. - sarah palin. - who? [cheers and applause] [upbeat hip-hop music] ♪ - back in 1984, the selection of geraldine ferraro as the firu. woman of a major party presidential ticket catapulted walter mondale's struggng campaign, taking it from dull to dazzling. sarah palin knows at same feeling. brought on to john mccain's 2008 campaign to add a little energy and excitement, she did just that. both women dealt with t tacks that were st political but personal. nevertheless, these two trailblazers were arguably the two most consequentiavp picks in all of history. [upbeafunk music] ♪ en - ladies and gentl of the convention, my name is geraldine ferraro. [cheers and applause] - geraldine ferraro was a congresswoman from queens, new york. she was feisty. she was outspoken. she was from the district thate bunker from tv lived in. it was that kind of in-your-face, telike it is, no holds barred-- she had a perfect new york queens accent. father was an immigrant. my grandparents, my mother's side, were very poor people.

that was sarah palin. >> she could be vice president. >> she has more skills than anybody. >> sarah palinadlines and that's scary to barack obama. >> they were saying it's experience, experience, experience. then they chose palin and start talking about change, change, change. what happened? >> palin has yet to hold a news conference and steers well clear of the reporters that travel with her everywhere. >> she's going to have to answer questions and have to scans ans questions about her record. >> i was curious. what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand? >> i read most of them with a great appreciation for the press and the media. >> but what specifically? >> all of them. any of them. >> there's no more teleprompter. there wasn't anything for her to memorize in preparation for her interviews with katie couric. when she was asked about foreign policy challenges, she had nothing to draw upon. >> as part of your foreign policy experience, what did you mean by that? >> that alaska has a very narrow maritime border

palin connected to the party'ss base in a way he never could. >> i kidded john about it constantly.ay a week, they campaigned together. and he would always double his crowds when she was there. she had tremendous appeal among the conservative grassroots. >> narrator: and among the campaign's grassroots supporters, the anger was boiling over. >> i remember going to john mccain rallies in 2008 and for the first time having members of the crowstart to throw things at reporters, you know? that was new. there was so mh anger that members in the mccain audience wanted to throw it sewhere. >> narrator: much of the anger was directed at mccain's opponent, barack obama. th one thing that was observable and yet ignored wadegree to which there was real hostility toward barack obama on the right. >> obama's a terrorist, don't you know that? >> obama's a muslim. w 's a terrorist him. >> narrator: he sae hostility firsthand.ru >> i can't t obama. i have read about him, and he's not... he's not... he's a... he is an arab, he ia... >> no, ma'am, no, ma'am. no, ma'am, no, ma'am he's a... he's a dece

arrived and sarah palin was late. talking to john mccain for a while. you could tell there was a certain tension. having run it that year, i got to tell you when he selected sarah palin, it did bring a certain energy to his campaign. i saw people showing up at the call centers were much more energized. i think he was conflicted. she was a very polarizing figure on the one hand, but she brought a certain energy to his campaign that it lacked a the that moment. >> she was also sort of, i think, safe to say without spilling too much tea, a divisive figure within the family as well. in the moment i think she was the pick. maybe if this service were just john mccain, she would have been invited, but there's a circle, a web of networking people around her that became complicated for this family. i think the senator, you're right, always respected her but came to not appreciate the direction she decided to go in politically. >> any second now, senator mccain's casket, the motorcade will arrive at the north phoenix baptist ch

this is going to be so much fun. >> sarah palin was something republican voters loved in 2008. you saw donald trumpco letely take advantage of it and take all of these sort of palin voters and add to them. >> and breaking news from the campaign trail, trump is picking up the endorsement from sarah palin.ru >> ...ggle within the republican party...ra >> nr: as the republican nominee, trump exploited the forces that mccain would not. >> we are led by very stupid people. we're going to drain the swamp of washington. we're gonna drive thrs over the illegals! build the wall! build e wall! >> almost everything stylistically, and many things aboutrump substantively, wer anathema to john mccain. ere's almost nothing about trump that is in the same space as john mccain. >> stunning upset, donald trump is on his way... >> narrator: and on election day, trump did what mccain could not-- win the presidency >> well, donald trump pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in american history. >> ...in one of the most shocking elections in our political history.. >> ...new world order, at

reiss r raised nearly $8 million online, and it's just been since sarah palin gave that speech lessours ago. >> with your help we're going to go to washington and we're going to shake things up. >> this is the real shocker among white women mccain leads 53-41 and that was 53-42 obama. >> sarah palin really does steal the thunder and garners all the headlines, and that is scary to barack obama. >> it was just like a month ago they were all saying experience, experience, experience. and then they told pailen and they started talking about change, change, change. what happened? >> pailen has yet to hold a news conference and steers clear of the national reporters who travel with her everywhere. >> eventually she's going to answer questions about her record. >> when it comes to stning a world view, i was curious what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped on this to stay informed. >> i've read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. >> what specifically? >> all of them, any of them that have been -- >> there's no more te

so, the idea of president palin wasn't some abstraction.al possibility. >> heading into the fall of 2 2008, the race was neck and neck. then, on september 15th -- >> meltdown, the american financial system is rocked to its foundation as top wall street institutions topple. >> just before the first scheduled presidential debate, mccain decided to suspend his campaign to hammer out a deal on the economy. but at a meeting at the white house, he was silent while barack obama offered more input in the conversation. as the economy cratered, the campaign struggled to maintain momentum. >> politically, they felt they had to go after barack obama's early days in politics. sarah palin was much more willing to be the person on the stump to say these things about barack obama. and a phrase, palling around with terrorists took hold. >> our opponent is someone who sees america as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country. >> the crowds got angrier and angrier. and really, any mention of barack obama's name would trigge

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the big other question of this is sarah palin.sked senator mccain multiple times over the years about the palin pick. he always paused to think. he was reflective. he never criticized it. >> he would never say it. >> he never criticized her, never disowned her. what he always told me was she did what was asked of her, which was to fire up the base. >> to be clear, it might sound like a distinction without a difference, but it is. even in the book he said he regretted not picking lieberman. he never said he regretted picking sarah palin. >> he didn't blame her. >> and it's such an interesting point, too, because clearly the palin pick and the reason he was advises not to pick joe lieberman, in addition to not wanting to have a mess of a convention and alienate a large portion of the republican party, which would have happened likely as well, he was envisioning -- the whole point of this was envisioning a presidential ticket that reached across party lines that could afford to alienate a large portion of the republican party and dra

the fact is that before i picked sarah palin, we were running behind. we stayed ahead until the day the stock market went down 700 points. we went from three points up to seven points down. sarah palin gave us a momentum that no other person could have achieved. she energised the republican party. she has been trashed by the media, she has been assaulted, continuously, by the media. she defeated joe biden, a united states senator in the debate... a senator, everything you have said... —— but senator, everything you have said... the fact is that she is still very much admired and appreciated by our party. i feel the passion in that answer, but it didn't directly address my question. do you regret it? of course not, of course not. i don't know why i should. you looked then, and you appear now, to be quite frank, to be out of sync with sarah palin's brand of republicanism. she says that the republican establishment, to use her phrase, is trying to "crush" newt gingrich. sarah andi sarah and i never agreed on that. nor did sarah and i never agreed on that.

if i had won, sara palin energi energized the republican party.ign that mccain never could have. i could write the script as to how it was an inspired choice. it all depends on whether you within win or lose. i do not want to appear as complaining to you, gloria, because i've had the most wonderful life and career that anybody you will ever meet or interview. bar none. no one has had the incredible life that i've had. i think that the run for president made me appreciate how fortunate a person i am. once i got over the 24 hours of defeat, which was not unexpected, i began to be a little receitrospective and appreciate the life that i've led and that i could continue to contribute. that was one very important thing. i said i lost, it's bad, all that, but i can go back to the united states senate and i can still make a difference. so it changed me in that -- that and age have made me appreciate every single day. and it has not diminished my passion, it has increased my passion. >> wonderfully said, it really is. >> it's such an example of how gratit

