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read. a standing ovation from colleagues who gathered to greet him. >> it seemed to take him by surprise. >> he appreciated it, didn't expect it but it meant the world to him. >> lindsey graham is mccain's best friend in the senate. >> i've always viewed him as indecembstruct indestructible, never crossed my mind there would be political life for lindsey graham until now. >> mccain knew he had everyone's attention and he took full advantage. >> i stand here today looking a little worse for wear i'm sure. >> the entire senate floor is silent and everyone is listening and then you hear this crying and it was cindy mccain up in the gallery. >> friend and fellow san senator remember his wife's emotion, out of sight but audible inside the senate chamber.

>> she's sitting up there knowing he has this terminal diagnosis and then he stands there and seizes the moment again. >> we're getting nothing done, my friends. we're getting nothing done. >> friends say even before he got sick, mccain had grown more and more frustrated with senate dysfunction. >> we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the isle. >> his grim diagnosis was like a license to let it out. >> the senate is capable of that. we know that. we've seen it before. >> his party's bill to replace obamacare was not bipartisan, nor did it go through the senate committee process or regular order as mccain demanded in his speech. >> why don't we try the old way of legislating in the senate? >> a marathon debate is underway as u.s. senators try to overhaul obamacare. >> senators are focussing on skinny repeal. >> mr. sullivan -- >> three nights later when the

senate was taking the pivotal vote, all eyes were on john mccain. >> i think he was conflicted because, you know, he really does want to repeal and replace obamacare. and there was a lot of pressure on him to do this and do that. i said do what you want to do. >> as someone who had just learned of his own health challenges to have a health care repeal bill with very little replacement, i think was really close to his heart at that moment. >> hillary clinton spoke to her former colleague and friend about how personal this decision was. >> he was getting the world's best care. there was nothing that would be beyond his reach if he needed it for his own treatment and i think he did, you know, really consider all of the people that he represents in arizona and people across the country and worried that because it was rushed through and there was so little thought to it, what would happen to them?

>> thoughts that weighed on mccain well into the early morning hours of friday, july 28th. as senators gathered for the vote, mccain was being lobbied and wooed in plain sight but he was sending signals to friends on the other side of the isle. >> he had a twinkle in his eye and he said still weighing some things but i think we ought to find a way to work together and then walks away and we all sort of look at each other, did that mean what you thought it meant? >> he came up to me in the well of the senate where all the press gallery is hanging overlooking and whispers to me, i'm voting no. and i said well, that's great and then he says do you think they can read my lips? and i said no, i don't think so, no. >> it sounds like the way he delivered it, it was the typical devilish fashion.

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>> it made mccain a hero to obamacare supporters but a tr e traitor to many in his party. >> this is clearly a disappointing moment. >> a place he found himself many times in decades of legislative fights. >> he's been called the maverick for a reason because he's not just a maverick out there by himself kind of pursuing his own interest. that's not the kind of maverick john mccain is. john mccain likes to get things done that will make a difference. when we come back, mccain's first brush with death.

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academy. mccain's passion was for literature, not his family legac legacy. >> i had friends that went to ivy league schools and i'm sure part of my excuse for being rebellious was that i wanted to go to one of those schools. i always had a great interest in literature and history. >> the novels of the '30s and '40s. >> he loves a farewell to arms. the heroic figures in the spanish civil war and he knows that front wards and backwards. >> he's inspired by those larger than life figures. >> has row mant sized h-- roman it. >> i wanted to fly airports by myself off aircraft carriers. i thought that was the height of glamor and excitement and it was a bit self-absorbed.

>> beautiful women, fast cars were what he liked. >> he sunk to the bottom. he was sitting on the bottom of the aircraft and said, you know, i remember there is some kind of a switch here somewhere that blows the canape off the airplane but i didn't read that book and i don't know where the switch is. i guess i'm dead. >> old friend chuck larson witnessed the crash and said mccann finally kicked the canape open. >> i don't think it changed him at all. he went to the room, went to bed for two hours and went to the club for happy hour and regaled everybody stories of the crash. >> i don't think until the really miraculous survival that he began to take his military career seriously.

