. a prisoner of war for 5.5 years. >> elected to the senate six times beginning in 1986. >> this is a man that we'll all want to watch, his name is john mccain. >> republican nominee against barack obama with a since of history. senator obama has achieved great things for himself and his country. i applaud him for it. a fearless critic even of a

president of his own party. >> cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats. >> who fought with believes always in his honor. >> it matters less that you can fight. what you fight for is the real test. this morning we remember john mccain. i will talk to hillary clinton and his arizona colleague jeff flake and plus president trump's nightmare week, michael cohen pleads guilty and manafort found guilty. the president's allies abandoning him. how is all of this impacted president trump's approval ratings. we have a brand new poll taken before and after the cohen/manafort stories broke. joining me is andrea mitchell, halie jackson, susan page, and david brody.

welcome to sunday for a special edition of "meet the press." from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning, he was a warrior, a politician and a maverick. the news he died late it was not unexpected but no less tragic. some deaths leave a greater hole in our national physche. his wife cindy wrote, "my heart is broken, i am so lucky to live the adventure of this man for 38 years." he passed away in the place he loved best. he was a prison of war in five and a half years in hanoi, a two

times presidential candidate and always his own man, a maverick as he was so fond of saying of himself. his last moment in the senate came in dramatic in the senate. he walked in the floor and voted in the affordable care act. we'll get to some of the big news in the week. we'll begin with two of my colleagues who have covered mccain for decades. tom brokaw and andrea mitchell. >> you had the last interview conducted with john mccain. let me play it when you asked him are we going to be okay. this is what he said. >> mark twain said history does not repeat itself but it rhymes. i can also say i believe in america and i believe in its people and the folks in arizona,

i am not a pessimist about the future. >> tom. >> well, i'm siting here in chica chicago, i am here to look back what happened in the city 50 years ago. it was a democratic convention, we lost 15,000 people in vietnam that year. we had bob by kennedy assassinated. when i asked him about that, he said it was much worst then. he was always authentic of what he had so say and he could be critical. he got along and he got angry with me -- about what, i was not clear. he came to me, two years ago, i was wrong. i don't know another politician who can talk like that.íf his friend included, the

democratic leader of the senate and people like warren michaels who was the producer of reque "saturday night live." we are missing that and the kind of authenticity that he brought to the arena. >> andrthis is what he wrote ine washington post" this weekend. mccain was a romantic about his causes and a cynic about the world. he had the capacity to be both things and to live with the contradiction. he was realistically optimistic i guess. i guess that optimism, that shining city on the hill that, of course, we think of ronald reagan, i think michael bessla

says last night if the happy warrior had not been coined to describe hubert humphrey that john mccain will be the happy warrior. a warrior and a fighter always but always so much optimism and joy and passion. passion because he believed so much in his country and the people of our country and he believed in a greater vision of america. >> tom, every generation has this handful and it is a small handful of people who don't beco become president but bigger than life. how did he achieve that status in your mind? >> well, i think you achieve that by sailing against the winds that are prevailing. for example, both parties are more idea logs.

what is really needed to be done and john mccain would do that. he was not trapped by his party label. he was very conservative on international affairs but willing to take a look at domestic program from a different perspective. we don't have that much anymore in politics. you know i grew up at a time where both parties got along even though they had different ideology. now, we have everybody trapped in to this kind of ideological box. you can't move onto that box. >> i want to read you john's statement. because it invokes a great story of yours. we met 32 years. we both loved the navy but we had opposite views about war of

our youth. we didn't trust each other. we traveled to vietnam and we found the common ground in the most probable place. i stood with john where years of his life were in pain but always in honor. >> the trip that the fact they would stand there together. what john kerry did after the war being one of the leading, his first appearance on "meet the press" as a protesters against the war. they worked together. as john kerry wrote in the tribute last night, he was savaged by lesser people but that word could never hurt him because he was stronger in the broken places in the words of hemmingway, the great hero that john mccain]ñt