. >> one other criticism is his decision to select sarah palin as his running mate.te about that decision in an interesting take. let me read part of what you wrote. let us also recall the message he sent that many did not want to hear, the revolution is coming, and republicans need to find ways to address the concerns of voters who supported sarah palin and would eventually bring donald trump to the white house. what do you mean by that? >> i have seen a lot of criticism that mccain created the phenomenon that made donald trump president. i think that has it exactly wrong. the kind of criticism piled on governor palin and granted she proved herself inadequate to the task, but it's also true that the way people were talking about her and about john's choice and even now, the kind of disrespect for their fellow americans and for the concerns and anxieties of their fellow americans is something that john always struggled against. he always tried to pull fellow americans together and to reach across the divide. i think he doesn't get nearly enough credit for that from t

first-term alaska governor sarah palin.t first, palin helped campaign draw support he was lacking. but after some bizarre interviews, many campaign aides considered her a liability. >> putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the united states. >> reporter: mccain would never say he regretted choosing palin. he never talks about it? >> no. >> reporter: ever? >> and he never will. >> reporter: the economic collapse in 2008, ultimately sealed mccain's defeat. still, he worked to stay out of gutter politics, taking the mike from a voter who claimed barack obama was arab. >> no, ma'am. >> reporter: and giving a concession speech that marked the historic moment for the country. >> this is an historic election and i recognize the special significance it has for african-americans. and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. >> reporter: mccain settled into life as a senior statesman and fulfilled a dream of becoming senate arms services chairman and traveled around the world every chance he got. an informal

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. >> somebody said have you thought of this republican governor from alaska named sarah palin?>> as the millenum approached, john mccain decided the take aim at the top job of the country. >> it's because i owe america more than she's owed me that i am a candidate for president of the united states. >> from the very beginning, he was an underdog against the son of a political dynasty. >> george w. bush emerged in the summer of 1999 as the most potent political force either party had seen in its presidential nominating process. >> short on cash, mccain skipped the iowa caucuses and focused on the new hampshire primary. >> he decided that's where he would start. >> he rolled out the straight talk express. his all access bus tour. a 24/7 press conference on wheels. >> the straight talk express of 2000 was unlike anything i had ever seen and i have ever seen since. >> you had no idea what was going to happen at any moment. you weren't been spoon fed anything. it was just completely spontaneous. >> mccain held more than 100 town halls in new hampshire and the hard work paid off. he

one of those was who he chose to one with this 2008, sarah palin. and you wrote this in your column. the anti-washington rage embodied by palin came back to haunt mccain in the person of president trump. my guess is mccain was one of the many millions of decent republicans and democrats who could never imagine that the gop and then the american electorate, or at least the electoral college, would vote for someone with such low moral character. i guess there are some out there who could argue that the choosing of palin andy legitimate mizing that voice, legitimizing that grand of politics, that reality show brand of politics, you could draw a straight line from that to the election of donald trump. >> i wrote, katy, that i think that choice of sarah palin was probably the biggest political mistake that john mccain made in his career. i think what he was trying to do was to connect as an older establishment republican with the energy that he understood rightly was out there. there is an insurgency in the republican party. sarah palin was an early exam

so the idea of president palin wasn't some abstraction.the fall of 2008 the race was neck and neck. on september 15th -- >> meltdown. the american financial system is rocked to its foundation as top wall street institutions topple. >> just before the first scheduled presidential debate mccain decided to suspend his campaign to hammer out a deal on the economy. but in a meeting at the white house he was largely silent while barack obama offered substantially more input in the conversation. as the economy cratered, the campaign struggled to maintain momentum. >> politically they felt they had to go after barack obama's early days in politics. sarah palin was much more willing to be the person on the stump to say these things about barack obama. and a phrase of palling around with terrorists took hold. >> our opponent is someone who sees america as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country. >> the crowds got angrier and angrier. really any mention of barack obama's name would trigger a chorus of booing and

