through the loss of beau biden. and military service. i travelled with beau biden and dr. to baghdad to swear in new citizens who were members of our troops in a policy that's now been reversed by this pentagon. where military service would qualify before daca, where military service would qualify you for citizenship. the moving ceremony of joe biden swearing in these young troops who were in a conflict zone. we see larry fitzgerald, the wide receiver. who was so honored and surprised to be chosen for this service. senator biden has been teaching and lecturing as we know and has not ruled out returning to politics despite his age. >> there are no rule s anymore andrea. >> no rules indeed. that is pastor noah garcia, north baptist church. bridget mccain will be reading from ecclesiastes. there will be a tribute by grant woods. a hymn performed by johna little. a reading from andrew mccain, one of the elder sons from his first marriage.

biden: my me is joe biden. aughter] mr. biden: i'm a democrat. [laughter] mr.d i love john mccain. laura: john mccain wanted former vice president joe biden to speak, and he telivered a potribute to his beloved friend. mr. biden: john's story is the american story. that is not hyperbole. it is the american story, grounded in respect and cency, basic fairness. the intolerance for the abuse of power. >> ♪ and now the end is near laura: the final musical tri mte spoke to terick figure john mccain was in one who never hesitated to switch political positions to put the national interest first. now he has left his beloved arizona for the last time, making the final journey to washington, d.c., where he will lie in state before the memorial service on saturday. a brief time ago, i spoke with the bbc's anthony zupoher, who has ed extensively on the legacy of senator mccain for us. as we haveeen saying, john mccain so carefully choreographed every detail of these final commemorations, om the pallbearers to the speakers. of course he was one who liked to settle scores, b

joe biden, the first words out of his mouth were, i am joe biden. i am a democrat and i love john mccain. there was laughter after that. that was one of the themes of joe biden's message was bipartisanship and the ideal of america that john mccain believed in and he says he believed in. also, we heard from larry fitzgerald, a player with the arizona cardinals. he said, you know, listen, we might be unlikely friends, i'm black, he's white. i have long hair, he doesn't have much hair. he said that's the kind of person joe biden was, he made friends with people like me, with everybody. he crossed the aisle. joe biden talked about that a lot. joe biden talked of them sitting together in the senate. they were friends. they were united not only in their political belief, but their underlying political ideals and united in grief. of course joe biden lost his son to the same cancer that took john mccain. that was really the root of joe biden's softly spoken message to the family, itself, which was the most emotional part of that service this morning. also,

if you think about joe biden and john mccain's relationship, it goes back more than 40 years. remember, john mccain before he entered congress and in the senate, he was the navy liaison to the senate so he and joe biden will do a lot of overseas trips. during those trips they became very tight. of course the sad irony of all this is that joe biden's son died from the very same cancer that took senator mccain's life last friday. you can see here, the honor guard and every branch of the military will be lined up outside of the state's capital. if yesterday we saw this amazing outpouring. they just could not have been more impressive, more inspiring, as senator mccain's casket now being carried by the honor guard out toward the hearse and then will make its way on that route 10 miles here to the north phoenix baptist church. this is the grand ceremony. yesterday we had a smaller ceremony, we heard from former senator john kyle, we heard from the governor of arizona, doug ducey. the governor will also be here today, he will not speak. and there will also be some 24 current senator

vice president biden made five trips.on that he's not going to be sensitive to the fact is absolutely ridiculous. >> let me see, peter. your work is so important. we appreciate you coming on and sharing it with us. really appreciate it. see you soon. >> thank you, steve. >>> coming up, more on all of that and real controversy in washington with lisa and charlie coming up. when you combine ancestry's dna test with its historical records... ...you could learn you're from ireland... ...donegal, ireland... ...and your ancestor was a fisherman. with blue eyes. just like you. begin your journey at ancestry.com. are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi.? a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. >>> welcome back, everyone. so, lisa and charlie are here. we are focusing on the big issue which is china'

