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bouts of skin cancer. >> yesterday, he passed away. he was surrounded by his family after this hard battle with brain cancer but he fought it so well. there are so many adjectives have been used to describe him. father, husband, war hero, maverick, political titan, principled is one that stands out. it's fitting flags half-staff over the u.s. capital. in the halls of that capitol mccain spent nearly 40 years representing the state of arizona. first a member of the house and representative and then, of course, as a senator. dana bash is going to treat us now to a look at john mccain's distinguished political career. >> reporter: his dramatic senate return against doctors orders after diagnosed with brain cancer. >> i've been a member of the senate for more than 38 years. >> he crushed his party's push

to repeal obamacare. >> reporter: he spent a lifetime looking for moments to shine as a leader and put country first, yet, forever, a hot dog fighter pilot with dramatic flare and white knuckle political instincts. john sidney mccain iii was born with a story storied of legacy to live up to. >> his father and grandfather instilled in him a sense of duty and honor and character. >> reporter: he was a reader in all of his life. >> hemmingway is an author, a larger than life figure i always admired a lot. >> reporter: enrolling at the naval academy where he stood out

for being a trouble-maker, not a future leader. >> i'm the guy that stood fifth from the bottom of his class at the naval academy. >> reporter: he became a fighter pilot. his first combat mission during the vietnam war was aboard the "uss forestal." on deck his plane was accidentally struck by a missile, causing a huge inferno. 134 fellow sailors died. a few months later, mccain was on a routine bombing mission and his plane was shot down. >> i was going straight down so i had to eject very quickly. i was knocked unconscious. >> reporter: he found himself surrounded by angry villagers. the north vietnamese made him say here. >> i was treated fairly. >> he was hung from his arms on

a ceiling and sockets pulled out. >> reporter: when his father jack mccain was named commander, he could have been freed and he refused. >> there was a correlation between my refusal to accept early release and my treatment. the treatment got very much worse. >> reporter: ultimately, they broke mccain, getting him to sign a statement admitting to claims against him which he regretted the rest of his life. >> after he signed t i think he wanted just to die. >> reporter: because he felt so disloyal? >> he felt shame that he had let the country down. >> reporter: finally, after nearly five and a half years in prison, mccain was released. >> you still see the impact of that today, the way he was tied, you know, with the way the camp raised his arms. he can't comb his hair. the things we take for granted. >> reporter: his father to first wife carol who waited anxiously

for mccain in prison fell apart. captain mccain became a naval relayson to the u.s. senate where he caught the political bug. in 1982 he ran for the house from arizona, home with new wife cindy, and whop. four years later, it was on to the u.s. senate. early on, controversy. mccain and faour other senators to bank fraud of keating. an investigation cleared mccain of wrongdoing but rebuked him for poor judgment and sent him on a crusade to clean up washington and pushing white house reform and fight against tobacco and railing on earmarks. everything with passion. humor. >> he is very direct. he is also very funny. he has a way of sort of -- teasing people he likes.

>> thanks for the question, you old jerk. he was a little jerk. >> reporter: and a famous temper. >> to be a complete jerk to his closest friends and hug you dearly next. >> reporter: in the fall of 1999, mccain announced his candidacy for president. as an underdog he got attention by being constantly available to reporters aboard his bus, the straight talk express. he trapped frontrunner george h.w. bush in the new hampshire primary and lost to south carolina where it got ugly and personal. mccain soon dropped out enhurned to the senate even more determined to work across the aisle with democrats like ted kennedy on issues like a patient's bill of rights and immigration reform. >> i announce my candidacy for president of the united states. >> reporter: in 2008, his second presidential bid. this time, he was the heir apparent but mccain support for a surge of troops in iraq and

bipartisanship work on immigration reform hur him on gop voters. his poll numbers plunged. he held town halls in new hampshire and talked border security instead of immigration reform and climbed back. >> the fabt you're getting a second chance, what does that say to you, sir? >> it means we are happy and how far we have come. >> reporter: after securing the gop nomination, he had to pick a running mate. a close friend joe lieberman wa his first pick. his support for abortion rights made it impossible. mccain still went bold. first-term alaska governor sarah pailin. after bizarre interviews, many campaign aides considered her a liability. >> putin rares his head and comes into the air space of the united states. >> reporter: mccain would never say he regretted choosing pae i.

