between five hours and 15 hour swim is that by the 15th hour, i'm -- i feel like i'm a fish and that when i get out of the water, a lot of my family says i look like a seal. so i think once i'm at the 15 hour, i just become a water animal. >> angel, congratulations. we are pulling for you again this morning. you're doing some pretty incredible things for children international. thank you for tag the time. >> thank you. >> take good care. we gather here today to honor an american patriot and served a cause greater than himself. >> this is one of the bravest souls our nation has ever produced. >> john mccain, i think, really represented the best for our country. >> didn't always agree with him politically but i respect the man. there was nobody as heroic as he was. >> he would fight tooth and nail for his vision of the common good. >> we need people to step up and

sf follow that model that he set. >> if you want to be -- be more like john mccain. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul." senator john mccain will be laid to rest at the naval academy cemetery in anan police. >> it will be a private farewell for the man who lived so much of his life in the public eye. yesterday, more than a thousand people crowded into washington national cathedral for this memorial service that mccain planned in great detail. the funeral seemingly to have a unified message but excluding the current leader of the country. here is cnn's jeff zeleny.

>> reporter: washington paid tribute and bid farewell to john mccain an american patriot and politician. at the washington national cathedral, a living tabloid of history a list of who's who leaders from all stripes and to say good-bye to john mccain. mccain's daughter meghan overcame with grief and emotion throughout the week spoke passionately about his father. >> we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness. the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege. >> reporter: inside this cathedral, it was the first of several references to president trump and his own brand of politics, her father reviled. >> american was always great.

the funeral unfolded as a parting lesson and civility from mccain himself. to eulogize him he invited george w. bush who won a bitter primary fight in 2000 and barack obama who prevailed in 2008. amid moments of humor. >> from trouble making plea to presidential candidate. >> reporter: praise for mccain's core believes. >> a various points throughout his long career john confronted policies and practices he believed were unworthy to his country. he would insist we are better than this. america is better than this. >> phony controversies and manufactured outrage. the politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but, in fact, is born of fear.

john called us to be bigger than that. he called on us to be better than that. >> while president trump's name was never spoken his absence was an unmistakable undercurrent. mccain made it clear he didn't want him there. the two men strained relationship goes back to the 2016 campaign when mccain insulted the military service, saying real american heroes aren't shot down but the president's advisers were on hand. ivanka trump and among others. the funeral was sent off with son with "danny boy." ♪ >> reporter: his final resting place on a grassy hill at the u.s. naval academy ceremony next

to chuck larson, another veteran of the vietnam war. >> jeff, thank you very much. you saw there that washington's power players were at the funeral. the president, he spent the day tweeting and playing golf at his course in virginia. let's go now to cnn sarah westwood who is joining us from washington. what is the white house saying about these obvious swipes at the president? anything? >> reporter: so far, victor, the white house is not even saying whether president trump watched the funeral yesterday, but in the evening, president trump did tweet a single line "make america great again." that is widely perceived as a direct response to what meghan mccain said about the america of her father not needing to be made great again because it has always been great and this is a difficult week politically for the white house because many have criticized president trump for what has been widely perceived as an inadequate ponce to the passing of senator mccain. sources tell cnn the white house

aides drafted a statement for the president to release after mccain's passing, that did not happen. the president opted for a perfunctory tweet shortly after news of his death was public is a -- publicized. the staff was raised at half-staff and president trump chose to spend yesterday at the golf course. it was 153rd day on the links of his presidency and he spent the service tweeting, not in memory of senator mccain but about the russia controversy, about nafta renegotiations. as we know, victor, this is a president who often does not take criticism lying down. >> that's true, indeed. sarah westwood, for us in washington, thank you. >> so many takeaways from senator mccain's funeral and the response from his fellow republicans. we want to bring in cnn

political analyst julian zeleny. do you get sense of the respect shown yesterday and the decorum that people were talking about, any sense that will linger in political realms? >> i think most people suspect that it won't, unfortunately. that the reality of politics and washington are very different than the spirit that was conveyed at his memorial' all of the services of the week. in some ways that is senator mccain's last wish. the forces of polarization and partisanship is much deeper than any of this smoceremony could erase. it's still an important message and to hear two messages from different parties convey the same themes. not about whether the left or the right is right, but about the importance of our institutions working well and the importance of being committed to governance. i think that is still an important message and you have to hear it again and again, even if the forces of politics move

