mitch mcconnell was silent today. he was silent today in the face of a president publically obstructing justice. mitch mcconnell could not find one word to say about it. presidents of the united states cannot comment on ongoing prosecutions and mitch mcconnell used to know that. everyone knew that. prior to donald trump it only happened once in the modern history of the presidency, and it was a shocking mistake made by the well-trained lawyer turned president richard nixon. >> i noted for example the coverage of the charles manson case when i was in los angeles. front page every day in the papers. it usually got a couple minutes on the evening news. here is a man who was guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason. >> and the country and the news media were stunned because the problem was charles manson was still on trial for those murders when the president of the united states said that he was guilty. and so immediately that very day in court in los angeles charles manson's lawyers moved for a mi

then mitch mcconnell will speak. paul ryan, the speaker of the house will follow.-president of the united states, mike pence will speak. then there will be this presentation of the senate wreath jointly been mcconnell and schumer, followed by the presentation of the house wreath by paul ryan and the minority leader nancy pelosi. there will be a presentation of the administration, the trump administration wreeath by the vice-president, a final benedicti benediction. people from the public will be allowed to walk in and pay their personal respects to the late senator. it's going to be very emotional, especially for this very, very loving family. >> yeah, you can see meghan's husband is there along with other family members and some members of congress. this has already been a poignant week, this poignant moment -- >> the vice-president is there with his wife. >> and speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell. made more poignant by that sudden rainstorm. if i were prone to metaphor, you might say the nation is weeping for this man today. >> that's something that senator mccain

i think that's what mitch mcconnell is saying.itch mcconnell is defending sessions for now, and i don't think he wants the tumult of a firing before november, before the election, but i think whether it's before election day or after, sessions is gone. >> alan, do you think sessions is a good attorney general? >> i think jeff sessions has been a good attorney general in many ways. look, i don't approve of any of these policy. i don't approve of the immigration policy. i don't approve of the policy of preventing people coming into the country based on countries. if you're a trump supporter, you might think he was good attorney general. but as a liberal democrat, no, i don't think he is a good attorney general any more than i think the administration is a good administration. so you're asking the wrong person. as to whether he is a good person for trump, he has had a mixed record. he is strong on immigration and he hasn't been, quote, loyal. but remember, there is another point too. we have a very odd system in america in which we e

>> there was negotiation between mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer that sent them over a package of nominees. and mcconnell wanted confirmation of the 12 judicial nominees by executive appointments. and if the democrats agreed to it they would have had to come back next week. that would've been good for the democrats because you're a bunch of democrats running in tough races. and stay said donald trump carried by big margins in 2016. so you get back on the campaign truck. schumer came under heavy pressure from the left. in fact, brian fallon, the executive director of one of the advocacy groups, he was tweeting, urging people to call senate democrats and kill the deal. it's interesting we have a former senior chuck schumer aide now working for an advocacy group pressuring democrats not to agree to nominations package. joe manchin iii, from west virginia said let's just pass this and there's no point in hanging around. these are noncontroversial nominees have been passed in the judiciary committee. you are just wasting time. but i think there's a lot of pressure on democrats to resist the tru

remember the look that mitch mcconnell gave him? >> the body language. >> mcconnell knows how fierce politics have become and how difficult it is for anybody who wants to do anything more bipartisan. >> let me take a moment because we have on the telephone, a close friend of senator mccain's, senator kyle, thank you for taking time to join us. >> caller: sure, happy to join you. >> can you react to the president's statements this afternoon after something of a delay, responding personally to senator mccain's loss. what is your reaction to that and his decision to, again, lower the flag at the white house? >> caller: i am pleased the flag has been lowered. like a lot of americans, i'm not glued to the television set all day, so i don't know what the president said. >> i can tell you. let me quote you from the statement. despite our differences on policy and politics, i respect senator mccain's service to the country. in his honor, i signed a proclamation to fly the flag at half staff. he notes he authorized general john kelly, james m

