MARTIN: ... about the White House. This is the dust-up between the White House and Sen. John McCain. “The White House hasn't even apologized,” Martin noted. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney offered a more explicit validation Saturday on Fox News when he said: “The remarks are awful, but let's look at this in context. Beyond that, I don't have any further comment.”If the White House hoped that refusing to apologize would create uncertainty about whether Sadler really spoke dismissively of the ailing McCain, the calculus was wrong.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2018 18:09 UTC