he said that biden/mccain had this strange relationship. they always seemed to have each other's back. whenever i was this trouble, john was the first guy there. and i hope i was there for him. and we never hesitate to give each other advice. he called me in the middle of a campaign, and would say, what the hell did you say that for? it was not an issue. like you just screwed up, joe, you know? and i'd occasionally call him. look, i have been thinking this week about why john's death has hit the country so hard. yes, he was a long-serving senator with a remarkable record. yes, he was a two-time presidential candidate who captured the support and imagination of the american people. and, yes, john was a war hero to demonstrated extraordinary courage. i think of john and my son when i think of ingersoll's words, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor skorns to compromise with death, that is heroism. everybody knows that about john. but i don't think it fully explains why the country has been so take been i john's passing. i thi

picking up about joe biden and jill, i have never heard.ey were standing in front of the church. cindy mccain went to the car, saw them, came back and gave both of them really big hugs. clearly, so grateful for speech, but obviously the friendship he described they had for decades, more than 30 years. you can see the pictures. you can see the picture on the air of the hearse and the motorcade. one of the things we are also going to see is a larger motorcade. we were talking about the fact that it is larger because there are so many people, again, they call themselves mccainiacs that want to take the journey with the mccain family from here in arizona back to washington. talk about that. >> that's so poignant. as we all remember, john mccain hated to be alone. he always wanted to be surrounded by his friends. he always said he was too restless and needed company and companionship. i think so many of the leaders that are here today felt a deeply personal need to be with him from arizona to the very end, the naval academy. last night, just tal

biden: my name is joe biden. [laughter] v.p. biden: i'm a democrat. [laughter] v.p.: and i love john mccain. i have had the dubious honor, over the years, of giving some eulogies for fine women and men that i have admired. but lindsay, this one is hard. the three men who spoke before me, i think, capture john, different aspects of john, in a way that only someone close to him could understand. but the way i look at it and the way i thought about it, was that i always thought of john as a brother. we had a lot of family fights. [laughter] v.p. biden: we go back a long way. i was a young senator, i was elected when i was 29 and i had the dubious distinction of being put on the foreign relations committee, which the next youngest person was 14 years older than me. i spent a lot of time traveling the world, because i was assigned a responsibility, i was the chairman of the european affairs subcommittee, so i spent a lot of time in nato. and then the soviet union. and along came a guy a few years later, a guy i knew of and admired from afar. your husband, who had been a p

joe biden can do that too. biden's only problem is that he is tied to president obama and the obama administration policies people were running from when they embraced trump. the same problem hillary clinton had. if he does run, he's going to have all that baggage. >> dana: president trump is going to pennsylvania tomorrow. he's going to be campaigning for barletta. it is also where biden still has a pretty stronghold. remember the story. president trump, the only state he's worried about is pennsylvania. you'll want to watch that rally tomorrow night. >> greg: there is another rally? >> dana: yes and another one on saturday. >> juan: about greg, you need a 90 to buy my groceries in pennsylvania. >> greg: juan, you need an i.d. to buy certain groceries. i know that for a fact. >> jesse: cigarettes, alcohol. >> greg: if you want to buy any kind of -- you know they would not sell me some kind of decongestant. i was sick as a dog but they wouldn't sell it to me. >> jesse: because you look like an addict. >> dana:

vice president biden made five trips.e sensitive to the fact is absolutely ridiculous. >> let me see, peter. your work is so important. we appreciate you coming on and sharing it with us. really appreciate it. see you soon. >> thank you, steve. >>> coming up, more on all of that and real controversy in washington with lisa and charlie coming up. insurance that won't replace the full value of your new car? you'd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with liberty mutual new car replacement we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty ♪ in your wireless mouse? maybe not. maybe you can trust that during your fantasy draft, the computer won't autodraft a kicker in the 7th round. or... you could just trust duracell. stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com >>> welcome back, everyone. so, lisa and

