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tonight steve schmidt joins brian to discuss john mccain.s now. >>> tonight, at&t says hiring michael cohen was a big mistake. donald trump can't help but weigh in on twitter and now we learn mueller looked into cohen's overtures to an iconic american company. >>> plus kelly tries to walk back on his comments about trump being embarrassed while serving up new comments about the kind of immigrants we don't want. >>> and still no apology from the white house after a staffer's comment about john mccain. steve schmidt is here to talk to us as "the 11th hour" gets under way

monuments after john mccain. but there won't be for any of these people and perhaps not even donald trump. >> susan, steve schmidt also tweeted today -- he has been vocal about this. >> of course. >> people who don't know john mccain about this are vocal. but say why have no republican as fors stepped forward and expressed outrage about this by a white house staffer it's despicable is cowardis is nauseate zblag people don't have to say. john mccain engaged in debates with people willingly. i debated him others have. but his honor is not to be questioned. and the idea that you say that john mccain doesn't matter. >> let's and -- what kind of spurred this on was john mccain saying he had a policy difference. >> right. >> and did not want to support the current nominee for cia director. he is entitled to. he backed it up it wasn't personal at all he made a point of it exactly right. what i find amazing is how kelly saddler still has a jb. and i don't think it should have made its way up to the president. she is a mi

i want you to say something about john mccain. take a turn from us. ow you the sound from the president's chief of staff john kelly. >> the vast majority of the people that move illegally into the united states are not bad people. they're not criminals, they're not ms13, but they're also not people that would easily assimilate into the united states. they are overwhelmingly rural people. and the countries they come from, fourth, fifth, sixth grade education is the norm. they're coming here for a reason and i sympathize with the reason, but the laws are the laws. >> one, it is simply untrue. most immigrants that come here achieve college graduation rates ahead of many natural born people that are born in this country. and two, it's not quite right, murderers, don't send us their best. we're talking about what emanates from the front. those are not mainstream views about people who come to this country because they think it's a shining city on the hill or realize the american dream. i was shocked by those comments and one of the president's aides hadn't

i want to start by having you react to what senator john mccain said. aracterization of vladimir putin being evil and his designs as sensely defeating the west, as senator mccain put it. >> senator mccain is right. i agree with his analysis of vladimir putin and his intentions. it wasn't always that way. he it different views earlier in himself presidency but over time they have codified this way and i think he sees his lock-term objective to weaken the united states, to destroy our institutions of the liberal order and first and foremost nato and to push back on what he thinks is the liberal decadent west. he fancies himself as the leader of orthodox christian values. because we're tacking about senator mccain, i met vladimir putin in russia in the spring of 1991 and met senator mccain for the first time in 1996 when he was an election observer when things were much more democratic, much more democratic and moving in a democratic direction in russia. >> your book is part memoir and par history. let me ask you a question about the history side of things.

. >> reporter: about john mccain. idn't deny that sadler made the remark. i can tell you that three sources confirmed that sadler did say that. the white house put out a statement saying that we respect senator mccain aens service to our nation and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time. but, look, kelly sadler apparently made the remark because she thought it wa go over well in the room. and frankly why wouldn't she in the president has disparaged john mccain in a way that goes well beyond him being a political opponent. this is the part of crudeness being such a public part of the discourse these days. will kelly sadler keep her job? we don't know yet. >> thanks very much. geoff bennett for us at the white house. >> ali, i just keep asking for the same thing. just how about a public apology? we all say things that we regret. just say you're sorry. own it. >> yeah. >>> another story that we haven't touched on yet is all these payments to michael cohen. the new reaction from at&t this morning a

john mccain's -- his homeboy. no tweet, no shouting down the crazy that's coming out of this white house. by is that? i mean -- you know, say what you may about vice president biden's comments and this being the epitome of rock bottom, but his best friend in the upper chamber? crickets! >> i think we will hear something from lindsey graham. he doesn't usually spent time not defending john mccain particularly in situations like this. true he's trying to have a tiny influence on the president and still is playing his rounds of golf and that kind of thing. when push comes to shove about john mccain lindsey graham won't take a lot of it. big picture, indicative how donald trump and john mccain are almost exact perfect opposites. mccain stayed in the hanoi hilton despite life-threatening injuries. donald trump stayed away from vietnam, despite injuries, or in the name of injuries that weren't necessarily there. mccain, a big nattiest, committed naturalist, and and trump a populist, and from the time trump on the campai

