the next day, the phone rings and it is john mccain, not you, not a secretary. it is john mccain. he proceeds to apologize to me and say he had an irish temper. my mother's maiden name was sullivan. i'm familiar with that. the humility with which he did that and the genuine nature of his apology. you learned about his temper as well. that he and you got locked into a terrific argument, we had both been hotheads, the two of us, one of us should calm down. talk a little bit about john mccain's temper, and -- >> a summer squall. and moved on to sunnier skies. he had argued in a heated way, had great license that they were never afraid to challenge or disagree with him but he would argue back if he didn't agree. he felt he lost control of himself, the security and personal, he always regretted that, they had been recipients of phone calls like yours or a note, hastily written note or apology. that was really exaggerated. it wasn't that big a problem, it would come up quickly, a thing to behold, a fight not joined is a fight not enjoyed in the best line anybody ever wrote, bob timber i

one of them was senator john mccain. senator mccain was a friend to me and a friend to my family. when john first came to the house, my uncle moe , they uncle know, six foot five took him under his wing. john did the same for me and we worked together on issues like campaign-finance reform, native american issues and others. john often said to me, we did disagree in politics but not in life. that's remember that. we disagree in politics but not in life. my great-grandfather else phil st. john's, small farming and cattle community on arizona new mexico border in the 1880s . he ran an embroidery that hung on the frontier hole that read it if the good folks that don't get into politics, the scoundrels will take over. i believe vethere are a lot of good folks are in the senate. but the system we are caught in makes it too hard to work together. to remember that we need to remember that we disagree in politics but not in life. and i'm not the first to say in farewell address and i will be the last, the senate is broken. the senate is broken. and it's not working for the american people

john mccain told you that over and over again. to follow the money john mccain knew all about cancer. voting rights are under attack we do our best it's no surprise that it is declining the structures are antidemocratic to reward and punish compromise it should respond to the will of the majority of protecting the rights of the minority and instead we have the tyranny of the minority that is super wealthy and politically powerful dangerously out of touch with the american people the majority of americans support pandemic relief and health care for every american and racial justice and police reform and so many other priorities that don't see much progress in the senate people are losing their faith in the system if we are to take bold action necessary to tackle those urgent problems before us we must reform our democracy and make it easier to votein and and big money and root out corruption. we do not have any time to wast waste. we have no choice but to be pulled because the crisis before us. hundreds of thousands of americans ar

mccain and lewis straight up haunted this election. but they were not the only ones. voting block was not the deciding factor in this election, but rather angry middle-class ghosts and ghouls, who maybe had supported trump in 2016, maybe did not, but at this point said, "look, i'm a ghost boo. i can't take four more years of this." > seth: why would so many ghosts support biden? we know that many of the elderly went for trump, so why would we not see a larger red wave among the passed away? >> i like how you phrased that as well. well, trump held rallies in many states, as we know but what is now clear to me is that biden must have travelled to the underworld, crossed the river styx, charmed hedra, the seven-headed dog who guards the gates of hell, and played his fife for persephone, the queen of hell herself. > seth: so, that whole time we thought joe biden was just in his basement, he was in a metaphoric basement? >> hades, yes. i think that's very clear from the election returns believe. but despite that, next week when it's all over and no one cares about this ele

my husband john mccain fought his whole life to promote american character leadership and democracy to the public and it's incredibly important today to carry that legacy forward by any means possible. today's installment, the roles of freedom and democracy and american foreign-policy will feature general h.r. met master who served in the military for 34 years and held the position of the 26th assistant to the president for national security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. he will be talking about his new book "battlegrounds" the fight to defend the free world with dr. #drphilno of the 16 present at arizona state university mccain is institute trustee and a deer friend of my family. we are honored to host thought leaders with general muck master in president crow for world being important and timely discussion on u.s. foreign policy. >> dr. crow you can begin. >> led to see everybody here. general muck master nice to see you again. what i want to do first is say the book is a fantastic piece of work. a they got many little tags on it. i want to say

