naval academy. it is a fitting resting place for someone whoing belonged in - who belonged to the united states navy and characteristic of him that in death he wished to rest with his comrades at arms. it was during his service at the navy that lieutenant mccain's plane was shot down over north vietnam. he was ejected and taken into captivity. during world war ii admiral chester nimitz noted that, and i quote, uncommon valor was a common virtue. end quote. the same can be said about the american soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the prison camps of north vietnam. john mccain joined their number in october of 1967. during the years of his confinement he was regularly beaten and tortured. he survived thanks in part to the friendship of his fellow prisoners of war. in 1968, his captors offered the malnourished and ill mccain the chance to be returned home early, ahead of prisoners who were next in line. john mccain said no. he spent another almost five years in captivity before being released on

senatorjohn mccain embodied the naval academy here, which is duty, on, country.patriot, someone who served in the navy a month his father, his grandfather, he had been tortured severely in that beckham walcott refused to offer himself to come home because he said he would never come home and tell all the soldiers we re come home and tell all the soldiers were there before him and have the opportunity to come home. i think he embodied the spirit of whatjohn mccain brought not only to the house of representatives, but the united states congress, someone who is willing to cross party lines and do what was right or the country, not necessarily in the best interests of his political party and that is what so his political party and that is what so many americans tonight are thinking about as we mourn the loss of this true american hero. when he was at the naval academy, he wasn't necessarily seen as someone who would go on to do very well, but in subsequent 30, a0 years, you could say the boy done good. yeah, in fa ct, say the boy done good. yeah, in fact, he graduate

his grandfather went to the naval academy. the name mccain and naval academy are synonymous. he's going to be buried there, in fact. and i looked at the senator, and i said yes sir. another time in the armed services committee, he mentioned a me that he had always taken very strong interest in the asia-pacific and our force posture out there. with what was happening in places like okinawa, and that he wanted the new were members of the senate to be part of that. reaching out to new senators, i want you to do this. i am going to travel to the region, i want you to come with me. unbelievable. and i said yes, sir to that. like so many here, we have talked about it. we went to these places. just a couple months later, i had the incredible honor of traveling to vietnam with senator mccain. with senator reid from rhode island, senator ernst iowa and that is a trip i will never forget. we actually went to the hanoi hilton where it has been talked about a lot this past week or john mccain suffered, was tortured. there is a tribute in that place of torture. not really a tribute but it

to anyone watching on television, this is a naval academy tide. to honor youoday and to annoy you at the same time. he would constantly tell me, i wish you were in my naval academy class. i said, that's very nice. been -- i would've thank you, very much. humiliation and affection were constant companions. the more he humiliated you, the more he liked you. i was well served. colleagues, thank you again so much for what you have done. the only way i know to put this in words that john can relate to is that after a military operation is over, after a mission is complete, the pilots come back and debrief. they do an action -- after action report. what would it say? what would the after action report for john mccain say? purpose of these reports is for lessons learned. so that others will benefit and make sure that we remember, remember the things that went well and the things that did not so that we will be better off as a unit, as a nation. the title of the operation was easy. you can say a lot of things about me, but clever isn't one of them. operat

to anybody who may be watching on television, this is a naval academy tie. i wore this today, john, to honor you and to annoy you all at the same time. he would constantly tell me, lindsey, i wish you were in my naval academy class. i said, well, that's very nice, john. you know why, lindsey? i said no, john. if you'd been in my class, i would have been sixth from the bottom, not fifth. thank you very much, john. humiliation and affection were constant companions. the more he humiliated you, the more he liked you. in that regard i was well served . to my colleagues, thank you again so much for what you have done. the only way i know to put this in words that maybe john can relate to is that after a military operation is over, after a mission is complete, the pilots come back and debrief. if there's a military operation, they do an after-action report. i thought to myself, what would it say? what would the after-action report for john mccain say? and the purpose of these reports is for lessons learned so that others will benefit and make sure that we'll remem

