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, mccain.ar reception in hanoi and with classic directness he said well, first, joe, it is because they have been taught that i was treated a lot better here than i really was. and second, it is because of the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam. well, that was a classic mccain understatement. along with president clinton and john kerry, john mccain was the leader in congress in bringing about the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam, an extraordinary act of personal forgiveness when you consider what the vietnamese did to him during his five and a half years as a prisoner of war. after his injuries in vietnam he could not pursue his ambitions in the navy. so he turned to government service as his grateder american cause. of course, i didn't know john in his youth. i don't think he was born with the natural skills of a legislator. and yet he learned them, became a great one. he knew when to be immovable, when to negotiate and compromise to get something do

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

mccain, to cindy and the mccain children, president and mrs.itics. he made us better presidents just as he made the senate better, just as he makes this country better. for someone like john to ask you while he is still alive to stand and speak of him when he is gone is a precious and singular honor. now, when john called me with that request earlier this year, i'll admit sadness and also a certain surprise. after our conversation ended, i realized how well it captured some of john's essential qualities. to start with, 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. it also showed john's disdain for self pity. he had been to hell and back and yet somehow never lost his energy or his optimism or his zest for life. so cancer did not scare him. and he would maintain that buoyant spirit to the very end, too stubborn to sit still, opinionated as ever, fiercely devoted to his friends

john mccain was defined by love.ounder sells on the receiving end of his famous temperand work at the receiving end of his famous temper and work at a cross —— doing your best to stay stonefaced. you know full well that isjohn your best to stay stonefaced. you know full well that is john mccain we re know full well that is john mccain were in your shoes here today, he would be using some salty bertie london and a deep well my mother jackson in embarrassing. he would look back at her and grumble and maybe stop talking but 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 poem to her called the cremation of sam mcgee. about an asking prospect who welcomes his cremation as the only way to get warm in the icy north. there are strange things done in the midnight sun by the man who... the arctic trails have secret tales that would make your blood run cold. he had learned it in hanoi. a prisoner in the next cell had ranted

cindy mccain. their their father, mmyvi grandfather and great-grandfather did. ♪ all the family members have a part in one ceremony or another this week. national cathedral full. cokie, it really is remarkable we're seeing this for someone who is not a president of the united states. >> i was thinking exactly the same thing. we've seen these very formal grand services for presidents, most recently president ford, but this is a senator, now he was not just a senator, even when he came to congress, he was not just a freshman congressman. he was known around the world as a hero. but he and then he forged his way in a way that the whole world came to know him and here he is with thoseonors bnghim. >> pallbearers have taken their place at the back of the cathedral. see vice president joe biden. >> also senator whitehouse from wild -- >> sheldon whitehouse. >> sheldon whitehouse, a democrat, when john mccain came -- when russ feingold, democrat from wisconsin came to the senate he had never met john mcca

passion, and, well mccain-ness, and remembered john mccain the loving father while delivering pointed and poignant messages to those who would dishonor him, to those indeed dishonor the country with the politics of fear and pettiness and smallness, everything john mccain was not. >> 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 willingness nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of privilege and content while he suffered and served. he was a great fire who burned bright. america does not boast because she has no need to. america was always great. i know who he was. i know what defined him. i got to see it every single day of my blessed life. jack machine contain was not defined by prison, by the navy, by the senate, by the republican party or by any single one of the deeds in his absolutely extraordinary life. john mccain was defined by love. >>> my friend, your father was a hero to so many and deservededly, but today you are mine. i want to bring in dana bash

the entire mccain family there with cindy mccain. >> a moment of silence in honor of those whose named are on the wall. there will now be a moment of silence. >>> mccain family now heading back to the motorcade for that trip to the national cathedral. terry moran, struck again this morning how every moment, every image, ef ceremony has been chosen for a purpose. >> to send a message as you said and this message about the vietnam war which tore our country apart. and part of the mission of john mccain as a politician was to bind up the nation's wounds after that war and he found common cause typically across the aisle with john kerry, who was very much on the other tia came back from avail buan maigreed it was try to heal the country and that was part of his dedication to this memorial as martha said? we saw this, cokie roberts, right up until the final moments of his life. >> he, of course, was seared in vietnam and then used that searing to make it a dedication to serve. as he said, i learned to love my country in the prisoner of war camp in another country, but this memorial is reall