joe biden just slammed the comments about senator john mccain saying it's a new low. mccain is battling brain cancer. while the president did not utter the offense, his lack of condemnation so far speaks volumes. mccain's daughter megan speaking out today. >> whatever you want to say in this kind of environment, the thing that surprises me most is -- i was talking about this with you, joy, that i don't understand what kind of environment you're working in when that would be acceptable and then can you come to work the next day and still have a job. my father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years. >> i agree. >> these people, nothing burgers. >> megan mccain was reacting to a comment made by white house aid kelly sadler. a white house official says that sadler was dismissing senator mccain's opposition to trump's pick to the cia director when she said as a joke about mccain, quote, he's dying anyway. and the white house issued a response saying we respect nor mccain's service to our country and we are thinking of he and his family are i

i've had plenty of talk with john mccain about policy. if you go against the mccain family, you have to know that they're going to fight back and they have a platform to do so. >> john mccain's wife says, may i remind you my husband has a family, 7 children and 5 grandchildren. john mccain is still in the public arena and he would be the first one to say anything he does in that arena is fair game. saying he's dying, anyway, is beyond the pill. we can't escape that you're responsible for your own actions. kelly should be looking in the mirror and what we haven't seen is an apology from her. i made a mistake, i'm sorry. i made a mistake, it was a bad joke. never should have gone there. i'm sorry. but the other point is what about the president? we'll hear from sarah sanders. john mccain is beloved by his colleagues even though he disagrees with him because of how he conducts himself. here's ben saying how about from the top? >> i would like to hear from the president of the united states. he's the one they take their direction from in the w

president, with a few more words about john mccain. like a lot of senators, i'm thinking now about some of the big battles, the tough fights that we had a chance to work on together. i became oregon's first new senator in almost 30 years. oregon had always been about wood products. it always will be. i said i'm going to come to the senate to fight like crazy to get more jobs in those rural areas and try to get oregon and our country into some new fields. it's not generally known, but in those days, john mccain had just become the chairman of the commerce committee, and i went to him and i said, mr. chairman, why don't you and chairman leahy, who has been a stalwart on these issues, why don't you all lead an effort to try to write the rules of the road for the internet, because by and large there weren't any. and he kind of smiled at me, that quintessential john mccain smile, and he basically said why don't you go out and figure out how to do it, and we'll have a hell of a good time making the case. and what we did under john mccain's l

john mccain is a hero. that's why those two men are different. >> steve, john mccain also knows who his friends are, and there he is at his beautiful ranch in arizona. he's been visited by so many of them over these past few weeks as he deals with his illness. where are -- are you frustrated at all that your friends and other republicans have not risen up, have not raised their weapons and gone into the battle these past two days? >> look, there's nobody who loves a good saloon fight more than john mccain, and so if it's time for a saloon fight, so be it. but it's not about john mccain. it's about the values that john mccain has stood for -- selflessness, service, sacrifice, valor, valor that beggars the imagination. they're good and they're right. and these were the values and the virtues that built the united states of america. we're a flawed people. john mccain's a flawed man. but the idea of america, the nation that said, all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights

the john mccain i know doesn't give a damn about what kelly sadler says. this doesn't make a dent on him, but i can only think about how this makes people like cindy mccain, like their seven children feel, his five grandchildren, his 105-year-old mother, roberta. it's got to be incredibly hurtful to be dealing with the illness of somebody you love so much and at the same time hear some kook on fox business take a shot at him about torture. and then hear this, you know, white house official whose salary we are all paying, take a shot at a man who is facing his own mortality and who has been serving this country and sacrificing for this country since the age of 17. it is frankly amoral, it is frankly deplorable. she should be fired. how can she be fired when we have heard donald trump do the same starting with the campaign? he has been mocking and attacking john mccain, an american hero, a war hero, who did what he was unable to do, while donald trump was dodging the draft, jacksohn mccain was up and getting tortured in vietnam. he attacked john mccain before

