john mccain, so many of my colleagues came to know and love senator john mccain for his military heroism and his leadership in this senate. back home in arizona, senator john mccain is a hero for what he represented in public service. yet senator mccain said in his last speech in this very chamber shapes my service to arizona every day. he said "make your mistakes. my service here is the most important job i have had in my life. and i am so grateful to the people of arizona for the privilege, for the honor, of serving here and the opportunities it gives me to play a small role in the history of the country i love." he went on to say. "merely preventing your political opponents to do what they want isn't the greatest work. respecting our differences, but not letting them prevent agreements that don't require abandonment of principals, agreements made in good faith that help improve lives and protect the american people, but a great honor and extraordinary opportunity it is to serve in this body. "senator mccain talked about what is possible and it works in the way it is meant to work. he

i'm so glad you brought up that point about john mccain. heated moment in the campaign in 2008, right, between candidates obama and mccain. and still mccain stopped that person in the audience and said, no, he's a decent person. >> and in the midst of the birthism movement which was supported by the president. manu, thank you for having you on. >> officials getting a look this morning at the damage in san juan, puerto rico, after those violent clashes between protesters and police overnight. wow, it's incredible to see that. thousands protested, demanding that the governorry cardi rossello resign after nearly 900 pages of leaked private text messages from him filled with hope phobic and misogynistic messages came into light. >> officers in riot gear that fired tear gas at the crowd after they broke through barricades at the governor's mansion. leyla santiago was in the protests. she joins us live from puerto rico. that was not the first night of it. it's been for a couple of nights now and you expect it to continue? >> reporter: right. thes

everything that -- that i believed in politics, but i can't -- i come from a state that produced john mccainy goldwater and people who put country first. >> grant woods, it's always a pleasure to see you. and our regards to the mccain family when you speak to them. thank you so much. >> all right. hey, don. thank you. >> we'll be right back. >>> senator elizabeth warren releasing her stop wall street looting act today. a plan that would restore regulations, rolled back under president trump, among other proposals. let's discuss with william cohan, the aurkthor of "for friends." in a nut shell, what is elizabeth warren trying to, i don't know, attack here in this detailed plan? >> it's a very detailed plan. so let's make it a little more digestible. she's targeting essentially the private equity firms. this is what critics call capitalism on steroids. she's also tried to target executive pay. some of this is wonky and difficult to understand. basically what we're seeing here in this plan is elizabeth warren returning to what made her famous after the 2008 financial crisis. she's taking her th

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one, the john mccain video. the other, the alexandria ocasio-cortez video that i remember watching during chris hayes' town hall. those were her people filling up that hall on climate change. when one of the people she was debating disagreed in a way the audience didn't like, they started to yell at him. you saw what she did. that point she made that that's the difference between her and trump is so true and it is the tip of the iceberg of the difference between her and trump. >> absolutely. but the real difference is leadership. leadership is telling your supporters and not just the people you disagree with, but your supporters that you have to actually hear from the other side. we haven't heard that in years from donald trump. >> thank you very much for starting us off tonight. appreciate it. >> and when we come back, more members of the house of representatives now support impeachment as they showed in a symbolic vote on the house floor yesterday. one of the democrats who voted to support impeachment yesterda

at the same time i asked lindsay graham about how john mccain, the episode where john mccain famously in 2008 told a woman at a rally that president, then candidate barack obama was muslim and john mccain said no, he is not. he's a good man. he also compared that situation to this one. >> was it appropriate for people at that rally last night to be chanting send her back to omar and the president to be presiding over that? >> let me be clear. my beef is with policy, not personality. all of these congresswomen won their election. they're american citizens. this is their home as much as mine and i believe their policies will change america for the worse and that's the debate for me. >> how much has this changed? john mccain when he went up to that woman famously at the rally and said that barack obama is not a muslim. how much has this party changed -- >> i'm proud of john. my policy differences with president obama were real, but i never doubted that he loved the country. >> president trump would never do that. >> he took a different tack. he's fighting back. but i don't remember anybo