fred the fbi newly revealed emails show john mccain, senator mccain leaking to carl bernstein about aossier. we don't know if it is the steele dossier that has since been debunked. that leak came in 2017. >> i have heard rumors of that, liz. i'm not sure what to think about that. i don't want to speak ill of the late john mccain. elizabeth: okay. but you know, so here's the other issue, fred. the doj intelligence unit, also these government documents show that in december 2016, the justice department intelligence unit said we're not going to support the fbi getting fisa wiretaps on trump campaign aid george papandreou. your take on that? >> well i mean there was no evidence to justify spying on the trump campaign. there were some people in the government who were well aware of this but john brennan and comey and so many others they were out to destroy the president. we also know from these documents that the referral that started the whole investigation in late july actual didn't start, strzok makes it clear, when the u.s. government got a referral from the australian government about

it's all of john mccain's fault.ing that arizona governor ducey who's close to john mccain -- was close to senator mccain in life, that that was part of president trump's grievances. so it's just a sign of how he's pulling everything out. something very interesting he's saying behind the scenes that he was going to reach out to these private legislators, trying to convince them to do something at the very last minute. here's what's interesting. yes, a lot of people around him think he'll announce for 2024. they're very skeptical about him actually doing it, but he won't talk much about it because it's acknowledging he's losing. he won't say i lost. he will say eventually i did not win. >> of course. because -- of course. all right, mike allen, thank you as always. my friend, i really appreciate that. remarkable reporting about john mccain. i will leave you with one thought which is something that john thune told reporters about donald trump's loss. he said at some point you have to face the music. thank you to gettin

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bush and senator john mccain, and katherine rampell, i am glad to have each of your minds here tonight with you, john, president trump has been holed up in the white house with the one in well, what can be described only as a crisis, the coronavirus is raging, we are under a cyber attack. what is mr. president trump doing? >> laura, you know, i think it's not all that hard to figure out. the presidency is a really hard job. especially if you do it right, and to do it right, you have to care about things other than yourself, to be interested at least to some degree in public service. donald trump is interested in self service, for most of his presidency, he has gotten gratification from the public performative part of the job, the adulation the news coverage that kind of thing. but once he lost the election, those public duties become humiliating, so what the president has been doing, is staying in private, nursing his grievances, and lying to claim that he did not lose the election, saying it was stolen. lashing out at his enemies and not attending to the american people's business, ei

bush and senator john mccain. and also, cnn economics commentator, catherine rampell. i'm glad to have each of your minds here, tonight. thank you. i am going to begin with you, john. because president trump, he's been holed up in the white house, with the country in, well, what can be described only as a crisis. the coronavirus is raging. we are under a cyberattack. so, what is mr. president trump doing? >> laura, you know, i -- i think it's not all that hard to figure out. the presidency is a really hard job. especially, if you do it right. and to do it right requires you to care about things, other than yourself. to be interested, at least to some degree, some public service. donald trump is interested in self-service. so, for most of his presidency, he's gotten gratification from the public-performative parts of the job. the adulation, the attention, the news coverage. that sort of thing. but, once he lost the election, those public duties become kind of humiliating. and so, what the president's been doing is staying in private. nursing his grievances. lying to cla

to me toeply offensive ,ear john lewis and john mccain american heroes dearly departed, attacked.people want a debate. they want a discussion of issues. they understand the friction that happens in american politics, but they also want the boundaries of decency and respect on how officials conduct themselves in. --lic host: our guest conduct themselves in public. host: our guest is marc morial. we know the full story is not written yet, but what is your reflection on the election and the fact that many women and people of color were elected in how would you like to see those policy.fluence -- policy? many state ande members. charlotte, north carolina, just to name a few places where there are strong black women in public office. thing. a positive .hey vote for people you have african-americans who are elected to non-majority african-american districts. that is a bit of a new trend. being an african american not something that will the quality -- disqualified them. -- disqualified them. that is all you want. for people to look and understand and it has long been the case that afric

for the last two years senator mcsally s has held the seat from occupied by a dear friend john mccain. it's only fitting our maverick was followed by a fellow veteran and pilot who approached her service to theth people of ariza with such unabashed pride. by their own account if you would as the school age martha mcsally who was apparently both shy and prone to motion sickness, whether a career in cockpits and then in politics sounded appealing, she would've lookedou at you like you were crazy. but even then the future full bird colonel and senator was already on her way to a life defined by service. when martha lost her father, , a a young age, his final words to her work, quote, make me proud. make me proud. with this challenge in mind, the youngest of five children took her academic and athletic talents to the u.s. air force academy. the plan wasl to earn a trip to medical school through military service. back then a ground-based group must have sounded like a sensible plan. after all, being a combat pilot wasn't an option. back then for female officers. she was on the wrong side o

henry: it seems to me that when john mccain, that was a fault line that people did not respond to the at all. as i suspect you probably know within the past few months, and appelbaum, whon is a follower of totalitarianism , a very pungent piece about collaboration and talking about why people collaborated and what the rewards were for collaborating. it sure looks like a lot of republicans, or republican officeholders, saw benefits in collaborating, right? bret: i am leery of the term collaboration. ofhas too much of a kind association. i think if we are going to heal this country, we have to be very measured in terms of our thinking and in terms of, especially our thinking about the motives which led many people to vote for trump. because many people who did vote for trump did so for reasons that included the fact that they could not stand the guy and wished they did not have to vote for him and wish that it were not an option. i do think if collaboration is not the term, something that happened to republican politics in 2015, happened around exactly that episode that you mentioned, d

he and his wife, former congresswoman, gabby giffords, paid their respects to john mccain tuesday attery academy. >>> overseas, a 9-month-old baby was killed after a man drove into a crowd of pedestrians in southwest germany. police say he may suffer from mental illness. >>> today's weather, snow moves through new england. chilly temperatures will extend into florida this morning. a new storm system brings snow to the plains and rain to the gulf coast. >>> and finally, the lucky parents introducing us to their miracle newborn. >> their baby has set a record being born from a 27-year-old frozen embryo. here's abc's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning, a tennessee family celebrating their new miracle baby. >> we always make the joke that they've been frozen for so long, of course, they don't sleep now. >> reporter: molly everett gibson, now a healthy little girl, was a frozen embryo for more than 27 years, making her the longest embryo frozen before birth. >> hi. >> reporter: her birth, breaking the record previously held by her biological sister, emma. >> when i achieved pregna

most recently the uss john mccain was doing just that with the navigation exercisece during the pay of peter the great and was engaged by a more assertive russian navy. the united states navy and united states marine corps had a recommitment to the arctic and we operate much more than we have historically although as you know the navy has operated consistently in the arctic since the inception of our submarine force today we need that physical presence and peace of operation talked about a few months ago and the ability to ensure through partners and allies into her own people that way and united states navy have that first and foremost in our mind to release and arctic strategy with the recent trip to alaska and the importance of how the blueprint will recommit ourselves in a much more visible way to activities in the arctic but we must recognize if we don't step forward quickly those who challenged us those were there and we have seen it to we build the arctic into be committed itself to build icebreakers and to move its homeland to western markets and half of the amount of time that

can before and i think how the republican party gone the way that they were going with romney and mccain i think it would have just been a dud just another day $2620.00 and i mean you know you know it no matter what happens to be the republican party is always going to be jeb bush ok and if you if you push against it like trump did they are going to abandon you with some notable exceptions and media the republican party did not back donald trump it was the base that did it in spite of the party either ship and i and i find it very very frustrating because it's one of these weird things and one of these real we go weird things is because in the republican party is popular because of donald trump not because of the other luminaries in the party at all they're not particularly popular and for very good reason i mean they're they they're not charisma i think they they we tax cut do you like rate the you regulate done our work is done we're going home that's all they say and that doesn't resonate with working people they say well what about us you know just as you know the health care for all

he was sworn in today to occupy john mccain's old senate seat.y veteran and failed trump acolyte martha mcsally. his life has been one of soaring highs and crushing lows. the fourth astronaut elected to congress, and he may decide he prefers space to the senate chamber. he spent a combined 54 days in space. prior to that, he flew combat missions in desert storm. mitch mcconnell should know he doesn't scare easily. he would likely not be in the senate if not for a horrible morning in tucson, arizona, when his wife was shot. gabby giffords and her husband, both gun owners, embarked on a national campaign to keep guns out of the wrong hands. just yesterday, they went to the final resting place of john mccain, longtime p.o.w., u.s. senator, republican presidential nominee. his name and memory have sadly been savaged by the incumbent president, but his name and memory will live on with the new democratic senator from arizona. that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. with our thanks to you for joining us, on behalf of the men and women at the ne