campaign normalized relations in vietnam. it is hard for young people to realize how bitter it was and how much they had to pay in the political price. they gave these two veterans and john mccain the p.o.w., gave bill clinton in 1995, the political cover to actually normalize relations with our former enemy. >> tom brokaw, it is at least 70 people that are nominees for the united states senate this november. there is going to be a lot of remembrance of john mccain this week and a lot of people are reading about moments of john mccain that they are just learning about. half of the people will come back to the senate, what lessons do you hope they take away from what they learn about john mccain. >> something greater than a party label or the kind of ideological if you will, an

attachment, the need of the country are not just david weom issues and where we stand. to take a stand against what you know is not the best interest of the country, it happens to be the ideology of whoever that's in the white house wch. we need more people who'll sail against the wind. i went into hanoi and stood in that park and looked into what lake where he landed and shot down terribly injured. i have seen pictures of him being savage to death in that way and he went through five and a half years. before all that, he had been a playboy fli playboy flyer and it changed his life. he came out and wanted to help the entire country and not the entire base, that's a big lesson. >> tom brokaw and andrea

mitchell. thank you both. >> mr. obama defeated hillary clinton and senator mccain lost that year. the two shared eight years together in the senate and spent a lot of time together overseas. joining us now on the form is former secretary of state, and 2016 nominee of president, hillary clinton. thank you for joining me, simply, what is his legacy in your mind? >> i was listening to tom and and yar andrea, i think we can talk about for hours what he meant to the country and what he meant to a lot of us individually. he leaves a legacy of courage. the courage we all came to know because his time as a p.o.w.

hitting up everyday and working as hard as he did for the people of arizona and for the values that he cherished was not easy. you are right i did travel with you. he could not comb his own hair because of the war injury he had sustained. he could not lift his arm above the shoulder level. we used to laugh because when we would do tv together for sometimes "meet the press." oh, we got a clip later for you. don't worry. >> he'll say well, if my hair is sticking up, i have so much wonderful personal memories of him as well as public ones. >> it was interesting the way he conducted himself in the senate, he almost would go out of his way to find the democrat that you would think is least likely to work with the republicans and try to forge a bond with them,

before you is ted kennedy. it almost became a legendary the way he would try to reach out. >> well, that's because he did believe in the institution and he knows. he knew that the senate could not work if we did not work together. i think it was heartbreaking to him that as he said in the speech she gave right before she voted against repealing against the affordable act that we need to cooperate and learn how to trust each other again and do better to serve the people who elected us. he was so typically john in those remarks. he said stop listening to the bombastic loud mouths on tv and on the internet. the ?nhell with them. he understood the marrow of his bones and what it meant to be an american and how important it was for us to just to agree and

differ. at the end of the day to work together and trust each other and get things done, he'll be missed for many, many reasons but i think that example that he sets of working across the isle and working to bring people together here at home and around the world is one we should remember. >> let me quote him and say let's have a little straight talk. the timing of his death in the moment that we are in politics, there is a reason washington is taking an extra stomach punch this morning. the vacuum he leaves and the timing, we can't ignore this moment that he's leaving us. >> you are 100% right. he understood that we have been through careless times before at home and abroad. but, our institutions are being

severely tested right now. including his beloved senate and he was in every way he knew how trying to sound the alarm and to get all of us as american who understand the ideal that we stood for around the globe, if we turn or backs on leadership on behalf of human rights and the kind of future we want to forge for our children and grandchildren, we'll be giving up on what he fought for and what he was in prison for and what he stood for and in a long line of american patriot. >> secretary clinton, i am going to leave it there. i thank you, i assume you and lindsey graham are going to have some vodka shots and toast to the senator. >> well, i don't know, i hope that'll happen. >> i think the irishman in john mccain would love you to

celebrate that way. secretary clinton, thank you for sharing your remembrance with us. >> thank you, bye. >> this week senator mccain will be -- over night president bush released this statement, "some lives are so vivid, it is difficult to imagine them ended." what a great way to put it. president obama released a statement saying john mccain and i were members of different generations but we shared for all differents a fidelity to something higher. mccain will be buried at the naval academy at annapolis. let me bring in our panelists. i want you guys to share but i want to share moments of john

