mr. john mccain was being kept. brian: how long? >> [speaking vietnamese] >> not in>> [speaking vietnames. himself? >> himself? this was during john mccain's time here. [indiscernible] >> [speaking vietnamese] >> just for one person shelter. if they cannot manage to go there, they could go down to the shelter. brian: the shelter is underneath here? what is the room used for now? shelter. brian:>> just a working place. >> [speaking vietnamese] brian: these out here? >> no, this other door. not this one. someone also in here with white hair. he was sleeping, mr. john mccain, the same room. brian: where we just talked. >> over there is the kitchen. for american.od brian: where is the kitchen? for american. brian: where is the kitchen? >> [speaking vietnamese] for >> this is also cell for american pilots. this is newly built. there are two beds and maybe therree beds in one cell. let's go to the kitchen. >> [speaking vietnamese] >> this is kitchen. there is another section of the kitchen over there. another section was destroyed. over th

we award the liberty medal to john mccain. [applause] mr.osen: throughout his career, he has put his devotion to the u.s. constitution above faction or party. he is the kind of independent citizen statesman james madison envisioned when he stressed that the u.s. cuts edition created -- constitution created not a direct democracy but a representative republic. they believed that direct democracies have led in greece and rome to be ruled by .emagogues by contrast, in a representative republic, citizens would delegate power to enlightened representatives who are chosen as a body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interests of their country and his patriotism and love of justice would be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations. it is especially meaningful that senator mccain will be awarded the liberty medal, accompanied by the chair of the national constitution center, vice president joe biden. [applause] vice president biden served in the senate with john mccain for more than two decades. their will

john mccain, no love lost. you'll recall during the presidential campaign, mr. ump even, at one point, said john mccain was, in fact, not an american hero because heroes aren't captured. >> before you go, jeff, there was also the tweet that came out from the president about north korean leader kim jong-un and very different from the scripted remarks during his time in vietnam. let's talk about that tweet. >> reporter: the president has been urged by his advisers and largely followed sued suit by not going after kim jong-un mostly for his time in asia but that changed overnight again. let's take a look at this tweet, of course, on twitter. he says this. of course, strange words there, but the president asked at the press conference if he thinks that could happen to be friends and he said, look, stranger things have happened. he believes a good thing for the world for them to be friends, but a long way from rocket man that the president referred to him as just a couple of months ago. but i can tell you before we sign off from here on this hour, i visited that priso

visited a vietnam war prison where american p.o.w.s, including republican senator john mccain, were beaten and tortured. mr. trump, meanwhile, says he received another denial from vladimir putin about election med length. does he believe it? here's margaret brennan. >> reporter: presidents trump and putin appeared friendly during a two-day economic summit in vietnam. later, aboard air force one, the president told reporters that he asked putin once again about u.s. election interference. "he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. he did not do what they're saying he did," the president said. "i really believe when he tells me that he means it." last year, the u.s. intelligence community concluded with confidence that russia's senior-most officials had directed cyber attacks, which targeted the email accounts of top democrats. >> it's an honor to be with you. thank you. >> reporter: mr. trump had previously broad braut it up when the two leaders met at the g-20 summit in july. today, the president called the hacks an "art ficialg democratic hit job," and said it "gets in the way and that's a sha

connell: that sets up senator john mccain who went after mrs. linton for her continued criticism of president trump and the election last year. senator mccain telling her to get over it is a quote from the senator you've got to understand that you can't rewrite history. the hardest thing to do is shut up. what's the expletive point? keep the fight up? you've got to move on. this is hillary's problem. she doesn't have anything to do. conservative millennials. ali joins us now. and, boy, those are rough words from another former presidential candidate who says he has moved on and she should too. i'm not sure she ever will. what do you think? >> conservatives get criticized all the time for continuing to talk about hillary clinton and, of course, like you said, trump gets slammed for being quote obsessed with her. however, what are we supposed to do when she refuses to accept the results of the election that happened a year ago? every few weeks we hear something else about hillary clinton's reinserting herself into a political narrative that has rej

