Aren’t there attendance requirements in Congress? There should be. If you can’t be there for 3 months, you are out. Period.
I don't know what the rules are regarding this.
As far as I know, no one in the media has actually met with him, or interviewed him in quite some time. Despite this, we keep getting reports about McCain's views on a number of issues: He doesn't want President Trump at his funeral, he opposed Gina Haspel's nomination for CIA Director, he wants to name his own successor, and he supports a pro-dreamer bill. If the media wanted to interview him, at the very least it could be done via Skype or an audio conference call, but that hasn't happened. I wonder who is really putting these things out there under the pretense of it coming from John McCain?