there was -- there were the pre-sarah palin rallies and the post-sarah palin rallies. prep pre-palin were fine but lacked energy because of his complicated relationship with the base. post-palin -- >> and the size was different. i don't think a mccain rally ever got more than 1,000 or 2,000 people. when sarah palin came on, there were regularly over 10,000 to 20,000. but you also go back to a year before that, the summer of 2007 when mccain had come in as the front-runner and his campaign completely imploded. people think it imploded over the iraq war because he was one of the supporters, but it really imploded over the issue of immigration. at town hall after town hall after up to hall that we were both at, we would get assailed by this party of the republican party that was really upset that he was more moderate and working with ted kennedy and george w. bush on immigration. you know, that really was kind of an example of the kind of tension between him and a certain part of the party that never went away. >> and then later when he was -- he had the toughest re-elect

catapulted sarah palin to acclaim. in shadow of unpopular republican incumbent, struggled to build momentum and at times strike the right tone. >> fundamentals of our economy are strong. >> overtaken by resurgent senate colleague barack obama, on a history making run. true to form, mccain didn't fade away, turning misfortunateune into role of senior congressman. july 17 no vote on the gop health care repeal, one of the several failed attempts to dismantle obamacare. budget hawk who led the charge against obamacare while trying to broker a compromise on immigration. fierce supporter of the military. >> reactions from social media. president defeated my deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi tweeted, he was patriotic hero who served his country above all. >> republican lindsey graham tweeted, america and freedom have lost one of her greatest champions, one of my greatest friends and mentors. >> chuck schumer, meet few truly great people. john mccain was one of them. tru

the president, that includes asking barack obama to deliver a banning his 2000 a running mate sarah palin frrm attending the ceremony, sarah palin being one of trump's most vocal it was ii the resident reacting to this non-invitation? >> donaad trump has been aa6 c11 murder was silent, he tweeted his condolences to the former senatoos faaily but hhs not offered attributt to his life, leading some to believe he may actually be jealous of all the ofention that john mccain has-t from the toronto star hits the nail on the head with this cartoon, the left you can see military and the former senator has indeed been hailed by many as a war hero and if you compare that with donald trump's own achievements, you get quite a different picture, just a bunch trump is reading the newwpaper, and the headline reads mccain lying in state, trump is not amused, i do that eevry day,,he says. thatis the new store livee in a village in new zealanddis reeortedly trying to ban cap -- cats. >> it may seem like a rather on decision, but authorities say that our furry friends actually responsible for the death of t

first term alaska governor sarah palin.t first, palin helped mccain draw conservative support he was lacking. but after some bizarre interviews, many campaign aides considered her a liability. >> putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the united states. >> reporter: mccain would never say he regretted choosing palin. >> he doesn't talk about it? >> no, never, and he never will. >> reporter: the economic collapse in september 2008 ultimately sealed mccain's defeat. still, he worked to stay out of gutter politics, taking the mike from a voter who claimed barack obama was arab. >> no, ma'am. >> reporter: and giving a concession speech that marked the historic moment for the country. >> this is an historic election. i recognize the special significance it has for african-americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. >> reporter: mccain settled into life as a senior statesman, fulfilled the dream of becoming senate armed services chairman, and traveled around the world every chance he got. an info

. >> picking sarah palin was, in some sense, the ultimate maverick move. >> the so-called straight-talk express. >> why don't you just say it? >> because i think i have to be honest with you. >> fighting brain cancer until the very end. just as he fought so many political battles. >> we're getting nothing done, my friends. we're getting nothing done. >> tonight, the senator who stood his ground and voted his heart sometimes against his very own party. >> it was a dramatic vote. his last big kind of maverick end dependent move. >> tonight, honoring the life of sacrifice and service of a hero who never wanted to be called one. >> steadfastly reject that label. >> remembering a maverick, john mccain. good evening. i'm david muir. >> and i'm amy robach. for over a year, john mccain battled brain cancer with the same tenacity he brought to all parts of his public life. >> tonightmaverick, the firebra, driven by his own convictions and the love he had for his family. near the end, john mccain retreated to a place he had grown to love. his home near sedona, arizona. >> he loves nature. he like