john mccain when he was in let's a president off tanzania in 2015 and he's real newspapers have been closed and gen lists harassed and threatened with death have to do is disappearance is already trending on twitter and the hash tag free eric of india one use of pushes u.s. president thomas jefferson saying our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost i'm joined now by own a small in whom what national coordinator of tanzania human rights defenders coalition he's coming to us from his and i'm well come to africa tell us more about who eric that india is and why the authorities would want him in custody. issue imo our long time or problem and there's a good deal is in a journalist in the country he has been reporting to me houses in from the media and also recently he has been writing a lot on what is not interim going you know. it will about school days a lot of the article explaining. what is happening from your special on their wedding party so if you will is one of our. modern and prominent. journalist do all when it comes to. polic

the differences between john mccain and donald trump are too vast for the time we have remaining. mccain has spoken out this week forcefully and eloquently about lindsay graham and all of his trespasses. but this one, and i thought to make a list of all the enablers this week. but, again, we only have an hour. this is not the same. this is not the same. and, listen, i worked for george w. bush, who after katrina, there was a lot of racial despair directed at him, a lot of thing-fointing. the difference is george w. bush and john mccain were gutted by the criticism and did everything to prove that their critics were wrong. donald trump is like a pig in you know what. >> the thing is about everything around him saying the president is not a racist and all the bones in his body talk is so ludicrous. if you use race to divide people and you say racist things, you're as dangerous as a racist if not more, maybe a quiet racist is less dangerous than you. so what lindsay graham is doing who once called him a race-baiter and all the things we know we called donald trump in 2015 is making u

john mccain, mitt romney in 2008. in 2012 in a sense it when they level large of the same attacks against donald trump they sort of came off as the boy who cried wolf. >> that is an excellent question. and the answer is yes. look folks, mitt romney in 2012, jacob tannen said this to me once in it that it was perfectly part. at least through the prism of the mainstream media and the media perception of mitt romney, in 2012 he was the dog torturing baron and by choices that he was a white night of the republican party. and what changed, right? mitt romney like any candidate for high office should be held to a high standard. but the obsessive coverage of mitt romney sort of weirdness, his otherness, you know he irons his jeans, he said his wife owned a couple of cadillacs. look, we'll get it, as he said when he was wearing a tuxedo at one of these white tie dinners, he said finally, i get to wear something a public that we wear around the house. right? [laughter] and he got it! but it was almost to the point of absolute

about that deterioration of the republican party, a lot of people reacted in that moment and said john mccain pay a price. but to the republican base, that was trump standing up to their enemy. >> not only that, steve, which is right, because mccain, of course, had really been sort of persona non grata to the conservative movement. remember, he picked sarah palin because his campaign needed a shot in the arm. they need to mobilize the base. they knew that to even have a prayer against barack obama, they needed conservatives to turn out in big numbers. and so that's why he chose sarah palin ultimately. but you just said something, steve. you said that despite trump not apologizing, his poll numbers kept rising after that mccain comment. and i think it's actually because he didn't apologize that his poll numbers kept on rising. what trump tapped into, and it's very intangible. it's really difficult to quantify, obviously, but trump saw in the republican party this sort of inherent weakness. he saw it in mccain in '08, who as you read in that clip a moment ago spent critical moments in the campa

raised questions about john mccain.here are questions about -- they were in the panama canal or not. there was never a race question about john mccain. >> stephen: i fundamentally disagree with the view that if you criticize somebody and they happen to be a different color skin that that makes it racial criticism. >> chris: he wasn't criticizing him. he was questioning whether he is an american. >> stephen: you saw from congresswoman presley this week that she was saying if your brown gift to speak like a brown person, if you're black you have to speak like a black person. that's the kind of ideology the president is rejecting. if you want to have a collarbone society, it means you can criticize immigration policy, you can criticize people's foster vs views, you can ask questions or they are born and not have it be seen as racial. >> chris: can you also say go back where you came from? >> stephen: first of all -- i'm glad we can now get to what i think we really want to focus on, with the "send her back" chant, the pres