now my great pleasure and honor to invite the vice presidents to award the liberty medal to john mccain. ♪ mri am not going to put : it around his neck because he gets animated and i think it will hurt him speaking. senator mccain, you have honorably upheld the united states constitution as a member war hero, a member of the senate, and as a patriotic leader, and you have preserved, protected, and defended liberty at home and around the globe. for your life and sacrifice, it is the greatest honor to award you the 2017 liberty medal. ♪ applause]d sen. mccain: thank you, my old , dear friend. thank you, joe, my old, dear friend, for those mostly undeserved kind words. vice president biden and i have known each other for a lot of years now, more than 40 if you are counting. we knew each other when we were young, handsome, and smarter than everyone else but were too modest to say so. [laughter] mccain: joe was a senator and i was a liaison to the senate and my duties included escorting senate delegations on overseas trips, and in that capacity i supervised the luggage. when no one of lord and was

. >> republican senator john mccain announced his opposition to stephen bradberry to the general counsel for the transportation department. mr bradberry is the author of a number of prisoners interrogation memos written during the george w. bush administration. the senate voted to confirm mr. bradberry. >> i rise today to speak in opposition to the nomination of stephen bradberry the general counsel of the department of transportation. i must say to my colleagues, the years i have been here. i never thought that we will be considering the nomination of a person who supported, who supported commission of what the geneva convention says his war crimes. that is a serious, serious issue. and the constitution charges the senate to give its advice and consent to senior executive branch nominations.as a check against the appointment of people to important government positions. who, because of one spelling or another should not be entrusted with the interest of the american people. i do not believe that mr. bradberry deserves that public trust. and i will oppose his nomination. and mr. president, i am astonished, i am astonished! th

john mccain says. this is a centipede, said john mccain who has served in congress longer than mr. papadopoulos has been alive. some exquisite reporting from peter baker. >> yeah. ty cobb is right. this will end. i don't know about soon, but it will end. the way things are going, it's not going to end in a way the president wants. i go back to what i said in the beginning. the president will listen to someone like bannon who says take out the flame thrower and go after mueller and all of these people and stop this investigation. >> but what does that mean? >> what it means is if all you care about is yourself and your business organization, then, of course, you would do something like, i don't know, fire the fbi director or actively entertain getting rid of the special counsel. getting rid of robert mueller. if what you care about is truth and justice and the constitution, you do what ty cobb says and you cooperate. you do everything possible to like lower the heat on this so that you may be able to get out of this with some semblance of dignity. but that's not who we're talking ab

. >> republican senator john mccain announced his opposition to stephen bradberry to the general counsel for the transportation department. mr bradberry is the author of a number of prisoners interrogation memos written during the george w. bush administration. the senate voted to confirm mr.

some circles, including senator john mccain, the you think you believe he did election.ere in the could you once in all, definitively, state whether or not you believe mr. putin and-or meddled in the election? pres. trump: i said i believe he believes that. that is very important for somebody to believe. i believe he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or especially as currently constituted with the leadership, i believe there are intel agencies, i believe our intel agencies. i have worked with him strongly. there were not 17 as previously reported, there were actually for. they said there were 17, but there were actually 4. believe -- i want to be able, because i think it is very important to get along with russia. to get along with china. to get along with vietnam. to get along with lots of countries because we have a lot settle.s we have to russia and china and particular can help us with the north korea problem, which is one of our great problems. i'm not looking to stand and argue when there are reporters all around and cameras reporting it and seeing our conversation. i think was very obvious to eve

mr. moore denies most of the allegations, i gather but not all. i think mitt romney made this point, john mccain mapped this point that if you look at the report done by the "washington post," which is a very thorough report, its was not done by opposition research. i think you can reach the conclusion that what this gentleman did was totally inappropriate and not the kind of behavior that a united states senator should have. >> dickerson: all right, senator sanders, we'll take a break talk about politics. the president did in fact believe the intelligence agencies after his written remarks so did he clean that up. but we'll be back in a second, we'll tech about other things on we'll tech about other things on the other side of this commercial. stay with us. ...at t. rowe price... ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. what if we could keep more amof what we earn?d. trillions of dollars going back to taxpayers. who could possibly be against that? well, the national debt is $20 trillion. as we keep adding to