and former vice president joe biden, also spoke.e thing. all politics is personal. it's all about trust. i trusted john with my life. and i would. and i think he would trust me with his. >> joe biden said that he and john mccain thought of themselves as brothers. brothers who often had family fights. a touching tribute. the hearse will go to sky harbor airport, his casket will be flown to washington, d.c. yesterday was a time for paying your respects to john mccain. tooled it's for arizonians to say good boo i. to john mccain. >> dana: thank you. we'll bring in karl rove and more began ortegas. karl, you knew john mccain very well. certainly when you have this kind of country that is outpouring there, of support and condolences to the family and real feeling that an american hero has passed. i know that you knew him well, too, and i'll give you a chance to tell us a little about your feelings today. >> well, as you say, a great american hero has departed. and to me one of the amazing things was how much we don't know about john mcca

my son, beau biden.y, purple heart -- excuse me, a bronze star, other service medals he was awarded. he looks at john from the time he was a high school kid with nothing but absolute rock -- raw admiration. my son hunter got to know john personally. they got to talk to him, they took the measure of the man and they got to learn from him. they really cared about you, john. and i know you know that. john and i would travel the world together. as i said, he jokes, he said he carried my bags. the son of a gun never carried my bags. he was supposed to carry my bags, damage, but -- bags, but he never carried my bags. he was a young liaison officer, i was a young senator. whether we were going to germany or china, whenever i went with notable exceptions, i asked john to come with me. and the many of those so-called coattails, congressional delegations, back in the days when we like each other and talk to each other, we used to travel together. democrats, republicans, and our spouses. and many of those, jill wit

my my name is joe my name isjoe biden. my name is joe biden. laughter. i'm a democrat. laughter. and i loved john mccain. in the uk, veteran labour politician frank field quits the party, saying its leadership is becoming a force for anti—semitism. also on the programme... fury in scotland as alex salmond raises £80,000 on a crowdfunding site to pay his legal expenses that are linked to allegations of sexual harrassment. energy drinks do not give you wings, they make you fat and they rot your teeth, which is why the uk government wants to stop children buying them. get in touch with us using the hashtag — beyond one hundred days. hello and welcome. i'm katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. search donald trump and twitter today and you will get a veritable torrent of hits. in the past few hours, the president has taken on the media, social media, the justice department, james comey and even, most striking of all, perhaps, the chiefjustice of the supreme court. while mr trump was using twitter to rail against his perceived enemies, most of the nation was fixing

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joe biden during that campaign.e campaign trail he supposed to be attacking mccain but talking about how close friends they are and how much respect he's had for him. aides to the vice president biden told me last night confirming to me that he was asked personally by senator mccain this past april when he traveled to arizona to visit with him one last time if he would deliver a eulogy for him at service this is week in arizona. it's a bipartisan tribute to somebody who has a real close relationship not just in terms of politics but family. of course, senator mccain dying of brain cancer just as the son of vice president biden his son bo died a few years ago. we remember that moment just in -- over the holidays when megan mccain on the set of "the view" was comforted by biden. so biden has delivered a lot of eulogies for members of the senate over the years in both parties. i think this one is really going to stand out. as biden said in the statement last night, mccain's legacy to this country is -- his service will

we expect that joe biden i've been told will be speaking there. and then there will be a tribute here a memorial at the national cathedral. we know from his book he wants to be buried in annapolis near lis great friend chuck larson, a fellow grad from his class where john mccain famously was near the bottom of the class and chuck larson was one of the star of the class. i also wanted to share with all of us there's a rec we yem that he read at his father's funeral and also at the funeral of his biographer a friend and colleague of mine from the reagan years, bob tin berg was a fellow veet flam veteran who was wounded in vietnam. he was the biographer of john mccain in knighton gail song. when bob was buried, he read the same lines in john mccain's book as a closing poem. called rec question eem. under the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let my lai. graddy live and gladly die and i laid me down with a will. there be the verse you grave for me. here he lies where he long to be. home is the sailor home from sea and the hunter home the hill. th