he never talks about it? >> no. and he never will. >> reporter: still, he worked to stay out of gutter politics taking the mike from a voter who claimed barack obama was arab. >> no, ma'am. >> reporter: giving a concession speech that marked the historic moment for the country. >> this is an historic election and i recognize the special significance it has for african-americans. and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. >> reporter: mccain settled into life as a senior statesman and fulfilled a dream of becoming senate arms services chairman and traveled around the world every chance he got and informal diplomat and informed senator. when president trump was elected, he visited 26 countries answers four continents in the first months of 2017 alone. he lining to travel and mentor

young senators in both parties forging close relationships. >> he is loyal to his friends. he loves his country and if he has to stand up to his party for his country, so be it. he would die for this country. i love him to death. >> reporter: his july 27th brain cancer diagnosis and train treatment for it forced mccain to slow down but he hated pity. this is how he always wanted to be remembered. paraphrasing his favorite hero teddy reese volt. >> i've had the most wonderful life and career than anybody you'll ever meet. >> thank you. >> reporter: dana bash, cnn, washington. >> it should come as no surprise the tributes are pouring in for senator mccain. in his adopted state of arizona, flags were lowered at half-staff yesterday. he represented that state in the house of representatives first

and then in the senate for on over 30 years. >> stephanie elam is outside of senator mccain's ranch and you've seen historic sites there the last day or two. talk to us about it. >> reporter: it's true, christi, just to see how well organized the family has been preparing for this. and from what we gather, how much a part of all the plan the senator was himself and how everything would transpire after his passing. we know that he loved it out here in sedona at the cabin as they refer to it which is a mile up the road behind me. this is where he spent his final days, in this very beautiful part of the country, no doubt about that. as the news spread yesterday afternoon, we saw people here coming by and dropping off flowers and dropping off signs. one couple and bringing an american flag and dropping it off here for the iconic son of

arizona as he had become after serving six terms as a u.s. senator here. so we saw a lot of that response starting to show yesterday and as you take a look and you listen to dana's story there about his life and how humble he was about all that he was able to accomplish in his life, i want you to take a listen to the senator back when he was, you know, putting on his bid for the highest office in the land in 2000 and he spoke to cnn's larry king and listen to who he hoped his appearance on some magazines, who it might impress. take a listen. >> monday morning across america, the news magazines came out and this man made the cover of all three of the biggies. senator john mccain. republican of arizona. what did you make when you saw the three magazines monday? first of all, how did you feel? >> well, i thought that i never thought i'd live that long.

obviously, i think it's good. sounds a little corny but one of the things i thought of i think this might impress my children. >> really? >> yeah. because my kids, you know, old geezer like me, it's hard to get their appreciation. >> reporter: i think it's pretty clear that he has their admiration and their appreciation and just to that point. yesterday, his daughter meghan mccain put out a statement that is quite beautiful and i'll read it to you. she wrote my father, united states senator john sidney mccain iii departed his life. i was with him at the end as he was with me my beginning. in the 33 years we shared together he raised me and taught me and corrected me and comfort me and encouraged me and supported me in all things. he loved me and i loved him. he taught me how to live. his love and his care ever present and unfailing and took

me from a girl to a woman and he showed me what it is to be a man. all that i am is thanks to him. now that he is gone the task of my lifetime is to live up to his example, his expectations and his love. my father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, my brothers, and my sisters. he was a great fire who burned bright and we lived in his light and worth for so very long. we know his flames lives on in each of us. the days and years to come will not be the same without my dad but they will be good days filled with life and love because of the example he lived for us. your prayers for his soul and for our family are sincerely appreciated. my father is gone and i miss him as only an adorning daughter can but in this loss and in this sorrow i take comfort in this. john mccain hero to the republic and hero to his little girl. today the warrior enters his

true and eternal life greeted by those gone before him and rising to meet the author of all things. the dream is ended. this is the morning. beautiful words from meghan mccain as she remembers a man who is iconic for his political service for being a war hero and true patriot but at the end of the day for meghan mccain and her siblings, he was their dad. >> never to be forgotten. stephanie elam, thank you very much. >> thank you, stephanie. flags are flying half-staff in the nation's capital right now honoring the life of senator mccain. we are taking you live to washington. because a lot of people are remembering him, particularly his former colleagues who have several things that they want to say about him.

