john mccain's daughter. her father wanted to be the headliner. we talked a lot this week about obama and george w. bush and they each delivered a message that had something of a lesson in its own way. it was meghan mccain who directly said that we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness. the real thing, not cheap rhetoric. for men who will never come near the sacrifice, he gave so willingly. she's talking about president trump, who we should point out was not invited to the service, did not come to the service, was at his golf course just outside washington today. it was meghan mccain i think who is carrying on her father's message and his torch. >> and douglas brinkley two former presidents suddenly, maybe not so suddenly, also expressing their very strong view on the political climate now here in washington. >> yes, they both did a first-rate job. george w. bush talked about what a troublesome plep mccain could be. but then had a line about the swagger i swaggering destops and bigots mccain

may god bless john mccain. ing that gentleman, the former president of the united states, barack obama, to speak for him at his funeral was sending a resounding, very sharp message to the current president of the united states who he pointedly did not invite. your thoughts? >> well, the message today was american values over party politics. this funeral i think was as much about john mccain as it was about the future of america and what we want to be as a country. when i think about the speakers, meghan mccain talked about the fact america has always been great, that her father told her nothing will break you. then you go to joe lieberman that said that john mccain nurtured american values, that was one of the things that stuck with him, and then saying fight for your country. this is a day people are thinking we're democrats, republicans, but we're really americans. what that means is we have to respect each other, we have to be decent, think about what the best thing is for generations to come. i think over an

to the face of those in authority, john mccain would insist we are better than this. is better than this. >> john liked being unpredictable. even a little contrarian. he had no interest in conforming to some prepackaged version of what a senator should be and he didn't want a memorial that was going to be prepackaged either. he had been to hell and back. and yet somehow never lost his energy or his optimism or his zest for life. what better way to get a last laugh than to make george and i say nice things about him to a national audience. and we laughed with each other. and we learned from each other. and we never doubted the other man's sincerity. or the other man's patriotism. or that when all was said and done, we were on the same team. >> an incredible mix of humor and tears. i'm joined right now by cnn's chief political correspondent dana bash, cnn political commentator and former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod, and cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger. good to see all of you. what an incredibly powerful and memorable service. dana, this w

john mccain reached out to him and said, let's do reforms together. d they did and then feingold was defeated and mccain turned to whitehouse. >>> i am resurrection and i am life. says the lord. whoever has faith in me shall have life and though he die. and everyone who has life and has committed himself to me in faith shall not die for ever. as for me, i know that my redeemer lives and that at the last he will stand upon the earth. after my awaking, he will raise me up and in my body i shall see god. i myself shall see and be bold him who is my friend and not a stranger. for none of us has life in himself and none becomes his own master when he dies. for if we have life, we are alive in the lord, and if we die, we die in the lord. so, then whether we live or die, we are the lord's possession. happy from now on are those who die in the lord. so it is, says the spirit, for they rest from their labors. >> see the pallbearers. among them the actor warren beatty, famous liberal. they bonded on the issue of campaign finance reform, former senators tom hart,

i can't help but think what would john mccain have said. he said john is probably watching above looking at all those reporters without umbrellas, let's douse them. >> it was affectionate. the next 90 minutes will be incredibly powerful. after we hear the navy hymn played by the navy band was kennedy's body carried up the steps of the capitol. you will hear from megan mccain. she's the most visible. they are walking in. >> the family is filing in right now. somebody shared a great story with us at the "meet the press" e-mail box. a young man who was enlisted and he was in training career. he gets this crazy phone call about a congressional thing and john mccain says you need to call your mother. the young mother written to mccain saying my son has not call me enough while in service. he didn't care about your station in life. this is why so many reporters liked him. for young reporters, the first serious person to take seriously would be non mccajohn mccain. he was not a snob. >> he was always real. even people who did not like him would be

