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<p>Sorry, not sorry.</p><p>The White House is saying &quot;no comment&quot; on the news that a White House staffer mocked Senator John McCain for dying of brain cancer.</p><p>The staffers were discussing the ongoing confirmation battle over current acting director of the CIA and <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/gina-haspel-black-site-cia-nashiri-interrogation-cable">former head of a Thai prison &quot;black site&quot; Gina Haspel.</a> Current senator and former prisoner of war John McCain said that he will not vote in favor of the agent who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/gina-haspel-questions-cia.html">beat a pregnant woman </a>until she delivered a four pound baby. West Wing aide Kelly Sadler dismissed the torture survivor&#39;s opinion on torture, saying that it &quot;doesn&#39;t matter&quot; because he&#39;s &quot;dying anyway.&quot;</p><p>Asked to comment on the comment, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to apologize, instead insisting &quot;I&#39;m not going to comment on an internal staff meeting, .. I&#39;m not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting.&quot;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> on White House aide&#39;s remark about Sen. John McCain &quot;dying anyway&quot;: &quot;I&#39;m not going to comment on an internal staff meeting.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zaoqM3sChm">https://t.co/zaoqM3sChm</a> <a href="https://t.co/MFC0EJPGpx">pic.twitter.com/MFC0EJPGpx</a></p>&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/995031661933834241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Refusing to address problems head-on so they continue to dominate the news is kind of the White House&#39;s thing. Remember <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/10/rob-porter-john-kelly-national-security-216964">Portergate</a>?</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Once again, the WH&#39;s handling of a controversy keeps the story alive. Had the WH immediately condemned/apologized Kelly Sadler&#39;s remarks about McCain, story would have petered out. Instead, WH refuses to apologize, doubles down and controversy continues</p>&mdash; Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/995025494075691010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>It should come as no surprise that the White House isn&#39;t firing or even disciplining someone who would say something so disrespectful to McCain. It was the president himself who once <a href="https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/994895885694918656">proudly said</a><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317"> </a>of McCain&#39;s POW experience, &quot;[he] is not a war hero. I like people who weren&#39;t captured.&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Asked whether Pres. Trump regrets his comments during campaign about John McCain being captured, <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jonkarl</a>, &quot;I believe the president has spoken about that; I haven&#39;t talked with him specifically about that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/IQ0rGaN0e5">https://t.co/IQ0rGaN0e5</a> <a href="https://t.co/iHshNgcchO">pic.twitter.com/iHshNgcchO</a></p>&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/995025333362475008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>SHS insisted that Trump has apologized for this, but no, he hasn&#39;t.</p><p>If anyone knows what it means to be a war hero, it&#39;s President Trump. While he so tragically had to get<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html"> five draft deferments</a> because of his bad feet, he endured his own <a href="http://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/">&quot;personal Vietnam&quot;</a> avoiding STDs in the eighties.</p><p>If not dismissing Sadler for her comment, you&#39;d think Trump would at least dismiss her for getting caught. He likes the people who weren&#39;t captured.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Sarah Sanders keeps McCain diss story alive by refusing to apologize in tense press briefing.

Orli Matlow

Sorry, not sorry.The White House is saying &quot;no comment&quot; on the news that a White House staffer mocked Senator John McCain for dying of brain cancer.The staffers were discussing the ongoing confirmation battle over current acting director of the CIA and former head of a Thai prison &quot;black site&quot; Gina Haspel. Current senator and former prisoner of war John McCain said that he will not vote in favor of the agent who beat a pregnant woman until she delivered a four pound baby. West Wing aide Kelly Sadler dismissed the torture survivor&#39;s opinion on torture, saying that it &quot;doesn&#39;t matter&quot; because he&#39;s &quot;dying anyway.&quot;Asked to comment on the comment, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to apologize, instead insisting &quot;I&#39;m not going to comment on an internal staff meeting, .. I&#39;m not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting.&quot;.@PressSec on White House aide&#39;s remark about Sen. John McCain &quot;dying anyway&quot;: &quot;I&#39;m not going to comment on an internal staff meeting.&quot; https://t.co/zaoqM3sChm pic.twitter.com/MFC0EJPGpx&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 11, 2018 Refusing to address problems head-on so they continue to dominate the news is kind of the White House&#39;s thing. Remember Portergate?Once again, the WH&#39;s handling of a controversy keeps the story alive. Had the WH immediately condemned/apologized Kelly Sadler&#39;s remarks about McCain, story would have petered out. Instead, WH refuses to apologize, doubles down and controversy continues&mdash; Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2018 It should come as no surprise that the White House isn&#39;t firing or even disciplining someone who would say something so disrespectful to McCain. It was the president himself who once proudly said of McCain&#39;s POW experience, &quot;[he] is not a war hero. I like people who weren&#39;t captured.&quot;Asked whether Pres. Trump regrets his comments during campaign about John McCain being captured, @PressSec tells @jonkarl, &quot;I believe the president has spoken about that; I haven&#39;t talked with him specifically about that.&quot; https://t.co/IQ0rGaN0e5 pic.twitter.com/iHshNgcchO&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 11, 2018 SHS insisted that Trump has apologized for this, but no, he hasn&#39;t.If anyone knows what it means to be a war hero, it&#39;s President Trump. While he so tragically had to get five draft deferments because of his bad feet, he endured his own &quot;personal Vietnam&quot; avoiding STDs in the eighties.If not dismissing Sadler for her comment, you&#39;d think Trump would at least dismiss her for getting caught. He likes the people who weren&#39;t captured.

Sorry, not sorry.  The White House is saying &quot;no comment&quot; on the news that a White House staffer mocked Senator John McCain for dying of brain cancer.  The staffers were discussing the ongoing confirmation battle over current...