arrived in tikrit. 7 large trucks jammed full with medical and relief supplies destined for the city of mccain n.t. cry red cross workers in the ethiopian capital at us up above a hugely relieved that they can finally send aid almost 6 weeks after chaos broke out in the region. the worst for medical personnel for the whole staff hospitals and primary health care centers this is to be unable to help is to be unable to provide support due to lack of material due to lack of assistance and so lack of stocks and that's what we're trying. to achieve by bringing much needed assistance into a region that's all full go down since weeks now the 1st supplies are allowed in but still no international observers or news crews can entity cry many of the thousands of people who fled the region described terrible bloodshed it but it's not clear who's killing whom. i wish you could see through my eyes right now they did the blood that we saw the dogs were eating the corpses. we were afraid when the soldiers threatened us what happened is written in history. conflicting accounts suggest atrocities may have been

faith and he created each of us for that purpose many we live up to that purpose when we live as john mccain exhorted to us for causes greater than one's self. this was encapsulated by teddy roosevelt in a famous speech 100 years ago. i came across it when i was just a teenaged cadet at the air force academy and it spoke to my purpose-driven spirit. so i cut it out and i put it on my bulletin board. the same, yellowed torn paper is on my refrigerator today more than 30 years later. we can truly say in this short season where i joined you that we were daring in all we did to advance worthy causes and our place shall never be with those timid souls who knew neither victory nor debate. it's been a true honor, arizona, we are an extraordinary state with extraordinary people. i know our future is blessed and bright just like our state motto, god enriches. i've been enriched by the privilege to fight for you and serve you these past six years, two leer in the senate. -- here in the senate. i wish my successor, mark kelly, all the best as he represents our incredible state in this hallowed chamber.

arrived in tikrit. 7 large trucks jammed full with medical and relief supplies destined for the city of mccain the n.t. growing. red cross workers in the ethiopian capital address up above a hugely relieved that they can finally send aid almost 6 weeks after chaos broke out in the region. the worst for medical personnel for the whole stuff the hospitals and primary health care centers this is to be unable to help is to be unable to provide support due to lack of due to lack of assistance and for lack of stocks and that's what we're trying. to achieve by bringing much needed assistance into the region that's all full lockdown since weeks now the 1st supplies are allowed in but still no international observers or news crews can entity cry many of the thousands of people who fled the region described terrible bloodshed but it's not clear who's killing whom. and that i wish you could see through my eyes right now they did the blood that we saw the dogs were eating the corpses. we were afraid when the soldiers threatened us what happened is written in history. conflicting accounts suggest atrocitie

one of them was senator john mccain. senator mccain was a friend to me and a friend to my family. when john first came to the house, my uncle mo, big uncle mo, 6 feet 5 took him under his wing. john did the same for me and worked together on issues like campaign finance reform, native american issues, and others. john often said to me, we disagree in politics but not in life. let's remember that. we disagree in politics but not in life. my great grandfather helped settle st. john's, a small farming and cattle community on the arizona-new mexico border in the 1880's. he had an embroidery that hang on his frontier home that read, if the good folks don't get into politics, the scowndz drells will take -- the scoundrels will take over. i believe there are a lot of good folks here in the senate, but the system we're caught in makes it too hard to work together, to remember that we -- we need to remember that we disagree in politics but not in life. and i'm not the first to say in a farewell address and i won't be the last but the senate is broken. the senate is broken. and it's not wor

i strongly supported john mccain mccain in the primaries. onemember debating karl rove television shows and it got pretty heated at times. when george bush became president i thought i would definitely be the guy in the backseat was being ignored. and then tragically, we had 9/11 and that is when i really started to work with president bush. i formed a very close working relationship with him, was up in new york with him and other families so many times. he turned out to be an extremely good friend and to this day, we still have contact. when i announced i wasn't running, i got a very long, beautiful handwritten letter from president bush. also, if we keep in touch. unfortunately, it is a sad way, so many of the 9/11 victims we came to know. i will call his office, he always call the families were sent a note. we spoke about that, i guess it was about two years ago. again, just a very first-class person. you find in politics, people love to demonize. republicans say that bill clinton is not a very good guide to work with george w. bush, demo