the only bias that i seem to notice consistently with mitch mcconnell, the teams that he and his teamre backing, the ones that are most likely to win in november, and i promise you this, if kelli ward asserted may, and joel arpaio had won in this race, you would see republicans take it off the board. democrats would have walked away with it. martha mcsally was the only one in the race he was going to be competitive. she figured out a way to talk to arizona republicans in such a way that made it clear that though she was not a ground-floor team maga, she was go with them, and she could go on a beauty kyrtsen sinema. she was already pivoting to the general election before it occurred and she was contrasting kyrtsen sinema as a code pink protester versus herself in a flight suit and you will see more of that. >> shannon: let's talk about kyrtsen sinema because she's portraying herself in commercials and speeches and all the things she was doing, a centrist. there really is a different historical background for her getting to this point. she has had some pretty progressive positions along

you're saying it goes squarely on mitch mcconnell?ll it goes squarely on the democrats who have definitely been obstruct its this endeavor. who want to put the needs of people who come to our country illegally before the needs of the american people. that has got to stop. trish: you should be able to get it done given how many seats the republican party has? >> we definitely should and we will when i get to washington. i got frustrate as military wife, mom of three awesome kids. as a physician. i never thought i would run as political office. i had to get up, get of the sidelines, get into the game. i can't wait to get into the game in washington, join conservative people like senator rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee on the senate side, congressman gosar, my congressman, wants me to get there. he endorsed me to get there. start getting the job done, moving the ball down the field in the right direction, rather than letting democrats and unfortunately establishment republicans stand in our way. trish: interesting on both sides of the aisl

it was possible for mitch mcconnell to get the same result and i'll remind you, half of these judges are noncontroversial judges that democrats move forward, it does allow him to fillmore district court seats, that's correct. the end result is the same, we would have been here wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, and instead we have the choice, whether to stay hear and prepare for the hearings next tuesday or be back in state and campaigning. for many of my colleagues, that's an important priority. >> you talk about the kavanaugh hearings coming up next week. day after labor day, everyone's back in session on the hill. i wanted to ask about an item that i don't think is getting priority. we have just learned from the governor of puerto rico's own commission study. 3,000 americans died in puerto rico after hurricane maria. that's 3,000 americans that died on your watch, on the president's watch, and it seems astounding to me that that would not be one of the first items on the docket for everyone in the united states government come tuesday. >> well, chris,

mitch mcconnell says he has total confidence in the attorney general.gh in on the point that rachel just made, there are these obscure regulations that would allow the president to effectively take control. >> you wanted me or jeff to jump in. >> ron, go ahead. >> yeah. i think the mcconnell statement is about november. it's not about jeff sessions. i actually think lindsey graham is a better predictor of where congressional republicans' sentiment would be after november. i mean, there's nothing in the last 20 months i would think that would lead you to conclude that mitch mrk connell would stand up to protect sessions after the election if getting rid of him is still what the president wants to do. i think mitch mcconnell who is a shoed political operator, he can read the polls as well as anybody, he knows there are a lot of traditionally republican leaning voters who may like some of the economic policies that have been pursued over the last 20 months but who are very uneasy about the president ecommitment to the rule of law, very uneasy about kind of

david: senate leader mitch mcconnell with his tribute on the floor of the senate, to the late senator john mccain. senator mcconnell was elected in '84. senator mccain elected to the senate in '86 is. so they worked side-by-side for more than 30 years in the united states senate. there is chuck schumer who actually requested the opportunity to change the name of the russell senate office building into the mccain senate office building. he does have one republican cosponsor, senator flake from the state of arizona, which is where senator mccain was from, but again a very moving tribute from senator mcconnell who is with him, with mccain for more than 30 years. >> we do have the president right now who just released a statement, quote, despite our differences on policy and politics, i respect senator john mccain's service to our country. in his honor have signed a proclamation to fly the flag of the united states at half-staff until the days of his internment. i asked vice president mike pence to offer address at ceremony honoring senator mccain at united states capitol this friday, at