and mccain became emotional after biden introduced him.wo days later i saw hmm just off the senate floor and i had this exchange where i said gosh you looked like you were getting emotional up there on stage. and mccain spent a minute or two just telling the story of how he met young beau biden, the future vice president's son, after biden had come to the senate in the worst possible way, his wife and daughter dying in a crash, and then trying to raise these two young sons by himself. >> yep. >> and beau would go on to serve honorably in the military and go to iraq and mccain would see him in iraq and then mccain just starting growing emotional thinking about it all. and there is beau byte biden and mccain, who both died of the same brain cancer. he grew emotional, stopped talking, got in the elevator and left. >> just hearing all of these stories -- what a way to honor him. paul cain thank you so much for being with me today. >>> you know, the nation will spend this entire week paying tribute to senator john mccain, a survivor of torture.

joe biden/ -d- vice president: "my name is joe biden. i'm a democrat. and i loved john mccain."den also had words of encouragement for mccain's family. his own son beau died three years ago after battling the same brain cancer that took the senator's life.joe biden/ -d- vice president: "i know right now, the pain you all are feeling is so sharp and so hollowing...but i pray, i pray you take some comfort knowing that because you shared john with all of us, your whole life, the world now shares with you in the ache of john's death."after the service, motorcade will transport mccain's coffin to the airport before departing for washington.his body will lie in state at the united states capital friday, followed by a memorialat the national cathedral saturday. and on sunday, the senator will reach his final resting place at the naval academy cemetery.in phoenix, i'm karin caifa. (pam) colin (pam) colin kaepernick's collusion grievance is set to go to trial ... an arbitrator denied the n-f-l's request for summary judgement today. the former 49er's case alleges ... the league owners col

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my name is joe biden. i'm a democrat. and i lovejohn mccain. john joe biden. i'm a democrat. love john mccain. john mccain joe biden. i'm a democrat. and i lovejohn mccain. john mccain wanted former vice presidentjoe biden to speak and he delivered a pointed tribute to his beloved friend. john's story is the american story. not hyperbole. it sounds like it. it's the american story. grounded in respect and decency. they seek fairness. the intolerance of the abuse of power. and now the end is near. . . abuse of power. and now the end is near... the final musical tribute spoke to the maverick figurejohn mccain was, one who never hesitated to switch political positions to put the national interest first. now he has left his beloved arizona for the last time, making the final journey to washington dc where there will be a memorial service on saturday. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. the russian foreign minister says that terrorists — as he calls them — in the mainly rebel—held province of idlib in syria must be wiped out. the un special envoy for syria has calle

biden: my name is joe biden. [laughter] i'm a democrat. [laughter] and i loved john mccain. i have had the dubious honor of of giving some eulogies for men i admired. lindsey, this was hard. the three men who spoke before andi think captured john aspects of john in ways only someone close to him could understand. thethe way i look at it, that thought about it, was i always thought of john as a brother. we had a lot of family fights. [laughter] we go back a long way. united states senator. i got elected when i was 29. i had the dubious distinction of being put on the foreign relations committee. the next youngest person was 14 years older than me. spent a lot of time traveling the world because i was assigned the responsibility of my colleagues in the senate, and i was chair of the european subcommittee, so i spent a lot of time on nato and the soviet union. and along came a guide a couple of years later, a guy i knew of that came a guy a couple of of, alater, a guy i knew man who had been a prisoner of war of war and endured in arm's pain and suffering -- endured andmous pai

as with my friend bowe biden -- beau biden, who was taken it too young and with senator ted kennedy who was lost at a time when he was most needed. brain cancer has robbed us of our best and brightest and we must work harder to end this disease. we should rename the great senate building in which john served for decades that we might keep his memory alive for future generations, and i think we should strengthen and invest in national service, in expectation that all young americans would serve their country in some way, military or civilian, which will take effort and investment, but service as a young man helped john fall in love with our nation at a time of great division. i can think of nothing greater to remind us of the spirit of service of which john lived his life than to make it possible for the hundreds of thousands of young american who want to serve, whether in teach for america, habitat for humanity, the peace corps, or the military by expanding those opportunities for them to learn skills, commit themselves to our community and country and earn tuition funds for college thr