it was july 29th, 1967. his first combat mission on an aircraft carrier assigned to bombing missions over vietnam. a plane on the deck accidently fired a missile which struck the fuel tank of the plane mccain was in. mccain escaped the deadly inferno but others didn't. the fire spread across the ship's deck killing 134 men injuring hundreds of others and destroying 20 planes. >> it was terrible. when the fire was under control, i went up in the sick bay because i got shrapnel in my legs and there were these individuals laying there burned and he told me his name and mentioned another pilot and said

he didn't make it, did he? he said he made it, he's fine. thank god and he died and, you know, those kinds of sacrifice were really remarkable. >> to this day, he talks about those moments. it changed him. he had made his mind up he was going to make a career out of being in the military. that was going to be his calling in life. >> a calling that was about to take him to the darkest, most torturous future. that when we come back.

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23rd time on a routine bombing mission over vietnam. but then his navy sky hawk was struck in the right wing. >> so i was going very violently straight down so i had to eject very quickly. i was knocked unconscious when i ejected and when i hit the water, i woke up. >> angry villagers swinging nets were surrounded mccain. >> i was kind of dazed, so i wasn't sure what was going to happen. >> he was the son of a four-star admiral and the vietnamese knew it. they forced him to give this interview in return for life-saving surgery on his badly injured body. >> i've been treated well here. >> he was beaten on a regular

basis. you know, being hung by his arms from a ceiling. >> mccain told his friend and former defense secretary william cohen that it was brutal and relentless. >> he would try to pretend he was cooperating by giving the names of the front line of the new york giants or some other team he knew the players were and would give false names out. they would eventually find out and beat him for that. >> then, a chance at freedom. it was may 1968, his father jack mccain was named commander of u.s. forces in the pacific that included vietnam. the vietnamese offered his son freedom. john mccain was tempted but refused. did you know as secretary of the navy that he declined? >> oh, yes, oh, yeah. >> what did you think when you heard that? >> i said to myself that is really a figure of strength.

>> for mccain, it was his duty. the p.o.w.s code of conduct called for release in th order of capture. there was dozens ahead of mccain. >> there was a correlation between my refusal to accept early release and my treatment. the treatment got very much worse. >> what followed was months of non-stop beatings, hanging from his wrists, solitary confinement. at one point, mccain says he was even beaten by ten guards at a time. >> his fellow prisoners literally had to feed him, right? >> they did. they had to bathe him, cleanse him, help him to survive the things that you would have to do in a hospital for someone near death with a bucket of water and maybe a sponge. >> by august 1968, mccain couldn't take it anymore. >> he signed a statement that he

was an american black, you know, air pilot, et cetera and admitted to their claims against him. >> how much did that moment, the vietnamese breaking him affect him from there on out? >> look, i think he wanted to die. i think he felt he had let the honor slip away from him. he felt shame that he had let the country down, he had let his father down, his family down, his cofellow soldiers down. >> everybody but mostly me because the standards that i set for myself. >> he would be forever haunted by the shame he felt. yet in the short term, his fellow pows pulled him through. >> get up off the floor, go back at them. you lost a round, we'll win the fight. you always go back into the fight. you always come back.

>> but it was really about coming home, and in march of 1973 after more than five and a half years of torture, isolation and illness, mccain was one of 100 p.o.w.s released by the north vietnamese. >> of course, we were very happy. of course, we were over joyed but we didn't want to betray a great deal of emotion. >> john warner was there when mccain saw his admiral father for the first time. >> remember him coming down off the gang way, difficulty having walking and walking up and just commander mccain, sir, reporting for duty. it was a very moving moment. >> the relentless beatings had taken a toll. >> do you still see the impact of that today, the way he was tied, you know, the way he can't raise his arms, his hands can't comb his hair, the things we

take for granted. >> when i think about that health care vote when he went in there and went like that, part of why he moves like that is because he can't move his articles like other people can. >> he doesn't complain about it but his life was altered. >> in some sense, john has felt every day he has outside the hanoi hilton has been a gift and he's going to make the most of it. >> motivation that propelled mccain into the next stage of life and defined who he was going to be. >> i'm announcing today my decision to become a candidate for the republican nomination for u.s. congress. >> the p.o.w. goes to washington when we come back. who would have thought,