i saw the power of one senator when john mccain took to that floor and said, no you don't., no you don't. [car horns honking] >the power of just one individual. and georgia, columbus, you've got the power to send two. it is within your hands, within our grasp to send these two leaders to washington, d.c. who will fight for your voice. they are born out of this election cycle, when people tried to silence and suppress you. triumphant, they were born out of this election cycle when people dared to try and have us count three times your votes. and they are here to tell the story. they are born out of a moment when people dared from other states like texas to recall your votes and your voice. but they lived to tell the story. they are strong. they have survived these games people are playing because they are the strong voices of the people of this state. so, we have got it within our power and you have it within your hands to make a statement about who is georgia. and the power of the voice of , jonia sending these two ossoff and rafael warnock, to the united states congress, t

look at john mccain as the one i don't know and i don't know what and i don't and i. don't know who the i know we're going to be like the last no when i was at the ground floor because you. know you show. up at our view of. someone you don't think you know you have you know so it's not that by not. thinking. if you go. back to university i'll let you base your base if they're now in asia but then i mean it's not me but that they're not. busting tell you that when. you look you know i'm going to put the base know my show where never got over where before you might be an equal meaning my did you call me one i don't know who we're going to back up we're glad i did and you know what i mean i met up with. the program and we're going to vote for. him but we want to thank you i think it makes you actually. money for the right and that's what i got to do the younger can use and that's why i'm the only. one to have. one today and i know that you know by benjamin who i did a quick look at a bed. one when i flew. a coffin to france do you need a it i never letting you do i i com

what did john mccain? he was really going to bow out of names out of this for the going to also say the cindy, any you think i well, they want to fast and you know, you can't really measure a lot of me that i said that that but then she at some odd that in the midst of what can a jury did? well, i usually did 2 idea. who can or will you do? but be sure he will see how feet look at the at you that jet of an idea. and i get in the midst of them talk with a mystery, a publication. and can it be my friend then? because the lessee, i'm in canada heavy at the moment. i'm at a shopping list, a woman a sub a local hope. but we have really taken him letter to letter to last them and then waters them in the see me more, go ahead and give me. he will be bad. the heavy will hold a little he has a little bit made easier that way i will easily and them a bed of the future. a muslim bush give me what a difficult give me are allowed in a getting the most for you know you have everybody have telephoned one where you don't

in 2008 john mccain confronted one. the disinformation was coming from his running mate sarah palin. and the calls that john mccain would get on the bus from his former senate colleagues, most of them from the democratic side of the aisle, but there was a conversation, as you just said, ben rhodes, among adults, who are the adults right now on the republican side of the aisle? i don't count any. >> yeah. and i want to be very clear. it's not that everyone needs to agree to everybody issue. let's get back to fighting about the size of government or taxation or national security policy or -- they can hate every policy that joe biden puts forward. but if we can't agree on facts and democracy in this country and we can't agree that the president of the united states claiming that he won an election that he clearly lost and lost by a pretty good margin, that the entire rather party shouldn't go along with that. you would think, nicole, and you know the party better than i, that there are people who were around before trump a

he was sworn in today to occupy john mccain's old senate seat. veteran and failed trump acolyte martha mcsally. without being treat, mark kelly's life thus far has been one of soaring highs and crushing lows. he becomes the fourth astronaut in our history elected to congress. john glenn, of course, was the first. indeed he may decide he prefers space to the senate chamber. he spent a combined 54 days in space. over four shuttle missions. prior to that, he flew combat missions in desert storm. mitch mcconnell should know he doesn't scare easily. he would likely not be in the senate if not for a horrible morn in a supermarket parking lot in tucson, arizona, in 2011, when his wife survived an assassination attempt that day and for nine years now has been working valiantly every day to recover from those wounds. both gun owners, embarked on a national campaign to keep guns out of the wrong hands. just yesterday, they went to the final resting place of john mccain, a revered american military hero, longtime p.o.w., u.s. senator, republican presidentia