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. >> he welcomed joe biden into the family. his relationship with senator mccain starred and continue over the years? >> they have known each other for a very long time. at one point in time he was the naviy liaison to the united states senate and one of the people he befriended was joe biden. long before john had any political ambition, he was exposed to people like senator cohen, senator biden, some of the great luminaries as the chairman of committees that he worked with. so he's always had an incredibly close and personal relationship with joe biden. it has been tested over the years on issue after issue. and yet they remain steadfast in their personal relationship. if there's any better exemplification of what you can accomplish in politics to debating vociferously and then at the end of the day maintaining a relationship with the people you do battle with is the model of governance that john mccain so much adhered to. and that relationship with joe biden was clearly in that category. i would say bar none, joe biden has be

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some of his best friends, joe biden, on the opposite ticket. a rival. >> and joe lieberman who ended up an independent but was a democrat. in fact, as john mccain was dying, joe biden and joe lieberman went out to see him. they posted pictures of the three amigos. john mccain as my colleagues have said, was such a unique patriot and in fact, when he arrived in congress, i was covering him then in 1982. and he was already a celebrity as a freshman congressman because of the tortures that he had endured in vietnam and everybody knew about that. they wanted to be in his presence. they wanted to be somehow surrounded by his aura and he understood that but he also had a sense of humor about it because he knew that, you know, come on, it took me being, you know, being shot down to have this kind of effect. that sense of humor got him through a lot. but he also did have an awful temper. he would get very angry with his colleagues, members of the press and then he'd have to come back and fix it. in the last couple of days, tom, i have been going back o

joe biden never served in the military, although his son did. and yet, they became fast friends even before this terrible bond over cancer. it's telling the people that john mccain has chosen to speak at his service. the one thing i wanted to mention to you also is that this is a very sad day, and my heart is broke sln as well, but john mccain was always about having fun. one of the reasons there are so many people both democrats, republicans, arizonans and people all over the country, and i should say the world who care so bmuch about him is he was fu to be around. everybody wanted to go with him on congressional trips to be at the back of the bus as he campaigned. i think people are really going to miss him. the whole part of him that was so much fun. >> yeah, now we're looking at the state capitol in phoenix, arizona. they've closed the camera at the casket. we should be getting that back later when the public is allowed. these were all friends, family, staffers, others who worked closely with senator mccain who were allowed to pay their resp

john mccain asked joe biden to deliver this eulogy in person when biden visited his ranch in april, and biden said he wants to deliver a eulogy that shows how their personal connection transcended their political differences and pay tribute to john mccain's decades of service to our country. george. >> they served together. terry moran, thanks very much. >>> to the white house where president trump increasingly appears to be running administration by twitter. just yesterday he used his feed to contradict his defense secretary's take on china, push the chief justice of the supreme court to take action, and surprise his white house counsel. our chief white house correspondent jon karl tracking it all and, jon, the president also had a defying take on that staggering increase in the death toll from hurricane maria. >> reporter: he sure did, george. in the past he has rated his response to puerto rico a 10 out of 10 and now even with the grim new assessment of the death toll, the president is insisting that his administration did a, quote, fantastic job. at an anti-drug event wednesday the

