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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 say this . Again, im not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or the other. No, no, sorry, heres the white house apology. I think the remarks are awful, but lets look at this in context. That was said in a private meeting inside the white house. Thats not like you might Say Something really nasty about me off the ....
This whole thing. joining me on set chief correspondent for the washington post dan balls, washington bureau chief for vice news, shawna thomas. political analyst eli stokols. former advisor to jeb bush and former spokesman for boehner michael steele. and joining the conversation from nashville, msnbc contributor and author of the new book the soul of america, the battle for our better angels, historian john meacham. john meacham, i want to start with you. the overarching question i have every time this president says anything, it seems, about john mccain, is i wonder does he have any sense of history. no. i could go on if you like. [ laughter ] please, continue. no. no, i mean, it s the anti-joe biden answer. no, he doesn t. and remember, what s happened here is the presidency has become a tabloid media culture where you throw a punch. if somebody might seem to be ....
Am sure this conversation is going to leak, too. and that s just disgusting, according to a source in the room. cue, lindsey graham. are you satisfied with how the white house has responded? no, not really. it s pretty disgusting thing to say. if it was a joke, it was a terrible joke. i just wish somebody from the white house would tell the country that was inappropriate, that s not who we are, and the trump administration and john mccain can be criticized for any political decision he s ever made or any vote he s ever cast, but he s an american hero. and i think most americans would like to see the trump administration do better in situations like this. it doesn t hurt you at all to do the right thing and to be big. that s what they could have said publicly on thursday. word for word, and simply ended this whole thing. joining me on set chief correspondent for the washington post dan balls, washington bureau chief for vice news, ....