mr. mccain: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i rise to discuss my amendment with senator blumenthal thapld extend the veteran -- that would extend the veteran choice card program for three years and restore funding that was moved out of the program last year. our amendment is critically important. it extends the veterans choice card program so it does not expire prematurely next year. it restores funding removed from the program last year to pay for other v.a. programs, provides additional funding to stabilize the v.a. choice card program for the next three years. while congress works on long-term solution to reform veterans health care and allows the secretary of the v.a. to standardize and modernize the way it pays all the doctors, hospitals and clinics participating in the many programs the v.a. offers to veterans to get the care they need in their communities. i was very proud two years ago that congress acted quickly to pass major v.a. reform legislation following the scandal and care that resulted in the deaths of h

mr. mccain: mr. president, this morning we'll be voting on a joint resolution of disapproval for the rule that establishes u.s. department of agriculture's catfish inspection program. as i mentioned yesterday, i would remind my colleagues that the general accounting office, a watchdog organization that we rely on for their views, particularly on fiscal issues and matters that i have -- i think of all the institutions of government right now probably the g.a.o. is arguably the most respected. g.a.o. i has more than ten different reports between 2009 and 2016 that the responsibility, and i quote, "responsibility of inspecting catfish should not be a sign to the usda. calling the program is wasteful of tax dollars and duplicative of f.d.a.'s existing inspections on all other seafood products." that's an interesting item here, i say to my colleagues. the f.d.a. performs inspection on every seafood product that comes into the united states of america. and guess what? guess what? that's only one and that's

mr. mccain: i would be glad to. mr. mcconnell: how many senators voted against this bill on the committee? > kaifn cane none. -- mr. mccain: none. the three votes against on this side of the aisle. mr. mcconnell: i call up grassley amendment 78. the presiding officer: the the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from kentucky calls up amendment for senator grassley, number 4078. the presiding officer: the clerk read the title of the bill. the clerk: s. 2635 13*, a bill to reauthorize certain programs established by the adam rail walsh child protection and safety act of 2006. the presiding officer: question is pajts on the bill as amed? is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: have all senators voted? any senator wish to change their vote? on this vote the yeas are 89. the nays are zero. the bill as amended is passed. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: i ask unanimous consent that

mr. mccain: i want to thank -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. mccain: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: and i address the senate as if in morning business. i want to thank the senator -- senator warner and senator schumer, the senators from virginia and new york. they're committed to the veterans in their states and in this country, and i believe that we have worked out an agreement to try to get them the vet ran services that -- veteran services that they have earned and are not receiving at this time. the usual calm and quiet conversation has led to a conclusion that now i can ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment in order to call up amendment 4039. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from arizona mr. mccain proposes amendment number 4039 to amendment 3896. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from v

mr. mccain: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i note with some interest that the senator from wyoming did not have the same zeal for the $1.1 billion we passed in emergency spending for zika not paid for. but the important thing here is that this is a program that 1.4 million for veterans who would otherwise wait for delayed care, 450,000 choice care providers. the list goes on and on. and all i'm asking for is an extension of a program that is in effect and helping our veterans. the fact is that the chairman of the veterans' affairs committee said last night what senator mccain is trying to do to improve access to health care, maintain the access through the choice of a private-sector provider or v.a. provider, there's no additional cost unless you assume that you want to take away a benefit that we've given two years ago in the omnibus bill we passed. so all i can say -- and he goes on to say he would support this amendment. who's taking advantage -- the majority of the people are taking advantage of this choice card? i'

mr. mccain: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: again i'd like to thank my old friend from kansas for his agreement and move forward and i look forward to continue our long many years' effort together to keep this nation safe. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination: calendar number 477 only, with no other executive business in order. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk shall report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, department of defense, eric k. fanning of the district of columbia to be secretary of the army. mr. mccain: madam president, i know of no further debate on the nomination. the presiding officer: is there any further debate? hearing none, all in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. mr. mccain: i ask consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, the president be immediately notifie