john mccain never did. and that is because, as i was saying earlier, he never took himself seriously. he knew what his failings and weaknesses were. nobody knows himself better than himself. you know what your weaknesses are. >> colonel, thank you. you're a great man. thank you. we have to pause now for this moment as well, for cindy mccain to leave the latest wreath in honor of her husband and all of them. [ silence ] [ silence ] >>> that's a proud honoring military parade there really of family members, john kelly and jim mattis but also all the mccain -- two boys, jimmy and -- jack rather in his naval uniform, in the whites, and jimmy in the marine uniform and of course meghan behind them, all behind cindy who's the widow now. this is so military. it's the family tradition of the mccains to be military. three generations of high level naval officers before him, and mccain followed in those foot steps as this family is honoring it now. it's unusual in recent american history to have someone in politics th

mccain! >> it made mccain a hero to obamacare supporters, but a traitor to many in his party. >> this is, you know, clearly a disappointing moment. >> a place he found himself many times in decades of legislative fights. >> he's been called the maverick for a reason, because he's not just a maverick out there by himself, kind of pursuing his own interests. that's not the kind of maverick john mccain is. john mccain likes to get things done that will make a differenc difference. >> when we come back, mccain's first brush with death. ♪ flintstones! meet the flintstones. ♪ ♪ they're the modern stone age family. ♪ ♪ from the town of bedrock. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration, electric cars are more fun to drive and more affordable than ever. electric cars are here. plug into the present. i'm all about my bed. this mattress is dangerously comfortable. when i get in, i literally say ahh. introducing the leesa mattress. a better place to sleep. the leesa mattress is

john mccain is defined by love.d or crossed words with you or found yourself on the receiving end of his famous temper, doing your best to stay stoned face. don't. you know full well that if john mccain were in your shoes today, he would leave some seawaalty w he learned in the navy. he would keep grinning. she was the only one who could do that. on their first date when he still did not know what kind of woman she was, he recited a poem to her. there are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moild for gold. he had learned it in hanoi. a prisoner in the next cell rapped it out in code over and over again during the long years of captivity. my father figure that cindy would sit through that and appreciate the dark humor. she might sit through a lifetime with him as well and she did. john mccain was defined by love. this love of my father from my mother was the most fierce and lasting of them all, mom. let me tell you what love meant to john mccain and me. his love was the love of a father who mentors

father, senator mccain. >> and this is about honoring the life of john mccain.t, rebuke, that's a good word because we're talking about the president of the united states was not invited. however, you did see the chief of staff. you did see the secretary of defense. you did see his daughter and son-in-law. i found that to be very striking, considering the president was not invited. what did you make of that? >> i think donald trump was the elephant not in the room or in the room, you know, whatever the expression is. you know, you don't have to say donald trump's name for the contrast to just be so obvious. and i think that, you know, john mccain is somebody who obviously sacrificed for his country, somebody who represented, i think, a post-world war ii political time in america. the, you know, liberal democracy and the norms that we've become, you know, whether it's the reagan era, the vietnam era, 9/11, donald trump has changed all of that, and so i just think, you know, so many moments that were compelling in this funeral and the different eulogies, but the b

this is where it all began. >> john mccain! john mccain!ccain shifts from congressman to senator. >> and i want to publicly thank senator mccain. >> and gains national visibility. >> the honorable senator from arizona. john s. mccain. >> and delivers a rousing speak at the 1988 national convention. >> this november, we must not forget. we must not retreat. >> but then, his career crashes down in flames. his character is called into question after his name surfaces in the keating five banking scandal. >> as i understand it, you had a personal relationship with mr. keating. you were a friend of his? >> yes. >> it was a question not only of what he did, but who he did it for. >> charles keating is a wealthy contributor and friend of the mccains. they would fly nine times on the keating's private plane. but when banking regulators start looking into keating's failing savings and loan, he asked mccain and four other senators to get them to back off. in the end, keating goes to prison, while a senate ethics committee eventually clears mccain, say