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joe biden was a very young senator at the time. john mccain arranged the trips that joe biden and other senators would take, travels with them around the world. he joked he was responsible for carrying joe biden's bag, which was a joke but actually very true. that's how long their friendship has endured. we are going to hear some really poignant words as you can imagine from joe biden as well as former aides from his days as a representative here in arizona when he first started and other family members, including a couple of his children will read passages from the bible that senator mccain himself chose. >> dana, of course, the vice-president in addition to the long relationship together, he of course, knows the struggle because his son passing from the same illness. his remarks today will be particularly poignant. we look forward to your coverage coming up at noon. thank you for being here. >> thanks, ryan. >>> joining me now is michael crow, the president of arizona state university. he knew senator mccain for decades. michael,

joe biden shared stories of his life, humor, character.ical correspondent dana bash reports from phoenix. >> reporter: signs and flags planted on the motorcade route, an organic show of appreciation to the man that represented them decades. the man they call senator mccain's family calls husband and dad. ♪ amazing grace >> the emotion palpable. >> to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. >> and lots of levity. john mccain's friends came with classic stories of a man with an unparalleled sense of humor. >> he said well, with a big smile on his face, watch out when you start your car. >> grant woods, talking about his first day as mccain's chief of staff back in the house. >> all of the staff came out, they were all waving and things. they seem to be very nice. he said you're going to have to fire half of them. i said what? what are you talking about? and he just sped off, and the staff was waving, and about one minute later we went right back by because he had gone the right way, of course. >> reporter:

joe biden and his emotional tribute to a man he calls his brother. >> we shall not see his like again. >>> also tonight, the new tropical systems we're tracking in the atlantic, heading into labor day. >>> new reporting involving donald trump, michael coe an and "the national enquirer." did the tabloid have decades worth of dirt on the president, and did he try to buy it all? tonight, the secretly recorded conversation. >>> and tonight, authorities want to know, did you see this doctor? the 23-year-old now facing charges for impersonating a physician, allegedly diagnosing a patient, and how he allegedly gained access to a children's hospital at least seven times. >>> and good evening and thanks for joining us on a very busy thursday night. i'm tom llamas, in for david. and tonight, we begin with the breaking news. a devastating collision. first responders on the scene of a thor rihorrific crash involvi greyhound bus and a semi in new mexico. you can see large chunks of both vehicles littering the highway. greyhound says the bus was headed from albuquerque to phoenix with 47 passengers

not just vice president biden but all of the speakers today. vice-president was particularly good, but as douglas just said, larry fitzgerald was also phenomenal. i was watching that ceremony with a group of other people not con descendingly, like "star wars" political figures coming together sometimes grumpy and testy but always had a love of life and a love of country. it was pulling so many people together. i think the vice president, in using his humor the way he did, really bonded with the audience and showed how people with two different ideologies, political ideologies can still come together and find the best way ahead for our great nation. i think we all need to be reminded of that often, and we should, opposed to the divisiveness we've seen recently, we need to start pulling together and have those conversations and laugh a little bit more and have a beer with one another to talk about what separates us first and what might unite us a little bit. >> senator mccain would certainly endorse the beer notion for sure. thanks so much. we sa

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but vice president biden shared in a lot of experiences and vice president biden lost his son, though to the exact same brain cancer that killed john mccain. so the mccain family and joe biden will continue to fight for research into that cancer and stand up for all victims of that deadly disease. fox news will have continuing coverage of the memorial for senator john mccain at the arizona state capitol. stay with us for that. plus, president trump tweeting that white house counsel don mcgann will be leaving his position in the fall. he had been extensively interviewed by the mueller team. more action from the couch, straight ahead. ♪ 's >> ao fox news alert. the president announcing don mcgann's upcoming departure tweeting, white house counsel don mcgann will be leaving his position in the fall shortly after that the confirmation hopefully of judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. i have worked with him for a long time and truly appreciate his service. chuck grassley responded on twitter saying, i hope it's not true that mcgann is leaving the white house counsel, i