campaign but back to 2000 when donald trump started on this that john mccain wasn't a hero because he was captured during the vietnam war, the man who avoided service to his country during that war. i think the problem is a lack of respect for senator mccain. i disagree with john mccain on a lot of issues, but i don't see how anyone cannot respect the man, the hero he is, his service to our country and that lack of respect is evident in the white house. the last thing i'll say is john mccain has a lot of friends on capitol hill and in the u.s. senate in particular. and this attitude from the trump white house is going to cost them up on capitol hill if they want to try and get anything else done up there in the foreseeable future. >> john kelly said i remember when women were held sacred. apparently he does not remember when prisoners of war were sacr sacred. >> you would think if john kelly had control over this white house and again, he's a military man, he must, on some level -- he must respect john mccain's sacrifice, respect john mccain, so he must either feel as though he's give

obviously john mccain tortured and john mccain the sponsor of the anti-torture legislation. the mccain legislation that made it illegal in 2015. and, of course, the context that you just pointed out is that the president said that waterboarding wasn't even enough during the campaign. he said he would go further. kristen? >> and senator mccain, andrea, to your point has written very that he has about the president's views on torture. effectively not only explaining why they're ineffective but why they go against the values of the united states, the united states government, and that's why gina haspel's answers weren't good enough for senator mccain. >> -- he's someone who continues to be engaged in all of these debates but as you point out someone who continues to clash with this president not only on torture but a range of other topics, you'll recall he was the one who voted down one of the health care bill which is infuriated president trump, something that prompted a backlash from president trump. so there is this ongoing tension between the two men, but we really saw it o

here's what he said about john mccain. >> the fact is that john mccain it worked on john. that's why they call him song bird john. >> that's absurd. he stayed in prison refusing to be let out when he had the opportunity to show solidarity with his fellow soldiers. >> it is both inaccurate. unfortunately, there's a lot of people with unfortunate views of the world who are on television who can make those kinds of statements. nobody who knows anything about senator mccain, republican or democrat, would give that any attention. you know, there's lots of subset on fox news that doesn't really deserve comment. >> mccain is called the maverick. that man was thanked for what he said on that show. i know fox put out a statement saying he won't be on anymore. in the moment he was thanked for his comments. >> one less sign of i think the situation we're dealing with in this country. last fall, john mccain was more popular among independents and democrats than republicans. this is a lifelong regan republican. somebody the far left has never been fond of. that fact that he is more pop

the president did not mention john mccain in his comments. the white house put out a statement earlier. not really an apology. this official saying, we respect senator mccain's service to our nation, and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time. we also understand that this person, kelly sadler this staffer at the white house reached out to meghan mccain and apologized to her. we don't know exactly what was said during the course of that phone call. i talked to a white house official earlier this evening, there's a lot of shock and disbelief that this kind of comment would be made, after what the president pulled off last night, bringing back those american prisoners from north korea. this official said on top of this being an ugly and embarrassing comment. it's stepping on top of what they thought was going to be a good news cycle for the white house. this often takes place with this white house, they find all sorts of ways to step on their message. this was possibly perhaps not the final low, but a new low for this whi

happen before john mccain leaves us. him, good for john mccain. he has the right to say how he wants h iz funeral, how he wants people to come and honor him. he doesn't think that trump being there will be a way to honor him. i completely agree. i think it was very telling also in the reporting that cnn did about joe biden's visit to john mccain. and what he said about how john mccain is so worried about our country, about the image of our country, about the civil -- the lack of civility in our country and it all points back to donald trump. and interestingly enough, he also said he regrets not putting joe lieberman on his ticket, and by doing that, he's also saying he regrets putting sarah palin on the ticket and a lot of people believe that sarah palin was like the gateway drug to a donald trump. >> quickly, i always wanted to know, what would you have said as a democrat if john mccain had put joe lieberman on the ticket? >> oh, i probably would have hated him, but, you know, that's what politics are. i also think that

i've always been a john mccain guy. on a lot of issues. mccain for the senate, joined the commerce committee, that he chaired and i will talk a little about that. but he sure sums it up right on torture. he says, it is wrong. it harms america because of the statement that it makes about american values around the world. and then he npoints out it is not effective. but since the program has been largely declassified, it can be discussed openly. the cia captured innocent people. it tortured dozens of detainees. did not just waterborne people. they placed detainees in ice water, kept them awake, stuffed them into small boxes. the list goes on and on. they were always worse than they were described to congress and the department of justice. through it all, it seems that the cia and government rarely hold anyone accountable. the cia also provided numerous false claims in the department of justice and commerce and everyone else. about torture . now, i have never been a big believer in confirmation conversion.my general take is, nominees will say