. >> reporter: he didn't correct them the way john mccain did. >> >> i can't trust obama. i've read about him, and he's not -- he's an arab. he is no? >> no, 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. >> i don't remember anybody treating john mccain the way they're treating trump. i don't remember john mccain having to go through this crap every day, all the time. >> reporter: the white house is encouraging allies to stay focused on the attacking on the four congresswomen, but we're told some of the administration surrogates are concerned about the chants as one trump adviser put it to me -- the chants were, quote, gross. wolf? >> jim, what are you learning about the u.s. targeting an iranian drone? >> reporter: yes, wolf, the president just announced this a short while ago in the middle of this controversy. the president revealed that the "uss boxer" shot down an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz, after the drone got within 1,000 feet of that ship. the presid

breakfast at a lions club, and john mccain's brother,, joe mccain was sitting next to me. and my legs were shaking so much. i can't do this. he said you'll be fine. he'll be fine. [laughter] and that was the first time a gentleman said, p.o.w.? what say p.o.w.? this was four years after. >> there was some activities at the defense department, when they were doing the roadshow. i remember you saying it. can you tell us about the roadshow and what they did and how you felt about it? >> there isn't a whole lot to tell. they showed up. they didn't come with any information. you saw that they wanted us to be quiet. it could affect your husband, so don't say anything. we have each other to talk to, but nobody else. and then after a while, the navy realizes we're going to have to placate these women because they are getting noisy and you don't want them to tell them you guys, settle down and we'll handle things. not only the navy, but don't worry. we'll handle it. we'll let you know. >> mansplaining, right? >> well, yeah. i mean, we know that they knew more than us. but i don't k

"john mccain" out of sight.een enraged if he saw a ship with his arch-nemesis on it. that's why the navy also asked to hide the u.s.s. "salad." ( laughter ) apparently--plau i got something in. i got something in. apparently the navy placed a giant tarp over john mccain's name, and then hid it with a barge. a tarp and a barge? that seems like overkill. ( as officer ) "here he comes! tarp it, barge it, then throw it in the ocean! what do you mean it floats?!" ( laughter ) why am i in the navy if i don't know boats float? oh, for the purpose of this joke, i get it! ( laughter ) yesterday, while trump was y ader fn grahamfor day of prayer. i don't think it worked, because i prayed really hard, and he's still the president. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) now, trump-- >> jon: whoa, hey! ( piano riff ) >> stephen: trump accepted this day of prayer with humility, mentioning it on his twitter feed only ten times. reminds me of jesus' words in the st. matthew passion, "who's got two thumbs and died for your sins? t

and that's what this campaign is all about. >> i don't remember anybody treating john mccain the way they're treating trump. i don't remember john mccain having to go through this crap every day all the time. >> reporter: and the white house is encouraging its allies to stay focused in their attacks on the four democratic congresswomen being targeted by the president. but we're being told some of the administration surrogates are very concerned about the chants at last night's rally. at one trump advisor put it to me, wolf, the chants were gross. >> what are you learning, jim, about the u.s. targeting of an iranian drone? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. just a short while ago the president revealed that the uss boxer downed an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz, according to u.s. defense officials talking to cnn. this happened after that drone came within about 1,000 yards of the u schlt schlss boxer and the was downed using electric jamming. that is the initial information coming from the defense department at this point, wolf. we should point out it is early on in this incident

chris: there was never a race question about john mccain. >> i fundamentally disagree with the view that if you criticize somebody and they have a different correspond skin that it's d a different color skin, that it's a race issue. '. ayanna pressley said if you are black you have to speak like a black person. if you are brown you have to speak like a brown person. if you want an immigration policy you can cite seize people's view and ask questions about where they are born and not have it be seen as racial. chris: can you say go back where you came from? >> the send her back chant, the president was clear he didn't agree with it. chris: he let it go on for 13 seconds and it was only when the chant diminished that he started talking again. he said nothing there or in his tweet after the rally that indicated any concern about the chant. >> i want to get to the core issue. the president was clear he disagreed with that tweet. the core issue is all the people in that audience and patriotic americans across country are tired of being beat up and talked down to by members of congress in cong