mccain in 2000s regretting what he's standing up for the confederate in south carolina. this is 15 years before the debate got back. here he is. >> they fought on the wrong side of america history. that my friends is how i feel of the confederate battle flag. that's the honest answer i never gave to a fair question. susan page. what does that say about him? >> it is a reminder that john mccain is not a perfect person. he made mistakes in his life but he would come around and admit it and apologize for it. he did this with reporters and there were times where he was unfairly criticized for stories he was written and two days later he would call you back and say i was wrong, you were fair. who does that? >> as somebody who covers the white house, talk about the timing of this and the moment we are in, i can't help to look at

the reaction and the response of the death of mccain. look back to 2008 when the birther movement was beginning against barack obama. senator came out and talking about christians -- a movement by the way that donald trump was pushing as part of a conspiracy theory years later and he had the war hero comment where he says mccain was not a war hero. the rnc came out and condemned donald trump. you look at what's happening the last year as john mccain is in arizona, president trump has not mentioned him by name but he has attacked him on his health. and the way it is a contrast to the way you look at how republicans have shifted, i think, over the years when it

comes to that relationship. >> he's a statement living in a political environment where state men is a bad word. i interviewed him half a dozen times. i will never forget the twinkle in his eyes and we all know that look that's kind of like, look, this is the maverick in me. i have to tell you, look, on judges and is laum alam and youn the list, he was solid on a lot of stuff. if he had not bucked his party so much, he may have been the president of the united states >> i rode over here this morning with the driver who drove john mccain. he said oh, i remember him, i ui -- he would sit in the front instead of the back and he would

call the driver by his name. as i got out of the car, oh, it is nice that he shared those stories, wait a minute, what is my driver's name. i didn't even ask. maya angelou once said, people will make you -- even that speech that senator clinton referenced about ignoring all the bombastic loud mouth is about remembering the humanity. a i think part of it speaks to that. that ability for us to view one another as people who are trying to build al more perfect union. >> you got to something. i said it in a blunt way earlier. the guy was not a snob. do you know how many political reporters i know and including this one right here who is the

first person to acknowledge them to take them seriously as a reporter and not just to look for the recognizable tv face. no offense to any of us now on tv. he was not a snob whether with a driver. that was an incredible aspect of him. >> i think people who goes through enormous times as he did as a prisoner of war. also a sense of gratitude for everyday and i think he came out of vietnam understanding that everyday was a little bit of a gift and something to be used as a higher purpose. he talked about it to everybody to members of congress and members of the press, he thought all of us should have a higher purpose. >> he thought we all had a stake in keeping the democracy healthy. >> i remember him being happy on that bus, he was the front runner and he had dropped off and it was a time where he had

drop off and nobody gave hi him -- he carried his own ñbags. look, i have been a p.o.w. for 14 years and this is nothing. >> he was friendly with reporters. >> he called you hey, you scum bag reporter but he laughs. >> yes. >> i think every reporter was called a name by him but it was a smile. >> he gave bunny ears to reporters live on the air. there is a lot of moments that reporters covered mccain will remember. >> yeah, he did not attack them on twitter. >> i will talk to jeff flake of arizona, both of who who sits on their judicial committee.

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welcome back, senator mccain's death was a special note to us here at "meet the press." no guests appeared on here more than john mccain. moments filled with grace, dignity and a lot of humor. senator mccain, welcome back to "meet the press kw." i think the job in congress and people like me is to object and criticize and speak up where we think policy is wrong.