and i don't think he could have known this at the time, but in picking sarah palin, he basically took a disease that was running through the republican party, not palin herself, she's a normal human being, but a disease that i'll call anti-intellectualism, disrespect for facts, and she was a chapter in the rise of a cheap kind of populism. >> i've got to ask you a question. i do not believe in -- i can't trust obama. i have read about him, and he's not -- he's an arab. he is not -- >> no, ma'am, no, ma'am, he's a decent, family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. that's what this campaign is all about. he's not. thank you. thank you. >> the environment in which he was already headed in an uphill battle where the energy of the party was being captured by his vice presidential nominee, sarah palin, and it was a much more red meat, populous angry tone, for john in the middle of that to say, hold on a second, we don't demonize each other, we're all americans, we're all on the same team, i thought was an indication of who john fundamentally was

a lot ofolks will point to his decision to pick sarah palin as his running mate.s never apologized for it. >> reporter: more than anything, john mccain lived his life with gusto, looking ahead, ever optimistic about the country he so loved. joyful and resilient and grateful for it all to the end. >> i'm the luckiest guy on earth. i have served america's cause, the cause of our security and the security of our friends, the cause of freedom and equal justice. and i've enjoyed it. every single day of it. ff> next here, a bow of respe erentoce. jimmy's gotten used to his whole room smelling like sweaty odors. yup, he's gone noseblind. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily for all your hard-to-wash fabrics... ...there's febreze fabric refresher. febreze doesn't just mask, it eliminates odors you've... ...gone noseblind to. and try febreze unstopables for fabric. with up to twice the fresh scent power, you'll want to try it... ...again and again and maybe just one more time. indulge in irresistible freshness. febreze unstopables. breathe happy. wi

. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> reporter: palin energized conservatives but in the midst of a financial crisis, the country was ready for a change. democrat barack obama beat mccain with a two to one landslide. he returned to the senate. became chair of the armed services committee. drew fire from donald trump. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured. >> reporter: and returned it. >> in many respects, this administration is in disarray. >> reporter: in the summer of 2017, the normally sharp mccain grew fatigued and had a few verbal stumbles. >> in the case of mr. comey, president comey, case of president trump. >> reporter: tests revealed glioblastoma. an aggressive form of brain cancer. >> this disease has never had a more worthy opponent. >> reporter: still, the former fighter pilot returned to the senate to cast a decisive vote against a slap dash effort to repeal certain parts of obama care. and, after three-and-a-half decades in congress, he left his colleagues with an entreaty to work together. >> we are getting no

sarah palin said barack obama was someone who palled around with terrorists.hat campaign, he recognized that she was not the tone that he wanted to set. you heard him on the night of his defeat in phoenix. i was down there with him. and he gave this speech that was full of generosity towards barack obama and the country and full of hope. and i remember thinking, if it had been that john mccain who had run this election campaign in 2008, maybe we would be looking at a different scenario. >> yeah, i think one of the things we -- one of the things that goes along with being a maverick is being something of a gambler. sarah palin was a huge gamble. >> indeed. >> at the time all the enthusiasm, all the excitement was with barack obama. mccain saying, we're going to roll the dice. we're going to try something new. we're going to shake things up. the thing we forget today is initially it appeared to be working. he had spent years attacking the republican party. he was not beloved by the base of the republican party and sarah palin was a shot of pure adrenaline to rep

mccain still went bold, first timer alaska governor sarah palin. at first, palin helped mccain draw conservative support he was lacking but after bizarre interviews, many campaign aides considered her a liability. >> putin rears his head and comes in to the air space of the nice. >> mccain would never say he regretted choosing palin. >> he does not talk about it. no, ever. >> and he never will. >>. the economic collapse in september against 08 ultimate lt sealed his doo he feet. still, he worked to stay out of gutter politics. taking the mic from a voter who claimed barack obama was arab. >> no, no ma'am. >> and giving a concession speech that marked the historic moment for the country. >> this is an historic election and i recognize the special significance it has for african-americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. >> mccain settled in to life as a senior statesman. fulfilled a dream of becoming senator armed services chairman and traveled around the world every chance he got. and an informal diplomat and an informed senat

