WH aide dismissed McCain view, saying ‘he’s dying’: Sources

Welcome To My Channel! :: Please subscribe if you like! :D https://goo.gl/7S1YTn Many thanks. A White House official dismissed a view expressed by Sen. John McCain about President Donald Trump's CIA nominee, saying Thuday at a staff meeting that "it doesn't matter" because "he's dying anyway," two people in the room told The Associated Press. Kelly Sadler was discussing McCain's opposition to Trump's pick for CIA director, Gina Haspel, when she made the comment, according to the two people, who described feeling shocked and stunned by the remark. They spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door communicatio staff meeting. show chapte McCain: Trump 'often poorly informed' and 'impulsive,' and Congress doesn't 'awer to' him 11:33 AM ET Fri, 1 Sept 2017 | 00:56 The White House did not dispute the remark. In a statement, they said, "We respect Senator McCain's service to our nation and he and his family are in our praye during this difficult time." The Hill newspaper fit reported the comment. The 81-year-old Arizona Republican, who has spent three decades in the Senate, was diagnosed in July with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. He left Washington in December and underwent surgery last month for an infection. Sadler is a special assistant to the president. She did not respond to a request for comment Thuday evening. McCain's wife, Cindy, responded with a tweet tagged to Sadler, "May I remind you my husband has a family, 7 children and 5 grandchildren." Sen. McCain, a Navy pilot who was beaten in captivity during the Vietnam War, has urged his fellow senato to reject Haspel. He said Wednesday that he believes she's a patriot who loves the country but "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying." Haspel faced grilling Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee about her role oveeeing some CIA operatio after the Sept. 11 attacks. She told senato that she doesn't believe torture works as an interrogation technique. As for the president, he and McCain have had a troubled relatiohip. As a GOP presidential candidate in 2015, Trump said McCain was "not a war hero" because he was captured in Vietnam, adding, "I like people who weren't captured." Last July, McCain became the deciding vote agait the GOP health care repeal with a dramatic thumbs-down. Trump later told the Coervative Political Action Conference that "except for one Senator, who came into a room at three o'clock in the morning and went like that" — Trump gave a thumbs-down — "we would have had health care (reform), too." The crowd booed, and Trump added, "I won't use his name."