there was no political upside for john mccain. he did it because he thought i was being treated unfairly. i will never forget it and be grateful forever. i wish john mccain and his family nothing but the best. >> i don't understand what kind of environment she is working in where that would be acceptable and still have a job. >> i am giving my view. >> doesn't the white house have an obligation to apologize? >> i said what i'm going to say on the subject. >> we hope you come back. >> glad to be with you. >>> democrats are expressing confidence about victory in november in the mid terms but are there signs of the so-called blue wave turned into a blue trickle? we'll talk to senator bernie sanders next. stay with us. nk me. thank you. i become a model? yes. no. start the challenge today. and try new tropical citrus flavor with collagen. nature's bounty. i knew at that exact moment ... i'm beating this. my main focus was to find a team of doctors. it's not just picking a surgeon, it's picking the care team and feeling secure in where

kelly sad letter's insensitive comments about senator john mccain continue to make waves and news. sadler said mccain's opposition to the president's pick to be cia director doesn't matter because, "he's dying anyway." that's according to sources with direct knowledge of that remark. they're defending sadler. a source familiar says that she said i stand with kelly sadler. and that same report claims that press secretary sarah huckabee handers is ha sanders with the leak. they say this is unlikely to be lost on her. nbc's jeff bennett joins me from the white house with the latest. jeff, hope me with the strategy here. there is the comment reprehensible as it was. the white house choosing not to engage on that. it was first reported by the news service. highlighting the naktfact that leak occurred. what are sources telling you about why the white house won't apologize for what was a pretty egregio egregious remark? >> i think it is instructive to reset a bit and look at the book ends. the week ban with malania trump releasing a campaign to encourage kids to put kindness first in their

on fox business. >> the fact is john mccain, it worked on john. that's why they call him songbird john. >> what he was referring to was torture. it worked. >> no, it didn't. this is the whole point of why he is a war hero. this is his legacy, that he didn't actually go home when his captors gave him an opportunity to because he said not until everybody is released. >> by the way, nobody calls him songbird john. >> the anchors supposedly apologized. they thanked that man. he apologized via twitter later. and fox said he will no longer be on air. this is years after he already spread all sorts of birther conspiracies, made vial anti-muslim comments on air. >> look, it's just more proof. if fox can offer an apology that this is too much, this is too far, you know, that should be echoed everywhere, david. that's all it is. i know people will say, oh, you're jumping on this, it's not that big a deal. it it is evidence of a trend that is toxic and destroying the opportunity of common ground in d.c. they're not working on anything, because they don't wan

john mccain's service and his family are in our prayers. but not a word publicly from the president himself who never hesitated to go after mccain or never apologized for taupting the former prisoner of war during the campaign. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> complicating the issue, on fox, one who endorsed trump reeastering a debunk claim that he gave information to his north vietnamese captors. >> they work on john. that is why he's called song bird john. >> joe biden said the trump administration has hit rock bottom. >> john mccain has criticized the trump leadership and policies and he cast the deciding vote to stop a repeal of obamacare, among his many maverick moves his family and fans say will far out last his critics. >> my father's legacy would will be talked about for hundreds of years and these people, nothing burgered. >> and for all of that, and with this opportunity for the white house to have something else to say about it, we still have no idea whether this staffer will pay

and i wish john mccain and his family nothing but the best. >> meghan mccain said the thing that surprisest understand what kind of environment kelly sadler is working in when that would be acceptable and she could come to work the next day and still have a job. >> i've just given my view. >> but doesn't the white house have an obligation to apologize for this remark? >> i said what i've going to say on the subject. >> we thank you so much. we hope you'll come back. >> glad to be with you. >>> democrats are expressing confidence about victory in november in the mid terms. but are there new signs that the so-called blue wave has turned into a blue trickle? we'll talk to senator bernie sanders next. stay with us. and the safey for "most parallel parallel parking job" goes to... [ drum roll ] ...emily lapier from ames, iowa. this is emily's third nomination and first win. um...so, just...wow! um, first of all, to my fellow nominees, it is an honor sharing the road with you. and of course, to the progressive snapshot app for giving good drivers the discounts -- no, i have to say it -- for givi