>> his name is admiral john mccain. inly was one of the lowest points of my life, to say the least. >> are you married? >> yes. >> you are. you have children? >> three. >> three. >> his time in captivity forces mccain to re-examine his life. on the day his admiral father was buried with full military honors, the son leaves the navy for good, attaining the rank of captain. there are professional and personal challenges ahead, as his first marriage to wife carol crumbles. >> your first wife has said of you that the marriage ended, ultimately, because she felt that you were 40 and wanted to be 25 again. fair? >> anything is fair. i take full responsibility for the failure of my first marriage. >> is there a lesson to be learned? >> i -- i have been an imperfect person in many respects. >> on a trip to hawaii in 1979, john mccain meets the woman he will spend the rest of his life with. >> fell almost immediately in love. it was a tough situation, because he also loved carol. and carol had stood by him all the years that he w

we've seen obviously john mccain's sons and his daughter meghan mccain who, george, we know well, one of our colleague, you can see her standing off watching her mother this morning at the vietnam memorial visibly moved, breaking down and meghan who wrote that heartfelt tribute in the very early days after the loss of her father, and, george, you showed earlier that powerful image of roberta mccain, that so many people were sharing through social media in the last 24 ho06 yurrs old and i'm not sure how many people know the story, obviously, of -- they know his famous father, his famous grandfather but his father, an admiral did not ask for special favors for his son when he was held prisoner of war in vietnam. but he did travel there every year when he was held prisoner of war around christmastime and he would go to that demilitarized zone and stare into the north hoping that his son would come home one day and, you know, john mccain talked about communicating with his father when he got home and about sticking to that military code that he would not leave even though he acknowledged

john mccain was in all of those places but the best of him was somewhere else. ant of his roles was as a father. imagine the warrior, the night of the skies, gently carrying his little girl too bad. imagine the dashing aviator who took his aircraft bristling of pitching backs in the south china sea is kissing the hurt when i fell and skinned my knee. imagine the distinguished statesman who counselled presidents and the powerful singing with his little girl during a rainstorm. imagine the senator... the fierce conscience of the nation's best self sticking his 14—year—old daughter out of school because he believed that i would learn more about america at the town halls he held across the country. the elderly guttering or a government whose wisdom and courage were sought by the most distinguished men of our time with his eyes shining with happiness as he gave his blessing for his granddaughter's marriage. you will have to imagine that, i don't have to because i lived it all. i know who he was. i know what to find him. i got to see it every single day. of my placid l

with john mccain. hn fir and commander alvarez, thank you all for being here. colonel fur, you were not only a prisoner of war, you were his cellmate for two of the five.5 years he was held captive you were as well. can you even begin to describe what he was like in such close quarters in such bad conditions? >> no, now when you see john under those conditions, you learn that there is a deep inner strength that comes from many sources of john, he was a composite, he really was, he was a composite of all the values that murkel bodies interest you saw that even then? smr there was no question about it. there was no question about it. we had a lot of discussions about leadership and our obligations to serve america and things like that. he always said, remember it's the mission first. who do we serve first? and we take care of our men and women in the military nowadays. back then it was in the context of americans, how do we look towards making, keeping america great and under the strength of our commitmen

they want to talk about john mccain, his legacy, his service. after meghan mccain speaks, you're going to hear from senator lieberman, somebody who was extremely close with john mccain. he has visited with him. he was one of, again, the three amigos, along with lindsey graham during their time in the senate. we'll hear a tribute from joe lieberman later on as well as henry kissinger who shared a story. senator mccain told esquire for example that he add meyemires h kissinger for his ability to present his view of the world in an interesting way. there was a moment where kissinger was giving congressional testimony earlier this year, chris, when john mccain was already back in arizona. kissinger was speaking to members of congress and telling a story about how he was actually in vietnam, he was in hanoi the day that john mccain was released. he said there was an offer to get john mccain on his plane to take him back home and henry kissinger turned it down because it would have given him special treatment, it would have gone out of order for exampl

you believe john mccain's a hero. how he acted towards john mcwayne when he was alive and now that he's passed away, what would you say? >> i would tell him that he was very disrespectful for that and i don't agree with it. >> reporter: they were so upset by the president's behavior following senator mccain's death that they released a statement urging the president to make an appropriate presidential proclamation noting his death and legacy of service to our nation and that our nation's flag be half-staffed through his internment. the legion's national director of media relations. >> it was requested of the commander and chief saying this is a long standing tradition. we'll direct your attention back to what's been done in the past and ask that you follow that tradition. >> reporter: the marine corps women's reserve member has been alived for four of these liege conventions. she voted for donald trump. >> i would say i don't like the way he treated him. but it's been -- what's been done's been done and there's nothin

