john mccain knew your first name when you walked by. that took a lot that he took the time to learn and know people's names. being here, this was moving. i had the privilege like so many of you to wear the uniform. we had another event. usually i'm super punctual. being an nco and schoolteacher, we are not late for things. but i'm a little bit out of my control. i travel with a little bigger entourage. we walked in, these guys did not get to meet. as usual doing the work, there's the marines and here comes the army. we get that. but like so many of you, you you think back to why you did this. when you are young, it is your parents. my dad was a korean war veteran. two days after i turned 17 he took me down to join the national guard. people said how did that discussion go? that's how that discussion went. had the privilege to serve regard 24 years. couple stints as a full-time technician. proud to do active service with the state on things like flood recovery. then a deployment in 2004 in support of enduring freedom with my unit across

one of john mccain's sons has come out and endorsed harris. i basely john mccain's wife serves under the biden administration, so both of them have voiced their support for the harris campaign. host: thom reilly joining us from arizona state university for this discussion. this is barry up next. in new jersey, a supporter of the harris-walz ticket. ahead. caller: thank you, c-span. these border states, what concerns me is that the amount of legislation that has been brought to the floor of the house that has not been acted on. in 2013 the senate approved a border bill that was approved 68-32 in the senate. they delivered it to john boehner, and john boehner refused to bring it to the floor. again, in february 2024 the senate put together a bill to fund, correcting the border issues, but donald trump again said that the republicans want to maintain this as an issue for the election. in the most recent border bill that was approved they had a provision for these fentanyl sensors. apparently these sensors are sitting in a warehouse someplace but

in 2008 he came up against senator john mccain who is revered among democrats and republicans.ed senator mitt romney, member of church of the latter day saints. in arizona, there is a significant mormon population. president biden became the first democrat to win arizona since 1996. we will have to wait and see if vice president harris can replicate that success. alex? >> there you have it. we will see you again. >>> in the meantime we are seeing record-breaking earl

lost it at the supreme court and he would've repealed the ac had it not been for the courage of john mccain to save that bill. fast forward, what that means to you is you lose your pre-existing conditions. if you are at home when you have asthma, too bad.

. >> being here in tucson, i'm thinking about my friend john mccain. >> god bless john mccain!to romanticize our relationship, you know, john was conservative to put it mildly. ran against me in 2008. talked about him on the campaign trail. but you know what, he understood that some values transcend politics. he believed in hearing the views by the people. he didn't demonize his political opponents. think about this election, it's so different from what we see right now out of the republican nominee. and increasingly the entire party. it's just decided it's okay. and one of the most disturbing things about this election and donald trump's lies in politics is how we seem to have set aside the value that people like a john mccain stood for. that is what we were taught. >> barack obama has a number of rallies scheduled for the next two weeks. >>> next up here, we'll turn to sports, with highlights from the nfl games over the weekend. and a historic ending to wnba finals. >>> and, of course, the world series matchup is set. we'll show you how the los angeles dodgers punched their t

from all of their assaults, and john mccain was the vote heard round the world with it., obamacare sucks. forgive my french. i'm quoting a person who wants to be the president. obamacare sucks. it doesn't suck pedicures. if he were to prevail, it would be 45 million people would lose their health care. over 100 million people in the country have a pre-existing medical condition. it's over for them. >> let me ask you. you brought this point of earlier people who say i don't like what he says but i like his policies. i ask you, when they tell you that, what are the policies? besides tax cuts for corporations and blanket deregulation, what do you think it is that have so many people willing to vote for him? >> it depends on who you are talking about. the billionaire class, they don't want to pay their fair share of taxes. they don't want protections -- >> that is not donald trump space. >> i understand that. it's his funding but is not that many people but it's his funding. he is -- you have to give them credit for being a snake oil sales man. he's a con man. there is hardl

i've been wondering about this since he attacks john mccain.ou attack john mccain for being shot down over vietnam, saying that he wasn't a hero for being shot down, i figured that republican voters, especially but all voters would be like, okay, you can leave now. that's not the appropriate thing to say. but for whatever reason, he gets away with saying things that other people simply can't. it wouldn't surprise me at all if a democratic politician who said the same thing, not that anyone has, was thrown out of the party and lost all their popularity. i think there's kind of rules that apply to donald trump that don't apply to anyone else. i think his supporters -- i can't explain it. maybe they enjoy the idea that he is saying something so offensive and so un-pc. on the iraq question, it's interesting. that comes and goes. the parties -- all political parties in american history have gone through periods of isolationism and interventionism. trump found a line on iraq and to some degree afghanistan that really showed the party is no longer the