i covered john mccain on the campaign trail a couple of times and. they always laid out very thick the idea that he was a maverick and a change agent that term was tossed around quite a bit but if you actually look at mccain's history he does have a history of opposing some people within his own party he certainly has a history of personal dust ups with members of his own party but in terms of actual change he was very much in line with most american policy particularly when it came to military interventionism he was never really able to come to grips with the mistakes of the war on terror. or even really the vietnam era for that matter and he was one of the one of the earliest proponents of the iraq war and i say this hating to criticize terminal brain cancer but there was always this this myth making around him that was that was always laid on very thick and that is sort of the thing that makes a so hard to understand and i think that's what's and frustrating for a lot of people yes he's in this position and nobody's nobody's taking heads on and i

who weren't captured. >> that was donald trump on the campaign trail belittling arizona senator john mccainer of war, tortured during captivity in vietnam. the two men, as you can probably tell, have had a turn leapt relationship since trump took office even as mccain has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for more than a year. now nbc news has confirmed mccape does not want trump to attend his funeral. he prefers that vice president mike pence attend instead. in a new book, he lashes out the president seems to care more about, quote, the appearance of toughness than american values." former spokeswoman for the california republican party. and felipe ryan is former senior advisor to hillary clinton, a popular couple here this hour. i'm in for david gura this day. first i want to get back to this piece of news coming out of john mccain and what's happening with his health. but i want to get to first what has happened at the top of the hour since we are now at the bottom and that's gina haspel. jen, what's your thought about the back and forth right now that's happening, appears

amy, the white house calls this insult from an aide about john mccain's health an internal matter. do you think it requires a public apology? >> alisyn, i actually don't. i think that kelly sadler already called meghan mccain and apologized to her and the family and i think it should be left on that. >> sorry to interrupt, it sounds like meghan mccain was promised a public apology. >> we don't know what exactly what was said there. i believe probably what was happening was the discussion about whipping votes or vote counting on gina haspel's nomination to head the cia and kelly sadler probably made the comment that he's dying. and there's truth to that. and also i want to say, you know, you're talking about days before that you're in the media talking about who is invited to john mccain's funeral, which i think is an odd conversation to have any way. >> we're not joking about it. everybody understands how dire the situation is. >> but you don't know for sure that kelly sadler was joking about it either. she was probably making a matter of fact statement, which is the truth, and it w

john mccain stopped and corrected him and these two were in a fierce race.nd i thought, could that happen today? >> it could. it could. you know, i think john mccain would be capable of it, frankly it is hard for me to hear anything past the words before i leave. and i wish other people, i wish other elected officials, i wish other people in congress and the senate would act with that level of freedom and conviction as if this was their last term, as if they too were facing their last days and facing their own mortality, with that level of service to others and that service to country and humility that john mccain is showing us in this book. it is a lesson for all of us. go live life like it is your last day, like if it is your last month. and go make a difference. john mccain is trying to make a difference until, you know, with every day he may have left. >> from the very beginning of his presidential campaign, donald trump really went after john mccain, from the beginning of the campaign really to, you know, john mccain is one of the last acts in the senat

missadler, may i remind you, john mccain has a lot of friends in the u.s. sides of the aisle, nobody is laughing. this is not the first time someone on the trump team has insulted senator mccain. >> he hit me. he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captures, okay? i hate to tell you. >> and except for one senator who came into a room at 3:00 in the morning and went like that, we would have had health care too. we got a bad vote, the evening we were going to determinen ate obamacare. we got a bad vote. >> we had it beaten except for one vote. you remember that beautiful night. it was defeated but one vote changed. >> lots to talk about tonight with the panel. joining me now, molly bald, jeffrey tuben. steven, i want to start with you tonight. this comment from kelly sadler, a white house official on a conference call with congressional press secretaries, he's dying anyway, about senator john mccain, someone who served this country for so very long. it's indefensible. i've had policy dis

she thinks it works. >> john mccain. it worked on john. that is why they call him song bird john. >> they did not call him that. also no evidence torture got mccain to betray the country. he later tweeted an apology saying he missed the remark in the moment, but would have challenged it. >> a spokesperson for fox says he will no longer appear on fox news. on a more positive note, senator graham visited mccain in arizona. he said mccain is getting stronger. there is no question that john mccain is a national hero. one of my kids said he wanted to be in the navy and be like john mccain. this is someone you aspire to be like. >> mccain is a divisive person in the republican party. if you check social media, it has gotten ugly. >> that says more about the party and politics in washington than john mccain. >>> department of homeland security denying a "new york times" report that the secretary declined a meeting. the source says the president erupted over immigration berating nielsen for not doing enough. the is secretary citing the law to the