mr. mccain: and, mr. president, the national restaurant association strongly supports what we're trying to do here, and the list goes on and on. i know that my colleagues -- there are my colleagues that want to speak on this issue, but i think that this is -- this is more than a vote on catfish, i'd say to my colleagues. what this is all about is government overriding the taxpayers of america, which is why we are seeing so many of these watchdog organizations supporting what we're trying to do here. some of us, including this member, have been surprised, have been surprised by the american people's votes recently from both parties, both for mr. trump, who has never stood for public office before, and has said -- based his campaign to a large degree on campaignin against washington, d.c. and those of us who serve here. and of course on the other side is mr. sanders, senator sanders, a member of this body, clearly one who is running his campaign against the status quo. and so we have been surprised to see

mr. mccain: mr. speaker, over the last few months, we have witnessed obamacare crumbling in my home state of arizona. several obamacare co-ops collapsed including mutual health partners, forcing nearly 60,000 arizonans scrambling to find new coverage. last month united healthcare, the nation's largest health insurer, announced it will exit the arizona marketplace and leave about 45,000 arizonans to find new coverage in 2017. now as a direct result of the president's failed law, health insurer humana announced it will exit the marketplace in 2017 in my home state. all together, over half of arizona's counties will be left with a single insurer. another third will be left with just two. this will in turn cause premiums to skyrocket even higher than last year. while democrats continue to stand by a failed law, arizona families are bearing the burden. that is unacceptable. more than six years after obamacare was rammed through congress without a single republican vote -- and i was here on the floor on ch

mr. mccain: if my colleague would yield, i believe you have served the state of nevada and this nation with honor. mr. reid: so, mr. president, i do believe that we have a job to $. he does his job the best he can and everyone knows how hard he works. this is a very big, important bill. i have had the good fortune for all of these years to work on it. it's been difficult sometimes. we just barely made t i can remember one year that senator levin, who was our man on defense, and senator mccain, we were able to do the bill in two days. we had an emergency situation. we've gotten the bill done over all the years that i've been here. we've gotten it done all the years thaifer a been the -- all the years that i have -- that e been the leader. here is the situation we find ourselves: this bill is almost 2,000 pages long. it could have been online from sometime wednesday night, but the truth is that we didn't get the final version of this bill until last night at 5:00. the committee voted on the appendix to this bill. last night they completed it at 5:00 last night. and a pretty important part of

there have been calls from mccain himself. >> mr. trump has mentioned senator mccain in his tweets before. he said he respects his service. admires him. this was back in june or july. i don't recall of last summer. we're almost a year later. let's talk about the great things that mr. trump has done for our veterans. i mean, who else -- name another person who has done as much for the veterans of the united states of america than mr. trump has. he's not even yet in office. >> no doubt about it, he has done good things for the veterans. we want to talk about that after the break and dot nations he raised. we're going to talk about which foundations are going to do. stick around. we'll continue this discussion after this break. the call just came in. she's about to arrive. and with her, a flood of potential patients. a deluge of digital records. x-rays, mris. all on account...of penelope. but with the help of at&t, and a network that scales up and down on-demand, this hospital can be ready. giving them the agility to be flexible & reliab

mr. mccain. it's a delicate situation.0 the big picture to the smaller one and it's self accountable. i kabt be in a situation to jeopardize my kids but at the end of the day, the law is common sense. you got to respect the law. >> okay. before i let you go, carlos, i want to throw up a photo on the screen. this is something happened last week but it's been everywhere over the weekend. i think it's still sort of in the bloodstream when mr. trump tweeted the picture of him eating out of a taco bull on cinco de mayo. i have to ask as a trump supporter, would you have advised him to do this? >> ah, well, the way i see it, he is just a guy who's having a taco bowl and marketing trump's grill. it didn't offend me. all of my friends, you know, having margaritas that night and tacos saying happy cinco de mayo and doesn't mean much to me. we live in a time where you are careful because you have, you know, the ability to offend the person next to you by doing anything. it doesn't mean anything to me. i'm a business owner. i have a