thanks to john mccain, he didn't do it. and now, eight years after he was elected, after all the arguments against obamacare have been proven to be wrong, and even folks who don't like me sure like that insurance, when he was asked about it, he said, well, i have a concept of a plan for how i might replace it. now, i want you to think about that. let's say your boss gives you an assignment, says she needs it by friday. friday rolls around. your boss says, so, did you finish that project i asked for? well, i haven't actually started but i do have a concept of a plan. students here at arizona, you could try it with your professors. paper's due. and you just write on a sheet of paper, concept of a plan. you could try it at home. honey, did you do the dishes? i have a concept of a plan to do the dishes. haven't done them yet. how is that going to go over? if it wouldn't work for you, why should it work for the president of the united states? but the good news is, kamala harris does not have concepts of a plan. she has an actual

this is not like running against george bush and john mccain or bob dole or mitt romney. -- that's really democracy, where you have your ideas, you compete, and one party or the other wins. this is about saving our democracy. but more importantly, about the kitchen table issues of the american people. what's his name is putting out there is ridiculous and what gets me is that people say, well i don't like what he says and i don't like how he says this or that, but i liked his policy. >> what policy? >> what policy? the only thing he did when he was president with a republican congress was to pass a tax bill that gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%, corporations and individuals, the top 1%, adding $2 trillion to the national debt $.2 trillion to the national debt. they are so fiscally responsible. no, we are the ones. when joe biden came in, what did he do under his leadership? 16 million jobs created. the other guy, the worst job creation record of anybody since herbert hoover. >> when you talk about kitchen table issues, healthcare is clearly one. the affordable care

am to absurd desperate smears on trump reviving the same lame democrat attacks they did against john mccain and mitt romney, nikki haley and paul ryan and trump is about to speak in tempe, arizona and we'll bring it to you live when he comes out. congressman scott perry is here on kamala harris botching the scene at town hall and frustrating everyone and word salad answers as long as a dictionary. steve forbes is with us and taking on kamala not even able to talk up her own policies. plus, this story. >> i pledge that i am going to bring forward that bipartisan bill to further secure our border. >> it calls for $650 million earmarked under trump to go and build the wall. >> i'm not afraid of good ideas where they o turnovers and? >> you don't think it's stupid anymore? >> he didn't do much of anything? >> you want to build some wall? >> i want to strengthen our border. liz: seriously, why can't she answer the question? a new homeland security report, the biden harris white house literally importing hundreds of people connected to the tren de aragua kang and rife fire fighter congressional d

. >> seth: trump came within one vote of succeeding until john mccain's infamous thumbs down.at vividly, because i was up at 1:30 in the morning watching it live on [ bleep ] c-span with the rest of the country, nervously pacing my apartment and chain smoking parliaments until i realized emphysema wouldn't be covered if trump repealed obamacare. [ laughter ] by the way, in case you've never watched c-span that late at night, highly recommend. they have a raunchy "after dark" segment where senators conduct hearings in the nude. it's called "banging the gavel." [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] sounds like you may not be into it. that's cool. that's cool. i get it. not only did trump repeatedly promise to kill obamacare and come within one vote of doing it, but then he complained afterwards that he would have succeeded if it hadn't been for john mccain. >> you know, john mccain came in and he went thumbs down at 3:00 in the morning. [ booing ] and everybody -- that was, like, really a horrible thing. honestly, that was a horrible, horrible thing that happened to the republican party

election and donald trump's rise in politics is how we have set aside the values that people like john mccain stood for. values that we were taught. a few weeks ago, we had one of the deadliest hurricanes in american history. president and vice president harris were in north carolina meeting with officials. meanwhile, donald trump and his running mate were making up stories and circulating stories about how the biden administration was withholding aid and not giving it to republican areas and giving it to undocumented immigrants. just making stuff up. even republicans on the grounds that it was a bald-faced lie. there were real consequences to this. the other day a man was arrested for threatening fema workers because he believed some of those lies. this isn't harmless. some workers have been forced to relocate. they have been worried about their safety. people are just trying to help and you are trying to exploit that? folks at their most vulnerable p it is shameful. because donald trump feels like making stuff up, you have hard- working public servants that cannot do their job. some are not

held reverence here over his relationship with the tribal communities. >> john mccain, my grandparents was a very good perp. >> reporter: he's now taking steps, a lot of steps, to meet his state's expanse of electorate. you consider yourself a progressive. how do you describe yourself politically now? >> the same thing, i'm a fighter for arizona. sometimes that takes me to different spectrums of the political world. but what happens, no matter what, i'm always looking out first for arizona making sure it gets what it wants and needs in its representation. >> it's been three u.s. senate cycles in a row which democrats have won a race. now arizona is on the cusp of being a one-time republican state, but one that has gone to democrats several cycles in a row. joe biden won the state in 2020 by 11,000 votes. we should expect a very close election. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you for your reporting. >>> coming up next, actor, writer and director brian jordan alvarez will join us to discuss his new series "english teacher" straight ahead on "morning joe." " a chewy pharmacy order is en route f

i walked her over and i said i want you to meet my buddy john mccain. and he married her. [applause] john and i were like brothers. we argued like hell. we shouted at each other. then we would sit down and have dinner together. we disagreed. but john was a patriot. there are a lot of good republicans out there but these guys are not that breed of cat. they are a different group. i was not going to run as i said for president again. i mean that sincerely. my son bo who was the attorney general of the state of delaware. one day i came home. he said -- he goes i could not afford daycare i cannot afford house care. my mom and the whole family is helping take care of my kids. my wife and daughter were killed. i commuted for 36 years on the train. i got off the train. my son said to me dad, what are you doing on friday? this was on the previous sunday. . i said, what do you mean. i want you to pin my bars on. he said i joined the national guard. i said you are married. you have two kids. somebody has got to do this. he got sent to iraq for a year. you either -- you are either sta

one of the great american heroes, john mccain. remember how he talked about john mccain? he said he didn't like him because he got caught. members of our military sufferers and seizures the highest ranking members of our military including what i mentioned earlier, a dedicated member in america's military, fascism to the court. >> talking points of the kitchen. >> courtney, can you stand? wife, mom, attorney she is here with a question. >> thank you so much. good evening. my name is courtney and i'm a first generation american. chaldeans are indigenous iraqis who are catholic and predominantly area. a close knit. the recent political climate has begun to divide us. while i know you have passed bipartisan proposals, hold you say to people like myself one of these traditionally conservative communities who want to move forward but feeling the pressures of the political divide? >> thank you. i have met with members and leaders of the minute and thank you for being here. i think there is something about core values as well as what is at stake with the risk and danger. i would

jim mccain, the son of the late senator john mccain is also expected to be in attendance. following that event you will hear from republican vice presidential nominee jd vance. he's also campaigning in the balaguer and state of arizona were the latest polling has former president donald trump with a slight lead over vice president kamala harris, but still within the margin of error. watch that event in tucson live at 3:00 p.m. also later in the evening, donald trump holds a rally in reading pennsylvania. that is expected to reoffend :00 p.m. edit 9:00, ruben gallego and kari lake debate for arizona's open senate seat. this will be their first and open debate. amy walter currently rates the race is leaning democrat. you can also watch on c-span now, the free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. as the 2024 presidential campaign continues, american history tv presents a series of historic presidential elections. learn about the pivotal issues of different eras, uncover what made these election's historic and explore their lasting impact on the nation. this saturday the

i think was the last time harris went to arizona telling the story of being in the senate when john mccain came in and did the thumbs down repealing obamacare huge spoke with candy purdue, and arizona trump voter let's watch i think you're telling me, but i think immigration is going to weigh that out so trump versus harris, what do you are you nervous at all about the election? >> i think my bands going on when i think edge. you know, everybody just go surely like to me. well, you know what so what the character candy was a character candy was also is also voting for abortion rights. that's why arizona is such a scrambled picture opposition won 139, also on the ballot, there's such question. i walked away from my arizona a time is yes, abortion rights going to pull harris over the finish line. there is no doubt. there's wide support for proposition 139. it's called it's to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution. there were some 800,000 signatures from all over the state, collected 500,000 word excepted in that number, though there are some trump supporters and we found one c

