GIBSON: Well, John McCain has been hammering away at Obama for his position on Iran, and he's also criticizing Obama for changing position on a number of other issues. And I asked him about that when we spoke this morning.
GIBSON: I'm curious. There's been a lot of speculation in the press about whether your opponent may be shifting positions, in some areas, moving to the center -- a little more right than he was in the primaries. Do you see him shifting positions?
McCAIN: It appears so, although I have not been paying real close attention. But I would say on the issue of Iraq, I'm glad he's going for the first time in 900 days. I'm glad that he is, for the first time, asking for a sit-down briefing with General Petraeus, and I'll be very interested in what his position on Iraq is when he returns.
GIBSON: You're not ready, yet, to call him a flip-flopper?
McCAIN: Oh, it's obvious that what I say doesn't affect American public opinion nearly as much as what he says does.
GIBSON: You think so?
McCAIN: Well, the -- I mean, the fact is that he has changed his positions on FISA, on public financing, on his agreement that he said he'd go anytime, anyplace, to sit down -- to have a town hall meeting with me. We were before the same organization yesterday. We could have just stood there together and answered their questions. I think LULAC would have gotten a lot more out of it. He said that he would do that. He said that he would take public financing for the general election, if I did as well, and said that he agreed to it. But those things will be judged by the America people, but I won't hesitate to point them out.
GIBSON: All right. Senator McCain, good to talk to you. Get all the best.
McCAIN: Thank you, Charlie.
GIBSON: Take care.