From CNN:
Seems that when John McCain was supposed to be in a soundproof vault Saturday night or as Saddleback church pastor Rick Warren put it, a cone of silence, he was actually in his motorcade.
The deal going in to the high-profile first meeting of the two candidates was that while Barack Obama was being questioned by the best-selling author, John McCain would be in a disclosed - but soundproof - location in the building unable to hear the exchange between the two.
Not so. Yesterday on CNN, Warren confirmed that McCain was not in the building when the forum began. So how do we know if McCain listened or watched any of the discussion beforehand?
Warren told CNN Sunday evening, 'we flat out asked him' if he heard any of the questions. The McCain campaign 'confirmed that McCain did not hear or see any of the broadcast' in the motorcade or after he arrived.
There had been speculation before the CNN interview that John McCain perhaps might have heard something. NBC Reporter Andrea Mitchel brought it up on Meet the Press.
The Obama people must feel that he did not do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because that what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama.'