was asked today about the cruel joke by white house aid kerry saddler at the expense of senator john mccain. >> megan mccain, his daughter wondered aloud today why kerry saddler still has a job at the white house. does she still have a job? >> i'm not going to comment on an internal staff meeting. >> congresswoman, good evening to you. >> good evening to you, don. >> do you think kerry saddler needs to be held accountable for her comments or at the very least does the white house need to issue an apology? >> i think the chief of staff as well as the president need to be held accountable. i think her comments need to be held in the context of the culture we all know in this white house. >> we started the first week with the first lady, and ending with a white house staffer dismissing to john mccain's opposition to saying he's dying anyway. >> i think for her to have a press conference, for her to say she's launching this program and this effort, and i think it's noble, i think it's fine. but i do think that she needs to challenge the very culture that she's in within the white house. she als

rajini: a white house official's comment about john mccain's health sets off a firestorm. the senator's daughter questions the political climate where this is accepted. and this conductor is taking quite a high note. he is leading disabled musicians who are now set to premiere in london. rajini: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globeer it hasinly been a week of fast-moving developments on the u.s. foreign policy front. first came donald trump's announcement that he would bepu ing u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal. the focus quickly turned into north korea. a date has been set for theee historicng between president trump and kim jong-un. today the us secretary of state continued to lay the grounouork with his korean counterpart. another step towards the historic summit between america and north korea. with u.s. secretary of state -- as u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo welcomed his soutpa korean count to washington. both countries have a shared goal of what they want from pyongyang. secretary mpeo: if north korea takes bold action to q

our politics may be different but john mccain is an american hero. the vile and repugnant attacks we have seen from potus, white house staff and the far right are disgusting and show how small they are next to this f l honorable man. are we seeing a change here when it comes to comedy? with how members of the different parties get along with each other? when it comes to civility in the nation's capital, is this a turning point as you see it? >> i do. sadly, it is. i think it's a new low coming from a white house that has had a number of record lows. to really dismiss someone publicly who is very graduateful and to discuss him because he's dying anyway, that's something that aught to be beyond the pale of anyone's politics in our country. anyone's. and the white house should have run not walked only to apologize, but to hold that individual, kelly sadler saying this about john mccain, that says everything about this white house and lowers the bar in our political discourse. and i think that's most unfortunate. >> congressman, last question here about

and she thinks it works. >> john mccain. it worked on john. that is why they call him song bird john. >> that is just not true. s that-- that's conspiracy theo. john mccain did not go home when offered a chance to go home. he wanted to stay back with his fellow hostages. hostages. the host tweeted an apology to mccain and said he missed the remark in a moment. >> a spokesperson for fox says the general will no longer be invited on fox news. on a more positive note, senator graham visited mccain in arizona. he said mccain is getting stronger. >> joining us is sara westwood. welcome. good morning. let's start with the senator john mccain issue. look. it is appalling that it could be joked about inside the white house. on fox business to have someone say something like that. what does it say about the state of politics today that someone like john mccain, a war hero and national hero in the troubling time for his family could be joked about in such a manner? what happened to politics? >> great question. political discourse has b

hate john mccain as a senator. john mccain always eludes with the democrats when there is a republican president. constantly, people like me both to get republican majorities. john mccain is the type of person when i finally give you the white house, senate, and the house him you poke me in the eye. iu vote against everything gave the republican party. john mccain has a long history of this. the bottom line is john mccain was a great military man. he was a lousy republican senator. host: let's go to our republican line, georgia. caller: thank you so much for allowing me to call in. we won't have civility because 80% of the republicans that voted for trump was evangelical. they keep stating this nation was built on christian values. you will note a christian by their love, not by what they say, but for the love and how they express love for each other and their enemies. clearly, they do not stand for the basic routes of christianity is love. until you get back, he will not stability anywhere. thank you. host: las ve

john mccain went to that war. s one of three generations of mccains that now have a warship named after them. i doubt there will ever be a warship named after donald trump. >> you don't get warships named after you for dodging sexually transmitted diseases, because that's what he says was his vietnam. i'm not making this up. this is the way trump talks about this. his vietnam was dodging event aerial disease. >> disgraceful. john mccain went down in the smallest strike jet that we had, went down inside a lake, was fished out. was frog marched, paraded with a broken clavicle, then beaten relentlessly for five years, refused to be allowed to go home on a medical discharge because he knew it was disgrace his family and be used as propaganda. that man is an american hero, and we need to honor him. look, we know he's in his twilight, and as i like to say, you know, senator mccain, we have the watch. you know, we should let him go on with respect. but, you know, one last thing i'd like to say, general dunzford, chairman