so, do i think that we're going to hear mitch mcconnell ever say that about robert mueller? no.pigs fly. it's just not going to happen. unless -- once again, we don't know what robert mueller has to say. >> yes. >> if there is something huge, a smoking gun, then will mitch mcconnell possibly change and address it differently? yes. but is it likely? no. >> i do think that this -- it's a remarkable, the torrent of donald trump and jamie rightly notes, it is amazing to say and picked up which i never thought was possible, mostly through twitter. versus utter and complete silence, the closed box essentially of the mueller investigation. i mean, the contrast could not be more striking. donald trump seems to goad robert mueller. we used to talk why is he not mentioning robert mueller? mueller continues detail, detail. mcgahn, 30 hours. plea deals. drives donald trump batty. >> stick around. more news to follow. sources telling cnn the president is rattled by new reports that the white house counsel don mcgahn provided more than 30 hours of testimony to the special counsel's investigat

mitch mcconnell did not want the limits on contributions mccain goth gone.itch mcconnell thought you should not have any limits. just full transparency. so they had their policy battles. remember in the 2008 campaign when he was struggling against barack obama and the economy was in a free-fall, i was covering the mccain campaign. i remember being in new york city and heard john mccain abruptly suspended his campaign. he said i'm getting off the trail, we are going to have an important meeting at the white house. i hope barack obama and i can come together with george w. bush. i spoke to then speaker john boehner and told me it was the darnedest thing. mccain announced this there must be a grand plan behind his. boehner called him and said what the heck is going on. mccain literally said to boehner, according to boehner. i don't know, what do you think i should do. then they got to the white house and mccain didn't really have a plan, and barack obama ended up debating him back and forth with george w. bush mediating. he was impulsive and he wasn't perfect.

what does mitch mcconnell think when he thinks people are watching? oh, we won't ask you again, that's okay. >> i think what he thinks is they're in hell and their whole hope is that they're productive enough and serve the interest of enough voters that they can spare themselves disaster in november. the timeline is very short here for them. it's from here until the november elections. tailwinds are looking very bad for them. if they can just focus on their work, ignore trump, get judges, get brett kavanaugh confirmed and mitch mcconnell can say, i did all of this. i had nothing to do with this guy. so, he doesn't want to talk about it because there is nothing in it for him in terms of this timeline from now until november to say a single word about trump, about cohen, about manafort and about mueller. anything he says is a disaster. if he says, i no longer support trump, the republican base turns on him. if he says i support trump, he sells his soul. his wife is in the cabinet. it's not good. >> mika, let me ask a stupid question since we're on the s

>>> so majority leader mitch mcconnell canceled the senate august recess. but one senator didn't listen. jeff flake posted this picture. marks a new day for this political country. flake is there observing the elections which is a first since mugabe left. now it certainly is possible this was a really important trip to senator flake. but he must have realized in his absence lasting approximately three more weeks is royally screwing over mcconnell and president trump who need flake in d.c. to continue their mission of packing the courts. maybe this is his way of riding off into the sunset. i'm lucky to get through a shift without a disaster. my bargain detergent couldn't keep up. so, i switched to tide pods. they're super concentrated, so i get a better clean. number one trusted. number one awarded. it's got to be tide >>> in june we brought you that story of a salvadorian mother. as most immigrant children taken from theirreunified by their parents, we're learning her experience and her son's experience is far from unique. many children are already showing

the vice-president representing the trump administration. >> just as we watch mitch mcconnell, one of the first big legislative fights i covered was campaign finance reform in the early 2000s. to see those two battle. purely, a really deep ideological opinion. mcconnell was convinced it was a hind hinderan hinder to free speech. watching them fight for years, i never thought that the two of them would be able to reconcile. not only did they reconcile, they did in a big way. mcconnell went to see him in arizona and talked about it. >> that's william cohen. he was a republican senator from maine as well. he is there paying his respects as well. you see john bolton, the national security adviser, is there as well. they are all going to be walking up to that casket, paying their respects. >> i don't know if you saw it, wolf, at the beginning of the line was defense secretary john mattis. they came up as a group. and also chief of staff john kelly. a whole group from the white house. >> dick durbin, patrick leahy. members of the senate democrats and republicans paying their respect to this