>> how did five and a half years in a prison cell in vietnam prepared you for the presidency? it helps me define if principles. i think i would not be running for president if i did not think there would be significant changes in the republican party. i would leave the task to some one else. >> we'll battle again. i am sure they are eagerly waiting for my return and i am sure of mixed emotions. if the guy wins we have to deal with this president. >> when you saw george w. bush take that both of office yesterday, did for a micro second, you wish you were up there doing that in. >> everyday. >> thank you for being honest. >> i still believe that we did the right thing by going in there because sudam hassan has

used those weapons. >> i may not be the youngest candidate in this race but i am prepared and i prepared to lead this country. sarah palin and i disagree on specific issues? yes, because we are both mavericks. let a thousand flowers bloom. i hate the press, i hate you especially but the fact is we need you and we need a free press. we must have a it. it is vital. >> you said he's growing. >> yes. >> there are some that'll say no, the washington establishment sucked him in. >> i hope so. >> you have been on here a few times. >> time flies when you are having fun. >> senator john mccain, thank you for joining us. >> ♪ my dad and grandfather had a successful bakery in pittsburg for 70 years.

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another trump's ally, paul manafort was found guilty in eight counts of financial issues of his own. joining me now senator jeff flake of arizona, senator, i want to begin with your thoughts on senator john mccain, you wrote something very lovely in a self-depu self-depu self-depricatiing way. >> talk more. >> well, yeah, that was my title. the other senator from arizona. i enjoyed that andc but it was like having a big brother who nobody wanted to mess with. i very much enjoyed serving with john mccain in the senate and being in the white house hen he was in the senate as well. >> a lot of people including )s&s

that void? it is not going to be a void that's#4 filledeqrç right away. how does a void like john mccain gets filled? i think you tried to step up in different ways and reached across the isle but not many of your colleagues do that. >> i don't know we'll ever see anybody who is like john mccain. he's one of a kind. we can certainly try to follow his examples and seeing the good in our opponents and recognizing people who may be on the other side of the isle who have different philosophy and they are friends, they are fellow jr(p's, that would go a long ááu if we would follow that example from john. >> i know chuck schumer says he plan to introduce a senate to renaming the senate office's building, somebody that gos bes back to segregation in georgia. i take it that would be a pretty easy vote for a lot of people to castor rename that building of the mccain senate office

building. >> it would be, i hope to be the first sponsor. he had his office there the entire time and including right now near my office. i think that's a fitting tribute. >> let me move to the week events and ask you a question of dealing the president. you are on the senate judicial committee, the president of the united states was accused in helping to commit a federal crime. he's an unindicted coke conspirator. charlie sykes wrote, republicans will need to show they are more than constitutional potted plants. what should the u.s. congress do now to look into this accusation that the sitting president of the united states was apparently in a court of law directed somebody committing a federal

crime? >> first, we want to make sure the mueller investigation is allowed to continue and be completed. we passed legislation and judicial committee to that effect, i hope it is brought on the floor. some of the investigation obviously is the mueller investigation, the seventh district of new york and that'll continue as well. so i think to make sure that there is a separation of powers and congress assumes its constitutional role. that's the most important thing we can do at this point. >> do you think that means just protecting mueller or holding some hearings? >> now, i think protecting the mueller investigation, we don't want to get involved in terms of over lapping what's going on there. i think bob mueller is moving forward as they should and that needs to continue. there is a conñ that the there is a conñ t6ñ ramped >+se about perhaps firing the

attorney general. i hope that does not happen. if it does, we'll deal with it at that time. >> i am curious if sentiment has changed in the senate republican conference when it comes to the nate. i want to play you lindsey graham from last year and lindsey graham from last week. >> if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hill to pay. >> the president is entitled to an attorney general he has faith in. i think there will be a time sooner rather than later where it will be time to have a new face and a fresh voice at the department of justice. >> is it fair to say that sessions does not have the same amount of support in the senate republican conference right now that he did last year? >> i don't know. there maybe a few isolated voices and the president not to fire him now, i can tell you as a body we are saying please don't. he served in the pleasure of the

president president, we all know that. i think it would be a mistake. >> what kind of mistake and repercussion if he does this? >> the concern obviously is that would be the first domino to fall then what happens with rob rosenstein and firing jeff sessions would concern us all and that's the first domino. i frankly think that the president will hold off. he has made these kinds of noises before and he pulled back. >> before i let you go, there is a primary in arizona, three republicans replacing you in the united states senate, you ka ir care to share with us who you plan to support? >> i wish them well. >> do you think your endorsement helps or hurts people in the primary right now? >> nobody would be asking for a republican primary, i can tell you that.