mr. john mccain not a war hero.e said in his remarks, turns out now he believes john mccain is a war hero. but he doesn't regret those last comments, specifically because they helped him in the polls. >> frankly, i like john mccain, and he is a hero. also heroes are people, you know, whether they get caught or don't get caught, they're all heroes as far as i'm concerned. and that is the way it should be. >> so do you regret saying that? >> you know, i like not to regret anything. i mean -- you say things, and what i said frankly, is what i said. and you know, some people liked what i said if you want to know the truth. i mean, there are many people that liked what i said. after i said that my poll numbers went up seven points. >> so therefore it must have been a good thing to say. we used to think that disparaging veterans, insulting veterans, crossing veterans would be kind of a third rail in national politics. is it? today, the donald trump for president campaign announced that they want to get rid of the v.a. the

mr. mccain, record turnout in arizona. they need to look at whether they represented themselves while in office. their own beholdings or the people. you look at senator john mccain who was for amnesty, one of the leaders of the game of eight, who took out senator rubio, and now he is in the state of arizona, right there on the border, probably one of the main reasons why he should be worried about his race. not necessarily the record voter turnout who did not approve of him being involved in the game of eight bill. >> a whole bunch of republicans oppose trump or push a third party, won't they lose? >> well, i think there is a good chance that the republicans can lose any way. i do not see how donald trump can beat hillary clinton or bernie sanders or whoever the candidate is. donald trump has been on almost every side of every issue throughout his lifetime. in fact, had he known that hillary clinton was going to be having legal troubles at this point in time, he probably would have run as a democratic. >> that's completely

yet, other republicans, like john mccain, who mr. trump once strongly are now supporting the businessman and some say even president obama might happy mr. trump is the g.o.p. nominee. after all, mr. trump is seen as more likely than his defeated challenger, ted cruz, to legacy. mr. obama's question, is the g.o.p. imploding? pat: no, it's not, john, it's in the process of coming together. let's talk about ryan. a terrible mistake. won, trump went out there, ten million votes, swept all the primaries and caucuses and he's nominee and he says i'm not sure i'll endorse him and they call for this meeting and what is ryan is ino effect holding donald trump up to make concession about his positions which trump is not going to do and ryan is catg to have to walk this back and so i think, i mean, ryan, in the meeting this week, almost pathetic coming out and he's going to have to move back but eventually i think the republicans i think and trump is open to it, all of them are going to come except for maybe the bush family because of what happ

mr. trump's announcements about john mccain when he said mr. cab cane is noc a war here on. theyid think of his efforts to give nearly $6 million to various organizations? >> i was in the u.s. army. united states army.s i did four in the amy and four in the the air force. it makes me feel pretty good. i think that's more that needs to be done for our veterans. we have a number of great num organization out there servicins the veterans, but there can be always be more. it will help the veterans get g what's missing. mis i just think like everything eve he's done it's a little bit late. he had to be reminded that he veterans. he had a big that do but howo he's going to raise all this r money andai they had to remind d to pay for it. i think he's been less than honest on everything he's done. he said there may be more mo donations in the future. he donated $1 million of his own money. > back to you. loss for words, donald trump is also speakingpek out about the shooting of the for gill a. he was asked about the four yeae old that was dragged around by the for grill a. he said t

mr. trump speaks the truth. >> reporter: trump now calls mccain a good man, but in an interview earlier this month said he has no regrets about his original comments. >> i like john mccain, and he is a hero. there are many people that like what i said. after i said that, my poll numbers went up seven points. >> reporter: tonight, here press conference on tuesday to finally reveal the veterans groups who will receive money from that fundraiser he held back in january. tom? >>> now to a civil war cemetery looted by thieves. here's karen travers. >> reporter: tonight, this sacred ground a crime scene after a brazen looting. the civil war battlefield in virginia, often used to honor the sacrifice made by the soldiers who died there, now desecrated. >> we had a report of finding a number of holes in the battlefield. >> reporter: investigators saying thieves likely used metal detectors and shovels to dig up civil war relics in the dark of night. >> belt buckles, buttons, possibly guns, ammunition. >> reporter: visitors paying their respects this memorial day weekend were shocked. >> i was very upset and heartbroken

