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

the legacy lives on in the mccain institute. for other governors and i will tell you, this is not a partisan issue, this is, what is the right thing to do issue. how do we protect our children, our citizens? how do we make our state a better place to live? i know you have worked with certain influencers in our state to help bring this to light and change the law. if the governor were to go back to the state and say, this is something we are going to tackle, we are going to be as innovative or more innovative than arizona, what advice or counsel would you give them? >> hurry. jump in your car right now and hurry. start it now. i know most states within the united states to have a human trafficking effort happening. what i suggested what i tell people, let's share information. let's share our best practices. let's share what we have learned. let's share the mistakes it made which is very important in all of this. unless we talk as individuals and as states, and work together on this issue because to simplify it and take it down a

cindy mccain. [ applause ] cindy, would you take the floor for a few moments? i think that i have learned so much about this issue and i still remember in 2009 when you personally called and said that we were going to do something about this in the state of arizona, and i have been able to see what has happened to the state, but it was an issue that was so new to me at the time, and the reason that i have knowledge of it is because of you, and part of the reason we wanted to have this setting today was so that we could share this knowledge and best practices with other governors across the country. >> well, first of all, thank you, governor. it's my honor to be here and it is my honor to be sitting on the same stage with you. if it had not been for then treasurer doug ducey at the time, i don't think we would be sitting here talking about this. i basically pulled a bunch of people together, just friends that i knew, in my living room and said we absolutely have to do something and the catalyst to all this was the super bowl. it was coming, this is such a scourg

and as you can see there with john mccain, it wasn't all about winning. many different issues i would rather lose than -- than to win that way. and he won a lot more than he lost, but i think that came down to your basic love of his country. it was more important than any political race. >> listen, i think -- you know, i've said this before, i think john mccain would not even argue this point with me that he doesn't mind being criticized on his policies. people didn't always agree with his policies. >> no. >> he was imperfect with his policies, but on a human level he was a decent man. i was going to ask you, have we lost our -- you said statesmanship. i was going to say civility. but have we lost our sense of decency? >> well, i don't -- i don't think that as a -- as a country we've lost it, i think, though, the scary thing to a lot of us is that we've seen that if you have an incivil person at the top, if you have someone who really doesn't share these basic american values, it's all about himself, it's all about his own megalomania, then i think the sc

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

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

it was his criticism of john mccain's status as a war hero. remember this?ero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured, okay? i hate to tell you. >> that's almost exactly four years ago today, despite president trump refusing to apologize, his standing in the polls continued to rise. tim, listening to you talk about that deterioration of the republican party, a lot of people reacted in that moment and said john mccain is a war hero. obviously trump's going to pay a price. but to the republican base, that was trump standing up to their enemy. >> not only that, steve, which is right, because mccain, of course, had really been sort of persona non grata to the conservative movement. remember, he picked sarah palin because his campaign needed a shot in the arm. they need to mobilize the base. they knew that to even have a prayer against barack obama, they needed conservatives to turn out in big numbers. and so that's why he chose sarah palin ultimately. but you just said something, steve. you said that despite trump not apologizing, his poll nu

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

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

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

i was on john mccain's bus when that attack from john lewis came out.on the bus as well, and a few others. and we didn't take off from the campaign plane when that attack came out because john mccain was devastated. the differences between john mccain and donald trump are too vast for the time we have remaining. and meghan mccain has spoken out this week forcefully and eloquently about lindsay graham and all of his trespasses. but this one, and i thought to make a list of all the enablers this week. but, again, we only have an hour. this is not the same. this is not the same. and, listen, i worked for george w. bush, who after katrina, there was a lot of racial despair directed at him, a lot of thing-fointing. the difference is george w. bush and john mccain were gutted by the criticism and did everything to prove that their critics were wrong. donald trump is like a pig in you know what. >> the thing is about everything around him saying the president is not a racist and all the bones in his body talk is so ludicrous. if you use race to divide people a

i hope that we are making senator mccain proud with such important work. so with senator mccain's example lighting the way and with the trust of the people of arizona shaping my service, i recommit to ignoring political games and focus on upholding arizona values to get things done for the states and for the country that i love. mr. president, i yield the floor, and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from nevada. ms. rowsen: mr. president, i rise today to address an issue that transcends politics and strikes at the very core of who we are as americans. throughout my time in congress, i have made it my priority to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. m ms. ros en: to work toward passing commonsense legislation so we can help working families in nevada and across our country. ms. rosen: in the house, i was proud to