to the face of those in authority, john mccain would insist we are better than this. erica is better than this. >> john liked being unpredictable. even a little contrarian. he had no interest in conforming to some prepackaged version of what a senator should be and he didn't want a memorial that was going to be prepackaged either. he had been to hell and back. and yet somehow never lost his energy or his optimism or his zest for life. what better way to get a last laugh than to make george and i say nice things about him to a national audience. and we laughed with each other. and we learned from each other. and we never doubted the other man's sincerity or the other man's patriotism or that when all was said and done, we were on the same team. >> all right, let's go to cnn senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny, a not so subtle jab or plural jabs at the president from his daughter and others while the president was at his virginia golf club simultaneous to this funeral, right? >> reporter: frederica, there was no question. the sheer fact that the 43rd and the 44t

becoming john mccains friend is one of the great blessings of my life. e of the great honors. and for that, i think cindy and the entire mccain family. and i also want to thank them, putting his mother, his brother, his sister, the seven wonderful children, for the love and support you gave john throughout his life and his service. none more than in the last year of his life. and you, cindy, have been absolutely saintly. and we, his friends, cannot thank you enough. there is a special satisfaction that comes from serving a cause greater than yourself. i heard john say those words hundreds of times. particularly a lot as well. for him we are not just words in a speech, they were the creed that he lived by. the greater cause to which he devoted his life, was america. not so much the country defined by its warriors. but the america of our founding values. democracy and equal justice under law. john's life, he nobly served and advanced these american values. and remarkably, his death seems to have reminded the american people that these values are what makes

john mccain was defined by love.elf on the receiving end of famous temper or were at a cross purposes to him on nearly everything right at this moment doing you're best to stay stone faced. don't you know if john mccain were in your shoes here today he would be using some salty word he used in the navy while my mother jabbed him in embarrassment. he would keep grinning. she was the only one who could do that. on their first date when he still did not know what sort of woman she was, he recited a robert service poem to her called the cremation of sam mcgee about an alaskan prospector who welcomes his creation as the only way to get warm in the icy north. there are strange things done in the midnight son by the men who want gold. he had learned it in hanoi. a prisoner in the next cell had wrapped it out in code over and over again in the long years of capt captivity. my father figured if she would sit through that, she just might sit through a lifetime with him as well. and she did. john mccain was defined by love. thi

we are watching the family and the children of john mccain coming into the capitol there. john, i think it is so powerful, because he suffered so much for the five-and-a-half years in a hanoi prison, and he invited someone like warren beatty, hold only, we're going to watch the casket come into the u.s. capitol. come out of the capitol. [ silence ] >>> let's bring in john mechum as we watch the casket being brought down. you never know, watching history, when things come, you're not ready for how big they are. i think we're all struck by the power of this loss. >> it is a sacred hour for a hand who gave his all to preserving our journey toward a more perfect union. he was a perfect man who kept us moving guard higher ground, and today by his conscious design, is an extraordinary embodiment not of the fact that we should always agree or that there is a mythical centrism in the american spirit, because there's not. we fought from loyalists versus revolutionaries, federalists and antifederalists. north and south. interventionists and isolationists. we have fought and fought, b

the world will be lonelier without john mccain. s, his faith in america, and his instinctive sense of moral duty. none of us will ever forget how even in his parting john has bestowed on us a much-needed moment of unity, and a renewed faith in the possibilities of america. henceforth, the country's honor is ours this day. [applause] ♪ >> ♪ amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me i once was lost, but now i'm found, was blind, but now i see, i see. twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved. how precious did that grace appear, the hour i first believed. ♪ ♪ ♪ pres. bush: to cindy and the mccain family, i am honored to be with you to offer my sympathies and celebrate a great life. the nation joined your extraordinary family in grief and gratitude for john mccain. some lives are so vivid, it is difficult to imagine them ended. some voices are so vibrant and distinctive, it is hard to think of them stilled. a man who seldom rested is laid to rest. and his absence is tangible, like the sil

senator john mccain. former u.s. from both sides of the political aisle supporting, embracing the mccain family as they said farewell to the long-serving senator and vietnam war hero. notice not in the cathedral, not even in the city was president trump.