mr. trump simply can't bring himself to put america first. a comment echoed by senator john mccainthis in a statement moments ago. quote, there's nothing america first about taking the word of a kgb colonel over that of the american intelligence community. there's no principled realism in cooperating with russia to prop up the murderous assad regime. vladimir putin does not have america's interests at heart, to believe otherwise is not only naive, but also places our national security at risk. i want to take a chance to remind you that tomorrow on cnn's state of the union, former director of national intelligence, james clapper and former c.i.a. director john brennan will respond to the president's comments. that is tomorrow on state of the union. at 9:00 a.m. on cnn. on a much lighter note. visitors in record numbers are flocking to some breathtaking incan ruins in machu picchu in peru. the sheer numbers threat ton overwhelm one of the modern wonders of the world. we're joined by cnn's bill weir who joined it for "the wonder list." what did you find? >> it's on the bucket list, ev

in another e-mail, clovis objected angrily to donald trump's insulting john mccain for having been captured during the vietnam war. mr. clovis wrote mr. trump's comments were insulting to me as a veteran as i missed birthdays, holidays, christmases and easters. i was offended by a man who sought and obtained four student deferments to avoid the draft and has never served this nation a day, not a day in any fashion or way that was sam clovis before donald trump started paying him to say donald trump is great. yesterday the special prosecutor revealed more of sam clovis' e-mails, including this one. after several weeks of further communications regarding a potential off the record meeting with russian officials on or about august 15th, 2016, the campaign supervisor told defendant papadopoulos that i would encourage you and another foreign policy adviser to the campaign to make the trip if it is feasible. that campaign supervisor was sam clovis. he was encouraging george papadopoulos to make the trip to russia to collude with russians to help donald trump win the presidential election. sam clovis' confirmation hearing i

mr. trump laughed. all hit a sour note back in washington as senator john mccain tweeted, human rights obviously not a priority. sad. it's no surprise that the president was finished taking questions after the uproar he ignited when he yet again seemed to side with russian president vladimir putin on moscow's meddling in last year's election. every time putin sees me, he says, i didn't do that and i really believe that when he tells me that he means it. making matters worse, mr. trump even blasted former leaders of the u.s. intelligence community that concluded russia did meddle. they're political hacks. you look at it, you have brennan, clapper and you have comey. comey is proven now to be a liar. pressed to say once and for all he believes russia intervened in the election, the president wavered again. >> as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. i believe in our intel agencies, our intelligence agencies. >> reporter: and he ignored our attempts to clarify his comments. >> mr. president, why won't you say definitively whether russia m

mr. trump simply said rex is here. >>> well, it's a key step forward for the senate version of a tax reform bill, arizona senator john mccain is giving it a thumbs up, boosting its chances of passing by friday. admitting the bill is not perfect, mccain said he still believes it would enhance american competitiveness, boost the economy and provide long overdue tax relief for middle class families. >>> one of president trump's tweets has angered u.s.' closest ally. british prime minister theresa from a far right group were the wrong thing to do. may spoke from jordan, adding she's not afraid to criticize friends when they get things wrong. the british ambassador and other united kingdom diplomats brought up their concerns at the white house after mr. trump retweeted anti-muslim videos from the white nationalist group britain first yesterday. >>> well, we're not going to hit 70 like yesterday, but we'll be closer to 60 this afternoon which is several degrees above seasonal averages. check this out. we got a line of rain coming through detroit, approaching buffalo right now. this is ahead of a cold front that will be arriving l

