Sen. John McCain joined ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday to discuss the crisis in Egypt, refusing to critique the administration’s response to the situation.
What McCain did object to, however, was former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s criticism of McCain in his new memoir, “Known and Unknown.” Rumsfeld wrote that McCain possessed a notorious “hair-trigger temper” and a “propensity to shift his positions to appeal to the media.”
“I respect Secretary Rumsfeld,” McCain told reporter George Stephanopoulos on GMA. “He and I had a very, very strong difference of opinion about the strategy that he was employing in Iraq, which I predicted was doomed to failure.”
Rumsfeld and McCain also used to clash over troop levels in Iraq.
“And thank God he was relieved of his duties and we put the surge in, otherwise we would have had a disastrous defeat in Iraq,” McCain said during the interview.
Watch the rest of McCain’s response: