john mccain believed in a process. he didn't like the process in health care, and he voted against it. if someone withheld information from the committee they had for two months and dropped it last-minute, woe be unto them. i am a conservative. proud of it. i want conservative judges on the court when it is our turn to pick. when it is their turn, i have honored their pick. jeffrey: merrick garland, i was just going to say. he's not north korea. senator graham: in 2016, the primary process is ongoing. if you look back at 100 years, no one has been replaced under that circumstance. if you listen to what joe biden said and bush 41, you should hold it over to the next election. joe is right a lot. i felt i was doing the traditional thing when it came to sotomayor and kagan. i thought i did the traditional thing. i will tell you this. this may make you feel better but i really do not care. if an opening comes in the last year of president trump's term in the primary process is started, we will wait to the next election. i

you know, on the john mccain issue, look, i traveled a lot with john and with lindsey.uys loved each other. they were good friends. and lindsey is right. john mccain was tough. but he was forgiving. and i think they had a true friendship that transcended some political differences. i think they would have had words. i remember them being in disagreement, for example, over the sonia sotomayor vote, which was a big issue back in the day. >> oh, lindsey graham voted for her. >> and john mccain voted against her. >> right. >> so, you know, i don't know what john would be doing. and, you know, lindsey, look -- this was a tough one for me. because i love the guy. and i've known him for so long. and it's almost like he's become -- he and trump have become richard burton and elizabeth taylor. they're on again, they're off again. they break up, they make up. they break up, they're in love again. last time -- >> which one is elizabeth taylor? i don't want to really go there, you know? >> well -- >> i see them more as dorothy and her little dog toto. famously, the president said t

ok, the john mccain national defense authorization act just past. it is important that john mccain be honored. the president did not. hime stefanik did not honor . i think it is important to start with that. we can't continue to sustain our military spending. but it is a matter of priorities. we need to invest in the people that serve us. invested in ndaa our military service people and gave them a raise, but there's still a gap there. we need to invest in our federal workforce. we need to invest in our veterans and make sure that veteran services are not discretionary. invest in our uniquey bases that are and are part of our community. countyom st. lawrence and i was a county legislator working with the regional liaison under the fort drum expansion. i will support fort drum and the work it has done in our community and continues to do. rep. stefanik: i am the only one on this stage that has had the privilege and honor of working with john mccain. i'm the only one who has earned the support for my campaign by john mccain. i consider john mccain a f

john mccain be honored in that. i think that is important to start with, but i will continue we cannot continue but it's a matter of priority's. the people that serve us and finally they invested in the military service and there's still a gap. i put the veterans in with our military service as well. and we need to invest in the military bases but are unique and part of the community. i will support the work that gets done in the community. i'm the only one on the stage because of the privilege and the honor of working with john mccain and the only one that earned the support from the campaign. i've considered john mccain a friend and it's a loss for the entire country. and i am the only one on this stage who was a part of congress who named after john mccain we passed every year and i am proud of the work that we've done to rebuild the military. it's adequate to meet all the threats and the world today and as i mentioned before, and that russia has a destabilizing influence to the nato ally and has been muddling ac

um, mike barnicle, what would n john mccain do? what would john mccain say? rly he morphed into a donald trump supporter before judge mccain was even put in the ground. it is shocking how quickly he switched over to maybe who he really is. we don't know who he really is. we've had him on here, joe and mika, as you know, numerous times, he is engaging, he can be funny, he can be sort of introspective about things like the united states senate. but during the course of these hearings, he is someone who is unrecognizable in terms of what you thought he was. i mean, mark, i don't know what your take on it is, but, i mean, who is he? >> i can't remember, although it happens all the time, the distance and gulf between where lindsey graham was and where he was now. you think about the things he said during the campaign about donald trump, couldn't be further from where he is now and you just get a sense is this senator graham speaking or is this future attorney general graham speaking? >> he wants to be attorney general so badly, mika. i guess you do what you -- what

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john mccain was a terrific man. he is a hero. i am a democrat, and i know that.t of my friends are republicans, and we talk. we discuss things. we do not get angry with each other. i am so afraid for this role and for our country that we do not come together. i mean, you know, it is like -- why don't we just put mcdonald's on air force one? it is the same difference. it is like feeding the beast every time, c.o.a., center of attention, he has got to be center of attention, and it is becoming painful. host: thank you, what are you hearing in her voice, michael smerconish? guest: frustration and the perception that there is more that divides us than unites us, which is incorrect. we all have more in common than you would believe paying attention only to the cable channels and very doctrinaire oriented media programs. here is my one bit of advice for helen and minnesota and for everybody else. we have never had so much choice in our media consumption as we have today, and yet so few of us seem to be exercising it. do not get trapped into one of those silos where you

i do think -- i got this bracelet, which is wwwjmd, what would john mccain do. going to give them to all 100 senators. i think manchin would agree no matter the outcome -- who knows where mccain would have come down on this, but the process was completely screwed up on both sides. america looked at that and said it couldn't be more fundamentally flawed. these hearings, on both sides. i think that's what john mccain would have said, brett kavanaugh and dr. ford did not get fair hearings, were not treated well, were not treated with respect and we need to reform the whole process going forward. >> interesting to see if there is a change next time around. >>> taylor swift coming out and actually talking about not only who she's supporting now but why she would not vote for marsha blackburn. celebrity endorsements do not seem to go far especially in the world of john berman, but in all seriousness, does it help someone? >> i take that endorsement and put it my tv ads if i'm marsha blackburn. celebrity endorsements do not help. in fact, often they hurt. i remember in

i think john mccain was right. that's what started it. i think the garland move was a reaction to the killing of the filibuster. now the democrats moves on kavanaugh are that. -- i wase fbi report u.s. secretary, i looked at a lot of sbi 302's. when i went through fbi background checks, i ultimately avoided my background file. it's going to be raw data. they don't make any determination at all about the credibility of the person they are speaking to, the credibility of the story or evidence. you talk, they write. they asked questions that look natural from what you have said and write it up, then they hand it in. the judge, you being the senate, the administration, if the administration is getting a background check -- >> do you believe dr. ford? >> i clearly believe she is a victim. whether she is a victim of brett kavanaugh or not, it is hard to figure out. problem.he there are people in this country, myself included, who don't agree with you. you don't agree with me, but i don't say up here and his you. this is why our politics are whe

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she would never unlike john mccain try to lower the temperature at these rallies so many people thinkatmosphere she created and connected and really riled up the base, it was all about the base as meghan trainor would sing, that that really, the genesis of trump, president trump's kind of interaction with his crowds at his rallies really, the seed was planted with sarah palin. >> with sarah palin because trump is now fake news. remember lame stream media. >> yeah, the lame stream media. >> you wrote about that in "the atlantic." sarah palin supporters, talking about you said another, let's see, led to a man to yell out kill him, palin did not push back against her often angry crowds you said, and then again, palin not only refused to lower the temperature, she seemed to bask in that kind of heat. >> right and things to come. david axelrod said you can really, you know, draw a straight line between sarah palin and the candidacy and presidency of donald trump and how he conducts himself. >> let's watch. you mention we were talking on the break about the leslie interview and she did a go

others who knew john mccain best that actually would have made john mccain hate donald trump even moret was interesting, watching that clip, joe, jeffrey goldberg our friend, one of the. >> iest, smartest people you'll ever come across, very polite, dignified, sat there, listening to lindsey talking about john mccain and mccainiacs and mccain's life and towards the end jeffrey is staring at the floor i can't believe i'm hearing from him. i don't know what happened. i don't think anybody really knows what happened to lindsey graham. john mccain has now been gone for several weeks and lindsey has done a complete 180 in terms of how he views mr. trump and thing that mr. trump does. i think it's mist t mystifying and a lot of people. >> if lindsey graham decided to carry the mantel of john mccain forward he said along with marco rubio and others, well that would being a great. that would being a great not only for lindsey graham, it would being a great for the people of south carolina who he represents, being a great for this country and being a great for the world. it would being a great

and i think john mccain was right. i think that is what started it. and i think the garland move was in many ways the reaction to the killing of the filibuster, but to get to kavanaugh, i think unless the fbi report, and i was u.s. attorney for seven years so i have looked at a lot of fbi 302's, and when i went through a background check to become u.s. attorney, i ultimately foia'd my background file, and it's just raw data. they don't make any determination at all about the credibility of the person they are speaking to, the credibility of the story or evidence. you talk and they write, and they ask some questions that will be natural for what you have said, and they write it up and they handed in. and then you judge, you being the senate, you being the administration, the administration is getting a background check on some of their nominating procedures. jeffrey: do you believe dr. ford? gov. christie: i truly believe she's a victim. whether she's a victim of brett kavanaugh or not is hard to figure out. gov. christie: -- jeffery: oh, i know. gov.

and john mccain, from bush's own party, and obama, and mccain doesn't have a lot to say. he has announced there is this crisis, but comes in and being john mccain, he is very active sometimes irritable, but he doesn't have a lot to say and obama looks fairly calm and deliberate, as he is. cheney writes that, i think obama was more impressive than mccain. that was, some of that came through to the public. this was the general perception of the two candidates, and it was a major help to obama. it hurt john mccain. brian: you reference this in your book, that john lewis gaddis was here. this was george w. bush in retirement, but john lewis gaddis was here a couple month ago and i want to run what he said, because it is an whatesting take it -- on might happen to a president. >> my wife and i happened to be in dallas promoting a book. student, several students, who worked for me. i said we would like to drop by and say hello. we did and he had us come by at some ungodly hour, like 7:30 in the morning. i asked him, how are you? he said, i am bored. i don't have enough to do. i

john mccain, who fought for his nation at every turn. john mccain, who when he ran for president, his motto was country first. that is what this should be about, is our country. it is about how to make it for our children and grandchildren, we leave them a safer, stronger america. and in life, it would be my dad, and father hesberg from the university of notre dame. he said when you go there, do not do what is easy, do what is right. and i have followed that advice every single time. mr. braun: ok, great example here. he talks about right to try. great piece of legislation. everybody was for that. the tough ones are when you have to stick your neck out on a major piece of legislation and you have to be willing to buck your party boss chuck schumer, who i think tells the senator what to do on all the important legislation. if he was friends with ron johnson, why wasn't he speaking out on tax reform. that was the biggest piece of legislation for small businesses and individuals. when you believe in keeping more of your own. that is when yo

that was the moment when senator john mccain clearly put country first. and that's what it's all about. people have political agend as, policies they're trying to put through, but every elected official at their core should always be putting country first. >> you know what struck me about what jeff flake said because one of the things you and i were talking about earlier today is that you can, as the president, be mad at cnn. maybe you should be. maybe you should be mad at msnbc, but what we do is hold people to account, regardless of party or that's what we should be doing. and jeff flake said politicians have to take that. that's part of the business. you run for office. there is a free press, a free press that is aloud allowed to to account and fact check you and bear witness. that's exactly what we exist to do. that is something that fundamentally this administration just has not come to terms with. criticism means attack. and attack means enemy. and that is an environment which maybe today contributes to the sort of thing we've had. i'd love to be wr

that was great. >> that was john mccain at his best. >> at his best. when you hear the president use the word nationalist and then you hear that comment from john mccain, it kind of puts it all into perspective. why do you think the president is calling himself a nationalist? >> i think it's important that viewers need to understand, look, what's wrong with the term. it's a perfectly reasonable explanation. you love your nation and you're a nationalist. that makes perfect sense. here's why no american president that i know of has called himself a nationalist for many, many, many decades. it's because nationalism was the term that was used by the hyper nationalists of europe in the late 1th century, the early 20th century. and they used it to do two things. one to wage really bloody awful wars against other countries and the second was to make the claim that there was within their country a true group of people real germans, real french people, and that they represented that nation and that the others, the jews, the gypsies were outsiders and were in so