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political giant, a war hero, a man who just made people laugh. principal. these are words we keep hearing about john mccain today. the senator passed away last night. he was 81 and this is, of course, after we launched a couple of days ago that he had decided to stop treatments for brain cancer. >> mccain summed up his own life in a recent memoir saying the following. it is very somber day, of course, in washington as the nation's capital reflects on the death of senator john mccain. >> white house reporter sarah

westwood is following the reaction. i know we have reaction from president trump as well. >> reporter: that's right. what we have seen is an outpouring of love and admiration on capitol hill from leaders around the country and arnold the world. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have spoken out what they have known and expect. president trump writing the following on twitter last night. of course, mccain's relationship with trump was complicated dating back to the 2015 campaign and mccain was not afraid to speak out when he thought the trump administration was contradicting the things he spent years fighting for, but this is a moment for setting partisan differences aside and other administration officials, speaking out to honor mccain as well. first lady melania trump writing on twitter, our thoughts, prayers, and deepest sympathies to the mccain family. thank you, senator mccain, for your service to the nation.

vice president mike pence also weighing in writing our deepest condolences to cindy and the family of senator mccain. his family and friends will be in our prayers. got bless john mccain. now former presidents and political rivals are speaking out to honor john mccain and praise his willingness to set aside politics when he felt it was necessary to get things done. president obama, who was also once a rival of senator john mccain in 2008, writing in a statement. the clinton's speaking out in favorite of john mccain. mccain worked with hillary clinton when she was senator from new york and secretary of state. the clinton's writing -- and

george w. bush, former president, also once a rival of john mccain in the 2000 gop primary. he said this about a man who came his friend. now we are learning that mccain made plans for his own funeral over the past years and he requested that former presidents obama and george w. bush deliver eulogies at his funeral and expressed his wish that president trump not attend the funeral and a wish he maintained until the end but it's clear all of washington, all of the country are mourning the loss of this political giant and this american hero. >> certainly showed how he could cause politics to be set aside, even with his passing, he was able to do that. >> no doubt.

>> sarah westwood, thank you. >> senator mccain spent more than three decades in washington. they knew him as a maverick as they called him and not to his naval career but his willingness to reach across the aisle there. we want to bring in julian zeleny, a cnn analyst and historian at princeton university. when you look back, help us understand what this man had on u.s. history. >> above all, he was a representative of believing in public service, both through his military record and his devotion to congress. he was part of the reagan revolution. he was a member of the house and senate who really stood by many of the principles that ronald reagan has espoused and he remained pretty conservative through much of his career, although there were important moments when he was a maverick, on campaign fns refoinance refo

gang eight of immigration he was willing to sand by the side of democrats in favorite of some legislation that his own party opposed. so all of of that is who senator mccain was and what his legacy will be. >> he was not afraid to speak out. i remember the time running against barack obama when a woman grabbed the microphone, i think we had that, where she gansz begins to criticize and you'll see john mccain step in. listen. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he's not -- he's a -- he's an arab. he is not -- >> no, ma, no, ma'am. >> no? >> no, ma'am. no, ma'am. he is a decent family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that is what this campaign is all about. he's is not. thank you. >> that is, julian, a remarkable

moment. i'm not sure we would see the likes of it were it not for john mccain especially in today's very polarized politics. >> i think that is right. this is a most complicated in his legacy that he understood. the 2008 campaign because he picked sarah palin instead of joe lieberman, in some ways, opened the doors to part of his own party that he later came to regret and that is an important moment where he stood up to some of those comments, but, at the same time the campaign was an important part of the road toward the world in which we live today. >> julian zeleny, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> we appreciate it. thank you. >> whether or not we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. we are his equal. ♪

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speaking out against his own party. i don't know if you remember this but take a look with me here at 2005 when he was telling his fell interiors esenatoow se to do. >> preventing your fellow opponents from doing what they want. not letting them to prevent agreements that don't require abandonment of core principles and agreements made in good faith, but help improve lives and protect the american people. the senate is capable of that. we know that. we have seen it before. i've seen it happen many times and the times when i was involved, even in a modest way with working on a bipartisan response to a national problem with threat, are the proudest moments of my career and by far, the most satisfying. >> i apologize. that was just last year. what you see in him is such

passion for what he is saying. you can tell he really -- he believes this and he wants to make this happen. and, you know, his years of dedicated service in washington, they have drawn praise from across the political spectrum. >> joining us is cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns. the tributes we know are pouring in for -- from his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. he had this ability to reach out and reach across as many right now don't seem to have that same ability. >> it's pretty incredible. you look at that video, it also sort of shows you what kind of fighter john mccain was, always a fighter. so here in d.c., and across the country, we have the traditional low lowering of flags and happens all the time when a person of great note passes away and this means much more for senator marv because of his service and