there they were very very old friends good friends but sure the other interesting thing was that john mccain's lawyer at the time was john dowd who then became trump's lawyer. are there all the actually there were a few people that were involved back then the s. and l. crisis getting all these senators and everybody absolved the powerful people who did not go to prison at that time they had these lawyers that are still in power now but also the other legacy of john mccain is he was he was a war hawk despite what the media might have said they call it heroism and a great patriot and many people in the world might consider it a war hawk ism so i want to see like it does work obviously america is very powerful they have a huge army our dollar since one nine hundred seventy three by the way when the you know john mccain returned to america from a prisoner of war camp which was a horrific experience and he was horribly tortured but he returned in march of one nine hundred seventy three right about the time that. basically we had the petrodollar beginning of the petrodollar so we after forty years w

and john mccain passed that test again and again and again. t didn't ring hollow. they weren't just words to him. it was a truth that he had lived. and for which he was prepared to die. and it forced even the most cynical to consider what were we doing for our country? what might we risk everything for? and much has been said this week about what a maverick john was. now, in fact, john was a pretty conservative guy. trust me, i was on the receiving end of some of those votes. but he did understand that some principles transcend politics. that some values transcend party. he considered it part of his duty to uphold those principles and uphold those values. john cared about the institutions of self-government, our constitution, our bill of rights, rule of law, separation of powers, even the arcane rules and procedures of the senate. he knew that in a nation as big bo boyserous as ours, those rules bind us together to gave shape to our common life. and even when we disagree, especially when we disagree. john believed in honest argument, in hearing

two former rivals of john mccain. what would you say is the broader message mccain was trying to send here? >> i don't think he is trying to send it. it has been sent loud and clear during the ceremonies. he wants comedy. he wants people to start working together. from the time he returned to washington shortly after his diagnosis, stood on the senate floor and said we need to come together and do things for the american people. this is a sacrifice for him. he looks at it today and says these are two people who beat me, but i found ways of working with each of them in order to accomplish big things. that is the message i want to send to you even after his passing. he wants to keep sending that message. it is starting to resonate. we saw speaker ryan emulate that message and punch it out. i hope that the celebrations of john's life continue well past today. >> rick, very quickly, it has been said really no one can replace him. is that how you see his loss? >> we heard a number of people say that, but one of the things i

he was the just man, justicing, for john mccain every human being deserved to be treated justly. and those persecuted by power and those in need. john was a man who loved and he knew that love is seen in action, in doing. he was so often surrounded by the servicemen and women he had such a special affection for. we can hear him in shakespeare's words, but we, we shall be remember remembered. we, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers. love is truly shown in action and god in his love has given us this warrior as a sign who acted in god's eye, what in god's eye he was. though we are sad, we do celebrate the life of our friend, husband, father, senator, and warrior by because he did keep grace, christ playing in 10,000 places. he gave us an example of how to live, how to be the just man. with st. paul, john can now say, i have fought the good fight. i have finished the race. i have kept the faith. goodbye, john mccain. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, danny boy, the pipes, the pipes of calling ♪ ♪ from glen to glen and down the mountain side ♪ ♪ the summer's gone and all the flowers falling ♪ ♪ it's yo

full not because he achieved fame or power or success but because in the words of his daughter, john mccain was good. he was defined by love and because he always believed america was great. >> john sidney mccain iii was many things. he was a sailor. he was an aviator. he was a husband. he was a warrior. he was a prisoner. he was a hero. he was a congressman. he was a senator. he was a nominee for president of the united states. these are all the titles and the roles of a life that has been well lived, but they are not the greatest of his titles, nor the most important of his roles. he was a great man. we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served. he was a great fire who burned bright. the america of john mccain is generous and welcoming and bold. she is resourceful and confident and secure. she meets her responsibilities. she speaks quietly because she is stro