"uss john mccain."s your take on the symbolism of that? it seems as though the white house wants to make sure the people right in front of the president are supporting him. >> as you'll recall, there was this "mission accomplished" moment during the visit to japan where the "uss john mccain" was supposedly going to have its name hidden and its sailors weren't invited to the presidential address. i think that's, again, a way of poking back at the president. again, it's a day where we celebrate our freedoms, including freedom of speech and expression. the white house should just have trump go golfing. that's what presidents actually do on july 4th. they go golf. this would be a great day to do it. not to get involved. sit in the white house, which used to have a great view of the fireworks, and leave this a celebration for the american people by the american people. >> thank you guys so much for your perspectives and reporting today. >>> coming up next, hispanic caucus chair joaquin castro joinsny tajoin

motivated by all the horrendous other stories of being here and i think it's not fair for you are john mccain if you told real can it was my silence to protect what he has done to me today that the n.b.a.'s 1st professional pasta for leave the outside of.

see other lawmakers who are saying the same thing john mccain said which is let's focus on policy andsonality. but it still remains to be seen what impact that will have on voters, you know, when they're remembering this 16 months, 16 months from now in the voting booth, whether that's something that sticks, you know, in their mind or whether the thought of un-american sticks in their mind. >> what do you think, susan? >> i think we're heading into what's going to be a really difficult for the nation presidential campaign because i'm not sure that the president saying he wasn't happy with these chants is going to stop the chants at the next rally. the chant "send her home" was totally consistent with the message he sent in tweets and comments if you don't like what's happening in the united states go back to your original country. so this is -- it's not as though you can reverse this trend, this divisive trend that we're seeing and playing. so i think this is something that's going to be a challenge for the country and definitional in a way. where do you stand on this, maybe the prima

obviously john mccain late in his life just before he died expressed regret over picking sarah palinat reason among others. what she did is she exposed this gulf between sort of the republican governing class, the chamber of commerce, country club, upscale republican, and a lot of these more conservative, you know, rural, and noncollege educated blue collar working class republicans who felt as though the party elite looked down on them and ignored them, that they were ignorant to their economic troubles, some of their cultural anxieties. we knew this was sort of simmering below the surface but never had we seen it explode the way that it did as when sarah palin was introduced to the national ticket. in so many ways you can draw a straight line between her rhetoric and appeal in 2008 and donald trump eight years later. >> where does the country club republican go? do they visit the bush library and golfing with paul ryan? because the current republican party has stuck by the president's side for so many of these moments. charlottesville, then of course this week. all of that being th

john mccain, who used to be senator graham's hero, would have told them, no, don't do that. she's a congressman. she's an american citizen. we won't see that from this president because he won't stand up against david duke, he won't stand up against neo-nazis and far right extremists, kkk in charlottesville. he will not stand up to anybody because that's his base. he's decided he can win by getting the turnout on his base. he's wrong. the american people are better than that. white, black, red, yellow, we have lots of people in the majority who understand that morality and human rights and diggity and tolerance are core rights of america and they need to be supported. >> you feel strongly about this. we talked about your vote not to shoot down the impeachment put forth yesterday yet the majority of your democratic colleagues did. do you believe this moment we are talking about now might change some minds or no? >> it will change a little bit. most of the people who even voted not to have -- to have it tabled, the democrats, their minds don't need to be changed. i think they

in 2008 you worked in support of john mccain's campaign in indiana.e way that john mccain handled that moment with a woman saying that president obama was an arab? he said, no, you're wrong, the president is a decent man. >> much different situations. that was a townhall meeting one on one with -- >> he has the only microphone in the place, marc. >> and the person who was talking directly to him rather than a chant that is being started by 10,000 people that's happening organically. it's much different when you're talking one on one to be able to disagree something rather than in an arena with 10,000 people. >> i think we would agree if the president said let's stop that for a moment, we are not going to chant going forward. >> the president and aides and allies have said that president's issue is not with immigration, it's with illegal immigration. ilhan omar came to this country legally. she was a child refugee from a war-torn country, so many somalia. he has a problem with those who come here through legal immigration channels, doesn't he? >> the p

john mccain iai am confident he had the strengthth of character to say i don't want your help i don't need your help. but it wasn't it was donald trump. and build that into his campaign c strategy one of the most startling facts is that within hours they were prove they were listening because they try to hack a server so yes a lot of responsibility goes to donald trump. so many of us were urging o the press it isn't always the case that the documents are stolen and sometimes to override that public significance. and with these articles and then to begin with the most important part we only know what the russians want us to know. and this is what we learned and without that critical context that the russians amplified. spirit that my frustration and then it puts into context what people knew at the time. and then to dissemble the context. >> but over the course of your investigation that the trump campaign officials knew that russia was interfering that wikileaks was acting so was there an awareness on the part of the trump campaign at the time? >> of course there was. they were readin

and we have -- >> but so did john mccain.l john mccain to go back to ireland but, you know, who opposed him on -- listen, i don't mean to insult anyone, and especially not you. but i sat there and i listened to those women, and i'm like what? they didn't address the substance of what the president tweeted at all. all they did was spout up talking points that they had heard other politicians say after the president tweeted what he said and what the president said afterwards trying to explain his way out of what he tweeted. he told four people of color to go back to the countries they came from, which was here. they're all from america except for one who came from, who immigrated from somalia. so i don't understand how he -- how it's not racist, how he's not telling four black women to go back to the countries they came from and it is not perceived as racist. come on, let's not b.s. around here. let's be honest. this was racist. i have heard my entire life growing up go back to africa. i hear people saying all the time to latin

bush and john mccain and mitt romney.theame to view -- view that the republican party is weak and he looked around in 2016, jeb bush cannot even look -- stand up straight. constantly andes at least he had some respect for cruz. marco rubio, this guy sweats every time he is on television. trump did not fear any of his opponents and he felt as though he could take over this party and he did. when it got to the general election, it's not that he had any great respect or fear for hillary clinton but it was pressed upon him repeatedly that he in it'd the electorate, that was historically -- that he was historically unpopular and that it would be nearly impossible for him to win and trump was not oblivious to that reality. after believing very much he could win the primary and essentially take over the party, he was much more realistic about his chances in the general election and was frankly quite surprised on election night. host: i want to get your reaction to some reviews, this from the guardian. the title is the riddle of

i tell the story in the book of the multiple calls i heard from everyone from john mccain to the walljournal editorial board for me to resign over that tension over the fact that i had, writing the book on america's responsibilities in the face of mass atrocity here we were 500,000 people killed torture chambers, death chambers, gas attacks, it was like a house to manual up from mortality written by the regime with iran and russia behind it. that is something that still keeps me up at night. even with no responsibility now to do anything just second-guessing if i had argued this way that way if we had done this or that would it look differently? but i think the balance of what we were able to achieve whether on climates now being walked back by the trump administration to prevent a war with iran which the trump administration is also trying to walk back. the vast number of lives saved across of africa because of our engagement syria stands out as a real source of heartbreak and regret. there's an awful lot alongside that that i hope makes it clear to readers why even though i took ver