john mccain was a principled conservative for decades. he never lost an election here in arizona.conservative republican, and now we are in a driverless car. but sometimes it feels worse. it feels like there is a driver in the car and he's taking us off the cliff. how you doing? doing good. how much are your shoes? at the latest donald trump rally in arizona, it's all about getting a good souvenir. so how much are the trainers? those are 200. 200? yes, sir. wow. and these are genuine trump gold trainers? they are. they�* re official trump shoes. yes. does he wear them? i'm sorry. does he wear them? i think he did wear them. and that's what made him popular. yeah. all right. 0kay. 0k. maybe he plays golf with them! hello. how are you? where the former president goes, kirsten and geno go. their customers, loyal supporters of the ex—commander in chief. just like them. go trump! this despite the view of some mccain republicans that they might be a little bit crazy. what's going on, brother? well, i mean, if you only read half the story, of course you're going to think that. but his ow

but in the vein of john mccain, jeff flake, we understand we each have a compromised to get this done. and that's what we saw in that bill, that it wasn't perfect, but we need to get something done and not let politics get in the way. that's what it was like politicians like kari lake said absolutely not. it's not because anything wasn't a good enough solution or they thought there's more coming later, it's because they needed border prop. but they needed for political reasons. yet our border communities are still hurting every day. >> we had jeff flake on earlier in the show, we have john giles yesterday from asap. you got a permission structure in the state for republicans to vote for democrats, and they are actually quite enthusiastic. if you got an issue for democrats were unenthusiastic? there are people who prefer kamala harris and tim walz, but they are thinking they might just not vote this time around. >> i would say there has been a marked difference since vice president harris got into this race. we do see a lot more excitement. i see it at the doors, people in our offices

i was there in the senate chamber when john mccain walked in and gave the thumbs down. i know what donald trump tried to do to the aca. any idea he would try to pretend that somehow he was protect winged, one thing that struck me about the debate, but most americans don't see the vice president as the policymaker, and i don't remember during the debate that they talked about the pence administration. i don't think they believe the vice president has the power to pass legislation and implement policy unless she is working on behalf of the president she's serving. so, i think that's one of the reasons probably the debate polling is so close. in the long run even though vance was a really good liar and even though he tried to be really nice, i think it's probably a wash. >> reporter: i spoke with jason miller after the debates, and i brought up the january 6th exchange at the end the debate, and i said is that a problem for your campaign? he said if that's all democrats have then i'm not worried. what do you think? >> i think they should be worried. i think it was so stark

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john mccain was a principled conservative for decades. he never lost an election here in arizona.it feels worse. it feels like there is a driver in the car and he's taking us off the cliff. how you doing? doing good. how much are your shoes? at the latest donald trump rally in arizona, it's all about getting a good souvenir. so how much are the trainers? those are 200. 200? yes, sir. wow. and these are genuine trump gold trainers? they are. they�* re official trump shoes. does he wear them? i'm sorry. does he wear them? i think he did wear them. and that's what made him popular. yeah. all right. 0kay. maybe he plays golf with them! hello. how are you? where the former president goes, kirsten and geno go. their customers, loyal supporters of the ex—commander in chief. just like them. go trump! this despite the view of some mccain republicans that they might be a little bit crazy. what's going on, brother? well, i mean, if you only read half the story, of course you're going to think that. but his own former chief of staff, john kelly, reckoned that he admired hitler. yeah, i think

john mccain was my friend. i was the best man at his wedding. i traveled the world with him. i was an honorary pallbearer at his funeral. and yet from the very get-go, before the question of whether john mccain was going to support the health plan, the revocation of the obama plan, donald trump was saying that john mccain was no hero. so he has evidenced disregard for the military all of the time that he was in office and while he was running for office. there should be no question about the truth or lack of truth with respect to john kelly. john kelly's not only a four-star marine, he's a gold star father. he has flesh and blood that he has lost, like so many thousands of mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers who have seen their flesh and blood die on behalf of the united states of america. not to any given president but to the constitution. and you and i grew up, i believe at least in the good old days, pledging allegiance to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which it stands. never to a president. so we know what the former president has said, and