that's john mccain's krcredo. hope that a lot of people take stock of who he was and say, hey, maybe we all should be a little bit more like john mccain. i know there's a lot of talk about division in washington, that's true, but john lived in washington. he served in washington. he is not divisive, so if he could have done it, others can do a good job too. >> right. and divisive really is the, you know, definition of politics, right? i mean, everyone can't have this monolithic way of thinking, but there is a way in which to handle it, and so many have talked about how john mccain exemplifies how to handle that. so, as the nation says farewell to john mccain, do you also believe it's a good-bye to a certain grace, an era of grace in politics? >> it's a good-bye to john mccain, the man. what it should not be good-bye to john mccain, the person, what he stood for. we should take john mccain as a good example of what we can and should be, and if we keep that memory of john mccain alive, we're going to do a lot better

amazing eulogy by meghan mccain. john mccain's daughter.o 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

senator mccain: hm. [humming] >> i think it is safe to say this is a c-span first -- at wrigley. >> [indiscernible] [cameras clicking] >> why is the tower legacy so significant to you? senator mccain: i believe that john tower was a great patriot and i think he served his country honorably, and he was a dear friend to me. but i thought the unfairness of his treatment was so wrong that i felt that it was unjust and he was mistreated in a way that was clear he did not deserve. >> now, in that chapter, some of the most mccain-like statements, the sort of stuff folks you deal with privately m might believe a guy who is a bastion right hashristian been a bit of a player. there is a page and a half about his involvement in the tower case. in open session and in closed session, you say the stuff in closed session was almost worse. he said he saw tower with long hair at a washington bar. you then basically portray him as a smug, self-righteous "son of a bitch." senator mccain: yes. >> there are a few people in y

a lot of emotion from meghan mccain today and a lot to be read on face of cindy mccain as she watchedg. i'm martha maccallum. bret: i'm bret baier in washington. and please stay tuned for fox news channel and this fox station for continuing coverage. have a good day. >> we continue now with peter doocy who has been watching all of this from outside washington national cathedral, as we wait for the hearse to set in motion on its way for its next stop there, peter. good afternoon to you. >> good afternoon, martha, and just a few feet in front of where the hearse is located, i'm looking as some of senator mccain's senate colleagues, who were bused over here this morning all together are watching and waiting for the late senator to be taken away and i also just watched and she's been taken back inside now, but the late senator's mother, roberta, stayed at the top of the stairs while the rest of the family walked down to see senator mccain off as he was placed very gently by members of the armed services into the back of the hearse. we can hear now that the motorcycles from the capitol pol

mccain felt differently.n thought it was in america's enterprise, in its spirit, to help lead the western world, the world of democracies, the world of free trade. now, mccain was more conservative than many people. he was, you know, quite a big hawk. he and barack obama had terrible fights and he thought barack obama actually had a terrible foreign policy. his foreign policy, mccain's, would probably be closer to what trump has actually done as opposed to what trump has actually said. but you do have this make juror contrast here about what makes america great and what its enduring mission, if one can put it that way in the world out gh to be in this century, not in the last one. >> steven erlanger there live from brussels. of course we'll keep in touch with you. >> thanks, george. >>> the u.s. president spent saturday playing golf and tweeting. mr. trump was spotted at one of his golf courses in the u.s. state of virginia and at the top of his mind, trade with one of the country's closest allies, canada. mr