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political leadership is not so great a stretch for a career change in mind. those who manage to do so i suppose because they can't imagine a life without wanting a prominent place in the nation's affairs. >> john mccain's release from a north vietnamese prison camp in

1973 was big news. >> he was also the most seriously marked by his five and a half years of imprisonment. >> behind the scenes a bruised and battered mccain was uncertain about his future. >> he said i just want to spend a little time with my family, and get off airplanes, and i need to read a lot of newspapers to find out what has been going on. i said well, let's figure out something. >> that something took mccain out of the of the pilot seat and off to the nation's capital as a navy liaison to the u.s. senate, an aid of sorts. a big part of his job, arranging international trips for senators like william cohen. >> everyone knew about his background, what he had been through and yet he emerged with just a great sense of humor. >> all that time around senators sparked his own political

ambitions. >> he probably looked at us and said well if these guys can get elected, i sure can do it, too. >> i think i started thinking about it when i saw well-informed senators and people who knew the issues could have a significant impact on the formulation of policy. >> i'm announcing my decision to be a nominee. he won and landed himself on the political map. one he would repeat throughout his career bucking his own party. >> you were right, not just a fight and die for freedom. >> mccain adored president ronald reagan.

but the former military man disagreed with reagan's plan to send troops into lebanon. >> the fundamental question is what is the united states' interest in lebanon? it is said we're there to keep the peace. i ask what peace? >> on october 23rd, 1983, 241 american servicemen were killed in their barracks by a pair of car bombs. >> everything in me told me that it was doomed to failure and i regret to this day that i was right. >> yet standing up to ronald reagan and being right made mccain a powerful voice. >> arizonans must choose between two very different candidates for u.s. senate. >> and in 1986, after just four years in the house, mccain launched a bid for an open senate seat. he won by a landslide. mccain brought his signature drive and persistence to the senate. at times his passion set fire to

a temper. >> so let's not put anything to rest. >> he just to this day fights like he's a plebe at the naval academy. >> john was always very transparent about his emotions. >> can i just translate? >> yeah. >> he blew up. he had a temper. >> exactly. yeah. >> he can get riled up and get upset with people and say things he later regrets. >> i just take it as something that shakes things up a bit in the senate. >> as far as these allegations are concerned, because nothing that john tower did -- >> it was on vivid display in 1989 when mccain's close friend and mentor from his days as a navy liaison, senator john tower, was nominated to be secretary of defense. early on allegations emerged that tower was an excessive drinker and womanizer. >> he was like a father to me in many respects. i knew john tower, and i know he

didn't do that. >> after five weeks of testimony, tower's nomination went down. the incident would significantly shape mccain's approach to politics, wary of personal attacks and christian conservatives who mccain blamed for attacking tower. >> he's called them the agents of intolerance. >> and is he wrong? this was about things bigger than that. this was about control of the party and putting then president bush in his place. and he -- he was maddened by that. >> later that year, mccain's own conduct got him in hot water. >> prosecutors hope mccain's testimony will show the jury that keating knew how serious his problems with federal regulators were. >> charles keating was the owner of the failed lincoln savings and loan association. he was also a contributor to john mccain's campaign and a partner of cindy mccain on an

arizona real estate deal. >> we will now proceed to hear from senator mccain. >> when regulators were investigating keating and his s & l's collapse mccain along with four other senators met with them. >> i'm glad to have the opportunity to fully and publicly account for my relationship with charles keating. >> many felt the senators were trying to influence the investigation to help keating. >> when he came to see me in 1987 -- >> it's something mccain denied. >> my mistake was to go to the meeting, but at the meeting i said i wanted no special favors, i wanted no -- anything done that would be -- appear unethical or wrong. >> ultimately mccain was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the allegations stuck with him. >> i've never seen him more depressed and angry about having his honor challenged. i think that hurt him more than the north vietnamese did. >> the keating five scandal hurt him more than being in prison for 5 1/2 years and beaten? >> that's how i felt. >> in his own mind he allowed his honor to be besmirched.