with trump the other day, he was saying that he saved the aca, obamacare in it was clearly john mccaint, everybody has seen it and yet they proceed to tell those same

have gotten there if it was not for john mccain? >> jd vance said well, he strengthened and saved obama care. >> no one knows how to cover it. are you effing kidding me. they should of dropped the f- bomb, right? this is a debate. the only chance people have to see the difference. instead, i will go back to my toothpicks, he just put one toothpick on y top of the other and i am for this and i am so sorry those women died, they died because of donald trump, one seman had a test for people he put on the screen. not one, not two, but three on. they would over turn roe. that is why amber thurman died and that little boy does not have a mom. you did not get the contrast neither did you get wake up and smell the smelling salts. lulled into normalcy. >> let me ask you about one other subject matter and how it went. on, gun violence and schools, they both said the same thing about how it is very sad and breaks syour heart. then, what j.d. vance said was, listen, i think the reason we have gun violence in schools, paraphrasing, is because of

john mccain is someone that i greatly admire. and john mccain called me hours before he went down and gave the big thumbs down to protect the affordable care act. you know, sometimes one person can make a difference. and i'm not going there to be, you know, one of 100 people and just arguing all day and getting nothing done. i'm a guy who likes to get things done. i'm only running because i think i can be the key voice in the middle to try to accomplish bipartisan common sense solutions. - will you buck the republican party majority? - i think nobody has any doubts that i will stand up to, i've proven over and over again that i had the courage to stand up to the former president and to my party, you know, numerous times when i think they're wrong. i'm going to work together, whoever is elected president, whoever's in the majority in the congress. i'm going to work with people when i think they're right, and i'm going to stand up to them when i think they're wrong. and that's what i've done in my entire career. - you've said that

i mean, do you believe john kelly >> i mean, i know john slightly and i knew i knew john mccain it fairlyl. and john and i disagreed about everything but we were friends actually, and i would like them very much an honest straightforward guy who obviously served his country heroically, was a prisoner of war and deserves our deepest respect. and he is somebody who was disrespected by trump, i suspect because he cast became cast the deciding vote to protect the affordable care act but i think in trump, you have somebody who is power hungry who has very, very strong or authoritarian tendencies, who does not believe in democracy. and no matter what your views are, i don't care if you're a conservative progressive or whatever you may be this is not a guy. we should be supporting to be president of the united states what do you think vice president harris needs to do in this next 13 14 day period, writers is reporting that the harris campaign is in talks with the joe rogan podcast. >> you i know you got on that podcast. you go and speak a lot places i saw you recently on fox do you think she sh

john mccain, not john mccain. oh, my god. he's dead. >>ig intrest his soul. >> yes.orry, but we're out of time. jwelcome to jesse watters, primetime tonight. >> we haven't seen famou, tonige seen no agencies camp this year. they hardly confirmed people. >> where is our bed? biden ran out of money for hurricane victims because he spent it on migrants. the entire hotel has been booked for federal employees and it's like, no, no, i hav.s e people that were just pulled out of a mountain. >> you've had four years asce pe vice president to do all thesi things you promised in the. campaign, but haven't done it. >>n't kamala harris under pressure. >> the former president is is is really been. when you're using a drag queen to recruit for the navy, that'sh not the people we want. what we need is alpha males toa females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for secondars. >> happy dea thursday. happy 70th birthday, rev. >> plus, who is this guy? >> he kept saying minnesota and wisconsin. what the. i'm from brooklyn. >> over 220 americans dead from hurricane