as you pointed out, mitch mcconnell, not on the same page with this. the big caveat is what does it mean for the mueller probe. we know president trump is upset about sessions and about the mueller probe and is blaming sessions for that. lindsey graham is saying whoever replaces him needs to be willing to protect mueller, but that's clearly not what president trump wants. so it really pushes the -- kicks the can down the road here in terms of when president trump might make a decision like this. perhaps after the midterm elections, but there's no question we've been reporting, president trump has been talking about this in recent weeks, especially as the mueller probe has been heating up. but jeff sessions is fighting back. last week he had a breakfast with some republican members, his former colleagues, a long-planned breakfast our sources are telling us. but at that breakfast he did get some support from those colleagues, and that information is coming out now at a time when he is under fire. think, jim, that is no mistake. sessions is not sitting ba

mitch mcconnell is probably conducted him couple of times when he started getting healthcare tgiving healthcare ts from the caucus, my reaction was that shouldn't work and could work and it's not supposed to work that way. you're supposed to be looking from the other side to get 65 or 70 votes. of course he would say that would be impossible because none of them would vote for us because they are against trump etc.. we've moved from common ground as a goal to stand your ground and from the view that compromise is a good thing to compromise his capitulation into that mindset is to introduce. to that point you make an observation that is the essence of the book you state america is strong enough to survive a few bad years to the senate has been in decline over several decades. what are the implications of that and the fact that we've been in a decline for this long? >> there are profound implications if it is not reversed and frankly no one captured them better than you and trent lott with the system isn't working and what the consequences are. the senate plays a role as the balance in

donald trump hasn't listened to mitch mcconnell in the past either because i'm pretty sure he did not want him to nominate brett kavanaugh for a host of reasons. i think we've already said what comes after jeff sessions. donald trump is not somebody who strikes me as someone who thinks down the line so he very much deals with impulses. his impulse is i want to get rid of this person and he's putting republicans in a tight bind. i think the voters will speak loudly. i think you hear it happening already in these primary elections, that they don't like what's happening. >> but if republicans hold the senate, even if this elose 50 house seats, brad, that calculus is not out of the question. they could win a seat and democrats could win 50 house seats. if trump has the cocoon of protection from the republican senate -- >> a polarized country -- you confirm judges and cabinet secretaries, it's how you are able to control the personnel in your own government. so the control of the senate is a big deal. i think that getting a larger amount of control of the senate is going to be a bigger and

the speakers are mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer, paul ryan, and mike pence. will be allowed into the capital to pay their respects starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern. morning, the senators casket will leave the capital at memorial and be at the -- vietnam memorial, where his wife cindy will lay a wreath in militaryher husband's service. then, a service at the national cathedral. speakers there include george w. bush and barack obama. c-span's city tour takes you to flagstaff, arizona. we will explore the literary life and history of flagstaff. located 80 miles south of the grand canyon. saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on book tv, and author discusses his book on the grand canyon. corner of the way into the grand canyon that starts about 70 miles east of here, and here iss west, right where the canyon really starts to widen and deepen. that's what you see in calendars and famous images. visit to the a loyola observatory to hear about astronomical studies, including the observation of luta. then a tour of the national monument. >> people think of this site as abandone

but mitch mcconnell again surprisingly because it was back two and half weeks ago. if they could put up a full screen. this is mitch mcconnell supporting the president of the united states, changing his position on tariffs and the president insistence upon balanced reciprocal fair trade around the world saying this and surprising everyone when he did on august 10th, quote, i hope there is a better deal to be made out of this, particularly with regard to the chinese who've been eating our lunch for years. i am not as hopeful we can get a better deal at the north american free trade agreement than we currently have. but there is no question that the chinese situation is unsustainable and i commend the president for taking them on. there was a rich language in the part of the senate majority leader. that is full support to the president's trade policy. >> if he doesn't if he doesn't continue support for trade policy, he will be the majority leader. to support the president's programs. lou: the very idea that the democrats are trying to delay the confirmation of judge k