the mix of great friends and family members, jimmy mccain and cindy mccain and meghan mccain will give tribute to her father today. it is a highly personal moment today. it is exactly the way he wanted it. as you mentioned in the broadcast earlier, the singing of "danny boy." his personal favorite is what he wanted to have happen today. we are honoring his interests and views, but the people he wanted to surround himself with throughout his life. they may have big names, but they were big in his heart. >> rick, today's service will feature tributes from former presidents bush and obama. 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 pe

represents john mccain in today will be a service that representsjohn mccain in every way.as had the last couple of years to think about this. he has battled with ill—health, he had surgery for a brain tumourand ill—health, he had surgery for a brain tumour and ultimately his life was claimed by cancer. the idea of his own mortality had played on his mind in the last year. ultimately the service that is taking place todayis the service that is taking place today is one that he wanted and that has been very important to his widow, cindy, and the rest of his family, to ensure that his wishes are carried out today. thank you. the memorial service itself is set to begin in 45 minutes. those attending the service are already gathering within washington's national cathedral and we will be bringing you that live. senator mccain's casket is en route, it has left the vietnam memorial. a tribute was paid by his widow, and is now heading to the cathedral, the national cathedral in washington. passengers on northern rail are facing problems travelling today — because of a fresh strike

and they began to chant wildly, mccain, mccain! sign autographs. when it was over, i asked him, why he got such a rockstar reception in hanoi? and with classic directness he said, well, first it is because they have been taught that i was treated a lot better here than i really was. and second, is because of the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam. that was a classic mccain understatement. along with president clinton, and john kerry, he was about bringing normalized relations between the u.s. and vietnam. the next ordinary act of personal forgiveness when you consider what the vietnamese did to him during his 5 and a half years as a prisoner of war. after his injuries in vietnam, he could not pursue his ambitions in the navy. so he turned to government service. as his greater american cause. of course, i did not know john in his youth but i do not think from what i've heard that he was born with the natural skills of a legislator. and yet, he learned them and became a great one. he knew when to be immovable and

he was not invited by john mccain.mp learn from the life and legacy of john mccain? >> well, president trump made a mistake in one of the debates when he said john mccain was not a hero. he's the only one in america, probably, who thought that way, but -- and john didn't want him to come to the funeral, so he said nice things and stayed away. >> former senator bob dole, thank you for sharing your thoughts today as we remember john mccain. we appreciate it. >> okay. thank you. >> we'll be right back. at priceline, we love finding ways to save you money. like mixing and matching airlines to get lower prices on flights. oh, that's how i saved on my trip! oh, for your wedding?! no, my ex-boyfriend's wedding, he's confused. jason! mix and match airlines to save more. slonly remfresh useseep one in ion-powered melatonin ht. to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. number one sleep doctor recommended remfresh -your nightly sleep companion. >>> if we get smart on time >>> this is a moment outside the national cathedral a sho

senator john mccain. former u.s. presidents and vice presidents and lawmakers 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. he stayed away from the funeral because he was not invited. cnn's senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is in washington. jeff. >> reporter: washington paid tribute and paid farewell to john mccain, an american patriot and politician. at the washington national cathedral, a living tableau of history. asemiing to say good-bye to a war hero and veteran republican senator. mccain's daughter overcome with grief and emotion throughout the week spoke passionately about her father with a poignant and pointed message. >> we gather to mourn the passing of american greatness. the real thing. for the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort -- >> reporter: inside it was the first of several references to

at all. >> not john mccain.et'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 bi

it is all part of this mccain fee nom n f phenomenon. he pushed on campaign reform, and he seemed to be in a constant process of making himself better, and now today, inviting the people -- in fact w., his campaign was really brutal toward him down in south carolina. accusing him of having a illegitimate daughter, not an adopted daughter, saying his wife had drug problems, and look who is speaking at his funeral. >> john mccain is someone that admitted that he hadflaws. in interviews when it was coming to the end of his life when people were asking him how do you want to be remembered, he said he wanted to be remembered as someone who served his country and sometimes did it well and sometimes made mistakes. the fact that sarah palin and some republican operatives weren't invited to this funeral, the reporting is that he wanted to signify that that was a darker period in his life where he didn't really feel as proud of that campaign against barack obama. even though there was that stunning moment where he stopped a woman who was calling c

