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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 going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. Are you saying she didnt...

>> 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 they're 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 wasn't let go when the mccain comment came out. because the it was a, extremely hurtful and, dispar...

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, we're going to make -- we're 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 there's good people in that crowd, it's, it's -- >> where i agree with you is on the mccain comment. and i said that on the air, and i said, if they had had apologized right away, it would have been done and would have been like a 20-minute news cyc...

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, we're going to make -- we're 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 there's good people in that crowd, it's, it's -- >> where i agree with you is on the mccain comment. and i said that on the air, and i said, if they had had apologized right away, it would have been done and would have been like a 20-minute news cycl...

Before. we've 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 there, this is just a problem of leakers? >> he certainly can say that and it's up to republican se...