we should know that mitch mcconnell said yesterday he supported jeff sessions, here's what mitch mcconnell say. >> i have total confidence in the attorney general. he ought to stay exactly where he is. >> that is very strongly worded comments. he has a lot to say about the future of jeff sessions in terms 60 what kind of mood and precedent he has in the u.s. senate so while there is some shaky relationships forming, it seems as though mitch mcconnell is saying for now he'd like jeff sessions to say exactly where he is. >> lauren fox with the latest from capitol hill. thank you. still ahead, hurricane maria one of the deadliest hurricanes in u.s. history. the official death toll in puerto rico related to that storm, remember it was 64 according to the government. those new numbers nearly 3,000. we have much more on that new report next. but first -- >> it was rare for a woman to attend law school when ruth bader ginsburg enrolled at harvard. she was one of nine women. she says the dean asked why they wanted to take jobs away from men. in the early 1960s, only 3% of lawyers were women. with

>>> so majority leader mitch mcconnell canceled the senate august recess. didn't listen. jeff flake posted this picture. marks a new day for this political country. flake is there observing the elections which is a first since mugabe left. now it certainly is possible this was a really important trip to senator flake. but he must have realized in his absence lasting approximately three more weeks is royally screwing over mcconnell and president trump who need flake in d.c. to continue their mission of packing the courts. maybe this is his way of riding off into the sunset. equity trades are just $4.95. so no matter what you trade, or where you trade, you'll only pay $4.95. fidelity. open an account today. you'll only pay $4.95. no matter how much you clean, does your house still smell stuffy? that's because your home is filled with soft surfaces that trap odors and release them back into the room. so, try febreze fabric refresher. febreze finds odors trapped in fabrics and cleans them away as it dries. use febreze every time you tidy up to keep your whole h

we are told by our colleague who's our senate producer that mitch mcconnell, at the request of cindydsey graham on the floor of the senate. the two went to the desk of john mccain's desk and draped in black as our colleague, kelly o'donell, says, it is covered with flowers. as cindy sat at his desk and graham took two white roses out of the vase and handed them to cindy and she was seen walking out of the chamber with him. a beautiful moment there. we see the roses that have been on his desk all week in commemoration. and, bill crystal, in a final moment here talk to me about vladimir and who's going to be -- this russian dperson is poisoned by the creme line. >> i sawed vladimir a couple of months ago here in d.c. and he was talking about senator mccain. the first thing he asked me about was how was senator mccain doing and he talked to us on the phone several times in the spring this year and he had a high regards of john mccain. presidents have meant so much and president obama to all the people around the world and not much senator really reach that level. john mccain is really a

we will hear from mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer. we will hear all of that life. it was 51 years ago that the plane was shot down over north vietnam where he was held prisoner for the better part of 5.5 years. and the last few years, beaten badly. for two years, this very summer, america was divided over that very war. protests were breaking up. half a century ago, this week, after the democratic convention was starting, and of the country seemed like it was erupting. senator john mccain was a veteran of war when it looked like he was not going to be getting out anytime soon. the nation is remembering the former presidential candidate. later, he rose to power at a time when everyone said this maverick had no chance to have any political life at all. that was then. the nation reflects now. we will talk to people who knew him well," including former presidential candidate bob dole. former senator kelly iota, close friend and political ally of john mccain. spent at least three years as a cellmate in vietnam. i capitol hill and what we can expect to come. >> expected