mccain permly asked biden to deliver the biden when he visited the ranch this spring. in the church where wife cindy and two of their children baptized and among those in attendance, 24 sitting senators including 10 democrats. craig and savannah? >> peter, thank you. >>> now a shakeup at the white house. yesterday president trump tweeted that white house counsel don mcgahn will exit the post this fall. mcgahn apparently didn't know it was coming. later the president praised the 50-year-old lawyer as, quote, a really good guy. mcgahn helped guide supreme court selections and dozens of picks for lower federal court. he's also been the primary white house contact for the mueller investigation. 12 days ago it was revealed mcgahn spent nearly 30 hours answering questions from mueller's investigators. >>> mixed signals of the trump administration this week about the future of joint military exercises with south korea. last night in a series of tweets the president said his relationship with dictator kim jong-un was very good and no reason right now for what he refers to as c

> "my name is joe biden. i'm a democrat. and i loved john mccain. /// he lived by another code ... an ancient, antiquated code where honor, courage, character, integrity and duty mattered.""it wasn't about politics with john, he could disagree on substance, but it was the undying values that animated everything john did. everything he was. you could come to a different conclusion, but where he would part company with you is where you lacked the basic values decency, respect. and he could not stand the abuse of power." to paraphrase shakespeare...we shall not see his like again." (pam) like again."shall not see his shakespeare...we to paraphrase of power."to paraphrase shakespeare...we shall not see his like again." (pam) another big story we are following a california man is now facing charges for threatening to kill journalists ... at the boston globe. robert chain was arrested at his home in the encino area of los angeles. prosecutors argued that he should remain in custody as a danger to the public, though

and i'm like, "that's joe biden." >> seth: yeah. >> so, i'm like, "i got to go talk to joe biden."orked on his presidential campaign. they were close. my wife told me, "we hung out with the biden kids a lot, great memories." i'm like, "i got to go tell him this." so i go up to joe biden. i say, "hey, mr. vice president, i'm jacob soboroff from msnbc. how are you?" "hey, great to see you." so then i got nervous. and i said to him, "my daughter --" i don't have a daughter. [ laughter ] " --is my father-in-law's wife." [ laughter ] and i was like -- and then, i said it again. i was like, "my daughter is my father-in-law's wife." and he wasn't responding. and he kind of like takes the aviators. and he looks over. i was like, "oh, my wife is my wife. and my father-in-law is my father-in-law." he's like, "oh, how are they? tell them i said hello." so i'm sorry, mr. vice president if you're watching tonight. i'll never do that again. >> seth: that's so -- yeah, that's like you were asking him a riddle. >> it was bad. >> seth: yeah. >> i was very uncomfortable. >> seth: my wife is my daugh

you see the former vice president joe biden is now speaking about his friend. it's been an emotional tribute. this live picture from inside the north phoenix baptist church national state, local and tribal officials are celebrating the life and legacy of this five-term senator. as you know, senator mccain died from brain cancer on saturday. and he lived a life of service and sacrifice, often doing what he felt was right instead of what the party told him he should be doing. abc's martha gonzalez is live outside the baptist church by a look at what the senator meant to people. martha. >> reporter:ly, reggie, after bie biden wraps up this moving tribute we'll be hearing from the mccains' son andy. 1,000 tickets were given out here. this is the last chance for people in mccain's adopted home state to pay tribute. the final day in arizona for the state's six-term senator john mccain. after lying in state yesterday, his casket traveling from the arizona capito building to today's funeral. >> john mccain believed in our constitution. and he stood up for it. he fought

former vice president and john mccain best friend, joe biden. this i was to bring in john weaver. former senior strategist and brand new nbc news and msnbc contributor, welcome to the family john. you joked is a sign of the a apocalypse. >> how you doing? >> it's been an emotional week. as much as we were prepared for this time period and these days coming up, it's been tough. >> there's a lot of people who are going to be watching really closely what former vice president biden had to say in this tribute. the vice president appeared with john mccain in one of those last public events. mccain made some emotional comments about him. talk about what you expect to see. >> thiey have a bond that goes back to the '70s and very close. i think they both represent for americans who we're striving for in the country today and j juxtapose to the trump administration. did they disagree strongly on so many things, particularly on foreign policy matters and domestic issues? but they were past friends. because of what happened to the vice president's son and