john mccain brought this up. >> sarah, to you, i want to listen to john brennan suggesting that president trump was intimidated by vladimir putin. listen to this. >> i think mrtrump is for whatever reason either intimidated by mr. putin, afraid of what he could do or what might come out as a result of these investigations. so it's very worrisome. i think it sends a very disturbing signal to allies and partners who are concerned about russian interference. so either ignorance or fear in terms of what mr. trump is doing vis-a-vis the russians. >> naivety, ignorance or fear. i have been refreshing my twitter feed to see what the president is going to say. safe to assume he will have a strong response. >> the president is not someone who takes personal criticism well because they have previously been critical of president trump that may be one explanation as to why he singled those two out as being responsible for perpetuating what he believes to be false witch hunt. he did credit his own intelligence community with being accurate when it comes to talking about russian interference. keep in mind the cia did push back on the notion that the conclusions about russ

john mccain. >> there's nothing america first about taking the word of a kgb kornl over u.s. intelligence. >> mr. trump today? >> i believe president putin really feels, and he feels strongly, that he didn't medal in our election. what he believes he believes. what i believe is we have to get to work. >> reporter: earlier tweeting when will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with russia is a good thing, not north korea's erratic dictator writing why would king jom un insult me by calling me old, when i would never call him short and fat oh, well, i try hard to be his friend and maybe that will happen. >> i think anything is a possibility. strange things happen in life. that might be a strange thing to happen, but it's certainly a possibility. >> reporter: and speaking to reporters after that news conference, the president's chief of staff, john kelly, telling us he doesn't follow the president's tweets and adding that he doesn't allow his staff to either. willie? >> peter alexander in vietnam with the president in the philippines. we'll let you go catch up

mr. president, president trump, where is your leadership? >> joining us now, mike murphy, republican strategist advising mitt romney and john mccain and senior fellow at the harvard's jfk schools center for science and international affairs and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and defense department and a msnbc national security analyst. jeremy, the president didn't have a clear set of facts there about chuck schumer's involvement in the immigration provision that bothers him. but once again, we saw the president go straight into politics instead of actually addressing what happened in new york. >> yeah. lawrence, i mean, if you think about the president's immigration approach here, and his immigration approach in the administration, he's argued for building a wall on the southern border. this individual who committed the attack flew into our country through jfk international airport. the president proposed a travel ban from a number of countries. this individual came from a country, uzbekistan, not on the travel ban list. the president proposed deporting about 900 d.r.e.a.m.ers who grew up here and now serve in the military, ta

mr. chairman. >> it's not just democrats who oppose the tax reform bill. 6 republican senators are either no or on the fence including ron johnson, john mccain, and jeff flake and collins and rand paul. >> we are confident we will get this package passed. we would love to see some democrats support this historic piece of legislation. >> you didn't get in the house. in the senate? >> there is always hope. >> president trump weighed in on the controversy about senator al franken. tweeting, the picture is bad. speaks 1,000 words. the president who faced his own allegations, was criticized for going after franken but cityi i -- staying quiet about moore. >> the roy moore story is 8 days old. the president put out a statement on that. >> the white house is looking ahead to the next vacancy of the supreme court. listing 5 more names. including barrett. and rick grant. cavanaugh. newsome. and wyerick. there are no vacancies on the supreme court. anthony kennedy may retire after thanksgiving and the white house wants to be repaired. >> john, thank you. a democrat senator name as a potential presidential contender in 2010 is taking heat after declari

mr. mcconnell is pretty secure in getting 50 votes. john mccain we hear is still on the fence. when he will vote, he said, i will let you know. so the market holding at a gain of 130 points. holding above 24,000 even though we just got the news that rex tillerson, secretary of state, out come january of next year. >>> minor league story here. cvs reportedly nearing a deal to by aetna. that is not minor at all. that is pretty significant. 200 to $205 a share. those two stocks moving appropriately. >>> "new york times" tweeted phone numbers of republicans on the fence on the tax bill, urging people to call and tell them to vote no. president trump is not happy. here is his tweet. the failing "new york times," the pipe organ for democrat party is virtual lobbiest for them regarding our massive tax cut bill. they are wrong so often now i know we have a win. katrina pierson with us, former spokesperson. react first of all to the news rex tillerson out according to fox news and various other sources, out in january. what do you say about this? >> well i think there has been a lot of

