>> the press aide who joked house.john mccain dying at the not due to her mccain comment. saddler was pushed out because of her constant fighting with the house director chief of communications over who is responsible for some of the l k leaks. s that tell >> tells you theyre more concerned about leaks than some of the chat comes out of the wow. unfortunate. look. i know this, i know kelly saddler, a good person, very good person who said a very bad thing. i am actually quite surprised that she ...

This is -- these are awful remarks. and if each time he did that, if each time one of those things came up, they quickly said, you know, were going to make -- were going to -- >> but you think back about charlottesville, where his initial remarks, you know, were that -- you know, talking about the naueo-nazi rally on a frida night, you know, that theres good people in that crowd, its, its -- >> where i agree with you is on the mccain comment. and i said that on the air, and i said, if they had h...

This is -- these are awful remarks. and if each time he did that, if each time one of those things came up, they quickly said, you know, were going to make -- were going to -- >> but you think back about charlottesville, where his initial remarks, you know, were that -- you know, talking about the neo-nazi rally on a friday night, you know, that theres good people in that crowd, its, its -- >> where i agree with you is on the mccain comment. and i said that on the air, and i said, if they had ha...

Before. weve seen this with rob porter and a number of instances where the administration starting one would assume from the president because he chose to finally address this issue not on the comments that she made but on the leaking now that they want to focus on. they dig in their heels. can he do that, alex, at lunch today? if he has senators and cornyn and thune pressing him on zte and other senators pressing him on the mccain comment. can he really just say, no, no, nothing there, nothing ...

News, which is interesting. you know, and so i think part of it is they feel if they apologize, maybe it opens the door to having to actually be accountable for what they do going forward. and thats a hell of a prospect. >> is this possibly a situation, john, where, i mean, when trumps campaign first started everybody thought that his criticism of john mccake as a p.o.w. would be the hill trump died on. the lesson they learned, hes not going to die on this hill. >> that is absolutely right. how ...

Apologize, maybe it opens the door to having to actually be accountable for what they do going forward. and thats a hell of a prospect. >> is this possibly a situation, john, where, i mean, when trumps campaign first started everybody thought that his criticism of john mccake as a p.o.w. would be the hill trump died on. the lesson they learned, hes not going to die on this hill. >> that is absolutely right. how you began almost always dictates how you finish. one of the first -- youre exactly ri...

And she was his deputy here at the white house, he had some interesting immigration comments to say as well on npr this morning. so it certainly highlights the fact that the president not pleased by not believe a wall, and of course he plays a role in this as well, not getting the funding in the budget. he likes to pass the blame, and it appears it was secretary nielsens turn, wolf. >> pretty awkward. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. former vice president joe biden just a few moments ago weig...

To haunt. >> no, no, this is on point. in other words, youre going to have two competing campaigns. theyre going to say, oh, barack obama said x, but i think barack obamas campaign is going to be pointing out that this is a guy that will say anything. and he says one thing one year and something else the next year. so thats what you going to see in november -- megyn: so if you want to focus on the semantics of it, arguments about the semantics on both sides suggesting -- >> well, arguments about...

Tapers that hes placing -- containers that hes placing these bombs in. the flashlights are being examined for fingerprints and dna, and theyre trying to trace the explosives. they figure if they can find out where the explosives are found, it will lead back to the flashlight bomber. big concern though in the valley of the sun. megyn: unbelievable. trace, thank you. >> reporter: yep, okay. megyn: did the white house make a deal allowing you to pay higher prescription drug prices in exchange for s...