that wasn't the case with john mccain. >> exactly, and john mccain voted for this procedural vote, because he thought he could get the bill fixed up and maybe he could vote for it, and then he ended up voting against the bill. >> mr. inhofe. >> aye. >> mr. isaacson. >> aye. >> mr. johnson. >> mr. jones. mr. kaine. >> no. >> mr. kennedy. >> aye. >> mr. king. ms. klobuchar. >> no. >> mr. kyle. >> aye. >> mr. langford? >> aye. >> mr. leahy. mr. lee. mr. manchin. mr. marquee. ms. mccaskill. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. murkily. >> no. >> mr. moran. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. >> no. >> mrs. murray. >> no. >> mr. nelson. mr. paul. >> aye. >> mr. perdue. >> aye. >> mr. peters. >> no. >> mr. portman. >> aye. >> mr. reed. mr. rich. >> aye. >> mr. roberts. >> aye. >> mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. >> aye. >> mr. sanders. mr. sasse. >> aye. >> mr. schatz. mr. schumer. mr. scott. >> aye. >> mrs. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. smith. >> no. >> ms. stabenow. >> no. >> mr. sullivan. >> aye. >> mr. tester. mr. thune. >> aye. >> mr. tillis. >> aye. >> mr. toomey. >> aye. >> mr. udal. >> no. >> mr. van hol

we saw a lot of it and we're reminded of it in the past couple of weeks, with john mccain's funeral. and to hear about how he and john kerry, they just talked about it, worked on vietnam, in my time, i've worked with democrats to engage with cuba, thinking that, hey, if we want to bring them closer to democracy, we ought to engage with them and show american values there, instead of shun them. so on a number of issues, but on the real big issues we need to solve, that cannot be solved just with one party, not even a party with 60 votes. you've got to have both parties. >> i'm reading your book, "conscience of a conservative," and it's quite -- >> all right, the man of the hour here, this is senator jeff flake, republican of arizona. not running for re-election. speaking at this "forbes" 30 under 30 summit there in boston and we just had to eavesdrop, because this is the reason why he's one of the members of the senate judiciary committee who stood up, as we all watched on friday, after that initial vote and raised his hand and essentially after speaking with his democratic colleague a

every day that goes by, it shows you just how big a man john mccain was, right? >> well, this is my, what would john mccain do bracelet in. >> right. >> i think about him often, especially in times like this. >> so another unusual week. sarah sanders tweeting out yesterday -- this is a photo of her and kanye west. never a dull moment in @real donald trump's white house. are we at peak madness? >> well, i mean part of what the white house has been wanting to do and what donald trump has been wanting to do is to expand the reality television of the white house, right? that's why they brought bill shine in from fox news. and they want to do more stuff outside. they want to bring more celebrities in, just rock and roll, and we have these freewheeling press conferences. it's becoming more like what donald trump has wanted it to be all along. i think it's ultimately becoming the virtual reality show out of the white house. >> what do you think, though, when you see all this? >> well, i think it's the ultimate extension of what we should have expected from donald trump.