right now, the majority leader mitch mcconnell said he wants to appoint a bipartisan group to look at possible nominations possibly renaming the armed services committee room, there's a couple smaller scale options on the table there. lindsey graham joked with me earlier this week they should rename the capitol visitors center in honor of john mccain because he hated so much and thought it was a waste of money and that might be a fitting retribution for mccain who was as well-known to these senators and you heard this a little bit in mitch mcconnell's remarks today for the arguments he got in with them as he was when he was their ally. that was maybe the most overwhelming theme of senators i talked to. pretty much everyone's favorite memory were when he called their questions were stupid or said they were jerks. that's the kind of legacy that john mccain carries here emotionally. the physical remembrance is something that will continue to be debated. as for the russell building itself, it's the oldest, the most prestigious of any of the office buildings here on capitol hill. it is not

i don't see ryan or mitch mcconnell with the counterprotesters standing up to the racist march. they're missing in action. when donald trump and his administration are rounding up hispanics, latinos, arresting them, separating their kids and families, they're not doing anything stop that. i'm so tired of the occasional statement of we're shocked, this was inappropriate but do nothing to back that up. and this is the reason why the republican party is bleeding people away, a whole generation of people are going to abandon this party and never go back because of what they're doing now. they might be able to hold on for a short while, get a supreme court justice through but at the end of the day the entire soul of the republican party is lost. >> with that, we'll leave it there. thank you, kurt bar dell. jennifer and michael will be back with us. >>> on the one year mark of the deadly clash between protesters and white nationalists, msnbc shares the story of a former white supremacist to who dedicated his life to reform each others. watch "breaking hate" on msnbc. >>> up next, an e

majority leader mitch mcconnell leading a statement on the center floor.or mcconnell: i was privileged to spend a small share of that time with john. insat on his back porch sky,a under the desert replaying old times. john did things his way these last months. for his colleagues here, the time confirmed a sad but obvious truth -- the senate won't be the same without john mccain. i think it's fair to say that the passion that john brought to his work was unsurpassed in this body. in more than 30 years as a toator, he never failed measure a razor-sharp wit, a big heart, and a strong spirit. when john saw an issue the same justou did, you found you found your most stalwart ally. when you found yourself on the other side of that table, as i think all of us learned, you were in for a different kind of unforgettable experience. beside johnserving was never a dull affair. john and i stood shoulder to shoulder on some of the most important issues to each of us, and we also disagreed entirely on huge subjects that helped define each of our careers. john treated eve

majority leader mitch mcconnell scolding these no-shows, and there they are.ur wall of shame right there. jeff flake, senators thom tillis and mike lee. lee and tillis urged the majority leader to keep the senate in session during august. then they don't show up for the day that was required. joining us ed rollins. rollins serve as white house political director under president ronald reagan. ed: the majority leader doesn't know how to count votes. he those had all the players to stay in line in august and this shows he doesn't have them all in play. he better figure it out. lou:f what is the excuse for a mike lee and tom til his who are about as conservative as most of liberals, they are absolutely misrepresenting themselves. how could they do that? call for the majority lead tore keep the senate in session, then do this. ed: it's one more outrageous thing they do. it's why the country holds them in disdain. the three leaders, pelosi and religion and mcconnell. but mcconnell has gotten more done and held in the lowest esteem according to polls. lou: mitch mcc

and so, you know, that list he put together originated by mitch mcconnell -- you might like him or you might not, but mitch mcconnell deserves a heck of a lot of credit for putting that list, for going out the day that scalia died and said barack obama's not going to put a new judge on court. he's just not. and people thought he was crass and awful. it was brilliant. then he gets the list together with the federalist society. then he gets trump to do it. that right there won the election for him. >> so -- [applause] [laughter] >> i want to, having gone around the country and seen these places and these people, going back to 2016 republicans -- which i said all along back in 2006 that if the gop wasn't going to hold its own side accountable for breaking its promises, the voters would, and they did. >> yep, they did. >> and they went for democrats who were moderate, pro-gun, pro-life democrats, and headed into 2018 i don't see that there are a lot of democrats like that left, and i'm starting to wonder if what we may see is a blue wave in already blue places but not a blue wave in places