mr. trump realizing they don't believe people within this military have to deflect their use of military service to reflect criticism like john mccainthe comments from mr. trump. they see he is the one that will strengthen the military, compared to the past eight years that have done nothing but weaken them with things like the sequester. they don't sit there and take offense to one word. they see the overall policy. i think that is why mr. trump won't have a problem with the military. like the democrats have a problem, it is actually the democrats that have the problems with the military and national security vote i think. >> we will have to leave it there. thank you 0 to both of you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, live in the cnn newsroom, you know him best as lieutenant dan in forrest gump. next gary sinise tells me how the role influenced his life leading him on a mission to help veterans. . >> where are you boys from the world? >> alabama. >> you twins? >> no we are not relations. giving you more than ly os just great coverage. t-mobile! only t-mobile's lets you stream video and music - for free! not only that, but we doubled our

mccain. >> think mr. chair and thanks to the witnesses were being here today.chairman corker, you you opened with a provocative question which is, given some of the statistics in the deaths, why is there less focus, generally in the media, and the public sphere about some of these challenges in africa and elsewhere where. the staff asked asked the africa center for strategic studies to prepare some material for the hearing. there is a really, really good one pager on the number of fatalities that have been experienced in africa. i would like to introduce it for the record. >> absolutely. >> it did not did seem to provoke much. >> it bears out your point exactly one of the reasons i admire my colleagues on the committee's many on this committee spend a lot of time in africa, and not committee members to. hearings like this are really helpful. just a thought on this, i don't have to be diplomatic because i'm not a diplomat. on the question of the differential, i think you have to acknowledge that race, we would have to look at mira and and ask yourself if braces

mr. trump, you have to apologize for things starting with senator mccain. >> i actually agree. i agree.ee. >> we got to go. got to go. thank you so much to all three of you. up next, asking an old visor to five presidents what he thinks of bob dole's advivice to trump and why he's really listening. >>> first, i want you to meet a man who holds the world record for the furthest distance traveled in a skate board in 24 hours. here's dr. sanjay. >> reporter: andrew is a giant in the small, but competitive world of long distance skating. >> you can say it's between say a cyclist and a runner. >> reporter: at 39 years old, andras is the ultra skate world record holder, skating 300 miles in 24 hours. >> no books out there how to skate board for 24 hours. it was a lot of figuring out how to feed the body and your training program. >> reporter: he's a firefighter paramedic in miami. >> it's a demanding, physical job, a stressful job, and you need forms of stress relief from that. being out on a long board in racing was my answer. i love the competition in sport and pushing yourself past the lim

n mccain and other who have insulted african-americans in a very profound way. people sometimes forget that before mr. trump was running for president, he was one of the leaders of the so-called birther ovement. [jeers] and that movement was a very ugly effort to delegitimize the presidency of the first african-american president in our history. cheers and applause] mr. trump will not become president because the american people understand that our strength is in our diversity. cheers and applause] that we are a great nation because we are black and white and latino and ashane-american and native-american. cheers and applause] --ation-american and native-american. [cheers and applause] we are a great nation because we are gay and we are straight. [cheers and applause] we are a great nation because we are women and men. and our greatness and our strength is when we come together as one proud people. cheers and applause] and the american people understand that bringing us together always trumps dividing us up. cheers and applause] and the american people understand that we are great hen we support each