mr. president. >> easy to say that but actually do it is another thing. i think john mccainbviously did it on obamacare, but this particular case this, is the last chance they will get in this administration to basically pass tax reform. i think it would be hard to go back home and say, well, i didn't like the president or i didn't have this or didn't have that. i think at this point in time, there are still four or five will bring across. i think they squeak it out. if they get it through the senate you have a lot of room in conference. neil: do you have a lot of room? they will be far apart in conference. >> at the end of the day, in conference you have, you have premise of we'll have tax cuts, we'll move legislation forward and then it is really very skilled people in negotiating behind the scenes. neil: ronald reagan did, i didn't know this until retrospect reading a lot on him, he was very much intimately involved in both tax cuts, in '81, that came to fruition in '82, and obviously the second wave, more substantial reform in '86 and a lot of people have this idea that

mr. moore would be a senator if elected, allegations, proven, are serious and should step aside. john mccain said step aside now. what do you think? >> i think that only he knows what happened, and if the allegations are true, and he knows in his heart that they are true, he should step aside. if they are not true, i think he has obligation to make sure that the truth comes out and he isn't prematurely judged in this matter. so i leave it up to the candidate to make that decision. neil: do you wonder about timing, comes out now? >> seems like there sauls in october surprise. in this case it is a november surprise? neil: what do you think is going on? my company no stranger to this harassment itself, i would be remiss for not mentioning that. what if you if anything, in your role and congress' roll do about it? seems every day we're getting revelation, a new personality what do you think? >> i think daylight is a great disinfectant. i think we need to make sure we allow this issue to come to light. and i think there are many young women who are somewhat naive and they go to hollywood and go t

mr. senator, and you know this, that it could come down to senator john mccain, it could, couldn't it?go, do you? >> i don't. and you have to talk to john directly. i tell you two things about john mccain. he will do what is right and not affected by politics of any of this. two, when he ran for president in 2008, really his whole career, he believes in pro-growth tax reform. he believes lowering rates and broadening base is good idea. this bill in structure is similar to what he supported in the past. i would hope in this case we would be able to get his support, frankly the support of others who have specific concerns but overpaul think that the bill is directionally correct. i would put in that category folks that want to do something on the state and local property tax deduction and do something to help pass-through companies more. they still think this bill is basically sound. stuart: okay, once you have got the 50 votes, once you tallied the 50 votes, do you think it is possible some democrats will come over and join in with the yes, sir votes? i'm thinking claire mccaskill of mi

senator john mccain also expressed concerns that the president accepted putin's word over the consensus by u.s. intelligence community that russia meddled in the election. but what mr. trump set aboard a first one is this. "every time he sees me, he says i didn't do that, and i believe, i really believe that when he tells me that he means it." but the audio wasn't released and our chief correspondent john roberts, who were at the end of her says the president's voice inflection is very important because it's clear the president is not saying he believes putin, he saying he believes putin means it when he says he didn't do it. the president later clarified his remarks by issuing his clearest comment yet that he agrees with u.s. intelligence, watch. >> i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. i believe in our intel agencies, our intelligence agencies. >> the president went on to say it's important to get along with russia and china, especially as it relates to north korea. a former director of national intelligence jam

mr. sanders: met me quote you, senator rubio. tell me in this quote is right. that w at the debate over the tax bill on the senate floor. bernie sanders there. and today john mccainl back the bill. that's a key move of course because republicans can only afford to lose two votes. mccain has blocked trump's bills before, famously on obamacare. but today mccain argued that process is different than taxes saying, on this bill tsenate usd regular order for the normal legislative process and a markup in the senate finance committee. my next guest knows that process well. lawrence o'donnell was the top staffer on the senate finance committee in the 1990s and hosts of course "the last word with lawrence o'donnell". >> put that back. it's a great picture. >> when i was writing tax law i had so much more hair. >> with moynihan. >> senator moynihan. >> and you know, john mccain is, to put it mildly, exaggerating. this was not regular order on tax legislation. that's right outside the senate finance committee hearing room and the senate finance committee staff offices where reporters will hang out forever trying to find out what's in the bill. >> you're saying mccain's not