on the day senator john mccain died, a group of photojournalists talked about covering john mccain on the campaign trail and photographing other presidential candidates during the decade. winter,s included damon carolyn caster from the a post -- associated press. president obama's former campaign press secretary ben lebolt. >> good evening, everyone. how is everyone doing tonight? excellent. i am the education and public programs manager here at the annenberg space for photography. welcome to this evening's event, which is "deadlines to headlines," which is part of our roster in support of our newest exhibition. this exhibition, if you haven't seen it yet, it is closing in a few weeks, now is a good time. it tells the story of america's history through photography in the archives of the library of congress, many which have never before been exhibited. through these photographs, we tell the stories of moments that shape america's history. tonight, we are focusing on presidential elections in the people who photograph them. each of the photographers have photographed presidential campai

we saw it and were reminded of it with john mccain's funeral. to hear ab how he and john kerry, they just talked about it, worked on vietnam. in my time, i have worked with democrats to engage with cuba, thinking that, hey, if we want to bring them closer to democracy, we have to engage with them and show american values there instead of shunning them. on a number of issues. on really big issues we need to solve -- >> dana: all right. you've been watching senator jeff flake from arizona. he's the retiring senator, the one that made the deal with chris kuhns in order to go forward and call for an fbi investigation, delaying the vote on brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. he's there in boston at a forbes 30 under 30 event. so he's giving a speech. some protesters there. a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york has been sitting here listening to this. there is this controversy about what the fbi should investigate, how they should investigate and how long. i don't know if you'll remember, at the top of the show, a so

the democratic lead with senator john mccain for years now. it's one of the ways that our fast friendship was forged. we have heard there, and what senator mccain was incredibly articulate about, is that the trump administration internationally is undercutting the basic alliances that have kept the peace since world war ii. the american leadership and nato have all been put at risk. i think if you're looking at the places where the trump doctrine is more status, is with respect to our allies in europe. in particular, those allies in the french and the politics and the former soviet states. who really feel the pressure of flat amir putin and they feel it terrible absence. it's not for nothing but the got guy was left out. there is a real feeling that there is a loss of american leadership and it's not just an american leadership matters in some hypothetical way. american leadership has helped keep the peace and helped create models of democracy and europe and around the world for decades. the damage is being done to that is what it's really the

flanders: let's remove john mccain also called him a socialist bordering on a communist. he may have a friendship with a man but he called it like it is. we need a climate change in washington and that's why i am running. unfortunately, the kavanaugh hearings illustrate what a hyper partisan senator whitehouse has become. he disgraced himself and us all. he has been the most partisan senator in washington. if you want to continue the kind washington, you should vote for senator whitehouse. if you want a change and guy o is going to work with both sides to get things done on immigration come on health care, on infrastructure, and on the opioid crisis, that i'm your man. i've had a history of working across the aisle, in central falls that it would had to be done to get to a better result there and the city is hailing itself is a comeback city. wondering the same problem solving skills to washington. given the chance to do that. let's enforce a climate change in washington and if you do that, you will be in good stead. >> thank you mr. flanders and mr. white house. thank yo

bush, john mccain. george h.w. bush, ronald reagan. tradition of leaders who understood this country was built by immigrants and benefits from immigrants. he's absolutely right. we do have to have borders and we have to have -- >> but he's in charge of the borders. >> and he's in charge of them. but we values a foreign policy that ought to be working with honduras, el salvador, other troubled countries to improve their economies and expand trade and have a regularized flow of immigration because, by the way, we're an empty country with a negative population, or declining demographics, and we could use more immigrants. >> what are -- how do you cover the lies in the volume that he churns them out. there's a great piece in "the washington post" plum line about sort of the impotent rage over the border. it could lead to something drastic. republicans control every center of power in washington. so how is it that despite their complete lack of power, democrats are managing to stop trump from implementing his terrific immigration plan. the

john mccain fought for his nation at every turn.ohn mccain who when he ran for president his motto was country first. and that's what this should be about. is our country. is about how to make it so that for our children and grandchildren we leave them a safer, stronger america. and in life it would be my dad, and father from the university of notre dame. the father told me joe, when you go there, don't do what's easy, do what's right. i told fold that advice every time. >> mr. braun: great example here. he talked about right to try. great piece of legislation. everybody was for that. the tough ones are when you have to stick your neck out on a major piece of legislation and you have to be will to buck your boss chuck schumer who tells the president what to do on important legislation. if he was friends with ron johnson why want he speaking out about tax reform. when you believe in keeping more of your own that's where you want a senator to speak up. not on something everybody thinkses is good. >> you know as long as we're on the su

