National Security Advisor Susan Rice appeared on NBC‘s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and said that when she had appeared on several news outlets back in September 2012 to state that the attack on an American diplomatic installation in Benghazi was a “spontaneous reaction” to an American-made film that appeared on YouTube she had used “the best information we [the White House] had at the time.” Sen. John McCain responded to her statement Sunday that it left him “almost speechless.”

The Arizona Republican said on CBS‘s “Face the Nation” that “I’m almost speechless, because it’s patently obvious, first of all, that Susan Rice had no reason to be on the program. She had no involvement in it [Benghazi].” At the time she was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “Second of all, she read talking points that we are now beginning to believe came from the White House, which were absolutely false,” continued McCain. “We now know that the CIA station chief on the ground sent a message immediately saying, ‘Not-slash-not spontaneous demonstrations,’ and of course the information was totally misleading, totally false.”