, mccain.er, i asked him why he got such a rock star reception in hanoi. and with classic directness, he said, well, first, because they've been taught that i was treated a lot better here than i really was. and, second, it's because of the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam. that was a classic mccain understatement. along with president clinton and john kerry, john mccain was the leader in congress in bringing about the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam. an extraordinary personal act of forgiveness when you consider what the vietnamese did to him during his 5 1/2 years as prisoner of war. after his injuries in vietnam, he could not pursue his ambitions in the navy. so, he turned to government service as his greater american cause. of course, i didn't know john in his youth, but i don't think that i heard he was born with the natural skills of a legislator, and yet he learned them and became a great one. he knew when to be immovable and when to negotia

senator mccain: no. i said the opposite.as angry and said i do not want any special favors for this guy. someone take a transcript of the meeting. but it is like anything else in life. if you create an impression, then you were doing wrong. i am not for attacking saudi arabia militarily. i am saying, we insist that you allow people certain fundamental light -- rights. let's allow women to ride in the front seat of a car, just for starters. i am saying is during the cold war, we had to sometimes make unsavory friends for the sake of the balance of power situation with the soviet union. that is not true anymore. experiment should be allowed to be received by every individual. idealistic?und too senator john mccain's worth of the fighting for, his political memoir. it's a pleasure to meet you and have you in our studio again thanks. >> thank you for having me on again. >> hi jim. how are you? >> you know bill, i'm sure. >> so then you have a final rehearsal. you have the live rehearsal and then everybody packs in to lauren mich

he was paying tribute to cindy, john mccain's wife, and john mccain leading the rhetoric, notjust living by his words. we will hear from the honourable doctor henry kissingeri controversial honoureble doctor henry kissingeri controversial figure himself later. controversialfigure himself but no less the former us secretary of state and national security advisor under richard nixon and gerald ford, back in 1973 he received the nobel peace prize for his negotiation of the ceasefire which mr field in vietnam. here he is now being guided to the pulpit. we have also heard from meghan mccain. she was very passionate and an emotional tribute she paige doherty father. —— paid to her father. she was talking about people who had not served their country. you can see the wife of senatorjohn mccain, cindy, also in the congregation. as well as his 106 old mother, roberta mccain. at times of national trial, many great personalities have emerged. the reminders of our essential unity and have inspired us to the fill our sustaining values. john mccain was one of those gifts of destiny. i metjohn for the

he wasn't there. >> i understand that, and that was john mccain's -- that was john mccain's desire, and his desire should be respected. people who are not invited to a funeral shouldn't show up. that's not showing respect to the deceased. that's showing disrespect to the deceased. it was good that the president didn't try to elbow his way in there, and by the way, members of his family were there to show the respect of the trump family. jared and ivanka were both there, and at the funeral and did so in a respectful way. his chief of staff was there, john kelly who understands john mccain's sacrifice because he has had an even greater sacrifice himself by giving up his son for this country -- to defend this country. he is a gold star father. so there were lots of representatives of the trump administration there yesterday to show that this administration has great respect for john mccain, despite whatever political disagreements they may have had over time. >> thanks very much governor christie. is there anyone who picks up the mantel of john mccain? >> there is no obvious person. there

and they began to chant wildly, mccain, mccain! sign autographs. when it was over, i asked him, why he got such a rockstar reception in hanoi? and with classic directness he said, well, first it is because they have been taught that i was treated a lot better here than i really was. and second, is because of the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam. that was a classic mccain understatement. along with president clinton, and john kerry, he was about bringing normalized relations between the u.s. and vietnam. the next ordinary act of personal forgiveness when you consider what the vietnamese did to him during his 5 and a half years as a prisoner of war. after his injuries in vietnam, he could not pursue his ambitions in the navy. so he turned to government service. as his greater american cause. of course, i did not know john in his youth but i do not think from what i've heard that he was born with the natural skills of a legislator. and yet, he learned them and became a great one. he knew when to be immovable and

