McCain: Controversies Surrounding Trump Reaching 'Watergate Size and Scale'

Arizona senator John McCain says the mounting controversies surrounding the Trump administration are reaching the level of Watergate.

"It's reaching the point where it's of Watergate size and scale," he said Tuesday during a dinner in his honor at the International Republican Institute. "It's a centipede and the shoe continues to drop. Every couple of days there's a new aspect."

His remarks came after a barrage of reports related to the Trump administration, starting with the sudden firing of FBI director James Comey last Tuesday. Comey was overseeing an investigation into the nature of any potential links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Next up was a Washington Post report revealing that the president spilled classified information to Russian officials at the White House last week that could be reverse engineered to discover sources and methods. Then on Tuesday, the New York Times reported out a February memo by Comey, which described a request by Trump to Comey to drop the investigation into fired national security adviser Mike Flynn.

Asked what Trump should do, McCain again referred to the Nixon presidency and said, "get it all out" before the public, "no matter what it is."