Meghan McCain shares new photo with her father, Sen. John McCain
Bree Burkitt
Meghan McCain shared a new photo of her and U.S. Sen. John McCain all bundled up for a chilly northern Arizona morning Sunday.
The photograph was a rare glimpse of the 81-year-old Arizona Republican senator, who has been battling brain cancer at his family's secluded cabin near Sedona.
Meghan McCain, a political commentator and co-host of ABC's "The View," posted the image on her Instagram account Sunday morning:
"No place I would rather be," she wrote in the post.
The short message was followed by a U.S. flag, heart and cactus emojis.
Meghan McCain is snuggled up closely to her father for the picture, which appears to have been taken at the family's secluded cabin in Cornville, near Sedona. The six-term senator has been undergoing physical therapy there since he returned to Arizona in December.
In the photo, John McCain is clad in a Navy baseball cap, black gloves, sunglasses, two blue coats and blue jeans. He's holding a glass as a blanket covers his legs. His daughter is also bundled up in a fuzzy blue jacket bearing an American flag and a blue baseball cap.
Multiple Instagram photos posted from Cornville indicate Meghan McCain has spent the past few days with her father.
On Saturday, she posted a short video of a creek that runs by the family cabin in the small northern Arizona town.
"I love you Arizona," she wrote in the Instagram post.
John McCain's diagnosis, return to senate
John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in July. He was hospitalized in Bethesda, Maryland, in December with a viral infection and for side effects related to chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
An official update has not been provided on his health since he returned to Arizona in December, but Meghan McCain did give a possible timetable for when he might return to Washington, D.C., on KTAR-FM's "Mac & Gaydos" program Tuesday.
“I wish I had an exact date, but I just don’t,” Meghan McCain told the Phoenix radio station. "I am very cautiously optimistic about the summer, yes.”
She added that the senator is doing "really good."
The elder McCain, who hasn't been giving interviews to the media recently, has continued to issue written statements from Arizona during his absence from the Senate.
He recently raised concerns about the role Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA director, played in the torture of detainees in U.S. custody following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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