that was so much john mccain. he used to do the same about going up to walter reed, where all the war wounded were. he didn't tell anybody he was going. he called me up one day, said i'm going to go out there, you want to go with me? and i knew it wasn't to do a news story or anything. he just wanted to make sure that i saw what was out there, and he would just go and he did that a lot. it was not just every once in a while. he just felt it was part of his duty to go out there and kind of check on the guys and see how they were. >> that's right. and he saw that as both in keeping with his military service, that your service isn't just begin and end in the beginning and ending of when you're active, that you are a steward of a long tradition. and he felt that in politics, too. senator udall was talking about mo ocl v hi as the senator said, in what bipartisan was, that you shared more as americans than as political opponents from different parties. and he went to visit mo udall when he was in the veterans hospital

the vision that john mccain was trying to lay out for people yesterday. what did you take away from the service? >> first, i thought it was a beautiful service. first, more than that, my condolences to the mccain family, cindy mccain, the children. i think that they showed great grace, strength, dignity. i think the service, really the whole week, has been about unity. there's been, as you mentioned at the outset, discussion about the tension between president trump and john mccain. this notion of unity is really what i have been seeing. it's unity behind the values of a great american. that's john mccain, courage, someone who loved freedom. he loved freedom more than anybody because he had it taken away, service to our nation and mentorship, as you mentioned at the outset with me. it's not just me, but democrat and republican senators. so, i thought it's been a very important week to look at the values he represented. he wasn't a perfect man, he is the first to admit that, and celebrate those. the notion of unity was much stronger than the tension you rep

senator john mccain is underway at the national cathedral in washington d.c. a vietnam veteran mccain died last week aged eighty one after battling brain cancer among those in attendance a former president barack obama and george w. bush president donald trump who had a bit to feud with mccain was not invited to attend. our correspondent alexandra phenomena is outside washington national cathedral where that service is being held and right here in studio with me is tyson from the aspen institute here in germany thank you both for joining us here right so alexandra i'd like to begin with you we obviously did hear that the former president george w. bush and obama delivered eulogies what was the highlight for you of both of their tributes. well i have to say that what we saw here today was a very moving ceremony a world scripted one that once again showed john mccain most of my art and respected by many here and especially those two who delivered as you said former president george w. bush and former president obama we heard from bush he praised john mccain for his courage and decency h

my father is gone. >> but on saturday, john mccain's voice was as clear and defiant as ever. in the sentiments of his daughter, meghan mccain. >> we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness, the real thing. not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served. >> from her father's service and sacrifice to his vision of our nation. >> america does not boast because she has no need to. the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. [ applause ] >> that speech only part of a week long tribute that john mccain planned himself to showcase bipartisanship at its best. >> back in the day, he could frustrate me, and i know he would say the same thing about me, but he also made me better. >> two former presidents, former rivals who defeated mccain in the political arena, lauding his legacy and his vision for the country. >> so much of our politics, our public life, our public d

john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break cozy with ken lay who financed the bush campaign so the bush presidency and when they got caught committing massive fraud on the same scale as a savings a long crisis the machinery was already in place thanks to john mccain is a bag man for wall street for decades yeah to bail those guys out and make them whole at the expense of democracy slash economy of the united states which is disintegrating. in a world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. international and passenger jet overshot the runway in khan fire in southern russia in the early hours of saturday leaving eighteen people injured including three children the boeing plane operated by air airlines was unable to land for m

lonelier will be without john mccain. and his instinctive sense of moral duty. will ever forget, how even in his parting, john has bestowed on us a much-needed moment of unity, and a renewed possibilities of america. henceforth, the country's honor day.rs this [applause] ♪ ♪ grace, how sweet wretchnd, that saved a , i once was lost, but found, was blind, but , i see.e twas grace that taught my heart my fearsand grace relieved. did that grace the hour i first believed. ♪ ♪ >> to the cindy and mccain family, i am here to offer my sympathies and celebrate a great life. the nation joined your extraordinary family in grief and gratitude for john mccain. vivid, it ise so difficult to imagine them ended. some voices are so vibrant and distinctive, it is hard to think of them stilled. a man who seldom rested is late to rest. and his absence is tangible, like the silence after a mighty roar. the thing about john's life was amazing suite of it, from a tiny prison cell in vietnam to the floor of the united states senate. -- torouble