the president should have condemned that right away, the way that john mccain when someone had confronted that obama was a terrorist, john mccain immediately said, that's uncalled for, that's not how we conduct things in america. the president should have done that. his statement today is a step, but he needs to be far stronger, and make it clear, that that has no place in american discourse. >> what was your reaction when you heard those chants? >> i was horrified, i never thought i would hear something like that in the united states of america, i'm the son of immigrants, i was born in philadelphia, my parents immigrated from india, i went to public school. i grew up in a community that was 99% white. i grew up in a place that was welcoming. i had teachers and neighbors that were supportive. i thought to myself, what is happening to our country. we have progress with president obama and thinking we were making progress on race, and why are we going to a dark place, and why do we have a president of the united states who's not standing up to that? >> we have reporting that members of your

i think of john mccain in 2007 in new hampshire when mitt romney said that the surge was working apparentlyped on that moment and went after romney for being conditional. conditionally supporting the troops was a big moment. mitt romney same thing in 2011 in new hampshire, sort of come opted the entire group and focused their arguments on obama instead of each other showed that he was the leader. folks are looking for their champion in these primary debates. they are looking for the person who is going to go take on the other team. >> look, you said about joe biden after the last debate, he needs to raise his game but is he capable of raising his game. let's assume he's capable of it but talked about what a less polite joe biden is going to look like in your mind because that is what his team has said we should all be prepared for. >> i think joe biden has to become as -- when your front-runner, do no harm. at the same time you don't want to appear as passive as he did in the last debate. prepare for the attacks you know are coming and have affective counte counter-punches to those attacks

had it been john mccain i am confident that he had the strength of character to say russia, but the hell out and i don't want your help, i don't need your help, i despise your intervention but it wasn't. it was donald trump and he welcomed it and built it into his campaign strategy and publicly called on the russians to one of the most startling facts from the report is that within hours of him saying hey russia, if you are listening the russians proved they were listening because within hours they try to hack a server belonging to the person of hillary clinton and so yes, i think certainly a lot of responsible he goes to donald trump but i will also say this that when this was happening real time many of us were urging the press to be more responsible in their reporting. by that -- it is not always the case that documents that are stolen and documents that are being published as part of a foreign interference is not always the case that the question report the contents of those and sometimes the content is of such overriding public significance they can't fail to report it but the conte

i remember in 2008, john mccain started plummeting in the polls. i was the only reporter riding through iowa with him on a bus, you know, he was lonely, but he managed to dig himself back up there. so is there perhaps, you know, a guide post there for joe biden? >> if you are in the biden camp right now, the last thing you want to hear is comparisons to john mccain in 08 even though he ended up with the nomination, because what a flog that appeared to be. i think that the biden camp's number one thing right now is stop the bleeding but you're right, long-term they've also got to think about cutting down their burn rate, not spending all of the money that they have so that if the worst case scenario happens and you end up plummeting down you can survive through the long haul, make it to january and february, see if other candidates fall and have a reemergence but that's, nobody wants to be in that spot. >> david, what's going on with pete buttigieg. in the latest poll he's at 4%, and this is again after the debates and so many people thought that he

here is what john mccain did when it happened. >> i can't trust obama.out him and he's not -- he's a -- he's an arab. he is not -- 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. and that's what this campaign is all about. he's not. thank you. >> you take the microphone back from that person. that's how you do it. >> well, tl there was an opporty this week for many on the republican side of the aisle to channel john mccain and only four stood out and did so. it's sad that his was not the example that more sought to emulate. >> all right, michael smerconish. thank you very much. i know you'll be talking about this and much, much more on your show. >> watch "smerconish" tomorrow morning joined by richard clark to discuss cybersecurity. only on cnn. >>> here's a question. what do the russians want with your face? the megapopular app that's causing all kinds of controversy. why the u.s. senate is now stepping in. moves like these need pampers cruisers 360 fit with an ultra str