remember, managing msnbc was a yes before he voted -- remember, john mccain voted differently. everybody is consumed by verythis closely. >> we've watched this bitter policy dispute. regardless of how it en , what does this mean a few weeks from now in the mid-term elections? >> reporter: a lot potentially. we're seeing a ton of enthusiasm. not just from democrats. what we've been seeing in the last week or so, republicans getting really fired up about this. player matching the these grax wee seen from democrats. i spent a lot of time covering . th these battles. is it a sugar high? will i fade if he is, for example, confirmed this weekend? we are still 30ay plus out here. so does that ehusiasm drop again? right now we know everybody is real fired up on this. >> still time for twists and turns. hallie, thanks so much. >> you can see more of her electorating reporting tonight at 6:00. >>> most people would run away from this but not the marines. today the fire victimsot tha the strange here's sang to them. >> reporter: it was a time for joyful reunion. for some,he it was first t

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people would see john mccain and weep at the sight of him. people told hillary clinton their life story. people would hold onto donald trump and not let go. there's those moments of connection and energy that you see all time. especially if people have been waiting since four in the morning or at 7:00 p.m. event. everybody's emotions are high. some of these events, it can be like 100 degrees in the high school gym and nobody has had any water and everybody is losing their mind. a lot can happen. >> it is interesting, the contrast. the obama campaign's, he was the same person in real-life when the camera was not on him that he was when he was greeting people and the camera was watching. i felt like he really enjoyed interacting with people and getting to shake their hands. one of the first candidates i covered was john edwards. i could contrast that feeling. he was having to work hard to interact with people and he really didn't like it. he did not like having to shake people's hands and look them in the eye and talk to them. it is interesting

fight a major role in that campaign. >> when public reports revealed that presidential candidate john mccain an oligarch close to putin, mccain hits the roof, and the curtains were paul manafort and the mccain campaign. >> but they remained close. with the billionaire investing in a number of manafort business projects, with the endorsement of he and other like-minded oligarchs, he began working extensively for a ukrainian politici politician. >> this is a former coal trucking administrator convicted twice of assault as a young man. >> after the 2004 presidential election in the former soviet republic of ukraine, he was accused of voter fraud as well as a conspiracy to poison his opponent, victor, with dioxcin. >> he was sent packing, didn't look like he had a political future, and manafort rehabilitated. >> he came from a rough part of the country and dressed very much like a mob boss, and manafort came in and made him, essentially, ready for tv. paul manafort took a great deal of pride in his appearance including his suit, jackets, and most particularly, his magnificent hair. many people i

have for john mccain, the years that we served under him in this committee, we will miss him sorely, but it's something that we have great memories and they'll stay with us forever. the committee meets today to review the nomination of general robert abrams to be commander of the united states -- united nations command, the combined forces command, the u.s. forces korea and vice admiral craig faller to be commander united states southern command. of course wepo know today would not be possible without the support and sacrifice of your families, so it's been our tradition for a long period of time to have you make the proper recognitions if you so desire to do that. in order to exercise the oversight responsibilities, we do have too ask you the eight questions so if you would audibly respond, each one of you, to each question, and if you don't, i'll remind you. first, have you adhered to ethical laws and regulations governing conflicts of interest? >> skyes. >> yes. >> do you agree when asked to give your personal views even if thoseif views differ from the administrations in power. >

