but if you make a mistake, the america that i know apologizes. if it was said, just say, i apologize for it, it was wrong. so we can move on. can we address for seconds, mercedes slap. she said, quote, i stand with kelly sadler. and in this private meeting with talking to communications staff, more upset, apparently, about the leak than the comment. obviously, a horrible joke. but then for people to come out and say, i stand with a staffer who did it. listen, mercedes slap is a person, her and her husband, there is a big new york times profile who told america that they stood with donald trump through his worst times out of patriotism and duty to their country. i m sorry, mercedes, you are never going to make america great again when you trash the legacy of someone like john mccain, who has done more for this country, served more, suffered more than anyone in that white house ever did. so spare me the fake outrage
criticism. he and i didn t know each other very well at the time. we certainly didn t agree on each and every position that he or i had taken. but he spent countless hours trying to help me out. and much of it was behind the scenes. there was no political up side for john mccain in that effort at all. but he did it because he thought i was being treated unfairly. i ll never forget it. i ll be grateful forever. and i wish john mccain and his family nothing but the best. meghan mccain said the thing that surprises me most is i don t 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 term
so the next president can t undo it? well, it s entirely possible we would proceed that way. we re still thinking about the different alternatives, so i wouldn t want to foreclose the president s options. but it s been one of the criticisms of the iran nuclear deal, to be sure that a deal of that level of consequence was not given to the senate, as many people think the constitution provided. i want to ask you about senator john mccain. in a private meeting this week at the white house, the information looked out special assistant to the president kelly sadler reportedly joked that mccain s opposition to gina haspel didn t matter, because he is, quote, dying anyway. it s a pretty horrific remark. you have a decent relationship with him. how do you feel about that comment, and why won t the white house apologize? look, i wasn t in that meeting. i don t know what was said or what was done. i ll just say this. john mccain came to my defense in 2005 when my nomination to the u.n. amb
over a bad white house correspondent s dinner joke, when you stand by someone who denigrates someone like john mccain. i guess, what i don t understand, michael, i can t imagine anyone i know making that joke in private. it s just it s so cruel. he s dying of brain cancer. it s horrible. we ve all seen bad jokes in private and public. i think that the white house is looking at the leak, because, you know, there s so many leaks out of the white house. i understand that kelly called meghan mccain and apologized to her. i think she handled it well by doing that. i think if this was a comment said on the record by the white house, they would absolutely have to apologize. this is a leak by some people who are working hard to undermine this president. i don t think it s the white house s responsibility to apologize for it. it s already been apologized for, i think we need to move on and stop wringing our hands about it. but this tone is set at the very top. we all remember when donal
half a million iraqis dead. and bolton talks about, appropriately so, the increased influence that iran now has in iraq. yeah, that s true. and that s precisely because of the war in iraq. so i think you have some people, unfortunately, in washington, bolton being one of them, who believe that war and militarism is the answer to everything. we have spent over $2 trillion in the wars in iraq and in afghanistan, and yet today our infrastructure here in the united states is crumbling. we have millions of people who can t afford to go to college or leaving college, deeply in debt. maybe, just maybe, we might want to be investing in the american people, rather than inflated military budgets and more and more wars. you heard ambassador bolton say some nice things about senator john mccain after this white house aide, kelly sadler, made this disgusting joke about how his vote doesn t matter