the world will be lonelier without john mccain. his ebullience, his faith in america and his instinctive sense of moral duty. none of us will ever forget how even in his parting, john has bestowed on us a much needed moment of unity and a renewed faith in the possibilities of america. henceforth, the country's honor is ours to sustain. [ applause ] >> secretary henry kissinger, what a line. >>> and now the united states naval academy glee club with the hymn "amazing grace." >> you see those wings on the lapel of cindy mccain, those of her husband. ♪ ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me ♪ ♪ i once was lost but now i'm found ♪ ♪ was blind but now i see ♪ ♪ i see ♪ 'twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved ♪ ♪ how precious did that grace appear the hour i first believed ♪ ♪ the lord has promised good to me bright shining as the sun ♪ ♪ we've no less days to sing god's praise than when we'd first begun ♪ ♪ ♪ the sound the sound was blind but now i see ♪ >>> former president george w.

our jeff zeleny has more. >> reporter: washington paid tribute and bid farewell to john mccain, an american patriot and politician. at the washington national cathedral, a tablo of history, assembly to say good buy to a war hero and veteran republican senator. mccain's daughter meghan over come with emotion throughout the week spoke passionately about her brother with a poignant message. >> we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness. the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege. >> inside the cathedral, it was the first of preferenseveral re of president trump. >> john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. >> reporter: the funeral unfolded as a parting lesson in cysty from mccain himself. to eulogize him he invited 2 men from the white house, george w. bush and barack obama. amid moments of humor. >> from trouble-making plebe to presidential canned zblat praise for mccain's core beliefs. >> at va

that's john mccain, courage, someone who loved freom. loved freedom more than anybody because he had it taken away, service to our nation and mentorship, as you mentioned at the outset with me. it's not just me, but democrat and republican senators. so, i thought it's been a very important week to look at the values he represented. he wasn't a perfect man, he is the first to admi that, and celebrate those. the notion of unity wa much stronger than the tension you report on. >> let me ask you this, how do you make sure that yesterday wasn't a funeral for another era of politics? that this idea that, you know e what, donald trump style of politics is now how you win? john mccain was trying to send e message, no, no, no, don't go down that road. how do you prevent yesterday from being a memorial service from that? >> john mccain was a fighte there's no doubt about that. he also was somebody who famously said that honesty, integrity ishe core value and keeping your word in the senate. ie actually beli that on a lot of issues, there is bipart

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so important to the mccain family and to the larger family of vietnam veterans and pows of which john mccain was such an integral part. they'll stop here at the memorial for a few minutes. we expect to see cindy mccain, john mccain's widow come out and place flowers or a wreath at the foot of the vietnam memorial and when you think about it, this is one of those parts of john mccain's life, everyone knows this part of his biography, but really those folks at home have no purchase with it. how can you possibly understand the kind of things that john mccain went through during his five years in captivity? a lot of folks who come to this memorial day after day, his fellow pows, really do understand that and this will be that moment, that silent solitary tribute to that such an important part of john mccain's life and remember, that was not his only purchase with these p.o.w.s even after coming to the senate. he cochaired a committee with john kerry, his fellow vietnam veteran where they disagreed on so much about the war but worked together to help normalize relations with north vietnam some 20

john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break jose with ken lay financed the bush campaigns of the bush presidency and when they got caught committing massive fraud on the same scale as a savings along crisis they machinery was already in place thanks to john mccain as a back man for wall street for decades yeah to bail those guys out and make them all at the expense of democracy slash economy of the united states which is disintegrating. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i committed twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could meet fifty thousand dollars a year trucks or chose to drive trucks people who rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to. this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in slowdowns for much of the last jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reali

plus -- remembering senator john mccain, hisersm, love of country and his legacy. [singing "amazing grace"] announcer: this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided by -- newman's own foundation, donating all profits from newman's own products to chari t and nourishi common good. koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation, comtted to bridging cultural differences in our communities. the etcs and excellence in journalism foundation. the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, from washington,mo rator, robert costa. robert:good evening. a week of stark contrast. the nationaid tribu to the late arizona senator john mccain withs powerful sce and powerful words. but politics didn't stand still. president trump continu to sh out at targets old and new and in the process heth previewd battles to come this fall. the president's fury with g attorneyeral jeff sessions, it remains, but by week's end, he says sessions was safe until after the november elections ahead of those