probably the biggest initial tribute came from the democrat irleader chuck schumer who floated the idea of renaming the russell senate office building after senator mccain, the building where he worked and it wasn't uncommon to run into him and the place he was most accessible and willing to stop and talk. remarkable when you think about it. now the -- especially the fact that this democratic leader, not the republican, is the one talking about renaming the building after john mccain. so probably the way that a lot of the american voting public got to know him best was during the 2008 presidential campaign when he was the republican nominee, he ran against candidate barack obama for the white house. here in washington, though, he was a fixture on capitol hill for decades representing the state of arizona and that is how i got to know him the best and also on the campaign trail where you really got to see the

resilien resilience you saw out there on the floor and willing to confront you and fight with you as he did. he made many friends in the senate over the years including joe lieberman who represented connecticut and lindsey graham from south carolina. they became to be known in washington and krools the count -- across the country as the three amigos. lieberman came in as a democrat and switched to an independent was the most surprising of those three. the relationship with lieberman was interesting because when mccain ran for president, he seriously considered lieberman as his running mate, even though lieberman wasn't a republican, which not unthinkable in politics, but extremely unusual. lieberman putting out a statement saying that although it was clear that john mccain's life was ending, his death hurts, america has lost one of the greatest patriots and public

servants in our history. i lost a dear frent and was lucky to know him and i worked with him and comfort about the great memories of our time together. he quotes mccain from the time after mccain was recovering from brain surgery, mccain said he wanted to live as long as he could, but said he was blessed to live a great life, which is just an incredible understatement. the senate republican leader, the majority leader mitch mcconnell put out an statement. than era filled. cynicism about national unity and public service, john mccain's life shown as a bright example. >> thank you for all of those statements, joe johns, coming in reaction to the death of john mccain. >> it's got to be so hard for your family because you're losing the leader of your life, essentially the leader of your family. to do so so publicly and they are expressing their gratitude for so many messages of love and

support that they are getting. >> in all of his political endeavors, there was never a bigger fan and supporter than his wife cindy mccain. take a look at this special memory she shared with cnn about her husband's unsuccessful presidential bid. >> i don't know if you remember his concession speech. >> i do. >> that he gave. i've been married to him for 36 years. i've never heard a finer speech out of him ever. and i don't think i ever will hear one as good as that night. >> i urge all americans who supported me to join me in not just congrating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences, and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a

stronger, better country than we inherited. >> that told me, in so many different levels, it told the world what this country was about and what leadership is about, but it also told me that he was even better than i thought he was. i'm not kidding. i really mean this because he just -- he always surprises me and not that he surprised me that night but he went far and beyond what i thought was going to happen. and i so respect that. >> that is a powerful moment, isn't it? >> it is. >> senator john mccain, i don't know how many of you know this. he was a war hero. he served his country during the vietnam war and after that in the senate. this was a man who wa p.o.w. fo five and a half years and he didn't need to be. we will talk about his legacy in a moment.

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♪ you know when i first started traveling with john, i saw, in a very personal way, how, you know, he couldn't lift his arm. he couldn't comb his hair. he had trouble physically because of the torture and the injuries that he endured in the service of our country. i saw the same grit and commitment that made him turn down early release from the hanoi hilton prison in vietnam. >> just one example of the

outpouring this morning of messages from leaders here in the u.s. and all over the world on the passing of senator john mccain. mccain was known as a war hero and foreign policy -- >> he flew combat assignments during the vietnam war. he was shot down. he spent more than five hell years as a hanoi prisoner in a war camp. here is what his peers had to say about his military service. >> his dad was a four-star admiral and so was his grandfather. so when john talks about the military, he does so with a reverence. when he visits the troops, he feels compelled not to let them down. there is a part of john mccain that, to this day, is driven by not letting people down. >> he flew a lot of dangerous missions during the vietnam war. probably the ultimate was when

he was captured and, you know, beaten badly. he never complains about it but his live was altered. >> when you saw the small cell where he was for five and a half years, what was it like? >> you just think about how you get through something like that physically and he has the physical scars to show it and the fact he sometimes, you know, can't move his arms and he can't hardly comb his own hair. i don't think people quite realize that until you travel with him because he has such limited motion from being beaten and from being tortured. so you think about that and you think about how you get through it in your head, right? how you get through it and emerge to raise a family and run for office and do great things. >> it was really remarkable. it was powerful to be in that place and to go into a cell and to see the leg shackles or the tiny little barred windows, and