in 2002, democratic senator russ fine gold got together with republican senator john mccain to introduce finance abuses since the watergate era. >> well, there was this law in place, the federal elections law for 20 or 30 yores, but a loophole had been created that was undermining the contribution limits that had been created by the legislation. so what it meant was this spigt wheel where wealthy individuals could give unlimited amounts of money. >> did you feel like it was a soft form of bribery? >> without a doubt. in fact, we called it legalized bribery. so john mccain and i decided we had to at least get rid of this loophole. >> it also prohibited corporations and other groups for paying for tv ads in the run up to primary and again elections. >> real reform. >> but eight years later, the law would be all but wiped out by one of the most controversial court cases in american history. >> my name is david bosse and i'm president of services united. >> they produced a documentary called hillary the movie which slammed hillary clinton and planned to air it on cable tv just before the 200

do you remember back in 2008 when that woman at the john mccain at the presidential campaign took a shotbama's ethnicity and mccain's response here. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he's not -- he's a -- he's an arab. he's not -- >> no, ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with. >> now, this president may say that he doesn't like john mccain, but he has never equalled him in that moment. that woman, is a trumper. he is stoking those feelings right now and he's doing it to advantage and he's right to say there are a lot of people who will go agree with what he's doing. the question is, how do you counter and win? let's bring in congresswoman pramila jayapal. welcome back to "prime time." i want to talk to you about what your party is doing with health care. i think it's a metaphor issue. you got to get straight on it. this is your bigger challenge, the reason this president says i'll tell you my health care plan after the 2020 election, is because he plans on spending this part saying people like you are a threat. you're a new

now that he is his best friend forever, now that he's replaced john mccain with him, he's untouchable in that republican primary. he has made a choice. so are people like marco rubio, who were offended by trump. so are people like ted cruz who said his father were part of a conspiracy against jfk and insulted ted cruz's wife, they are eating out of the palm of his hand out of fear and cowardice and complicit because they care more about their political careers than they care about this country and about american values, plain and simple. >> listen, it's a remarkable time. it's a remarkable time in the country. we'll continue to follow this, poppy and i. we'll do our best to play it down the middle. there are some things you have to call out as they happen. ana navarro, doug heye, good to have you on. part of a continuing conversation. >>> still to come, jeffrey epstein accused of sex trafficking children, set to appear in a manhattan courtroom this morning. we're going to be live. >>> and barry is not done yet. more rain brings new threats of flooding and dangerous tornadoes with mill

"john mccain?" >> blow it out of the water. >> stephen: good to know. let's lighten things up a little bit. what was your favorite 1980s pop hit? ( ♪ "nasty" by janet jackson ♪ ) >> nasty. >> stephen: sir, in your opinion, what are the chances you get impeached? >> i actually think it's a lot better than people would think. >> stephen: hold that thought, sir. we are picking something up on the sonar. down periscope. gah! final question, sir. what will you do if you win a second term? >> i'm going to move to canada. >> announcer: it's the "late show" with stephen colbert! tonight: lepre-don! plus, stephen welcomes: james corden. zoe kravitz. and musical guest lewis capaldi. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: whooo! ( applause ) ♪ ♪ >> stephen: welcome. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, one and all, to the "late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) it is day three-- it is day three of donald trump's overseas tour, that we're call

and god rest his soul, he's the new john mccain.he wants to be that because maybe he harbors a desire to run again but i don't know what it is.he comes from a very red state. dissected by what's going on in california and other states. you think he be of universal conservativism. he's not been the president has to fight these people. the president stare down mexico with a five percent tax. the republicans have gone to the media talking about we can't do this and we can't do that. meanwhile, what the hell have they done? mitch mcconnell has been there for 112 years. what has he done about the border? absolutely nothing. and you're right, they would never do anything like this to obama. they walked in lockstep. nancy pelosi stares at one of them, they melt and back off. kevin mccarthy stares at one of them and they laugh quite frankly. so the democratic party is united and promoted the democratic party. the republican party is just not a united party and anyways. i often tell my wife, we are going to miss trump when he's gone. [applau