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were very very old friends who are good friends but sure the other interesting thing was that john mccain's lawyer at the time was john dowd who then became trump's lawyer there all is actually there were a few people that were involved back then in the s. and l. crisis getting all these senators and everybody absolved the powerful people who did not go to prison at that time they had these lawyers that are still in power now but also the other legacy of john mccain is he was he was a war hawk despite what the media might have said they call it heroism and a great patriot and many people in the world might consider it a war hawk ism so i want to see like it does work obviously america is very powerful they have a huge army and our dollar since one nine hundred seventy three by the way when the you know john mccain returned to america from a prisoner of war camp which was a horrific experience and he was horribly tortured but he returned in march of one nine hundred seventy three right about the time that. basically we had the petrodollar beginning of the petrodollar so we after forty years

talking john mccain's ideas, when i looked at the cereny, i saw john mccain designing to rebuttal presidents inaugural address from a year and a half. we went from american carnage the american idea of promise. we went from a negative speech to a positive speech. everything is fine. america doesn't need to be made great again. the truth is john mccain's america, the america that was represented at the national da cathedral yest doesn't need to be made great again because it's doing fne. th contrast is with trump and who trump represents. for them, america is not doing fine. they like the negative message. >> kimmerly, there was part of me that felt like is this scene going to be seen as the last gathering as the revolutionaries come with their pitc forks or this call to arms where, whoa, whoa, whoa, we a going stabilize america? >> i think it depends on who you ask. for some people, it will be both. i think it's important to remember, as much as we are talking bipartisanism, a bygone era, remember, the fight between john mccain and barack obama were tough. they are on opposite side of issue

at all. >> not john mccain. t's talk about the history that's going to be made here today with two former presidents now eulogizing senator mccain. >> well, this is a powerful moment for a number of reasons. the nation is going to say good-bye to a hero. senator mccain decided that, because he made all the arrangements -- we are watching a series of ceremonies that senator mccain thought about and authorized. he wanted not only two presidents to speak, but two presidents from different parties, victor. this is the first time that's ever happened, that two presidents from different parties are speaking and eulogizing the same man. and by so doing, there's an understanding between them and the late senator mccain. senator mccain said i want this vision of bipartisanship. and these two men, george w. bush and president obama, are saying we respect john mccain and we respect the bipartisanship that he fought for. >> and he was eulogized earlier in the week by a democratic vice president, former vice president joe bid

i appreciate there is only one john mccain. john and i served the people of arizona together for nearly 20 irit, alongn that sp with senator flake, i will do my best to assure the arizonans continue to be well presented in the u.s. senate. governor asked me to serve for the remainder of the term, and he's made some very convincing points. i'm committed to serving to the second session of the 115th congress. i do not seek the seat in 2020 or any other office in the future. i'm accepting this appointment to fill the seat they by the passing of idea front because of my sense of duty to the state i love in the institution of the senate in which i served for 18 years. and because the governor asked for my help. and because i am putting my country first, just as this seat's previous occupant did every single day for more than 30 years. muchow, there is unfinished business on the senate's, including confirmation of president trump's nominees to judicial and executive branch positions. i look forward to going to washington and getting

he almost ran out of money and let most of his staff go. >> it was you and john mccain? rage. no private plane. >> no. sometimes i even drove the van. >> the next president of the united states! >> mccain climbed his way back. >> the mac is back! >> are you the front-runner now? >> i think we're doing very well. i'm optimistic. >> to get there, he did swallow some principle and played politics. >> we will secure the borders first, when i am president of the united states. >> mccain seized the gop nomination. >> sure showed them what a comeback looks like. >> and thought he'd be facing his old friend, hillary clinton. >> i think we bought thought that. i thought it would have been a great campaign, because we both respected each other. we'd worked with each other. >> instead, it was barack obama. his first big decision, his running mate. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska! >> sarah palin was a surprising and bold decision. she drew the conservative support he was sorely lacking. >> it's no who he wanted to choose. >> he told me you want to put my name on