. >> sreenivasan: in 2008, he ran again, this time winhe republican nomination, choosing sarah palin as his running mate, and then losing to barack obama. throughout his long career in office, senator mccain continued to be a political "maverick." e opposed the use of tort during president george w. bush's administration, ant sponsored antorture bill that passed congress and was signed by president bush in 2005. in july 2017, after surgery to remve a blood clot in his eye revealed a mignant brain tumor, senator mccain made a dramatic return to the capit for a late night vote against president trump's proposed legislation end to obamacare. his vote defeated the bill. before the vote, he addressed his colleagues: >> we're getting nothing done, my friends. we're getting nothing done. >> sreenivasan: mr. trump frequently criticized and even aisulted senator mccain both during the 2016 ca and in office. last night he sent out a brief tweet that read: "my deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of senator john ndcain. our heartsrayers are with you!" in a statement, former p. si

his choice of palin.ne of the things recently that is interesting is some of his last remarks, he echoed what bush said in his second inaugural greed he said we are not a blood and soil nation, that we are a real nation. any president who said that up to john kenny would have laughed at you. this country is of course rooted in blood and soil. i grew up in pennsylvania and my ancestors fought with washington's army. one third of his army was german-americans. , theye crossed to trenton did not cross for an idea. they did not cross for some future multicultural dogma, they crossed for farms and ladies at home and kids to push these invaders off their land and they left their blood. i have been to the revolutionary war graves on the side of the men that froze to death. for a warrior like john mccain to say something like that is whatng and an example of the guy from north carolina said, that he had no core beliefs. we are rooted in the common culture, common language, common belief is kinde of the thing that

. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> sarah palin was a surprising and bold decisionrt he was sore lil ly -- lacking. >> i'm very serious about it. i said okay. okay. >> his first choice, close friend and democrat turned independent senator joe lieberman. >> he clung to it a long time even after people in the party were telling him there would be a walkout of like a third of the republican delegates because of some of my liberal domestic positions. >> mccain later admitted regretting not picking lieberman, but always defended palin. >> the treatment that she received was still the worst that i've ever seen any politician receive. >> he's loyal to a fault and that was his decision. >> it was also his decision to not let his campaign turn ugly like in 2000. it came to a head at a town hall a month before election day. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. no? >> no, ma'am. no, ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. >> you know, john believes so deeply in fundamental fairness, but if he thinks you're

we can litigate sarah palin a lot.totality of john mccain's career, as a republican and as a conservative, i would sure as hell rather have john mccain's running this party than donald trump's running this party by any stretch of the imagination. >> all right. rick wilson, betsy woodruff and jake maccobey. great to have you with us. thank you for your time. >>> we continue to follow that shooting at a madden video game tournament in jacksonville, florida. multiple fatalities reported. the gunman also dead. we'll have the very latest when we come back. we'll have the very latest when we come back it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our cli

. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> sarah palin was a surprising and bold decisionew 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 do it as a matter of fact. >> you're not a republican. >> i'm not a republican. no, i'm very serious about it. so i said okay. okay. >> his first choice, close friend and democrat turned independent senator joe lieberman. >> we clung to it a long time, even after people in the party were telling him that there would be a walkout of like a third of the republican delegates because of some of my liberal domestic positions. >> mccain later admitted regretting not picking lieberman, but always defended palin. >> the treatment that she received was still the worst that i've ever seen any politician receive. >> he's loyal to a fault and that was his decision. >> it was also his decision to not let his campaign turn ugly like in 2000.

he regrets choosing palin over his friend, senator joe lieberman.he mccain family also did not extend an inhave in -- invitation to president trump. >>> an innovative solution to the lack of affordable housing. a restaurant owner has bought a home and is now housing some of her employees at bargain rent. azenith smith live in palo alto to explain how it works. >> the owner says it was difficult for her to retain her employees. many of them can't afford to live here in palo alto. so she bought a home not too far away in east men lo park and became their landlord. >> reporter: the 29-year-old works as a chef. he shares the home with three of his coworkers. their rent, garbage, cable and internet included, just $500 a month. >> it's so cheap. i think another place, you pay $1,000 or $2,000. >> reporter: the cheap went wouldn't be possible if it weren't for zareen. she bought the home in 2016 for $950,000 and now rents rooms to her staff. it's her answer to what she calls a labor crunch. >> most of my employees either commute from san jose or hayward. v