to realize this man didn't spend a few weeks or few months, but years of his life there. i asked him a question, because he had been there several years when a jailer came to him and said, we are offering you early release. this was because his father was a four-star admiral, the commander of all american forces in the pacific. and he said no. and i said to him, john, you stayed three and a half more years knowing that any day, any minute, you could end the abuse, you could end the suffering, by just raising your hand and saying, yeah, i'll take early release. see you guys back home. why did you not do that? he looked at me and said, "that would be dishonorable. >> here is a guy wants to make every day of his life account for something. i think in some sense john has felt every day he has outside of the hanoi hilton is a gift and

he is going to make the most of it. >> it almost feels like the lowest times, at the times of his defeat, he shows his best self. >> a life, when given the opportunity, wouldn't you rather choose to be big and good at the darkest moments? he tells us, character is what you do in the dark. he says this all the time to me. character is what you do in the dark when no one is watching. >> joining us now to talk more about this is lieutenant general mark hertling, cnn military analyst and commander general. i know you met senator mccain several times. i'd like to hear some of your reflections. >> martin, you know, it's interesting hearing all of these people say great things about him and i'll add to that, but i'll also say he was a tough guy to brief. he was very probing. i met him a couple times when i

was commanding the forces in northern iraq. he visited at least three times during one of our 15-month deployment missions. and he really probed into the tactical aspect of the fight. i tried to put before him my iraqi counterpart and iraqi three-star generally, as well as my own sergeant major, command sergeant major so he could get a feel for not only what we were doing but what the iraqis were doing and what the soldiers were feeling. what i'll say he was a different kind of congressional delegation too. most code would come to the battlefield and want to shake their constituents hands and get their pictures taken so they could rush back and be on the sunday talk shows but not senator mccain. he was there to find out what was going on, to see how he could help and to really ask the tough questions. and he knew the tactical fight. he understood it. you could have a conversation with him and know that he was taking away the right things. a couple of years later, i found myself as the commander of forces in europe at the munich

security conference and i was in the back of a room with where there were 20 people, mostly ambassadors and more senior military peep than this poor dumb guy. he saw me in the back and pulled me forward and started probing me how we were engaging with a new -- the new democracies of eastern europe. you could tell he was interested and he knew the questions to ask and i have to say the people in places like lithuania poland and estonia they knew mccain and they loved him. this is a guy who spanned u.s. capacity from tactical understanding all the way to strategic engagement, and -- >> i'm so sorry to say that, darn skype! darn audio and technical issues have not allowed us to finish that conversation but we want to thank you, lieutenant general hertling. if you can hear us, for your

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kevin bacon dream big with us. one night to save lives get ready to see it all tune in live, september 7th 8/7 central we are edging toward the seven hour here. we will have more on the denial of senator john mccain throughout the day. we want to tell you about the pope as he is begging for the lord's forgiveness as he is row -- >> he continues to address the abuse scandals that have plagued the church in dublin.

international correspondent phil black is there live with us for an update. >> reporter: good morning. the pope today has been visiting a place of pilgrimage for many catholics. a shrine that marks the place where many catholics believe in mary, the mother of christ, appeared 140 years ago. there he says he prayed to mary for the victims of sexual and other forms of abuse caused by the catholic church here in ireland. speaking afterwards, he referred to as an open wound, one that challenges him and the church in the pursuit of truth and justice. and he said he begged the lord's forgiveness for the sins. he, himself, has said that begging pardon alone can never be efficient. he said that in a letter to all catholics around the world just recently and the victims of abuse here in this country, they don't just want words and apologies. they want definite action on the part of the pope and the church,

a constructive plan for assuring this sort of abuse can never be repeated and indeed a small number of them, eight said to him directly when they met with the pope late yesterday. it was, we are told by those who were in the room and have spoken publicly afterwards, a very forthright conversation. they feel he listened to them that, he genuinely cared. today when he appears here, phoenix park in dublin for a big mass before hundreds of thousands of people, they will be listening very closely to what he says on this issue in the hope that he does promise to do more for the victims of abuse, but also to prevent further abuse from taking place around the world. martin and christi, back to you. >> phil black, thank you for reporting from phoenix park in dublin, ireland. >> thank you, phil. we are following a developing story out of afghanistan this morning. cnn has learned the head of isis in afghanistan was killed in an air strike overnight along with ten other isis fighters and the

mission was carried out by afghan coalition forces. seven killed in a chicago fire. two other children according to the fire department and one firefighter were hurt as well. it's still unclear what caused that fire. >> we will be back in a moment.

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♪ we always appreciate you spending time with us in the mornings here. it's 7:00 right now. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. this morning, america is remembering the loss of a political titan. arizona senator john mccain passed away saturday afternoon. he was at his home near is a se arizona. he was surrounded by his family in his