McCain: Trump never apologized for saying I wasn’t a war hero

President Donald Trump  never apologized to John McCain for saying the senator is not a war  hero. But the Arizona senator says in an interview airing tonight that  while the two are “very different people,” he would never close the door  to rapprochement.  “Sure. I’d be glad to converse with him,” McCain (R-Ariz.) told Lesley  Stahl of “60 Minutes.” “But I also understand that we’re very different  people. Different upbringing. Different life experiences.”  The 2008 Republican presidential nominee and the now president had  snipped back and forth at each other before Trump’s now infamous  declaration in Ames, Iowa in July 2015 that McCain, a prisoner of war in  Vietnam, was not a hero, because he was “captured.” But since then the  tension has only escalated — peaking when the six-term senator delivered  the dramatic death blow to the president’s efforts to repeal the  Affordable Care Act in July and followed it up on Friday by saying he  was opposed to most recent repeal vehicle.  Chalking up most of their differences to upbringing, McCain, son and  grandson of Navy admirals, said Trump, son of a New York real estate  maven, just values different things than he does.  “He is in the business of making money and he has been successful both  in television as well as Miss America and others. I was raised in a  military family,” McCain said. “I was raised in the concept and belief  that duty, honor, country is the — is the lodestar for the behavior that  we have to exhibit every single day.”  But McCain stressed that his no vote in July had nothing to do with  animosity for the commander-in-chief.  “If I took offense at everybody who has said something about me, or  disparaged me or something like that — life is too short,” he said. “And  on an issue of this importance to the nation, for me to worry about a  personal relationship, then I’m not doing my job.”  McCain was a prisoner in Vietnam for more than five years after being  shot down during a bombing raid. Footage of McCain in the hospital soon  after his capture was seen last week during one of the segments of the  Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary on the Vietnam War.  The 81-year-old also spoke about his cancer diagnosis.  Like then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), McCain was diagnosed with  glioblastoma, a severe kind of brain cancer. And like Kennedy, McCain  has opted to continue serving in the Senate while he receives treatment  and chemotherapy, sometimes on the same day of his official duties.  (Kennedy died in 2009 at the age of 77.)

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