McCain jokes: Loves when the leaks are ‘about someone else’

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., struck a pragmatic pose on leaks, in the midst of a new rash of stories about Russian contacts with President Trump’s team.

“If it’s about some mistake I made I hate it, but if it’s about someone else I love it,” he cracked while talking to the Brookings Institution Board of Directors.

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