what about the people responding to this president or the other night when i heard john mccain died i tweeted out under my account a clip from a statement i heard senator mccain make at the smithsonian april a year ago at the john f. kennedy exhibit when he talked about being on the uss "enterprise" as a newly minted fighter pilot thinking he might go into combat the first time. it turned out there was no combat but he remembered listening to kennedy as mccain was on that ship teaming towards cuba and he said i remember hearing that voice and i remember thinking this was the man for the job and i remember thinking that night, here is a republican speaking so highly of a democratic president and what those two men had in common, john mccain and john kennedy where they were navy combat veterans who almost lost their lives in the service of their country. so i hope someone comes upon that tweet but i don't know how t answer to how do we save them? do we save them? are we selective and in what way? >> i think the library of congress gave up on the project. >> we are intruding on your coff

i remember the thing that even the republican party did to john mccain in 2000.remember what they did to me for 25 years, the falsehoods, the lies, which unfortunately people believe because the republicans have put a lot of time, money and effort in promoting them. so when you're dealing with an ideological party that is driven by the lust for power, that is funded by corporate interests who want a government that does its bidding, you can be civil but you can't overcome what they intend to do unless you win elections. >> chris, we watched this really spectacle volatility unfold during this whole process. it was ugly no matter what. but does running on an anger platform remedy it? >> hillary clinton, whether purposely or not, is running the case for michael avenatti 2020. both parties are driven by ideology. that's why they're parties. they are co her cohered by a se ideology and values. it's a little oversimplified. i do, however, think, the there be a real debate as democrats look to who they want and there's going to be a million -- 30-plus kpcandidates. ther

to your question, last year in the summer, that memorable night when john mccain cast the deciding no vote to prevent gutting of health care and repeal of the affordable care act, there was a moment where i hoped our bipartisan efforts to shore it up, to fix it -- because it is not perfect and it has been long neglected -- would bear fruit. i joined in on the health committee on which i serve with senator alexander, a republican, and senator murray, a democrat, to try to undo some of the seven sabotage that had happened through the administration withholding a payment called cost-sharing reduction payment. and trying to make it harder for people to enroll during the open enrollment period. those are two very important things i would fix right away. that bill came out of committee on a unanimous bipartisan vote. there are many other things. costs are too high and our protections for people with pre-existing conditions are threatened right now. with costs, i have stood up to the insurance and pharmaceutical companies to hold them accountable when they jacked prices up. >> ms. vukmir, ne

♪ ♪ >> so we go out tonight on the words of john mccain.his tuesday evening. thank you very much for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> it's a busy news night tonight. the georgia governor's race is becoming an object of national fascination, for good reason. and some almost unbelievably impressive new numbers from georgia and texas, people turning out to vote.

john mccain and i became good friends. when i went out to visit him in arizona at his sick bed, he said, i love you. i said, i love you. because we could. the cousin we worked together for 10 years to make something happen in the senate. the privilege of standing with him in his cell in the hanoi hilton in vietnam together, a guy who was a protester and a guy who was a pow. we put together the most accounting in any nations warfare. we brought 700 families answers about what happened. same thing with javon. we had a mission. he's a regime us. he never varied from what he believes and supports. we would break up our negotiations so he could go pray. religion andth his where he came from. we knew we had to respect each other in trying to achieve one thing. this transformation from the past to a nuclear weapon to making sure we were satisfied that we would know what iran was doing so they can break out and have a weapon without our knowing. we achieved that. our rental community, our defense department, our energy department.

it was her first time back since john mccain, her father, passed away. bit of what it was like. >> we're happy to welcome back our megan mccain. [ applause ] >> i have missed all of you so much. thank you, all of you. i just want to start with you, whoopi. my father loved you. he loved you. he really loved you. [ applause ] and i love you. i really want to thank all of america for being so kind to my family. [ applause ] from the second that my father passed, and i had to get in a car and motorcade behind his hearse, from the moment i left, there were people in the country, all races, all ages, all creeds, out there with american flags, waves, saluting, praying. he would have had loved it. loved it. i cried the entire way. everyone came out and celebrated him. he believed america is the greatest country in the history of the world. he believed when your candidate, opponent says something racist in a rally, you push back. that is john mccain. and that is what america is. >> she was able to make it through she said because her father raised her to be strong