mr. kevin carthy there in front of the party i guess they are going to make remarks in a moement >> bob corker and john mccained they are not there yet. we know ron johnson had a specific issue on small business the party has to bring him around critical collins was always a critical vote and lisa keselowski if you start seeing more people talk about defecting as republicans, it gets really hard to figure out how this gets put together in the senate >> given those senators who are on defense, there is really no room for error right now what happens in the next 24 hours and what's happening right now do you think sth >> getting out of committee is key and as they move to the for vote, republicans only lose ten. you have to assume that they'll not going get one democratic vote >> they'll get a democratic vote until they get to 50 no democratic is going to put their in the case onecks out an this >> right, that's indicative. you will lose susan collins and lisa keselowski. >> why are we losing our own tax s s? >> because of the appeal of the mandate. >> she's more moderate i think ultimately, you assume to lose

mr. speaker. the last time we rewrote our tax code. that was truly a bipartisan process. i hope everybody read the remarks of senator john mccain when he came back to the senate and voted to move the process forward on the affordable care act, but then voted against the final product. he voted and he gave a speech in which he said, mr. president, i have been here, speaking to the president of the senate, mr. president, i have been here for some period of time. and my experience has essentially been that when we did things in a partisan way that were neither lasting nor very good. but when we do things in a bipartisan way, they're much better and much more permanent. there is much more competence in that product that was reached in a bipartisan way. speaker ryan made a point in his remarks about how long overdue we are for tax overhaul. he said it was 31 years. i was chairman of the ways and means committee and didn't report out a tax bill. i'm not sure why, if that was the case. we did bipartisan in 1986 and did permanent tax reform, we did it together and we did it in a way that was paid for. that's not what this is. neither t

john mccain, save america. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize bill gibbs from spring port, michigan, and congratulate him for being named jackson count yvette ran of the year. a few weeks ago hi the privilege of meeting bill at v.f.w. post 6056 during their veterans day ceremony. it was a special evening with a roomful of heroes, none more so than bill. when our country called during e vietnam war, bill answered bravery.endous for his heroism in harm's way, bill was awarded the purple heart, four bronze stars with valor device, and a number of other bravery. for his heroism in harm's servi over the years bill has done it all at post 6056, including serving as post commander, trustee, post historian, and quarter master for 33 years. mr. walberg: when called upon he performs as an honor guard member at military funerals and in the community. mr. speaker, for all this and much more, bill is

john mccain -- i was in the unit that helped get you out of hanoi. host: thanks, mark. mr. benton?st: i didn't really get a question from mark. i got a lot of statements about what happened during the vietnam era. of course, i was not here. my older brothers were serving in vietnam along with you, mark, so thank you very much for your service. andeciate you stepping up doing what we hope all americans will do when the time comes. i can't really speak to some of the flaws you are talking about in the system. i do know that there have been a number of improvements to the selective service system since vietnam. that's in terms of deferments and how those work, the local boards. .e work very hard we have 3000 local selective service boards throughout the united states. one of the big differences is that each community now will have people from their own community serving on those boards. we try very hard to make sure that a local community board has the demographics of that community so that when a young man and that community comes forward and says i've got an issue or a problem and t

dedication, and unflappable determination of our colleague and friend, senator john mccain, truly an american hero. now, mr. president, on an entirely different matter, i'd like to say a few words today about brian forest, a key member of my legislative office team who is leaving the senate after several years of outstanding work here in the senate. throughout his time in my office, brian has been an invaluable asset taking on the daily challenges and countless responsibilities that comes with the territory for my staff. but brian didn't just handle it all; he excelled. regardless of the pressures, the deadlines, or the obstacles -- and believe me there were many -- brian always calm through. -- came through. and now, regretful lurks he's decided to take on a whole new set of challenges. i'm confident that he will continue to show the same skill, friendship, and good humor that endeared him to many here in the senate because that's who brian is. i know i speak for all of those on my staff when i say that i'm really sorry to see him go. i wish brian well in his new adventures, and i'd like to thank him for