referring to john mccain. 5% of americans said they would never vote for a black person, 11% they would vote for a female. 24% said they would never vote for a mormon. 42% of americans said they would not vote for somebody who would be 72 years old when he became president. obama had a less disadvantaged than these three white people, so can we knock it off? and back in 1997, "time" magazine and cnn, two left-wing organizations, it a massive survey of black jeans and white teams and ask them about racism. do you think racism is a major problem in america? not too surprisingly, both black teens and white teens said yes. then they asked of the black teens if racism was a big problem, a small problem, or no problem in your own daily life. 89% said small or no problem. in fact, more black teens and white teens said they failure to take advantage of opportunities, 24 years ago, before obama got elected or reelected. can we knock it off? racism has never been a less significant problem in american life than today. >> tucker: i bet if you pulled that exact same question now, you would find ver

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she told an anecdote about the late senator john mccain, saying he was with one vote, a lone senator republicans from taking health care from americans. she said, you have that choice twice. you can send two senators. she was trying to explain, of course you'll have someone that will represent your state. you have people who do not know your name who will be impacted by what happens in georgia for years to come. >> i want will never, as long as i have memory, forget john mccain walking in, his thumb up and then pointing down his vote that sunk the effort to repeal obama care. earlier tonight, vice president-elect harris was on with joy reid making the point that you were making, that's a remarkably important vote to cast in an effort to make people understand if they don't care had that much about jon ossoff or reverend warnock, why it's so important. let's listen to what she said. >> we know that we absolutely intend to work closely with all people in the united states congress, regardless of their party affiliation, but on some issues, we just know and have to believe that if we ha

is a democrat and replaces republican martha mc sally who was appointed to the seat after senator mccain's death. it flips a crucial seat in the democrats effort to take control of the u.s. senate. in the final balance will be determined by georgia's two runoff races next month. >>> still ahead on kpix 5 inch and streaming on cbsn bay area, steph curry gets candidate. what he says he might be borrowing from the former president this season. >> we are getting closer to one of silicon valley's most highly anticipated trials. the unusual precautions for the jury. >>> i'm john ramose in san francisco. protests are breaking out all over the world including here in san francisco over the way the indian government treats small farmers. we will explain the situation, coming up. spore make a spectacular sunset over the bay area this evening. some high clouds ovhead once again tomorrow. we will talk about >>> the nba just announced the 40 players tested positive for covid-19 is all the teams reported for training camp. the regular season is expected to begin in three weeks.>> tried to connect the do

two years of john mccain's term. also number farewell tributes to senator lamar alexander has retiring after three terms. you. [inaudible conversations] live senate coverage here on cspan2. sue becr watching cspan2 your unfiltered vie of gornment. created by america's cable tevision company as a public service. and brought fuchsia today by your television provider. number republican democratic republicans outgoing senator lamar alexander and his efforts to work across party lines on major pieces of legislation. center alexander chairs the senate health commiee pretty also served at tennessee's governor, education secretary, and spent time early in his career as a senate staffer. his term ends in january pretty talked but his time in e senate. >> surprise i think my friend mitch and my friend chuck for their remarks. i will have more to say to themater. on march 9 covid 17, senator howard haker junior the newly elected senator from tennessee made his maiden address. his first speech on the floor of the united states s

senate seat formerly held by senator john mccain. kelly's swearing in marks the first time since the 1950s that arizona has had two democrats in its two senate seats. at the same time, the senate today got a farewell address from a senator named lamar alexander, the same lamar alexander who was just absolutely flummoxed by that call he got from the u.s. attorney on that wednesday in january 41 years ago, telling him that he was going to have to take office three days early to stop that corrupt, outgoing governor from giving out irrevocable pardons that were illegally bought and paid for. they needed him to take office to stop a crime in progress. lamar alexander did not want to do that, but he did it at the request of law enforcement. lamar alexander would serve two terms as governor in tennessee after that weird start. he served three terms in the united states senate. he is now 80 years old and retiring from public service. he made a plea for bipartisan cooperation as his closing speech in the u.s. senate today. one of the things t