{"id":74581,"date":"2017-06-08T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74581"},"modified":"2017-06-08T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:52:41","slug":"does-john-mccain-even-know-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74581","title":{"rendered":"Does John McCain even know what\u2019s going on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Fredericks\u00a0 | \u00a0New York Post<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"348\" width=\"618\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/ed38fae1-4db1-4308-8095-399a04010bc1_default\/index.html?videoId=5464669011001\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sen. John McCain startled onlookers on Thursday as he appeared to conflate <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/03\/20\/comey-confirms-fbi-is-probing-links-between-team-trump-and-russia\/\">the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the campaign<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/the-hillary-emails\/\">the closed probe into Hillary Clinton\u2019s private email server<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McCain said he was troubled that Comey had closed the Clinton investigation while the probe into Russia and possible ties to the Trump campaign remained open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou reached that conclusion as far as Secretary Clinton was concerned, but you\u2019re not reaching a conclusion as far as this administration is concerned,\u201d McCain said.<\/p>\n<p>Comey pointed out that the two probes were not connected.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers went wild on Twitter, with some speculating about the 80-year-old\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was amazing for so many reasons, but the surprise ending is that John McCain was revealed to be\u2026not quite\u2026all there,\u201d tweeted author Maureen Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>McCain later blamed his apparent sluggishness on staying up late for the Arizona Diamondbacks MLB game, which ended 1:28 a.m. Thursday Washington DC time.<\/p>\n<p>His team won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get the sense from Twitter that my line of questioning today went over people\u2019s heads. Maybe going forward I shouldn\u2019t stay up late watching Diamondbacks night games,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I was trying to get at was whether Mr. Comey believes that any of his interactions with the President rise to the level of obstruction of justice,\u201d he added.\\<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/06\/08\/does-john-mccain-even-know-whats-going-on\/\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/06\/08\/does-john-mccain-even-know-whats-going-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Fredericks\u00a0 | \u00a0New York Post Sen. John McCain startled onlookers on Thursday as he appeared to conflate the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the campaign with the closed probe into Hillary Clinton\u2019s private email server. McCain said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}