. >> he picked sarah palin, who brought the tea party and donald trump. >> history is funny, in many respects. >> john mccain was the hair to the great states people of the republican party. i haven't often found in history, i agree they were. i will say for senator mccain was a patriot that believed in america. i think donald trump was an heir to sarah palin in terms of the acrimony, you against them politics she brought into politics in 2008 and that he kind of brought to another level now or to a lower level, depending on your opinion. >> he never said a bad word about subpoena. nor questioned the decision. even though she launched the tea party, which brought in president trump and they are not friends, he never said a bad word against sarah palin. they spent a lot of time together. it was a controversial course at the time. >> do you think that if john mccain had become president in 2008, this country would have never seen donald trump and how would it have changed? >> no question. the republican party would have gone on a different trajectory. if romney would have been presiden

on the other hand we have had a comment from sarah palin, talking aboutjohn mccain as being a maverickshe wasn't invited, they will have fond memories of each other. scientists in london and texas say they've made a significant step towards an effective treatment for the fatal muscle—wasting disorder, duchenne muscular dystrophy. using a technique known as gene editing, the researchers were able to correct the dna of a small group of dogs with the condition. our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. part beagle, part king charles spaniel, these young dogs all have duchenne muscular dystrophy. the condition mostly affects males in both dogs and humans, and it gets progressively worse as they age. now look at the contrast with these females, who carry the faulty gene but are unaffected. the dogs are part of a groundbreaking project published in the journal science involving the royal veterinary college and the university of texas. this research involved editing the dogs‘ genome, the recipe book for life. a faulty gene in the dna causes their disease, duchenne muscular dystrophy. th

his vice presidential pick was alaska governor sara palin.bama gained momentum and ultimately defeated mccain in the general election. >> these are difficult time for our country and i pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to him him lead us through the many challenges we face. reporter: mccain remained active on foreign policy and rallied for military action in libya and pushed for reforms in egypt and called for withholding aid to the egyptian army. he criticized the obama administration for its handling of the september 11, 2012 attack in benghazi that killed four americans including ambassador chris stevens. >> we are holding the president of the united states responsible. he has given contrasting versions of events to the american people. reporter: in 2015 he became chairman of the armed services committee. >> we need a strategy to win. the strongest nation on earth. reporter: he campaigned for his own senate election, he pledged support the eventual republican nominee. he pulled his ma'am nation support of donald trump about hissi

a palin family source telling nbc news the palin family will always cherish their friendship with thedonaldcain's ranchapri the arizona cardinal football star and friend,arry fitzgerald, joe biden expected to w celebrateh 24 current senators including ten democrats. >>> now to a shakeup at the white house. yesterday president trump tweeted white house counsel don mcgahn will exit his post this fall. re mcgahn aply didn't know it was coming. the president praised the lawyer as, quote, a really good guy. mcgahn has helped guide supreme court selections. 's also beenthe primary white house contact for the mueller investigation. 12 days ago pit was revealed do mcgahn spent 30 hoursg answeri questions. >>> and a question about the future of joint military exerses with south korea. in a series of tweets the president said his relationship with kim jong-un was, quote, ve t good sore's no reason for what he refers to as costly war games. but ouesday the day before the defense secretary jim madison said those exercises with the south would continue. in june the p ssidentrprised the pentagon wh

he also got bad press for picking sara palin. lot of republicans came to believe that she wasn't ready to step into the presidency. joining us now from connecticut is charlie gasparino. some thoughts on john mccain, i know you dealt with over the years and could be a great source and great interview, but also could be testy at times. charlie: i covered him a lot in 2008. i covered the financial crisis in 2008. but the other story was the financial campaign. they were sort of tied together. john mccain, you could see this when you were doing the report being his campaign. he was frustrated because he thought he had a good chance of winning. but then the financial crisis started, and you could see it in the frustration in john mccain that this thing was slipping away. howie: he briefly us spended his campaign and people said that was a misstep. charlie: he looked unhinged. here was his opponent, barack obama, who spent very little time in the senate. he really believed he was the right guy for that job. and he had some massive blow