and from that came a desire to clean up money in politics. >> mccain dove into his senate work throughout the 1990s. >> the key challenge remains getting the deficit under control. >> taking on tough issues. >> what matters to me is the price of a pack of cigarettes coupled with other programs that will reduce teen smoking. >> focusing on government corruption. >> i think john's feeling was always that the fight is always worth it, to fight against the system that is dishonest and corrupt and needs to be changed, even if you fail, the worth is carrying on. >> mccain spent the last decade of the 20th century fighting a lot of battles, winning some and losing others. >> i run because i believe deeply in the greatness of america's destiny. >> and planting seeds for a run for the highest office in the land. that when we come back. it is because i owe america

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>> it was september 1999 and john mccain set his sights on the white house. >> i run because i believe deeply in the greatness of america's destiny and in the goodness of our cause. >> he was the underdog to front-runner george w. bush. >> he was the luke skywalker running against the evil empire. >> over a couple of bottles of wine we kind of concocted the straight talk express thinking he could handle sitting in the back of the bus with reporters all day long in a way to get our message out. >> my message of reform. >> he thrived in it and he captivated the nation. >> especially new hampshire. >> john mccain according to cnn exit polling wins the new hampshire primary easily. >> john turns to me and we kind of look at each other and he goes you know the pianos are going to start dropping on us now. and he was right.

>> this campaign for us will be won or lost in south carolina. >> mccain's opponents started to play dirty. >> turn on the radio and turn on the television, unfortunately pick up the telephone and you'll hear a negative attack against john mccain. >> one attack claimed mccain fathered a black child out of wedlock. in reality, mccain's daughter bridget was adopted from bangladesh. >> there's really not much you can do except to condemn it. >> my daughter bridget -- >> the gutter politics had a major impact on mccain. he lost the 2000 primary and vowed to avoid personal attacks in his future races. >> i knew how painful it had been for him with the attacks on his family. >> hillary clinton became a senator not long after mccain's 2000 presidential loss. >> he obviously at that time was coming off of a particularly vicious and brutal and personal campaign, especially for his family.

you know a thing or two about that. >> i do. he was truly just soldiering on. it wasn't like we sat down and just, you know, poured forth our feelings. but we basically said, look, this is not the way politics should be conducted. >> he had to show his resilience all over again, and to himself more than to his colleagues. >> there you go. >> and he did, digging in on issues from campaign finance reform to the patient's bill of rights with senators from both parties. >> please join me in welcoming john mccain. >> by 2008 -- >> today i announce my presidency for president of the united states. >> -- mccain was ready to mount

another presidential run to succeed the republican president who beat him in 2000. >> he started out as the heir apparent and then crashed and burned big-time. >> gop leaders did not like his support for a surge of u.s. troops in iraq. >> we need 100,000 additional troops. >> and they bristled at his bipartisan work on immigration reform. he almost ran out of money and let most of his staff go. >> it was you and john mccain. >> yeah. no big entourage, no private plane. >> no. >> sometimes i even drove the van. >> the next president of the united states. >> mccain climbed his way back. >> the mac is back. >> are you the front-runner now? >> i think we're doing well. i'm optimistic. >> to get there he did swallow some principle and played politics. >> we will secure the borders

first when i am president of the united states. >> mccain seized the gop nomination. >> sure showed them what a comeback looks like. >> and thought he'd be facing his old friend hillary clinton. >> i think we both thought that. i thought it would have been a great campaign because we both respected each other, we'd worked with each other. >> instead, it was barack obama. his first big decision, his running mate. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> sarah palin was a surprising and bold decision. she drew the conservative support he was sorely lacking. >> it's not who he wanted to choose. >> he told me he wanted to put my name on the list to be vetted for vice president. are you serious? he said i am. i said you don't have to do that, i don't know how you can

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have disagreements with on fundamental issues. >> you know, john believes so deeply in fundamental fairness, but if he thinks you're being unfairly treated or maligned he's going to be right there defending you. >> no, ma'am. no, ma'am. >> still, it was a contentious race. >> the dow jones industrial is nose-diving. >> when the economy collapsed in september 2008, obama pulled ahead and never looked back. >> i'm doing just fine. i have been written off, dana, on so many occasions by political pundits that its hard for me to count. >> but in the end the voters counted him out. >> barack obama has been elected president of the united states. >> i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [ boos ] please. >> true to form, mccain marked