cindy mccain going into limousines begin final journey for john mccain.etnam war memorial as we have been mentioning to honor his service there, cindy mccain will be laying a wreath. you can see it's cloudy overcast morning. it's been rain ago little bit. that may have an impact on exactly how long they spend, we're told at the vietnam war memorial. but then making its way to the washington national cathedral for the ceremony we have been talking about much of official washington getting together for that but his final resting place that he will reach tomorrow is at the naval academy in annapolis and that is very fitting as well. >well. rachel: he will be buried next to his best friend. pete: few of the tributes given by senator joe lieberman, senator lindsey graham famously known as the three amigos on capitol hill. he almost chose the first bipartisan presidential ticket. that's how close he was. ed: 2008 in home state of minnesota i was there he was thinking about picking joe lieberman he regretted he didn't reach across the aisle and do that. rachel:

mccain's kcasket and garrett, te stop holds so much significance to the mccain family. and what can we expect when they do stop there? >> reporter: this stop here will be brief, but it will be as you said, 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.

nothing about mccain. you met and interviewed senator mccain many, many times. >> right. >> just to wrap up your thoughts and this segment, what do you remember about him and his relationship with journalists and the media. >> well, look, he was one of a kind. he was a throwback in many respects to a different era. but he was a -- as serious on policy as he was savvy on politics. but he liked the media a lot. largely because it was a way going his message across. it was you know covering a presidential campaign of john mccains was a lot of fun frankly. because he would take a lot of questions. you know, for voters it was a lot of fun. this was a candidate who stood in a townhall for hour upon hour and answer people's questions. that's not necessarily how it is at this moment. i think john mccain for all of his service certainly will be missed. it was a -- a passing of time today here at this cemetery -- or the funeral in washington earlier today, ana. >> jeff zeleny in washington for us. thank you. >> sure

mccain. to cindy and the mccain children, president and mrs., vice president and mrs. biden, vice president and mrs. cheney, vice president gore and has john would say, my friends. we come to celebrate an extraordinary man. a warrior, a statesman, a pat w embodied so much that isn among the fortunate few who competed against john at the highest levels of politics. he made us better presidents just as he made the senate better. just as he made this country better, so for someone like john to ask you while he's still alive to stand and speak of him when he's gone is a precious and singular honor. now, when john called me with that request earlier this year, i'll admit sadness, and also a certain surprise, but after our conversation ended, i realized how well it captured some of john's essential qualities. so to the start with, john likes being unpredictable. even a little contrarian. he had no interest in conforming to some prepack kjed version of what a senator should be and he didn't want a memorial that was going to be prepackaged either. it a

first, more than that, my condolences to the mccain family, cindy mccain, the ildren. i think that they showed great grace, strength, dignity. i think the service, really the whole week,as been about unity. there's been, as you mentioned at the outset, discussion about the tension between president trump and john mcca 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 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 no

after meghan mccain's eulogy. it reads in all caps, make america great again. let's go to annapolis. hans nichols is there. and we were seeing some pictures earlier, hans, of the motorcade making its way to your location there. and really a capstone here, isn't it, that this is a military man, this is a veteran who went through an experience that shaped his entire life all the way to the end. >> reporter: richard, in john mccain's words, he is coming back to where it all began. this is annapolis, an academy, a place he resented, at times reject the, but it gave him the mental fortitude for a lifetime of service, but also his years in captivity. you know, when he was here he was a rebel. his nickname was john wayne mccain. he was fast to a party, first to a fight, known for poker playing skills. it was that discipline, it was that since of country and honor that was really formed here. now, behind me you are seeing here a lot of well-wishers. these people, some will be going inside. most of them just want to get a

