and earlier i misspoke and referring to bob kerry. as john kerry but i meant bob kerry, the nebraska former senator seriously wounded in vietnam as well. earlier this evening our colleague chuck todd and political director and moderator of "meet the press" joined us by phone and helped us remember senator mccain. >> it is a sad moment here in washington. a sad moment i think for a lot of americans. every generation of senate has somebody that is referred to as a lion of the senate. and this generation, this era, this last decade, that is john mccain. and when somebody sort of gets that title, in washington it is because the type of person that is sort of a bedrock of the institute that puts the institution above a political party and john mccain, he was bipartisan and he was a republican. but when the chips were down, he would always defend the institutions above his party. and he would put his -- his slogan for the presidential campaign country first -- live up to. he had a towering senator in arizona he had to live up to. so, it took

and earlier i misspoke and referring to bob kerry. john kerry but i meant bob kerry, the nebraska former senator seriously wounded in vietnam as well. earlier this evening our colleague chuck todd and political director and moderator of "meet the press" joined us by phone and helped us remember senator mccain. >> it is a sad moment here in washington. a sad moment i think for a lot of americans. every generation of senate has somebody that is referred to as a lion of the senate. and this generation, this era, this last decade, that is john mccain. and when somebody sort of gets that title, in washington it is because the type of person that is sort of a bedrock of the institute that puts the institution above a political party and john mccain, he was bipartisan and he was a republican. but when the chips were down, he would always defend the institutions above his party. and he would put his slogan for presidential campaign, country first. it's something he always wanted to live up to. he would say he sometimes came up short but he al

he collaborated with john kerry and max cleveland, bob kerry. there was a whole class of vietnam vets and they never forgot their service to our country in southeast asia and the men and women who fought there. >> that did so much for our returning veterans and our veterans as a general population. douglas brinkley, thank you so much for your insight. >>> next, with scandals mounting, trump tries to turn the page, but will it work? i'll ask a democratic congressman. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit smoking for years on my own. i couldn't do it. i needed help. for me, chantix worked. it did. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix, without a doubt, reduced my urge to smoke. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sle

. >> our bob schieffer hand john dickerson reflects on a political giant. john kerry who once considered john mccape to be a candidate. stories from some of the journalists who knew him next on "face the nation." color clear good morning, welcome to "face the nation." there has been an outpouring of emotion following the death of john mccain. cbs news chief congressional correspondent is in sedona near the homhe plans to honor the senator's live? >> good morning. as you can see, constituents and neighbors have already come by with nows and flags as farewell gesture. the state will have chance to say god bye when he lies in state at the he'll be eulogized by joe boyd enand other close friends service in phoenix then taken to washington where he will lie in state u.s. capital where he served for 36 years. also be service at the national cathedral. he never got tired that hethe bs class at the u.s. naval academy he asked to be buried there in annapolis, maryland, near the grave of a close friend. >> nancy, thank you.othe than se history of john mccain was our most freque

kerry. i guess that makes him a democrat. it's just ridiculous. they keep attacking bob mueller simply for doing his job. and the president tweeting his way into an obstruction of justice charge on top of all his other legal difficulties. more same old, same old. if he fires jeff sessions to get rid of mueller he's going to find another count of obstruction of justice. >> obviously this is making news today, some senators earlier in the week as well saying that it's just a matter of time before sessions gets fired. in doing so is the president signaling to his next potential attorney general what he wants done? and could that possibly become a factor in the obstruction of justice investigation? the way he's talking about sessions and what he wants sessions to do, which is to be a loyalist to quote leah. >> i agree, absolutely. and i think it's a rudy two step, if you will, what they're doing is clearing the decks for war. but the first step is to get through the midterms. and then they're going to do whatever they want to get rid of sessions, to replace mcgahn with whomever, and go to war. and the thing

was firmly on john kerry's terrorist list when he was in charge of the state department we've seen pictures we've heard testimony of shocking crimes committed by our by book. by bob it seems even london a staunch ally of some rebel groups has lost patients britain won't send any more cash to fighters and live as it says in the times newspaper u.k. diplomats have admitted the remaining rebel areas are falling into the grip of the hottest t.v. giant sky news came up with a teaser for their exclusive report from edward province on twitter but online many warned by the media as attempts to portray that place as just rebel held clave so the question is if you live is mainly ruled by al qaida who gave sky news the exclusive access they are not rebels there. which did you get access to perhaps they've seen this reporting tactic once before during the siege of syria's economic hub aleppo activists say close to one hundred children have been killed in that beeston rebel held area of aleppo. battled districts of rebel held unable to convince moscow to stop bombing civilians all they talked about was how civilians and moderate opposition fighters were being slaughtered by a