and i think that's the point that meghan mccain was trying to make there. they are slow. and this is also -- this defines the trump era and the republican party. and that is that people who have constituents, which is most of the republicans in the house, the majority of the constituents are huge trump supporters. and a lot of the republican senators. they don't want to cross him. because their voters like him. they like many of his policies. i'm not saying they like this particular approach that he took. this racist approach. and it -- but the question is going to become, when is enough enough? when are you willing to go the route of bob corker or jeff flake or a lot of other republicans who did either have to retire or knew they were going to lose their seats because they spoke out against this kind of thing. and, you know, event after event, tweet after tweet, we have these moments of truth. and this is about the most stark that we have seen in a very long time. moment of truth. and we don't know where the majority leader is. >> we certainly don't. >> or others. time a

why megan mccain might be leaving "the view." joining us is the guy you've been wait for, raymond arroyo "new york times" best selling author, fox news contributor. the new book "will wilder, the amulet of power." hey, raymond, how are you. >> hi. tammy, great to be with you. >> tammy: nice to see you. what's going in the world? >> well, as you know the president is taking a lot of flack for the fourth of july celebration. i've been doing a little research. and that hardware that they'rere giving him so much trouble over the hardware that his administration has brought to d.c., is actually tame by historical standards. people are saying he's acting like a dictator, a guest last night said he's compensating foy something. i don't think any of that is true. for some context, this is fdr's inauguration in 1941.s there's a row of tanks all the way down pennsylvania avenue. >> tammy: wow. >> we'll go to the shot of eisenhower's inaugural from '57. he had missiles rolling through the capital. then there's jfk's inaugural more of the sa

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

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

mccain trolling the president because of his stormy relationship with the former senator mccain.is fierghting he carcass of the u.s. military, which is supposed to be independent, nonpolitical servant of the entire state and not just of the political party. when u bring i it politicization and you're raising counts about the reliability that the military will obey lawful orders when givennen, that they will not inject their own partisan preferences into their job, we depend on that. but when you bring them into parts upfood fights as in the last several weeks, yo're chipping away at the nonpartisan status and that's not good for anyone. knighter the republin or democrat wins if the military takes on aarty caste. >> reporter: mike, do you see that as danger? do you see this administration or prior ministration do that chipping away? >> no, i think it is a danger and, clearly, other administrations have done it, even one-off situations. but i think the danger is retired general officers, retid litary analysts come in, pick a side, make it feel like they think this is the worst thin

i'm glad you brought up the mccain moment. another president last night might have quieted the crowd and said, no, we don't chant that. you framed this perfectly. hallie, we have to look at this through two lens, cultural, moral, national narrative conversation lens, who we are as a nation. last night we saw an irresponsible leader meet a kx o xenophobic cob sit wanes. permission to suggest we would send a sitting member of congress back, a refugee who sought asylum here. she was last in a refugee camp in kenya when she was nine years old having fled somalia. we used to be a nation that welcomed and provided refuge to that. last night we saw a leader saying send her back. there is a political lens we have to look through this. politically, sadly, i do think this is not only a winning message for this president with his constituency, be very careful about that but one we will see more and more often. the president's only pathway to re-election is not to drive up his own favorability, he can't do that. he has to drive up the unf

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

you are fit more mccain is more protection for journalists . we each. lacks confidence from the journalist because of the corruption says mccain is doing is providing some security measures for journalists and nader but his resources and what's missing too is of real political will to to trenton's and we're going to talking about human resources and financial sources there's a reason a mechanism of protection and journalists should talk with the mechanisms of what we do we try to do it it intelligently between the journalists and the mechanism because it can have an exam was also a special prosecutor's office for crimes again surely school for adley which is investigating cases of crimes against journalists that this family. for lack of resources and for and because of the correction of corruption that exists all of the last 8 years not doing its proper job and they to lose a lot of impunity easy. to 99 process of trying to gauge all of these so they say that significant point it's a good point you bring up and you know put on a bill she is not even in

coming up next, new details about meghan mccain's future of "the view."telling cnn that the biden campaign was blindsided by the massive fundraising numbers of pete buttigieg. the south bend mayor will join cnn live in a couple minutes. but first a sneak peek of the new cnn original series the movies, it explores pivotal mouchlt moments of films. and this sunday they focus on the '80s including the shining. >> wendy, i'm home. >> i play this game. all your favorite filmmakers alive or dead were opening a movie on the same day, which movie would you see first? for me it would be stanley kubrick. it is done in a way that you would not expect. to me, the shining isn't about horror, it is about dread. from the very first frame, something grabs your solar plexus and pulls on it. nobody uses silence like stanley kubri kubrick. >> it was as if i had been in the overlook hotel for 2 1/2 hours. he creates a pacing where it overtakes the way you're breathing and you're existing and you're in there. he controls you. >> the shining broke new ground. >> you can watch