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

john mccain was defined by love. several of you have crossed swords with him or found yourselves on the receiving ends of his famous temper or doing their best at this moment to stay stonefaced. do not. you know of john mccain were in your shoes he would be using , some word he learned in the navy while my mother jabbed him in embarrassment. he would grumble and maybe stop talking but he would keep grinning. she was the only one who could do that. on their first day, when he did not know what sort of woman she was, he recited a poem about a alaskan prospector who welcomes his cremation as the only way to get warm in the north. there are strange things done in the midnight sun. the arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. a prisoner had warapped it out in code. my father figured if she would sit through that and appreciate the dark humor that had seen him through so many years of imprisonment, she might sit with him through a lifetime. and she did. john mccain was defined by love. thi

you attended john mccain's funeral.lked up many miles on numerous trips to iraq, afghanistan and other places around the world. you didn't see eye to eye on everything. but you call the disagreements always professional. we heard this echoed today. tell bus that. >> nobody would agree with john on everything or have john agree with you or but that was why he was such a great member of the united states senate. it's supposed to be the world's most deliberative body. we have to act in bipartisan ways. and john kashzed that. in the heat of battle where john was so well respected because he loved the men and women that represent the united states in times of conflict like this. for himming to no the theater and look them in the eye and say thanks for what you are doing was pure joy to him. so i enjoyed my visits with him. in theater. but also i traveled the world with him, any number of times. and john mccain was so well recognized number one as a true united states statesman and a great symbol of america. and he was so wel

to candidate mccain.ccain says he would vote against the immigration bill that senator mccain wrote. are you kidding me, folks? the stakes could not be higher because we do know what a bush -- what a mccain administration would look like. there's a slip. >> george bush was the single least popular sitting president in history. his approval rating was 25%. and we were the third term of the bush administration. >> just this morning senator mccain said that actually he and president bush share a common philosophy. that's right, colorado, i guess that was john mccain finally giving us a little straight talk. >> senator obama wants to run against george bush. he should have run for president four years ago. >> one of the things that was the key to us was to be able to regain the mantle of the maverick. and one of the most critical decisions that john mccain had to make was who was going to be his running mate and we had a lot of good options, at least we thought we did. >> when rick davis called me and said jo

naval academy for senator john mccain. mccain will be buried there with military honors.ollowing the service, lucas tomlinson, joins us from outside the gates there. hi, lucas. >> reporter: hi, lee hand. i spoke to -- leland. i spoke to some midshipman who said they're expecting 1500 classmates to attend the service unvoluntarily over the three-day weekend, a glowing tribute to senator mccain. it's notable senator mccain's father and grandfather, both naval academy graduates are buried at arlington national cemetery, not the naval academy, another example of senator mccain doing it his way. he was instructed to be buried along side his classmate, add admiral charles larson. they were known as the odd couple. larson was the brigade commander at the highest rank of the school. mccain was better known for his mischief but had leadership qualities that did not require rank. larson commanded a submarine and was one of the youngest admirals in u.s. navy history. he led the naval academy twice. mccain spoke at had alma mater often. he spoke about al-qaida, saying they can ask go

john mccain was defined by love.my mother was the most lasting of them all. let me tell you what love meant to john mccain and to me. his love was the love of a father. and the weent for us did not always understand it, he was always teaching. he did not expect us to be like him. was to beons for us better than him, armed with his wisdom and informed by his experiences, as a girl i did not appreciate what i appreciate now, how he suffered and how he bore it with his stoic silence which was once the mark of an american man. i came to appreciate it when he demanded it of me. i was a small girl thrown from a horse and crying. my dad picked me up and took me to the doctor and got me thickset. -- fixed up. he made me get back on that same horse. i was furious at him but how i love him for it now. my father knew pain and suffering with an intimacy most of us are blessed never to have endured. down, crippled, beaten, tortured, starved, and humiliated. that pain never left him. the cruelty of his captors would ensure he woul

mccain store to. pay tribute to her father in a very personal and emotional way and let's pick up exactly that listening to just a little bit of what meghan mccain had to say. the america john mccain is generous and welcoming and bold she is resourceful confident secure. she meets her responsibilities she speaks quietly because she is strong america does not boast because she has no need to. the america john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. thank you alexandra clearly a message to president trump and his support to. yes indeed i would say that it was a message to president trump who by the way was tweeting during the memorial about trade deals and the russian investigation as you know john mccain was one of the fiercest critics in the republican party of the president he's daughter was very critical of the president as well and the fact that john mccain explicitly asked former president obama and george w. bush actually political rivals in the two thousand g.