us in a different direction. >> we know ivanka and jared kushner were there as we saw jeff zeleny point out. do you expect we will hear from them as they heard it face-to-face? >> maybe there will be a few comments but it's hard for them to get any space relative to the president of the united states who has made his voice loud and clear throughout the week. so maybe they will say something but i think the weight of the response at this point or the positions are coming from the president of the united states. >> i want to ask you about this moment. there has been a lot of talk in our newsroom about this moment because some people think if they had just passed some gum, people! however, people online were moved by, do we have the video of this moment? where, apparently, president bush pass a mint or something to

first lady michelle obama. she said, thank you. and then williams tweeted this. i would like to think a moment like this is what mccain was hoping for. what is it about this friendship between these two that is so endaerg to peope endeering to people? >> it sos some humanity in our political system and people like to see that. they hear and watch and read so much about the divisions and the fighting that they almost become caricatures. here you see a very human moment. one person passing a mint or a candy to another. different administrations, different parties. but they could still share something like that. so there is value. as small as this is for people to see something like this, especially in our current era where everything has really moved in such a different direction. >> yeah, because you're talking about people, as you said, who are on two completely opposite

sides of the political spectrum. absolutely. i want to ask you real quickly about some politics today. sam patton, this washington lobbyist, he has a plea deal in the mueller case. he paid $50,000 for tickets to president trump's inauguration and did so on behalf of a owe oligark. >> it seems it is put together by the parts of the political world who are trying to sway the election and on its own it doesn't implicate the president or anybody in his orbit but my guess this is part of a bigger por portrait that mueller is trying to put together and figure out what the connections were. >> we need to point out no indication that the president was involved in this but it is a

moment because this is the first instance that we can see where the doj has publicly charged someone for a foreigner funnel money to an event. >> to the campaign. >> to an event, certainly. julian zeleny, thank you for being here, sir. >> thank you. >> we are learning more about attempts to attempts to turn an russian oligarch to a russian informant. the justice department worked to recruit this oligarch. steele was involved in the effort. the times report that investigators were hoping for information from deripaska. but he told the investigators their thoeories were, quote, preposterous. >> when we come back, how molly tibbetts murder is being

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[ sobs quietly ] a road spray painted with the words deport illegals, a report robo call saying america should be white only. >> this is what is happening in and around des moines, iowa. it is allegedly happening because of the murder of molly tibia bits. her family is joining the city of des moines to fight back. polo sandoval is bus. this is exactly what the family has asked people not to do. >> a sense of nervousness particularly among members of the latino family in around and where molly tibbetts death occurred. city officials there tweeting

not in our city along with images of officials there removing racist graffiti over the weekend. also new reports of robo calls from an out of state white supremacist group that called the alleged murder of molly tibia bits, quote, an invader from mexico. president trump has blamed molly tibia bi tibbetts on the immigration laws. word calling the report that the death of this young woman being politicized absurd. they are asking them to be voted out. what does the tibbetts family have to say about this? they are not only mourning the loss of their daughter but have to deal with this. rob tibia bitbetts the father o young woman writing and asking

molly not be the victim of anybody in this case. i want to read you a portion of what he wrote. rob tibbetts saying the following. mr. tibbetts requested this after the discovery of his daughter's policy asking the politicians and pundits simply not make -- not politicize his daughter's death and here he is again, so it's certainly something that the tibbetts family had to deal with in the past and here they are again pleading to the public, politicians and pundits as well to not include his daughter's memory in the immigration debate. >> yeah. he said -- he actually wrote the person who is accused of taking molly's life is no more a reflection of the hispanic family as white supremacist are of all white people.