communications director mercedes shh lap said i stand with sadler, the white house aide who said john mccain's opposition to gina haspel, quote, doesn't matter because he's dying anyway. that's according to three sources with direct knowledge of those comments. senator mccain has brain cancer. president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani is walking back comments he made, suggesting president trump intervene in the justice department's decision to block the big merger of at&t and time warner. rudy giuliani tells nbc news, quote, i just want to be clear the president did not intervene. at&t came under scrutiny after it was revealed the company played michael cohen $600,000 to provide insights into the president's thinking ahead of that merger. rudy giuliani now says the president had no knowledge. all these controversies distracting from what the white house hoped would be a week of positive coverage following the release of the three americans previously detained in north korea. all three men have been released from walter reed medical center and reunited with their families. for the latest oven all

john mccain's career certainly is just . it's all centered around this idea of of america's role in the world military intervention ism continuous war and whether or not that's popular and whether or not there's a backlash against that i think the the backdrop to what happened in two thousand and eight when mccain took on barack obama was not just that mccain had the misfortune to be to be opposing a historically gifted politician in terms of his ability to rally his base and barack obama but also there was an incredible amount of discontent not just over the economy which of course was cratering at the time but over the iraq war i mean . george w. bush's approval ratings were lower than donald trump's ever were at the end of his presidency he was down and in the low twenty's at one point and that had almost everything to do with the iraq war an invasion which mccain and most of the people featured in the film supported or wrote it for and so i still think we haven't come quite come to grips with the enormity of the error th

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the white house refusing to apologize or acknowledge an offensive comment about john mccain. kelly sadler according to one white house official jokeded at a meeting that mccain's opinion dunlt matter because he's quote, dying any way. >> meghan mccain, his daughter, wondered why she still had a job here. does she? >> i'm not going to comment on an internal staff meeting. >> does the white house not not think you have to contain these ir remarks. >> apologize to senator mccain. >> not going to get into a back and forth because you know, people want to create issues of leaked staff meetings. >> in case you didn't catch that. sanders doesn't want to talk about it. mccain to apologize about this whole thing. still, sanders certainly not apologetic, defended the culture inside the west wing. >> is there a tone set from the top here where it is allow ed fr an aide to say he's dying any way. >> certainly there is not a tone set here. we have a respect for all americans. >> but sanders later conceded donald trump does set the tone. >> does he bear responsibility -- >> certainly does -

hes actually-- it was my interview when he said john mccain is not a war hero. opted that back later on. but mccain and the press. it seems like a pretty good relationship. >> laura: this is what s.c. cuff said today i believe it is cnn. >> he is not a sellout. and i think having president trump just because he's the president come speak on his behalf or ologies or memorialize him would be selling out. senator mccain i say not just as his daughter's best friend, but as a republican, who supported him, senator mccain is everything that president trump is not. >> i would say that someone should have told donald trump before he said that about john. john was hit and ejected and his airplane just disintegrated. one of the wings came off. as soon as his shoot opened. it broke the wing, swung around broke both of his arms and one of his legs. so i don't know how he was able to open up his may west, much less how he could swim. i have no ideas how he survived in the lake. i know he could not have possibly done any resistance. he wason helpless for several weeksev after

i'll say this, john mccain came to my defense in 2005 when my nomination to the u.n. ambassador was under criticism because he thought i was being treated unfairly. i'll be grateful forever and i wish john mccain and his family nothing but the best. >> megan mccain said the thing that surprises me most, i don't know what kind of environment kelly sadler is working in where that's acceptable sean she could still have the job. >> i'm giving you my view. >> doesn't the white house have an obligation to apologize? >> i said what i'm going to say on the subject. >> matt? >> if you were john bolton how would you answer that question? >> it shows unity in the white house. >> i mean, in not fairness the wrong word but in the sense of proportionality let's be real about all of this. this is a terrible thing to say to mccain and family and people who serve like that. we also have the same white house, this same week on the record multiple people including john kelly saying really atrocious things about separating families -- separating kids from their mothers and fathers at the