joe biden honored his friend. it has been an emotional week and only more so today. >> absolutely, this is oo place he spent so much of his life. he will lie enstate here. people that he worked with side by side, we expect the family, cindy mccain will be here, his 106-year-old mother roberta mccain will be here. the joint chiefs, as well as those that work beside him. his aides, people that know him in and out, all part of a private ceremony. mike pence will address the crowd as well. this is all following the very impactful ceremony and celebration of life yesterday in arizona as they said goodbye to their favorite adopted son. >>> senator john mccain returning to washington dc where he spent 35 years representing the state of arizona. his family and friends waiting on the tarmac to honor the senator, earlier, thousands lined the streets of phoenix to say goodbye. hundreds more gathering inside the north phoenix baptist church to give the war hero a final send off. >> he loved this place, and if hi fell in love

began accompanying a young senator biden on diplomatic trips. >> we both cockeyed optimist and really believed there is not a single thing beyond the capacity of this country. >> reporter: he wasn't the only one to recount a seemingly unlikely friendship with mccain. >> i'm glak. -- black. he was white. [ laughter ] i'm young. he wasn't so young. [ laughter ] >> reporter: larry fitzgerald is a star wide receiver for the arizona cardinals. >> what made senator mccain so special was that he cared about the substance of my heart more so than where i came from. >> reporter: tommy espinosa is a local latino activist who met the republican lawmaker in the 1980s. >> john says, i want you to speak on my behalf at the republican convention. [ laughter ] i said, senator, i want to remind you, i'm a democrat.% [ laughter ] >> reporter: there were readings by two of mccain's seven children. >> chapter 3 and verses 1 through 2. >> i have fought the good fight. i have finished the race. i have kept the faith. >> reporter: and a larger lesson, biden said, about putting principle before politics. >>

and a friendship with joe biden dating back to the oebi1970dens. bidenonoring mccain last year in one of the late senator's final public appearances. >> i hope he has heard my profession of gratitude for hisl friendship and love these many v years. it's meant a lot man to me.>> >> reporter: months later biden comforting mccain after her auge father was diagnosed with the same cancerth that claimed live of biden's son beau. >> if anyone c make it. her dad is one of my best friends. peter, that was such a sight to see some see of senator mccat children greeting people in arizona. what shotood out to you about that? reporter: this day was not ay just as powerful, it was poignant, , it but it waswa overwhelming. you could see how moved everybody was to say o last goodbye. the totaleveryb tally mre th 15p people showing up last night, te eping the doorso the state capital open for an extra hour l helping t to accommodate all the by.t wanted to come four of john mccain's children m there to say theiron thanks.er other momen powerful moment tha indy ned i

but you know, i'ms going here that it would be biden.bvious reasons. >> stephen: i hesitate to ask nicki minaj but what is the obvious reason that joe biden likes big butts and he cannot lie. why is it? >> well, i mean, any time a white person gets like the pass that they can be invited to the cookout, that means they probably like big butts. >> stephen: and he's permanently invited to the cookout because he showed love to, you know, our love, you know, obama and they worked so well together. and he also just seems so genuine and i find that genuine men like big butts. (applause). >> stephen: you know what they say, i love a lobster, all the best meat in the tail. yeah. yeah. well, i know i couldn't do what you do. i could not do what you do, but i suspect you could do what i do. so i'm going to read one of your lyrics, i will read one of your lyrics right here. from llc. and here say monologue joke we had to cut the other night. the monologue joke the other night, this is about the president, okay. so i will do yours, okay. i feel like