It as a joke. The official said the joke fell flat. Sadler runs surrogate communications at the white house. Asked for a response, the white house says we respect mccains certiservice to our na. The source says sadler called the senators daughter Meghan Mccain to apologize. Unclear how she stopped. The senators wife tweeted may i remind you my husband has a family of seven children and five grandchildren. Mccain did not back gina haspel after she said she would not say torture is immoral. And this report from fox news. And john mccain said he would not endorse haspel also and in part because she believes in torture 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 thats 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