kremlin and for eight years i helped lead the charge against that weakness.lp in 2010 i stood with john mccainto oppose the new start treaty, a watered-down placeholder for the sort of tough stance we knew was necessary. the vladimir putin build up his missile arsenal we had to push president obama to commit to deploying capable missile defenses to europe. in 2012 firmly supported sweeping legislation to authorize heavy sanctions following the killing of surrogate ministry in russian prison. the obama ministration flinched and tried to tiptoe around our legislation to mess up their charge offensive but we back them into a corner and the president signed the bill and the law. inly 2014 i and other republicas constantly press president obama to get tougher on russia with respect to putin's aggression in ukraine.es i mr. president, i asked that the news article dated march 4, 2014 entitled mcconnell obama's passive foreign policy is a mistake appear in the recordar without a objection. >> since 20 something i continued reminding everyone that putin is not our friends. russia is going to continue

donald trump went after john mccain when he was dying of cancer because john mccain dared speak up against him, and there's names like jeff flake, charlie dent, ilya na ross layton, mia love, mark sanford. i could go on and on of people donald trump has taken on, republicans. he prefers a democrat than a republican who dares say the truth and speak up and confront him. look, what he's doing from a political standpoint is very simple. he believes that in 2016 he won because he divided and conquered. because he pitted us against each other as americans and that for him was a winning strategy, and he believes that these congresswomen in particular are not the mainstream and thus he is making them the face of the democratic party and he's trying to define the democratic party with these four women and attack them relentlessly through his surrogates and through himself as communists, socialists, as un-american, as people who shouldn't be here, as anti-semitic, on and on and on. that's what he's doing. it's a us versus them tactic. it's his old play book. it's the only thing he is capable of doi

and john mccain said no he's just somebody who i have disagreements with. you're going to see the president doing a lot of this. his advisers believe that people are more turned off but congresswoman omar and to a lesser extent the rest of the, quote, unquote, squad. but this is really about omar from minnesota. and they believe there's going to be enough discomfort between her and voters and some democrats that this will be effective. it is way too early to know how this is going to play. >> a couple interesting aspects of this. the idea it was reverse engineered. because now we're getting all these statements from the trump campaign and supporters saying, oh, this is a big strategy here. he said it and then they made it a strategy. >> correct. >> now they're also saying they think it's working. that's a message they very much want to get out there. just because they're saying it doesn't mean it's true. but it is interesting they're saying it. >> i think they're saying it for a couple of reasons. i think they're saying it because i do think they think ther

sexual conquests instead of going to vietnam to serve this country, who goes after war heroes like john mccain. i believe donald trump hates this country. he hates what makes america great. he hates the rule of law. he hates diversity, the freedom of dissent. and this is who republicans decided to hitch their wagons to and it's at their ultimate demise if they continue to do this. >> they have a choice if they continue to hitch their wagon to racist tweets our not. the thing is the problem with this conversation is we can't even talk about like the differences between the republican party and democratic party on other issues, on social issues, on economic issues. there are valid conversations to be had. >> right, absolutely. >> but i can't have that conversation because we're literally talking about racism in the year 2019. >> and again, two things. tarr, if you haven't read tim's book, do it. >> i'm excited. >> he's written several pages about that moment you described right there with nikki haley on stage and marco rubio and tim scott. the second thing is as you look at this week the preside

. >> when i saw the center back moment, i immediately thought of john mccain. >> of course. >> not onlyultiple opportunities behind the scenes with his staffers to go low and to go racial and refused but there was a very public moment at a town hall when someone confronted him and said i don't like that obama, he's a muslim and john mccain said no he isn't. he said it immediately. >> family man -- >> immediately. listen. i was there for that rally and i think you were, too. it is a. >>> i have one question before we go to break, i'm asking about the raw strategy as a republican that ran many campaigns. do you think this is the right strategy for the leader of the republican party? >> it's the right stralt gtegy o after democrats how extreme they are and these four people -- >> women of color. >> these four people exemplify in the worst possible terms in my mind how extreme the democratic party has gone. the fact there are four women of color is problematic and leads to the issue of racism but here is the problem with democrats. every issue is a race issue. the democrats call wolf all th