mccain, as you know, threw donald trump a bone. he said maybe i can back his candidacy. but then mr. own on his attack on mccain's war record. listen. >> whether they get caught or don't get caught, they're all heroes as far as i'm concerned, and that's the way it should be -- >> so do you regret saying that? >> you know, i like not to regret anything. i mean, you know -- >> of course. >> you do things and say things, and what i said, frankly, is what i said. >> so, ana, if donald trump was really a uniter some might say, he should have just said, you know what, i'm sorry i said this. it was in the heat of the moment. of course john mccain is a war hero. >> well, carol, donald trump is a guy who has admitted that he doesn't seek forgiveness from god, that he doesn't, you know, have regrets, has not asked god for forgiveness in recent times, so i'm not sure why any of us would think that he would ask john mccain or p.o.w.s for forgiveness or express that kind of regret. i think it is, frankly, very ungracious from donald trump to do that given that john mccain, who opposes donald trump

. >> on the have a chairman mccain , senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, what is the political and state that are efforts in syria are trying to achieve. >> our military efforts are in syria are intended to defeat isil and regain for local forces the territory now being tyrannized by isil and being used by as a platform to attack america. we also have a-- >> focused entirely on isil, not the chaos that is happened-- >> we have another effort which secretary kerry can't speak to aimed at the political transition as we were discussing earlier. >> do you believe that that efforts on the ground are favorable to the solution? >> may have had results so far in the taking of as i mentioned earlier and other operations a foot that cannot speak of here and then ultimately the purpose and this is the reason why we are and the president has given us authority to increase our numbers there, our objective, of course, is to collapse isil's control over rocco. >> i assume you are referring to the deployment of another 250 troops to contribute to the call? >> c

mr. trump's thinking is. except that it's going to be huge. [ laughter ] >> mccain in his own election battle in arizona. why is john mccain wrong when he says the republican party chose this man? >> well, the republican party didn't. >> the voters. >> well, he got about 40% of the vote which tells me that about 60% of the voters voted for somebody else. i've always said i'm a conservative, i'm not a republican. this whole idea of party loyalty goes only so far. what happens when you have somebody who is temperature ra mea -- tempramentally unfit to be president. so, you know, the plea for party unity, i think, just should fall flat. at some point, principles and putting the country first ought to come before this bogus notion that, well, if he wins the nomination, therefore we have to get into lock step. >> charlie sykes thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> i want to turn now to one of donald trump's supporters. congressman tom more reno is a representative from pennsylvania's fifth district. nice to see you sir. >> my pleasure. >> congressman, based on the tone of this primary season, it

mr. khalilzad: i remember when i was at the u.n., and it was the election, that john mccain was the republican nominee and barack obama was the democrat. primaries,ring the hillary clinton was obviously also running. and cheryl was supporting hillary. my younger son, max, supported senator obama. my older son, alex, supported strongly senator mccain. we used to have have very lively debates, obviously, publicly i was neutral. i was obviously supportive of senator mccain. i was peeved about our country, and that we did, the vast majority of the u.n. members did not believe what we would do, which is to elect an african-american as the president. that says a lot about america. brian: the name of the book is "the envoy: from kabul to the white house, my journey through a turbulent world." former united states ambassador iraq, and iran, zalmay khalilzad. thank you very much for joining us. mr. khalilzad: thank you very much, brian. i appreciate it. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its cap

mccain is not war hero. the plane crashed. >> i don't know. i haven't discussed any of that with mr. trump. when you look at the issues in front of this country, national security, jobs and economic security, retirement security, which is huge with woman, i think people are saying we want somebody who is going to make decisions. who is going to provide some leadership. >> she's taking the safe position which is leave things alone. leave it alone. that's his position. >> i think sometimes you get into what did somebody say and what did people hear on that. >> people want to stabilize medicare and social security for seniors and near seniors and then to look at it and do something. >> is he willing to do that? >> i would so. >> trump is a really smart politician on some things. i think he looks at state like yours and goes a lot of people in pennsylvania are retirees. they want to keep their kids from moving away. their future is hold what you have. keep the kids in the neighborhood because there's jobs for them here. not a lot of fancy stuff. that's what i think trump seems to be offering. n