this is very much, you know, i am not happy about it but this is the president's party right now. we'll be sorry for that in the future but that's the case right now. jeff flake, i know you have a heavy heart this morning, i know it is not easy to come on here when you lost such a close friend and mentor, thank you for coming on and sharing your thoughts today. >> thank you. joining me now is the ranking democrat on the house judicial committee, congressman jerry nadler of new york. welcome back to "meet the press." >> before i get started, you have been in washington for 26 years. i know you are in the house and the nate asenate. your thoughts in john mccain this morning. >> well, he was a true american hero from his contagious service and vietnam when he refused his ability to go home and two more

years of torture in hanoi. he was a true american hero and it will be a long time to fill his space. >> let me go to michael coh cohen -- should that trigger the start of an investigation in the judicial committee that could end up going to impeachment or not but the way our system works, is this the proper way it should begin? >> well, i think the mueller investigation has to continue first and for most and the committee has to defend the mueller investigation against the president and the republicans in congress attempts to sabotage it and discredit it and the fbi and the department of justice. congress is supposed to be a

checks and balances. under the republicans, it has been the exact opposite, chairman nunes, saying he views his role is to protect the president. the role of congress is not to protect the president, we ought to be holding investigations. >> what would that look like today? let's say you have a functional relationship of the other side. >> i hope we would confer with mueller to see what we should not do that would get in the way of his investigation. we don't want to get interfered with them by accident. we should be investigating all of these things. the possible interference of the russians of our investigation and what we can do to make sure that can't happen again. who in the united states aided and abetted that and if other

crimes, other improper acts in terms of the campaign, we should be investigating all of those things and bringing them to life for the american people. possibly seeing if there is any legislation we should do to prevent their reoccurrence in the future. again, we should talk to the mueller people first and make sure we don't step on their investigation. >> let me ask you this, you were one of bill clinton's defenders. if you were charged with running something of some form of impeachment investigation, if you are the chairman of the committee, what would happen in democrats took over congress. how would you make sure you handle it differently than your colleagues 20 years ago? >> i would take the same attitu attitude. impeachment is a constitutional to protect the constitution against the president who would

aggregate power and disrupt our checks and balances and pose a true threat to american liberty or constitute in the rule of law. i would also say at the time that you should not do an impeachment on a partisan bases that in order to do an impeachment properly, you have to think that the evidence of threatening impeachable offenses, threatening to liberty was so overwhelming that by the end of the process, the overwhelming majority of the american people including a lot of the people who supported the other side would agree you would have to deal with. we did not have that then. >> obviously watergate did have that. let me ask you this final question here, back in 1999, during the debate of whether or not bill clinton obstructed justice, you said at the time you were not convinced that a

president could obstruct justice, do you feel that way that it is not one of - the quote "may not be impeachable." >> i don't remember saying that. i don't agree with that today. obstruct a president, anybody can obstruct justice. obstruction of justice under certain circumstances may be impeachable offense. remember there is a big difference between a crime which may or may not be impeachable. impeachable offense does not have to be a crime. >> there is some crimes that the president commits that you don't think it is impeachable? >> the affairs? >> that might because it implicating the process of the elections. >> you are a skeptical kind. >> perjury with regards toe a sexual affair -- perjury

regarding an attempt of the president to aggregate power probably would be an impeachable offense. mr. nadler, i have toll lea lea there, representing new york city, thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> we'll take a look at our journal poll, we polled both before and after the news of cohen and manafort, did we see a change in president trump's approval number. another moment of a remarkable career of john mccain. >> everything i have done something that may or may not influenced politically, i regretted it every time i have regretted it every time i have done something and who would have thought, who would have guessed? an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it's a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less.