it was the morning of 2008, john mccain lost the day after. >> how much of that is john mccain will notwhich keeps him who he is. >> mccain raced back to the senate, no security and no time to race. >> true to form, mccain sparred with the new president. >> this president and this administration has either guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a cover up. >> he worked with obama and becoming the president's go-to guy on immigration and confirming nominees and even heading to egypt at the president's request. >> in 2008, did you think president obama's republican deal maker? >> no. no, i worked on a lot of issues with president clinton as well as a republican president. it is not as if i have not done this before. >> and like before, it made mccain especially unpopular with the conservative base of his party. >> you could say there are two john mccains. the one who campaigns like a conservative and the one who legislatives like a liberal. in 2010, conservative j.d. hayworth gave his his toughest challenge ever. mccain attacked right and he stopped talking compromise on immigratio

a moral service for the late us republican senator john mccain has been held at the national cathedral in washington d.c. a vietnam veteran mccain died last week eighty one to battling brain cancer among those who spoke at the service were former president barack obama and george w. bush both of whom defeated mccain in the race for the white house president donald trump who had a bitter feud with mccain was not invited to attend so that service obama delivered a unity for mccain where he praised his lifelong commitment to serving the american people by his own account john was a rebellious young man in his case that's understandable what faster way to distinguish yourself when you're the son and grandson of admirals and to munich. eventually though he concluded that the only way to really make. his mark on the world is to commit to something bigger than yourself and for john that man answering. the highest of cops. serving his country in a time of war. correspondent alexandra phenomena is outside washington national cathedral where the service took place and she joins us alexandra we j

i promise you, john mccain did the same thing when he attended these. n their mind. whether it is social, business, at a certain point as we get closer to the actual funeral, this is the way it is in washington. which is people are talking to each other and either doing business or catching up and probably sharing in a sense, of a wake, sharing some good stories, sometimes war stories of what it was like to deal with john mccain. oh my gosh. putting that wreath there was an emotional moment. it was a moment in which defense secretary james mattis and the chief of staff, former marine general john kelly, escorted her down there you see the family. just moments ago and meghan maccain again, with her sister there as we have seen throughout. you are talking chris, about foreign-policy earlier. i've had many people email me about senator mccain and kind of the whole that is left. the last 10 to 15 years he really was the most knowledgeable member on foreign conflict. and in some places, the only member who really understood all of the intricacies of some of t

>> it was amazing. >>> five days of national mourning coming to a close with john mccain buried next to his best friend. the family releasing this heart wrenching image of cindy weeping over the casket. former presidents, family, friends, and political leaders continued to honor mccain's lifetime of service at washington's national cathedral. >>> his daughter remembering her father as a hero and rebuking president trump's cheap rhetoric insisting that america was always great. there has been a lot of talk about the lack of civility in politics today. what, if anything, will change after a week of mourning a true american patriot, as the country turns their attention to the upcoming election. let's do to abby phillip. >> after five days, here in washington, john mccain has finally been laid to rest. he was buried at the navel academy in annapolis. he said he wanted to be laid to rest next to his friend in the place where it all began. >> the family of senator john mccain bidding an emotional f r farewell. the military honoring mccain with a missing man flyover. his burial coming after

mcc the fact of john mccain and his biogray, the fact tha he's a war hero. mccain represented, i think, to him, alls the thinghe wanted to define himself as against and this was a way of sort of trying to cut with the establishment and i'm not part of that and i don't want any part of that. ihink it was also partly a response to the fact that there was a portion of the republican ba that really loved sarah palin and didn't love john mccain, wn he was runni for president, and that was the segment of the electorate donald trump knew he had to lock dow and ride to victory, which is what he did. robert: when you think about the tensions b the president and senator mccain, there's a moment tomorrow with president bush and president obama delivering eulogies, historic to see presidents comingogether like that. yamiche: imagine president trump sitting in the white house watching these two presidents who will be celebrated forayhat they people will be talking about barack obama's words. people will be saying president bush gavelf him beautiful eulogy and you have pre