mccain and others. who has insult e eed african-americans in a very profound way. people sometimes forget that before mr. trump was running for president, he was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement. and that movement was a very ugly effort to delegitimatize the presidency of the first african-american president in our history. mr. trump will not become president, because the american people understand that our strength is in our diversity. that we are a great nation because we are black and white and latino and asian american and native americans! [ cheers and applause ] we are a great nation because we are gay and we are straight. [ cheers and applause ] we are a great nation because we are women and men. and our greatness and our strength is when we come together as one proud people. [ cheers and applause ] and the american people understand that bringing us together always trumps dividing us up. and the american people understand that we are great when we support each other. when your family is hurting, my family has got to be there for you. and when my family hurts, you have got to

in -- and we all may remember that even senator john mccain is worried about whether or not his reelection is in peril because some of the things mr. trump is saying, painting ethnic groups and other groups with a broad brush and he has to stop that. >> mo, you wanted to get in? >> that tweet, going back to what he said, he talks about the thugs outside waving the mexican flag. why is he doing that? he's trying to make a political point there. he is otherizing these people. >> yes. >> and trying to make a point that is divisive. >> i want lanny to give in then tana. >> it's not okay to call mexican's rapists and say all is well because i like taco bowls. >> the reality is donald trump doesn't particularly care about his share of the latino vote. that's not how he perceives his pathway to victory, he is going to drive up the percentage of working class whites that support him. part of his strategy -- >> he's significantly trying to alienate minorities to boost the support of his base? >> i don't know if it's deliberate. it seems that way from some of his commentary the point i'm making is i don't think he cares, i don't think their

mr. trump would happen. the national media favored barack obama, no question about that and, yes, they hit mccain and romneyy didn't hit whim a vengeance although the "times" ran a poorly sourced story about mccain private life. but the trump media thing will be much more personal than romney-mccain, believe me. and it will get very nasty. and that's the memo. next on the rundown, legendary journalist bob woodward from "the washington post will respond to my analysis and tell us about how his newspaper will cover donald trump. the factor is coming right back. and i'm still struggling with my diabetes. i do my best to manage. but it's hard to keep up with it. your body and your diabetes change over time. your treatment plan may too. know your options. once-daily toujeo® is a long-acting insulin from the makers of lantus®. it releases slowly to provide consistent insulin levels for a full 24 hours. toujeo® also provides proven full 24-hour blood sugar control and significant a1c reduction. toujeo® is a long-acting, man-made insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. it contains 3 times

bush, john mccain, mitt romney, all of those nominees thought that voters had a right to see them. why does mr. trump feel zmimpl. >> he doesn't feel differently. he said he will release taxes. he said once the audit is completed he will release the taxes. >> why not release the ones before the audit? first of all the irs says you can release them to the public even if they're under audit. but why not release 2014, 2013 and 2012 and put the issue to rest. >> i understand the audit is going back eight years' worth of tax returns and anything beyond eight years is not going to be reflective of anything other than interest on the part of the media. >> you know nixon released his returns while under audit and donald trump released his returns to a gaming commission i believe while under audit when he was trying to get a casino in new jersey. >> this is an issue that the media is interested in, not an interest for middle america. donald trump will comply when the audit is done. you talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated. they'd never advise their clients to release any tax informat

mccain. who had decades and decades of experience in foreign policy. yet public realized they would like mrobama. in this case, yes, secretary clinton has decades of experience but not experience. it is what did you do with the experience? the mistakes and issues on the ground. melissa: i would love to talk to you more about pressuring china. unfortunately we're out of time. we'll have to do that next time. david: great point about mccain. it is. melissa: interesting. david: raising minimum wage rate hikes and what good is a pay hike if it costs you your job? >> no forced to sleep in the airport. hope for travelers stuck in long security lines. >> i got up at 4:00 in the morning. i got here three hours early and i'm not actually sure i will make my flight. . . . . david: lawmakers are scrambling to get passengers stuck on tsa lines some relief. as a leading airline trade group estimates that 231 million passengers are expected to fly this summer. that is an increase of about 4% from last year. fox news's matt finn has details from chicago's o'hare. hi, matt. reporter: good afternoon, david.