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end game brought to you by boeing, continuing our mission to connect, protect and explore and inspire. back now with "end game," instead of trying to sum up the week, maybe we'll use these three times magazine covers to start this conversation. this is the "time" for the last 14 months, they have done a series of three of them now. they have the word stormy and wind and now he's suddenly is had the oval office under water. halie jackson, i think this is a good of a way to describe

perhaps how the president is feeling now. >> when you talk to folks in the white house, there is an insistent that this had nothing to do with us or our policy and what we try to do. the president is doing this thing. we are not creating this crisis strategy and we feel that we don't have to now. the poll that you just talked about validate that in large part when it comes to what's happening inside the white house. you talked to folks at the west wing structure there, people he speaks with. he's unhappy with this and he's frustrated and upset but not with paul manafort. that's an interesting piece to watch. he made it clear publicly as well. >> all the news this week had nothing to do with russia. that's the bottom line. you got to deliver the goods on russia, we'll see what happens. look at this point if there is no russia, there is no goods on russia, base does not care. why? because a lot of people - >> you think the base cares about russia?

>> they may care depending on what comes out of it. everybody gets on their moral high horse and says oh, trump has been dealing with this for 30 kwleyears and he's been doin this for 30 years. they don't care and they realized what they're voting for and signing up for. how do i say this? the republicans and democrats, both parties are to blame and donald trump is here and he's a boy in a china shop. >> can i say one thing though? the argument that would be effective with his bases, this is a president who repeatedly promise to higher tre the best and bring the boaest folks in. so that may be some sort of, you say me democrats on that. >> if you look at the numbers in our poll, i find what's interesting not the approval

number because we should accept the fact that donald trump base1 is going to stay with him. 56% of democrats say this congressional election is more important than usual and 38% of republicans say that. who's going to bother to go to vote in the midterm elections, is people that think this election really matters to me and that's an important number. >> though there is some in trump orbit thinks the threat of impeachment will motivate his base. >> we heard from nancy pelosi speaking about impeachment should be a bipartisan thing. i am not sure what else democrats have that's going to motivate them show up at the polls. i understand why republicans are motivated to keep that agenda in place. what else is there to get democrats out? >> i think democratic leadership, and the disconnect, you know republicans, the

republican base, david, wanted an aggressive party the go after obama and clinton. the leadership were like we are always trying to hold back those that did in the party. and they paid a trump and i am thinking all of these responsible democratic leader that are impeachment caution, are these people and the base may say give me michael avenatti, i don't want your responsible guys. >> that's manager that the democrats have to deal with. oen the republic on the republican side, they got what they wanted. a guy is going to shape it up. i hate to say it and i know we are sitting on "meet the press" roundtab roundtable, 62% thinks it is biassed. >> it has been a tactic and a tool of the roger ailes created

chamber. let's not pretend it is not anything than that. >> yes and no. the independence are part of donald trump's base. i think that's very important. a lot of time we say republicans are donald trump's base. not really. >> it is a separate trump. it is a different version of the republican party. >> those independence also distrust the media. it is not just republicans. it is many americans. >> no, i take your point. >> it is a campaign tactic. >> it is wal-maorth to say to g away from politics. they're right, the founders did not intend impeachment to be a tool for what they referred to -- it is designed for treason and high crime and misdemeanor, i feel that there are a lot of people saying rather we mobilize him for 2020 rather than throwing him out now. >> all right, guys, that's all we have today.

thank you for watching. all of youwe are keeping john mccain and his entire family in our thoughts. we'll be back next week because if it is sunday, it is "meet the press. i will leave you this morning not with my words but with senator mccain's words. >> the world is a fine place and worth fighting for and i hate very much to leave it. i do too, i hate to leave it but i don't have a claytomplaint, n one. i made a small place for myself in the story of america and the history of my times. ♪ flintstones! meet the flintstones. ♪

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this week even in expensive california, there are tax breaks for the right companies. we'll take a look at opportunity zones with venture capitalist marlin nichols. and invaluable advice for silicon valley start ups looking for funding. randy kamazar. our reporters from the los angeles times wendy li and the wall street journal this week on "press here." good morning. away may be in the middle of one of the longest econo