mitch mcconnell does a same thing. but mitch mcconnell knows he's the bad guy. he's not confused by that. i've said this before. he identifies with the night kings. paul ryan should be better he should know better and he is as responsible like you to choice when trump was elected he could say and do what he believes that this man is unfit to be president. he is encouraging racial division in this country. has been accused of sexual assault by 19 women. he could say i'm back in a do that dude's bidding. they're gonna try to make this country better. the example that i see that sums up paul ryan to me is right around the time when the me to movement was taking off. he decided. how many i'm in to do an npr interview. it was in the middle of al franken and harvey weinstein and he was answering a question about paul ryan and it's very important that we believe the women. and he said do you believe the women who have accused president trump of sexual assault. paul ryan does melted into a puddle on the floor. he's bad. thank you very much for being here. that means sai

that is mitch mcconnell.ley, again a republican, chairman of the judiciary committee, he said i hope it is not true. you can't let this happen. very strong words there. is that just about judicial appointments? >> i think it is. this has been very underreported, but folks do on not understand that a hostile takeover of the courts by folks who are not even approved by the american bar association is happening. there are judges on the list right now that are not approved by the american bar association. and donald trump's lasting legacy among other things will be that he was able to reshape the courts for a generation. and that is something that grassley and mcconnell are very tied to and i think that they don't want to see their ally in this effort go. >> there is still a lot of judges sitting on the bench reported by jimmy carter and ronald reagan. and this gets to another legal issue, and the president was asked about this, mcgahn sat down voluntarily with the special counsel for some 30 hours. the president

we expect to hear forever senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> mr. vice president, mr. speaker, colleagues, distinguished guests, and the mccain family, it's an honor to welcome you this morning. we gather to recognize a great loss and celebrate a great life. we celebrate six decades of devotion to the american idea and the cause of human freedom. generations of americans will continue to marvel at the man who lies before us. the cocky, handsome, naval avate tore who barely scraped through school and then fought for freedom in the skies. who witnessed to our highest values even through terrible torture. and who became a generational leader in the united states senate where our nation airs its great debates. now, airing our great debates is a gentle way to describe how john approached the work of a senator. i've long joked his guards at the hanoi hilton probably needed group therapy after john was finished with them. let's just say there were times when some of his senate colleagues were tempted to form a support group of our own. he treated every issue with the intensit

mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, vice president mike pence representing the trump administration and also some bipartisan presentation of wreaths. mcconnell and schumer, ryan and pelosi and one by the vice president. we expect the president's cabinet. chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs and respective chiefs and diplomatic corps to be on hand. arrivals next hour with the ceremony to be in the 11:00 a.m. eastern hour. >> jon: what's the tone been like on capitol hill since the senator died? >> sadness. a lot of senators talking about mccain as the mentor to him. his commitment to our men and women in uniform. his willingness to fight on issues he believed deeply about. a sample of that tone from the senate leaders. >> more than 30 years as a senator he never failed to marshall a razor sharp wit, a big heart and fiery spirit. >> we can try as he did to put country before party. we can try as we always did to speak truth to power. >> mcconnell says the senate will not be the same without senator john mccain once the v.i.p.s are done around lunch time today, the public will have an opportu

majority leader mitch mcconnell called john mccain a leader. was one of the bravest souls our nation produced. bob schieffer in washington, your reaction, bob. >> i think john mccain was maybe the bravest person i ever knew. he wasn't afraid of anything. i think that is what i will always remember about him. thissethis se seromoney today. -- ceremony today. he would have appreciated and been ready to move on. he probably would have made a little joke of some kind if he had been allowed to watch and perhaps he is watching, but i think about what he said, i visited him in may at his place out there in arizona. he knew he was going to die. he knew the time was coming shortly. but john mccain really had no regrets. he wrote, i hate to leave life. i don't have a complaint, though, not one. because it's been quite a ride. that was john mccain. god bless him. >> and, bob, you know, we heard from mitch mcconnell that john mccain represented america's fighting spirit. i think a lot of people are looking to this moment for a bit of spirit themselves and

mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader, all three with speak. want to go to mike murphy, veteran gop strategist, a long time friend and adviser to senator mccain, including during his first presidential run, thank you for being with us. your thoughts as we prepare to watch this ceremony? >> it just reminds me how much john was a senate institutionalist and what was remarkable about him is his gift for creating friends but he would swap those when most of them, they hide them like an alice it is affair, almost like a shameful thing. for mccain it was one of the most important things that you could work across party dogma a divides in order to get something done for the country. mccain had been the navy's lobbyist in the senate near the end of his naval career and the navy didn't have a participant fight, it was about his relationship with all senators trying to serve the national security and mccain never let go of that. he believed in the senate. and he wanted senators to communicate and have relationships across the party divide. that was one o

to see the way he touched mitch mcconnell, hardened closing tho want to read you something mccain wrote said i've lived very well. i've been deprived of all comforts. i've been as lonely as a person can be and i enjoyed the company of heros. i suffered the deepest despair and experienced the highest ex hull tags. i wish you all great company and lives as lucky as mine. >> an incredible statement. coky roberts i was struck how paul ryan said we get stronger at the broken places, talking about his time in that p.o.w. camp. he also said he didn't win the presidency but he will be an example to future generations. >> that was another broken place. i think that was a very eloquent testimony. looking at this and seeing john mccain's 106-year-old mother, nothing is harder than to lose a child no matter how old you are and how old he was. it must be incredibly painful. also the incredible gathering there, not just senate members, but cabinet members, supreme court justices. as i looked around the room, all officials from the last 30 years was gathered in that rotunda. now they will leave and th

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mitch mcconnell wants to focus more on the circuit courts. would mitch mcconnell focus more on the circuit courts? how much more of an impact can they have than the supreme court? >> well, so circuit courts are very important for a number of reasons. one is that they are the court of last appeal for almost all litigants. the supreme court hears 75, 80 cases a year. everything else gets decided at the terminal stage by one or the other of the circuit courts. and so, number one, they are really important on that score. number two, they are the kind of testing ground for supreme court judges, justices, almost all whom come from prior circuit court service. and finally, they are important, and don't underestimate this, because interest groups and senators have decided they are important and that they are something we want to fight over. therefore, if you get a lot of them confirmed and the other side is angry about it, then that's a big win. >> let's talk about the supreme court and what you wrote in "the atlantic." we don't like acknowledging th

i know mitch mcconnell sounded distressed about this possibility. >> the mitch mcconnell statement was amusing, at least to my eyes, because the first sentence said, if the reporting is accurate. this was after i broke the story and then the president on the record confirmed it. so, there was no reporting whatever, but what i saw from that was a sense of wishful denial. here's the issue. don mcgahn is an ideological conservative who in mitch mcconnell's mind, in chuck grassley's mind, has done a wonderful job feeding that pipeline of conservative justices, both at the circuit court level and obviously at the supreme court level. emmet flood, who is the likely replacement, however, i should stress nothing has been formalized -- emmet flood is not known for his ideology. he represented bill clinton during the impeachment and he represented george w. bush for two years during his second term and now he's obviously coming in to represent trump. someone -- a source of mine who has discussed emmet flood's decision making said that the reason -- one of the reasons he came in for trump is beca

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people were mad he started with the mitch mcconnell agenda. big these days. for people paying attention, so massively unfair, every president being dropped -- precedent dropped, we do not want to hear about the clintons, but it is known as the will of law. like cases are treated alike. this is why lady justice is wearing a blindfold and holding a scale. should not matter whether your last name is trump or clinton, what aboutism is a terrifying attempt to destroy the rule of law. like cases are treated alike. host: what about your relationship with the trump administration? guest: for those of you who follow me on twitter, you know i was his most vocal and immediate supporter. his campaign was magnificent. he has stunning political instincts. book, ise in the last washington style republicans announcing him, saying he is not a real republican, half the country is saying fantastic, he is not a republican, it is an all new party of the people. of course, i have been disappointed in many ways he has abandoned that. host: president trump tweeting this morning, tal