mr. trump's thinking is. except that it's going to be huge. >> now see, there's a perfect response. which john mccain is saying, listen, i don't like the nominee. he said some tough things about me. i have said tough things about him, but he's our nominee. i have to try to make him better. that was the one thing that bothered me in the build up. when it started to look like he was going to win, the smart republicans, make somebody better. take a sad song and make it better. if you don't like his policies, go in and influence him. it's not like this guy can't be moved. he certainly can. ted cruz is a guy that can't be moved. you get in front of him and you can influence him. >> i completely agree. so then take a look at this. both former president bushes are withholding their support and trump cited foreign policy as the reason why. >> i understand why they are not. the war in iraq was perhaps the worst decision ever made in this country's history. it totally destabilized the middle east. it was a total disaster. it was made by bush. i took jeb bush on very hard. they was very nasty to me. >> you thin

mr. trump is resonating with a lot of them. i agree with john mccain.tough struggle but at the end of the day he is a republican and donald trump is a republican nominee. and it's either, you know, we vote for -- they vote for donald trump or hillary clinton in the white house. i understand it's a little bit difficult but if we all -- you know, they get behind him 100% focused on winning the, you know, the election, we can do this. and we will do this. >> tana, thank you. donna, i saw your fingers. >> no. i was saying it's a small, small percentage of hispanics that might support donald trump. they want a leader who will unite the country and who will stand up for all americans and that's not donald trump. >> donna, tana. >> we'll see in california. >> thank you. bye. >> bye-bye. bye-bye. thank you so much. >> bye-bye. >>> gloria borger, hello, hello. >> hello. >> let's bring you into all of this. what about, you know, some of the other republicans, about sharing, you know, a john mccain's concern, for example? he is not the only republican concerned ab

mccain and others. who has insult eed african-americans in a very profound way. people sometimes forget that before mr. trump was running for president, he was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement. and that movement was a very ugly effort to delegitimatize the presidency of the first african-american president in our history. >> cnn's brianna keilar was with the sanders campaign in oregon. it was a big night for sanders. he and his supporters are super charged now, but does this change the map for him? >> reporter: you know, the math would have to change in order for him to be successful in achieving the democratic nomination and it was interesting, because when you heard him say tonight, he sort of lay ought why the math is so difficult. he said, we have received 45% of the pledged delegates. so super delegates aside, that's where hillary clinton has a major lead. just look at the pledged delegates where she has a lead of about 300. he's saying, we've done about 45% so far. in order for bernie sanders to even break even with hillary clinton on these pledged delegates, we would have to

another, who has insulted veterans like john mccain and others, who has insulted african-americans in a very profound way. people sometimes forget that before mr. trump was running for president, he was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement. and that movement was a very ugly effort to delegitimize the presidency of the first african-american president in our history. >> the audience there not knowing to cheer or boo for some of that. let's break down what took place on the republican side. donald trump wins the west virginia primary, running without opposition. trump comes out top in nebraska as well. he adds to his virtually insurmountable delegate lead as the only republican left in the race. trump needs 1,237 delegates to clinch his party's nomination outright and at the moment he has 1,119. >> joining us now from washington is cnn politics reporter tal kopan. great to talk with you. >> hi. >> so not surprisingly, donald trump enjoying victories in west virginia and nebraska. bernie sanders had a convincing win over hillary clinton in west virginia. so what lies ahead, and when might sanders reassess where the race stands and