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>> it was the morning after john mccain lost his 2008 run for president. >> i was sitting there wallowing in the loss, and he told me to pull up my bootstraps and get going. he's like go grab me a coffee and we've got calls to make. >> how much of that is john mccain will not stop moving? >> he's like a shark, which keeps him who he is. >> mccain raced back to the senate. no entourage, no security, no time to waste. >> i don't have any comment today. >> and true to form, mccain sparred with the new president. >> this president and this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a coverup. >> but he also worked with obama, becoming the president's go-to guy on immigration, confirming nominees, and even heading to egypt at the

president's request. >> in 2008, did you ever think you would be president obama's republican deal maker? >> no, because i thought i would be -- no, but i worked on a lot of issues with president clinton, as well as a republican president. so it's not as if i haven't done this before. >> and like before, it made mccain especially unpopular with the conservative base of his party. >> you could say there are two john mccains. the one who campaigns like a conservative and the one who legislates like a liberal. >> in 2010, conservative j.d. hayworth gave mccain his toughest senate challenge ever. vulnerable in the gop primary, mccain tacked right. he stopped talking compromise on immigration, putting principle

aside and playing to the republican base he needed to win his primary. >> and complete the dang fence. it will work this time. >> that's the tradeoff. >> even john mccain is not immune to saying what you need to say. >> he's one of the handful of beacons of light who are standing against threats to our basic democracy. democracy. >> mccain won his senate seat back for a fifth term and returned as the elder statesman. >> we're here to vote. we're not here to block things. >> he really values bipartisanship. and he's invested the time in getting to know lots of senators, very junior and very senior, and building relationships. >> mccain's bipartisan bonding and mentoring senators was done mostly on the road, especially while traveling abroad. >> well, our most famous experience with vodka shots was in tallinn, estonia. >> i've heard or i've seen

reported that it was your idea. >> oh, i would not take credit for it. i think it was a mutually agreed-upon venture. but we used to say what happens in tallinn stays in tallinn. >> still, mccain's globe-trotting is serious business. >> he has a rule, you can't have lunch and dinner in the same continent. i mean, john travels a lot to stay relevant and be able to come back and translate the world. >> traveling with john was great, because if a door didn't open he just started banging on it until it fell. so if we wanted to see somebody and the ambassador or the general didn't want us to see that person, i can guarantee you, after john was done making the case, we would see them. >> after president trump was elected, mccain took it upon himself to reassure world leaders. >> in many respects this administration is in disarray and they've got a lot of work to do. >> traveling to 26 countries and

four continents in the first half of 2017 alone. including asia, in particular vietnam. over the years mccain visited where he was held as a p.o.w. dozens of times. >> it was wonderfully inspiring to see him in a place where he made such a sacrifice for our country in a conflict that was so violent and so challenging, yet today he is so respected. >> he seems to know everyone all over the world. he is someone that looks at america and its role in the world and doesn't see it limited to one place or what's convenient or what works at home. he is doing this for our country. >> one of his last international trips was in the summer of 2017, just a month later at a routine checkup doctors diagnosed mccain with brain cancer. average survival time, 14 months. >> i said, those are averages, you know, you're not average.

i said, let me put it another way, john. everybody knows you're abnormal. so we're counting on your abnormalcy. >> i'm sure he appreciated that. >> he did, he did. >> he has called me three times this morning. no more woe is me, lindsey. he is yelling at me and to buck up. so i'm going to buck up. >> mccain paraphrased his hero teddy roosevelt's approach to mortality. >> there's two ways of looking at these things. and one of them is to celebrate. i am able to celebrate a wonderful life. and i will be grateful for additional time that i have. >> additional time to fight harder than ever. >> what a privilege it is to serve this big, boisterous, brawling, intemperate, striving, daring, beautiful, bountiful, brave, magnificent country. with all our flaws, all the mistakes, with all the frailties

of human nature as much on display as our virtues, we are blessed. >> can he be curmudgeonly? can he be tough? he can be all of that. but he was first a warrior, raised in a family that has defended our country for generations. and he is a patriot. regardless of party, he is a patriot. and i am honored that he's also my friend. >> he is loyal to his friends. he loves his country. and if he has to stand up his party for his country, so be it. he would die for this country. i love him to death. >> a leader who once struggled to live up to his storied family legacy yet earned his own unique place in american history. driven by three words -- duty, honor, and country.

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