McCain: [Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room

"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hasn't spent much time in the Capitol this year as flow he seeks the GOP presidential nomination. But one of his rare appearances this week provided a pretty salty exchange with a fellow Republican. During a meeting Thursday on immigration legislation, McCain and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) got into a shouting match when Cornyn started voicing concerns about the number of judicial appeals that illegal immigrants could receive, according to multiple sources -- both Democrats and Republicans -- who heard firsthand accounts of the exchange from lawmakers who were in the room," the Washington Post reports. "Things got really heated when Cornyn accused McCain of being too busy campaigning for president to take part in the negotiations, which have gone on for months behind closed doors. 'Wait a second here," Cornyn said to McCain. 'I've been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute in here on the last day. You're out of line.'"

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