McCain: ‘I’m Almost Speechless’ at Trump Telling the Russians Comey Was a ‘Nut Job’

WALLACE: You say that the president should never have let Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov into the Oval Office in the first place last week. Now it turns out, and I want to put this back up on the screen, that Mr. Trump, according to the official summary, told Lavrov, “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy. A real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.” How do you read that, sir?

MCCAIN: I don’t know how to read it except that — and I — I’m almost speechless because I don’t know why to — how — why someone would say something like that. But I know this, Mr. Lavrov is the stooge of a thug and a murderer who used Russian precision weapons to strike hospitals in Aleppo, who’s committed human rights violations all over the place, as — invade Ukraine, has taken Crimea, has acted in the most thuggish and outrageous fashion and he had no business in the Oval Office. If there’s a president to Putin engagement in a meeting, I think that’s under the right circumstances, that might be OK, but not this stooge Lavrov, who is nothing but a propagandist.