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♪ thank you for sharing part of your morning with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. the president didn't deny comments but he said he made them off the record in a bloomberg interview and then he called for an apology, even though bloomberg said they had nothing to do with the story. now the reporter who wrote that story is backing bloomberg. daniel day, washington correspondent for the toronto star, is with us now. daniel, thank you for being here. it is a rare move to speak up about a situation like this.

why did you feel compelled to do so and what do you want to say? >> well, i made a commitment to my source that i would protect the right -- of course, i continue to do so and i always will. but this is an extremely unusual case in that we have the president of the united states using this leak to smear the reputations of the bloomberg reporters, these publicly calling them liars and accusing them of violating their commitment to him when they didn't do that. i didn't want to let my story be used to smear journalists, my colleagues. i never met them but they are ethical. i thought i could still protect my source and making clear the bloomberg reporters had nothing to do with this. >> have you heard from anybody at bloomberg? >> no. i asked them for comment originally and they said we respect our off-the-record promises. but i don't know these people personally and i haven't heard from them since. >> sure. we did talk with margaret talif of bloomberg yesterday about how this off-the-record remark was

publicized and here is what she teled us. >> told us. >> i have no idea. bloomberg did not have any off-the-record and if bloomberg has any agreement with anybody, to have an off-the-record conversation off-the-record is off-the-record and we honor that. bloomberg has only reported on-the-record comments that the president has made. >> the president tweeted out he can't believe bloomberg tweeted out a firm off-the-record discussion. you're saying this wasn't bloomberg. you say this was a source of mind. do you think an apology is necessary somewhere? >> i can't really say honestly. i mean, all i can say about this sort of thing is that it wasn't anybody of bloomberg who head a

promise to trump that this would not be released. >> so you're saying that the person that he talked to, it was not made clear that it was off the record? >> no. i'm saying trump did make clear that these comments were off the record. i'm saying that trump is accusing the people who made that promise to him, that it would be off the record, of violating that promise and i'm saying that none of those people who made that promise to him was my source. >> okay. president trump did tweet this. because at the end of the day, this is all about nafta. he said no political necessity to keep canada in the new nafta deal if we don't make a fair deal with the new nafta deal. how about the public threats of pulling out of this deal may affect the private conversations that are being had? >> well, the canadian strategy

has been to ignore trump's threats. he has been threatening to terminate nafta since his campaign and repeatedly, you know, at various moments in the talks. the canadian strategy is basically to pretend trump isn't president and continue to engage constructively. i think it does have an impact when, you know, the canadian government finds out that he is saying privately that he is not going to compromise at all and at the very least he makes it harder for the canadian government to believe the u.s. side is negotiateing in good faith and makes it harder, i think, for the canadian government to sell a deal to the canadian public when the president is bragging that he didn't give any ground to canada. >> so what is the future of this deal? >> it's so hard to say, honestly. i think there is still a lot of optimism in the business community and the canadian side something can get done. they are down to quite few issues, although they are significant issues so anything is possible with trump on any subject. he could blow up the deal, he could try to proceed only with mexico, but it's, you know, all

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now, nearly 500 graimmigrant children in u.s. funded shelters and at least 22 under the age of 5. >> this is coming as activists are condemning the conditions that immigrants face when they are detained. cnn correspondent nick valencia has more for us here. >> reporter: human rights have called this detention center the black hole of immigration facilities in america after years of repeated requests to go inside, cnn was finally granted access to our surprise, this year. this is rural georgia home of the stewart detention facility, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country with over 1,900 detainees. we were given rare access inside the facility but for security reasons on the outside we are not allowed to film beyond this point. only inside the interview room where we are about to meet a detainee. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: death followed 28-year-old hector nearly his whole life.

now in the united states, he is still so scared of being killed, he asked not to be shown on camera. he says back home, his sister was raped and later murdered. one day after witnessing a random murder himself, he feared he would be next. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: hector fled north and crossing through mexico into san diego wre asked for asylum. he was detained and sent to philadelphia. once released, he settled in north carolina with his family. he fitted with an ankle monitor, hector was told he would have regular home visits from i.c.e. agents but he missed a visit. in january he landed back in detention, this time at stewart. conditions here have broken his spirit. [ speaking in foreign language ]

>> reporter: he says he has lost close to ten pounds because of the poor diet at the medium security facility. according to him, not only are his basic needs not met, he alleges the guards discriminate against the mostly latino detainees. [ speaking in foreign language ] while hector afterand a half gaits the daily challenges of life inside detention, on the outside, he has advocates. >> this is working in the trenches. >> reporter: dan werner is with the southern poverty law center and provides pro bono legal work but uphill battle. the approval rate of inmates are in question. unfortunately for him, hector's future was already been decided. a judge at stewart denied his asylum request. soon, he will be redortdeported.

[ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: the detainee you heard from in that report made a lot of claims so we went to the organization that runs the stewart detention center to ask them to respond. here is what they said in, part. they go on to to say -- but for hector, the detainee you heard from, he says at stewart, he was treated like an -- nick

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litigator, role model, decenter, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has a lot of titles during her career.

now we take a look at the personal and professional live of justice ginsburg who has this impressive legal legacy but has become a proud culture icon. >> i'm proud to nominate this attorney to be a justice to the supreme court. >> we may be in trying times, but think how it was. in those days. the judges didn't think sex discrimination existed. >> ruth knew what she was doing in laying the foundation. >> to put women on the same plane as men. >> the goal was equality and civil rights. >> ruth bader ginsburg quite literally changed the way the world is for american women. >> what has become of me could happen only in america. >> she has become such a rock star. >> she is really closest thing

to a super hero i know. >> she is known to advance. the world over as the notorious rbg. >> all i ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. let's bring in cnn supreme court reporter ariane devogue. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you've covered justice ginsburg and the supreme court for years now. as you watch the promotion for this documentary for this film, i should say, calling her a super hero and a trail blazer, she deserves it, but why do you think she is such a trail blazer? >> victor, she might be one of the rare justices who is known more for the work she did before she took the bench. even more so than the opinions she issued. because as this young lawyer for the aclu, she attacked laws that discriminated on the basis of gender and she was very methodical and she would find good plaintiffs and bring the case much like marshall did

earlier on race. she really changed the landscape for women as a young lawyer coming across. and, for instance, one of her plaintiffs, she decided to choose a male and she thought that maybe that would resonate with mostly male judges and justices who would hear this and they would recognize that the issue of gender discrimination hurt women but also hurt men. that was her strategy and she was a brilliant person in order to think broadly on how to bring these kinds of cases, victor. >> so she received really proud support during her confirmation in. in the context we have going to see this week with judge brett kavanaugh, we are not expecting those numbers any more and we don't see those numbers for nominees any more. >> you're absolutely right. think about ruth bader ginsburg. she was a lawyer for the aclu and i think she got through something like 96-3. it's going to be a whole

different story for brett kavanaugh. democrats are ready to pounce here because, remember, that kavanaugh is taking the place, if he is confirmed, of justice kennedy and that is going to really cement the conservative majority on this front for years to come and democrats want to fight this as best they can. they say two things. they say he believes in a strong executive and he also says he doesn't think a sitting president should be indicted so some democrats are saying given what is going on with president trump, he should agree to recuse himself from any issues stemming from those investigations that will to the supreme court. they will push on that but is not going to happen. supreme court justices all the time rule on issues that are important to the people that put them on the bench. but the other issue the democrats are also going to seize on are documents and kavanaugh, he has hundreds of

thousands of documents from his time at the bush administration and the democrats say that while they are getting a lot of them, they are not getting everything and they want a chance to see everything and to go through it and they think that the hearing should have been delayed. so those are going to be two lines of attack we are going to see this week. >> a little more than 100,000 documents being held back under executive privilege and we got that letter from the white house supported by the justice of department sent over by the senate at the end of the week. the cnn poll, only 37% of respondents to this poll want the senate to vote in favor of judge kavanaugh's nomination and the lowest in 1980 even in harriet meyers, when he pulled her nomination and four days later she was at 42%. does it matter the approval

rating of this justice and what is the likelihood he'll get through? >> the way things are, it looks like he might get through. democrats are going to try as hard as they can but what that poll also reflects, victor, is how this whole issue has become so politicized and ruth bader ginsburg, going back to her, had he she says she wishes the confirmation hearing were like in the old days when she was able to get through. she notes in recent years, look at elena kagan and justice sotomayor. they are turning into big political fights and i think that is what that poll reflects. >> we are watching it closely and we know you will be as well and harriet meyers nomination was in 2005 just to correct that. catch the cnn film rbg, hero icon descentor here on cnn.