john mccain long serving senator an american war hero nice in state. becoming the great and the good from across the political divide paying their respects. 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 then 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 meant answering. the highest of calls. serving his country. in a time of war mccain's family emotional and his daughter meghan unafraid of politics in america john mccain is generous and welcoming and bold she is resourceful and confident secure. she needs her responsibilities she speaks quietly because she is strong america does not boast because she has no need to. be america john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. a swipe at president donald trump's divisiveness. many feel that the death of john mccain comes at a time when

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our prayers and our heart remain with cindy mccain and the entire mccain family and we will continue to celebrate the life of john mccain. i want to start off by saying that we all hoped today would never come. but it has come. i realize what an important decision this is and that there is no replacing senator john mccain. but the law requires me to do it, and the people of arizona deserve representation in the u.s. senate. it's the decision that i made with careful and thoughtful deliberation. can imagine i received a lot of advice from people about this selection. most of it unsolicited. however, the best piece of advice that i received was from another governor. who said, just do the right thing. persone best possible regardless of politics. it was really good advice. and clarifying advice. and it made my job easy. bestcontemplated who could serve our state in the u.s. senate, i kept coming back to one name and one person. jon kyl. in arizona with the stature of senator john kyle. he is a man without compare or p eer. with nearly two decades experience in the senate serving alongs

first, more than that, my condolences to the mccain family, cindy mccain, the children. 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, some discussion about the tension between president trump and john mccain, but this notion of unity is really what i've been seeing. it is unity behind the values of a great american, and that's john mccain. courage, someone who loved freedom. you know, he loved freedom probably more than anybody because he had it taken away. >> that's right. >> service to our nation, and mentorship as you mentioned at the outset with me. you know, it is not just me but democrat and republican senators. i thought it has been a very, very important week to kind of look at these values he represented. he wasn't a perfect man, he is the first to admit that, and celebrate those. but the notion of unity i think was actually much stronger than some of this tension that you have reported on. >> let me ask you this though. how do you make sure th

cindy mccain, senator mccain's wife, also got into the van.e were any grandchildren here. he has five grandchildren and seven children, as you know, and lots of spouses and a brother and a sister, and of course, his 106-year-old mother, roberta, who is listed in the press guide as 106 years young, which is very much a statement of fact. i did not see her here. i'm not sure if any of you did, but they are waiting for the hearse to begin moving behind the police escort and then head out on to constitution avenue, this the final good-bye to john mccain from the place that he loved so much. >> and ed, i know you'd been doing some reporting around this. roberta mccain really captured so much attention yesterday because she appeared so stoic. >> absolutely, and really gripping the hand of meghan mccain through most of that ceremony in the rotunda. i was told by somebody close to the family that afterward, she actually gave a pep talk and told everyone in the family and some other friends, don't be glum, don't be downtrodden, her son had a great life

mccain, cindy, and the mccain children, president and mrs.nd secretary clinton, vice president and mrs. biden, vice president and ms. cheney, vice president gore, and as john would say, my friends, we come to celebrate an extraordinary man. a warrior. a statesman. a patriot. who embodied so much that is best in america. president bush and i are among the fortunate few who competed against john at the highest levels of politics. he made us better presidents. just as he made the senate better. just as he made this country better. so, for someone like john to ask you while he was still alive to stand and speak of him when he is gone, is a precious and singular honor. now, when john called me with that request earlier this year, i will admit sadness and also a certain surprise, but after our conversation ended, i realized how well it captured some of john's essential qualities. to start with, 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 d