mr. trump speaks the truth. let the chips fall where they may. >> reporter: trump now calls mccain a good man, but in an interviewr this month said he has no regrets about his original comments. >> i like john mccain and john mccain is a hero. there are many people that like what i said. after i said that, my poll numbers went up seven points. >> reporter: donald trump said he'll hold a press conference on tuesday to finally reveal the names of the veterans groups who will receive money from his fund-raiser back in january. devin dwyer, abc news, washington. >> bernie sanders is still crisscrossing california after failing to oust two hillary clinton supporters from leadership positions. he asked the dnc to remove dannel malloy and former congress men barney frank as coshares of two committees claiming they were biases. the party said they found no grounds to remove him. the libertarian is hoping to offer a viable alternative to donald trump and perhaps electric. the libertarians officially nominated gary johnson for president. johnson got just 1% of the vote when he ran against president obama and mitt romney in

mr. clinton: then, when she was a senator, she became the first new york senator on the armed services committee. and she worked with john mccainlindsey graham, all the republicans to make sure they had the gear they needed. from iraq to afghanistan, making sure guns were in service. making sure that military personnel, when they came home, to make sure he took care of people with traumatic brain injuries and disorders. and building the military for the 21st century, she served on the pentagon to mention with newt gingrich, no less, on recommending the strategy we are dealing now with isis. no more of the middle east, send in the special groups and let them learn how to fight for themselves. [applause] mr. clinton: she became the de facto economic development officer for upstate and western new york and long island. she worked with republican manufacturers. some of you do not know this, but new york is a huge agricultural economy. a big percentage of our income. so when she ran for reelection, she was endorsed by republicans, head of the farm bureau on long island. they interview the guy, he was a long-time, active republican.

mccain's presidential campaign in 2007-2008. as far as those men that you worked for before, mr. boot, how would they approach or how would they differ than mr. trump's current policy? >> guest: their policies are radically different' you know, i grew up in the 1980s as a ronald reagan republican. ronald reagan believed in american leadership abroad and limited government at home. he was pro-free trade and pro-immigration. he was hopeful and optimistic. he was a gentleman. he did not go around insulting his opponents or flingingg childish abuse. i would say that all of the presidential candidates, john mccain, mitt romney and marco rubio who i worked for, were very much in the reagan mold. on the other hand, donald trump is the indiana-reagan -- anti-reagan. he is full of hatred. he espouses policies that are directly in contravention to those of ronald reagan and the other republican candidates who have come after ronald reagan.n. he is, to my mind, he is not ano real republic. he's somebody who only joined the republican party in 2012. he does not espouse the principles that i

most veterans understand this was a very targeted statement specifically to mccain who had been very critical of mr the exact same thing. >> but to take on someone who is acknowledged even by his fiercest critics as a war hero? >> well, there is no exception to the rule. if you attack mr. trump, he will respond in kind. he is a counterpuncher. this was in the midst of the republican presidential primary where he took on 16 other candidates and won. he is going to fight back, and i understand a lot in the media and political pundits in d.c. don't what defense is. and mr. trump will defend himself. >> "the washington post" took that on with this article titled "even in victory, donald trump can't stop airing his grievances." they talk about the fact that long after these sort of, you know, back and forths happened, he still openly is criticizing two female republican governors. he's gone after jeb bush, mitt romney, a former employee, the california district judge linked to the trump university case. is this presidential? is this productive to keep attacking people, including a lot of republicans at

which is located in special collections in the mccain library and archives at the university of southern mississippi. the sam woods room honors the legacy of mr woods but also is used for many different ways. we have meetings in here, this is where students from the university come in and learn about the sam woods collection and other materials we have here. we have his artwork, furniture adorning this room, including a few exhibit cases and a portrait of mr. woods himself. in his collection we have over 1200 books. in addition we have different artifacts like viking helmet, or various furniture and paintings, imprints and imprints and a slew of different materials. so throughout sam woods career he started collecting a lot of books, a lot of different materials that showed his interest in learning and education. for the end of his life he married many bush was the heir to the bush fortune. they lived in a beautiful castle mansion at the foot of the alps. they would entertain a lot of people there. they would also house a lot of these books and artifacts as well. after her death, he had the intention of moving back to hattiesburg where he had