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so we're in the middle of this long labor day weekend -- >> you are. >> people are planning to get out, one more summer cookout. i have an afternoon dance party. i'll post pictures. but it could be ruined by a tropical weather system. >> his party will not be ruined, he will post pictures. what are we looking at here? right, yes, so here is what we are looking for the latest. we have an 80% chance of development for this tropical wave over the next five days. a 50% development into a tropical depression in just the next two days. here is why. as this system crosses over the keys and goes into the gulf of mexico, it's going to enter much more favorable conditions and much warmer water temperatures. that will allow this thing to develop more. we know it will end up into the gulf. the question is from there where does it go? does it end up taking the heavy rain in mobile or pensacola, closer to new orleans, or further west to galveston and houston?

here's the thing, though. because it will be entering all of this warm water here in the gulf, we know the system itself is going to get stronger. the end of the day, the takeaway i want you to get from this, a lot of rain will be dumped not just for portions of florida although that's where it will start. 2-4 widespread across miami, perhaps even higher than that in some isolated spots and then areas of mississippi, louisiana, portions of texas, widespread amounts of, say, 4-6 inches. we also have this other system. this is tropical storm florence. right now not really much of an impact. just a fish storm that we call it because it's sitting over the open water. the question is what does it do from there? in the short term it is expected to stay over open water, but we will have to watch this, say five to seven days from now to see where that turn starts to take place and whether or not it will bring it closer to the u.s. the question is this usual for this time of year? and the answer is yes. in fact, this time of year a lot of systems actually come off the coast of africa, but you also

have some that develop into portions of the gulf. those are the areas that really have a lot of concern going forward this time of year and also keep in mind right now we are just starting to enter what we consider peak hurricane season. the peak date is coming up. it's september 10th. >> thanks so much. there's a lot more to the late senator john mccain than politics. >> he's being remembered for his sense of humor. jeanne moos has some of his funniest moments. >> reporter: he called his campaign bus the straight talk express. >> why are we handing this out? >> reporter: but a lot of what he expressed was humor whether it was poking fun at his opponent, then presidential candidate obama -- >> maverick i can do, but messiah is above my pay grade. >> reporter: or getting nabbed on camera playing poker on his phone during a senate debate. >> occasionally i get a little

bored. >> reporter: just a year and a half ago senator mccain was horsing around like a teenager, making devil ears. >> laying out demands -- >> reporter: behind a reporter. after all these years revenge, more devil horns behind his fellow senator from colorado. >> senator john mccain. >> reporter: and then there were all those "snl" appearances, never funnier than when -- >> mccain sings streisang. ♪ >> reporter: he decided to try hers. >> pretty annoying, huh? >> reporter: barbra wasn't annoyed. she referenced the "snl" act in a tweet and called him a good man, a good senator. he even let "snl" joke about his

then running mate going rogue -- >> available now we have a bunch of these. >> reporter: senator mccain's attempts at humor sometimes blew up on him. remember this? ♪ >> reporter: senator mccain did when someone asked him about punishing iran. >> that old beach boys song. >> reporter: he made movie and tv cameos playing himself -- >> i just need to get my coat here. >> could you give me a minute, please? >> reporter: he made fun of himself. no wonder he lafughed so easily. he considered himself to be one of -- ♪ the luckiest people >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> i interviewed him a couple times in arizona and i can't tell you what that was about either. a little too much. >> the turtleneck really sells it. >> so good. we have one second. i have to say happy birthday to my favorite lady, it is her

birthday. i don't think the picture came through. i posted it. >> how old? >> 9. the last single digits. >> happy birthday, sadie. >> sadie lady, i love you. thank you so much for sharing your morning with us. we always appreciate it. we hope you make good memories today. "inside politics" starts now. the final fall sprint to election day. with just nine weeks left, a big primary win for progressives in florida. >> we don't believe we should have to shrink from the things we believe in in order to win. >> plus, the president slams the mueller probe and issues a new threat. >> our justice department and our fbi have to start doing their job. at some point i'll get in there if i have to. and the nation bids farewell