comes to the arizona republican who survived five years as a prisoner of war. the president once questioned whether he was a war hero saying, quote, i like people who weren t captured. as we all know, tonight the senator is at home in arizona battling brain cancer. let s get the very latest from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny. jeff, walk us through what happened here. reporter: well, john, it is clear that, you know, the president sets the tone at the top at this white house here. one of his lower level staffers, her name is kelly sad her. she was on a phone call with republican spokespeople on capitol hill earlier today. they were talking about something senator mccain had just done. he sent out a statement earlier this week opposing the nomination of the cia director, gina haspel. he does not believe someone who has that history in the program of waterboarding and other torture should lead the cia. the white house was in defense mode there. in a conference call with r
about the mueller investigation. a huge spike in the number of republicans who say the president should not testify, but we begin in low places. a comment from a white house official about senator john mccain that is at a minimum insensitive, quite possibly flat-out odious. president trump himself has a long checkered history when it comes to the arizona republican who survived five years as a prisoner of war. the president once questioned whether he was a war hero, saying, quote, i like people who weren t captured. as we all know, tonight the senator is at home in arizona battling brain cancer. let s get the very latest from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny. jeff, walk us through what happened here. reporter: well, john, it is clear that, you know, the president sets the tone at the top at this white house here. and one of his lower level staffers, her name is kelly sadler. she was on a phone call with republican spokespeople on capitol hill earlier today. they were talk
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