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

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

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

mccain." named after the late senator, his father and his grandfather. ship's nickname is big bad john. that's also o the shirt. >> well trump is you know politicizing this event into something for his own personal gain. they want to stand up and say hey let's honor a real american hero. >> mr. trump's dislike for the late senator is so well known, white house staff asked the navy to hide the "uss mccain" during the president's statevisit to japan back in may. just yesterday cindy mccain honored her late husband at a change of command ceremony aboard the warship at a naval base in japan. >>> coming up -- a boy comes home from a local beach infected with this -- flesh-eating bacteria. >> up next, news4's darcy spencer has a message from the boy's mom and helps us understand how big the threat really is. >>> and here's the latest on storm team 4 radar. a few isolated showe thunderstorms making their way into parts of loudoun and fauquier counties, tomorrow more widespr d rain and storms are in the forecast. the biggest threat going to be downpours and pote

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

"john mccain." when were you in japan, your staff hid the "mccain" from your view. you say you did not ask them to do that. what did you ask them to do with the u.s.s. "john mccain?" >> blow it out of the water. >> stephen: good to know. let's lighten things up a little bit. what was your favorite 1980s pop hit? ( ♪ "nasty" by janet jackson ♪ ) >> nasty. >> stephen: sir, in your opinion, what are the chances you get impeached? >> i actually think it's a lot better than people would think. >> stephen: hold that thought, sir. we are picking something up on the sonar. down periscope. gah! final question, sir. what will you do if you win a second term? >> i'm going to move to canada. >> announcer: it's the "late show" with stephen colbert! tonight: lepre-don! plus, stephen welcomes: james corden. zoe kravitz. and musical guest lewis capaldi. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: whooo! ( applause ) ♪ ♪ >> stephen: welcome. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, one and all, to

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

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

cindy mccain unveiled her late husband's portrait and gratefully accepted a commissioning pennant. >i am especially pleased today to unveil my husband's portrait, and to accept on his behalf and behalf of the mccains, the commissioner pennant, which meant so much and such a great deal to john >> chinese president xi meeting with turkish president erdogan in beijing both leaders expressing their willingness to strengthen relationships between the two countries. and take a look at this. a father captured video of a shark swimming dangerously close to his children as they swam off florida's laeatlantic coast dan watson said he was flying a drone to take pictures of his kids when he spotted the shark and yelled for his wife to get the kids out of the water, which thankfully, she did. some scary stuff, though that's the news update this hour >> wait, let's get this clear here >> videoing it >> this manly man is busy flying his drone with sharks in the water with his children, and he says - >> honey, get the kids >> get the kids and rescue them from the shark >> right, exactly. >> man >> f

i saw this send her back moment, i immediately thought of john mccain. have multiple opportunities behind-the-scenes with his staffers to go low and to go racial and refused. but there was that very public moment at a town hall when someone confronted him and said i don't like that obama, he's a muslim. and john mccain said no, he isn't. he said it in real time, he said it immediately. immediately. >> listen, i was there for that rally and i think you were, too. it is a different time. i just have one question before we go to break. i'm just asking about the raw strategy as a republican who has run many complains, including for president, do you think this is the right strategy for the leader of the republican party? >> i think it's the right strategy to go after the democrats on how extreme they are and these four people -- >> women of color. >> these four people exemplifies in the worst possible terms in my mind how extreme the democratic party has gone. the fact that they are four women of color is problematic and leads to the issue of racism. but her

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

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

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

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

for the military and also for then acting secretary patrick shanahan with the issue with the uss mccain came up. >> and a fascinating contrast with the democrats out on the trail doing the usual fourth of july thing which we have all done. running behind the candidate along a parade route where it is all about interacting on a one-on-one level with americans. and i think that it is problematic for trump in the sense that these are the optics especially with we're going to have a protest float flying overhead, the baby trump float, these are the kinds of optics that remind people of what they don't like about him. that need for sort of self-glorification and to look like a big world power when everyone knows we are a huge world power. so i think it is an interesting thing to contrast to watch. >> but you're point, alice, we don't know, he might actually be very restrained and be very modest and it might be a lovely celebration and not my country tis of me. >> true. and that would be reason for celebration right there. if that is the way it is. i'm going to be optimistic. he has wanted to

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

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

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