[laughter] the only reason we still have it is because john mccain stood up and said no.cheering] look, you all know it. this country and this world can't take four more years of donald trump. [crowd booing] all of a sudden, they are pretending. i had to be correct. sometimes i have to be corrected on the things i say. i will own that. i said they didn't have a plan. my bad. they do have a plan. it's called project 2025. [crowd booing] i did say this. i don't know anything about that. senator vance, you wrote the forward to the architect book. i don't know. i've never read a forward. if you do that, i'm assuming you remember them. i do know this as a football coach. you take the time to draw up a playbook you run the place. [crowd cheering] they are tax cuts for the wealthy, undermining the hpa, gunning the protections that we have on pre-existing conditions. kamala harris gets it because she grew up middle-class like so many of us. [crowd cheering] she understood it. [crowd cheering] the economy works best when it's fair. we have a saying in minnesota. pretty simple. i b

we also saw john mccain do the same thing, and i think part of what we are seeing right now is, yes, an attempt to to to really position themselves politically. but also there's the recognition that this is a moment that is that is devastating, right? essentially, one of the things that we're hearing over and over again from fema is that the amount of misinformation, the amount of politicization that has entered the conversation right now is actually negatively affecting what they are able to do and how people are able to respond to the storm right now. so i actually think the focus right now from everybody should simply be on safety. it should be on what are we going to do here? how are we going to stop this? how are we going to deal with the fallout and the continued fallout because hurricane season isn't over. >> it is not. all right. after the break on cnn this morning, one month to go election day, just around the corner. what, if anything, is going to change undecided voters minds at this point? we're going to talk to longtime political strategist, friend of the show, mark mcki

that might be the reason that john mccain's son, jim is with us on this campaign.rs and applause] and what we know is folks who have a dream to start small businesses across this country, access to capital for those small businesses is going to matter. that's why she's proposed proposals that put 20,000 grants in people's hands and $50,000 tax credits that go to small businesses, not large corporations that don't pay any tax to begin with. and then for all of you and this is for the young people, we all had a chance to do this and they deserve to have the chance to do this, the ability to buy your home and create generational wealth. [applause] yeah, donald trump and jd vance. they got a plan too. they want to give it to their overlords, the billionaire friends like elon musk. i did a very midwestern euphemism the other day when i was talking about elon being donald trump's running mate. and jumping around like a dipshit on stage and it popped out and a lot of people, i did not know this. some people in some parts of the country don't know what that is. trust me, i

this has never been the case with john mccain or walker bush or mitt romney. >> how do you account for the popularity? >> it looks like a very close race. twenty coming down to the state, close, a very close race. i don't understand it at all. i would say that being respectful of other means of view, there are those who will never get a lot anti- women to look at the lgbtq, anti- anything that's not who they are, so put that over there. then you have very rich in america, there are not that many electorally but there are plenty in the campaign and they don't want to pay tax. many don't pay their fair share and it's a motivation for the cost of doing business and it is a factor but in between their people, this is where we find common ground, they have legitimate concerns about innovation, globalization and some of them even immigration which is the lowest threat to the job security they don't always see it that way. my father was a truck driver but you all know given the globalization with a fauci down the road now in another country so the impact of globalization, it's fertile territo

in central kyiv, john mccain street was named by ukraine in the late senator's honor.ith this u.s. presidential election too close to call, the mood has turned gloomy and anxious. this woman's husband is in the military and told us ukrainians well hold on. she hopes americans won't abandon them. are you worried that donald trump could cut off the supply of weapons to ukraine? yes, she told us. for us, it's a matter of survival. holly williams, cbs news, kyiv, ukraine. >>> a nasa astronaut hospitalized has been released. they were part of the crew who splashed down friday morning after an eight-month state on the international space station. the astronaut was kept for observation. >>> the u.s. navy apologizing for destroying a native village of alaska nearly 150 years ago. a rear admiral apologized for attacking the village. the attack killed six children and caused such dire food shortages that villagers starved them services to children could eat. >>> now to the weather. a big shift in the west. rain and snow are in the forecast. the east hasn't even seen a drop. let'

john mccain was a hero. i don't care what donald trump said, he was a hero. thank you for listening to me. host: and he california, independent line -- andy in california, independent line. caller: very refreshing to see some republicans who get it. this maga drive, and trump who obviously the constructor of it is just the scum of what we have in america. we have a wonderful country, yet we have an individual who through his cons and such made it to the top and therefore has created a platform for this scum to come up. your guest, i commend him for his honesty and bravery. his fellow republicans should take his example and get some courage. these guys like lindsey graham and marjorie greene who represent this radical group, we really need to get them out of this country so we can become a united states again. host: we are in open forum. if you would like to call in, you can do so in the next 15, 18 minutes or so. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. and 202-748-8002 for independents. nbc news has the latest updates on early voting. early

