Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appeared on CNN's State of the Union Sunday to talk immigration policy, President Trump's debt deal with Democrats, and his own cancer diagnosis.
On immigration, McCain and host Jake Tapper discussed Trump's suspension of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a move many on lawmakers on both sides of the aisle oppose. A DACA bill ought to be formally passed by Congress in a "bipartisan," "comprehensive fashion," McCain said, including a path to citizenship for DACA recipients, because it isn't "conscionable to tell young people who came here as children that they have to go back to a country that they don't know."
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Turning to his brain cancer prognosis, McCain was mostly optimistic. "I'm facing a challenge, but I've faced other challenges," he said. "And I'm very confident about getting through this one as well." McCain is due to receive an update on his condition with new test results Monday. "Look, this is a very vicious form of cancer that I'm facing," he told Tapper, "but all the results so far are excellent." Watch an excerpt of the conversation below. Bonnie Kristian
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