>> john mccain. [buzzer] >> jesse: not john mccain. he is dead.ve to talk to bret now. >> bret: greg, you never want a

jim mccain, the sun of the late senator john mccain, is also expected to be in attendance. following that event we will hear from republican vice presidential nominee jd vance. he is also campaigning in arizona, with the latest polling has former president donald trump with a slight lead over vice president kamala harris, but still within the margin of error. watch that in tucson live at 3:00 p.m. also nominee donald trump will rally in reading, pennsylvania. that is expected to get underway at 7:00 p.m.. at 9:00 democratic representative ruben gallego and republican kari lake debate for arizona's open senate seat. this will be there first and only debate. the nonpartisan cook lyrical report, currently rates the race as a leans democrat. that is on c-span. you can also watch on c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> the house will be in order. >> this year c-span celebrates 45 years of covering congress like weather. since 1979 we have been your primary source for capitol hill, providing balanced, unfiltered coverage of government. taking you to

my character is important in a presidential candidate and compared trump to late arizona senator john mccain. >> john was conservative. to put it mildly. ran against me in 2008. talked about me on the campaign trail. but you know what, he understood that somehow you transcend party. he believed in honest argument and hearing the views of other people. he did not demonize his political opponents. >>> and new this hour, steve kornacki will join us to break down the road to 270. meantime our correspondence or covering new developments from across the country and we begin with dasha burns in chicago. >> reporter: both candidates have been pounding the pavement in the home stretch and both have been getting a helping hand from big-name surrogates. elon musk has been stumping for trump. meanwhile former president obama is rallying voters for harris. a battleground blitz. a late night split screen between the two candidates in critical michigan. >> if we win michigan we win the whole ballgame. >> reporter: trump supporters tearing after nearly a 20 minute wait when the former presidents microphone

god bless barack obama and john mccain.ohn mccain for starting it, barack obama for bringing it out. i was without insurance when i was about 19 because i got sick a my parents had to retire because my dad got sick later on. health care is a very important thing and women needed. these single women needed bad. a woman's body is her business, not the government, and not another guy. they've got to get their heads out of their rear ends and give it a chance. and by the way, like i said, obamacare saved my life, and my parents. so god bless him. the first thing they do after they make you retire is give up your insurance. so it means a lot to me and i think donald trump don't have any plans at all. he didn't have any for four years before, he probably wouldn't have any in the next four. kamala is going to stomp him good. host: at the place presidential debate, senator jd vance elaborated on former president trump's strategies for replacing the affordable care act. here's what he had to say and governor tim walz' response. >> a

>> john mccain. [buzzer] >> jesse: not john mccain. he is dead. god rest his soul. >> greg: sorry, we are out of time. we have to talk to bret now. >> bret: greg, you never want a ring of fire. thank you good evening. i'm bret baier. israel expanding ground operation in lebanon warning some communities to evacuate and for the second night in a row, massive explosions just within the past few minutes inside beirut. here at home, as some residents return home in north carolina, another huge storm threatens to strike the east coast. we'll bring you the radar and where it's headed. and a report from the homeland security department watchdog claims current vetting practices for migrants could be creating risks for u.s. citizens. ♪ >> bret: but, breaking tonight, officials are warning the strike at ports along the east and gulf coast of the u.s. could impact hurricane relief, president biden saying today pro-progress is being made in negotiations, some governors are not having it with states with major ports they are saying it's crucial for the union to

remember when he talked about john mccain not being a war hero, also that he believed u.s. generals were his generals. so what does it tell us about the campaign that they're flatly denying absolutely all of this in. >> i think we could actually be clear here, katey. it's not so much denying anything specifically. it's just sort of painting a broad brush stroke that doesn't deny the leadership or style or characteristics that are being ascribed to donald trump by john kelly and by the likes of james mattis and mark milly. and that's where you see donald trump just two weeks out now from election day trying to use these individuals but also political enemies, perceived political enemies like liz cheney to suggest it was actually them who were standing in the way of a more fruitful and efficient washington. and if it hadn't been for them, not only would his first administration have been more successful, but a successful administration that is unencumbered by individuals like john kelly or james mattis or even a mike pence would be even a more successful washington under dona