. >> you were at the naval academy in the 1960s. what was that like as you and your colleagues prepare to serve in combat? >> i got to the naval academy in 1964 and graduated in 1968, right after the tet offensive. people seemed to understand that there were objectives over there. the best place to start on the question you just asked is what is it that we were attempting to achieve, and how could you even measure that now? we saw know how the war ended, but what was it looking like in 1968? first of all, there were valid reasons for us to have gone into vietnam. if you look at the east asian region as a whole coming out of world war ii, it was torn apart by war. japan had receded back into its boundaries. the european colonial powers had left, and there was a lot of turmoil in terms of government systems and economic systems. and, we had the korean war. and, there was legitimate international communist movement. we can smile about that now, but it was legitimate. [null] chi minh had trained in the comintern for years. the question

we approached the naval academy for the paintings.hey informed me that they were worth $1 million and we were not the president so were getting them. they shot high resolution scans so all of the paintings are exactly as they are in the photographs when president truman was here in the house area little white house is a very restoration to the time when resident truman was using it. truman's president living room. his library during the daytime, his office every evening. 59, seven are of playing poker, what do you do with the rest of them? they ran films here in the living room. there are many neat things about the little white house. the little room is iconic in the number of nieces that are actually connected with president truman. pieces that are connected to president truman. his piano is in the corner. rarely did the president have to piano here. --had instead he had incredible musical talent. rolled in music lessons for the next 10 years. they expected him to become a concert pianist. at 16, he drops out of the lessons, saying h

the naval academy had no idea what i was talking about and so finally we found the list of collectionbers from the truman library. we approached the naval academy for the paintings and they informed me they were worth $1 million and we were definitely not the president so we were not getting them. they shot high resolution scans so all of the paintings are exactly as they are in the photographs when president truman was here in the house. the little white house is a very pure restoration to the time when president truman was using it. at the moment, we are in president truman's living room, his library. during the daytime it was his office and every evening it became a movie theater. he has a staff of 59. seven are playing poker, so what do you do with the rest of them? they ran first run films in the living room. there is many neat things about the little white house and the living room is somewhat iconic in the number of pieces that are actually connected with president truman. ♪ [piano plays] his piano is in the corner. rarely did the president have the piano here in key west. he h

naval academy. the farewells will begin in phoenix. that's where we find stephanie elam this morning. >> reporter: we are looking at several days where the country will remember the senator. we learned he is very instrumental in planning how he wanted these days to progress and proceed. he had a year -- just over a year where he found out he had brain cancer to when he passed away on saturday afternoon here in arizona to plan it. just to give you an idea what's going to happen, it's going to start here in arizona's capital here in phoenix where he will lay in state here in the capital building on wednesday, which would have been his 82nd birthday. on thursday, there will be a memorial service at the north phoenix baptist church where according to "the washington post" we understand that former vice-president joe biden is expected to speak. then after that, it will be the last time that this senator will leave the state of arizona and he will travel to washington, d.c. where he will lie in state at the u.s. capitol. and then on friday,

naval academy. -- >> what was happening in this timeframe?this is a show about 1968 but it is difficult to talk about the vietnam war and freeze-frame it into one year are even a few months. vietnamwas born in during the tet offensive, 1968 and our family remembers it well. -- and her family remembers it well. one thing you will see in the communist strategy on the vietnam war is every presidential year, they were able to mobilize some sort of offensive them get the attention over here. the other -- this is interesting because we just showed a clip of a south vietnamese explanation. in so many of these other documentaries, you get straight propaganda footage out of hanoi about what their soldiers were doing. the record interviews with the macon marines and soldiers who were reminiscing in a very personal way and they are sitting next to each other and people can be led to one conclusion or another. winning militarily, the 20th anniversary of the fall of saigon, 1995, hanoi announced officially that they lost 1.4 million soldiers. we lost her

naval academy. finally, i've asked general john kelly, secretary james mattis and ambassador john bolton to represent my administration that

he graduated from the naval academy in 1958 and later flight school in 1960.n the start of the vietnam war he volunteered for combat duty and during a bombing run his plane was shot down. he was captured and held as a

graduate and my son graduated from the naval academy and he spoke at the naval academy when my son was there. i kind of said hey, my son is a graduate, you're a graduate. and he said, it was really funny, he caught me off guard, he said, how did he do. you mean at the naval academy? he did really well. toward the top of his class. he goes, i didn't, i didn't do well at all. he asked where he was. my son chose marine corps, commissioned asthma rein. he's currently a marine captain. later on, i had the great opportunity to go to munich security conference, i was with joe wilson about to do a meeting and senator mccain saw us and recognized me and said, come on in, we're going to meet the kurdish delegation, we'd love to have you as part of our delegation, we got to sit in and john ran the meeting, senator mccain went around the room and made a kwip quip my son didn't stay in the navy, he was in the marine and could have made a better decision. cute and thoughtful of him to remember. as you point out, this is a memory of military families, this shows his tremendous courage and his support

naval academy in annapolis, maryland. desire to be buried next to fellow midshipmen from the academy. >> like to go back to our valley, hear the cottonwoods whisper in the wind. feel the sun on my shoulders, watch the hawks hunt from the sycamore, and take my leave, back to my old friend, cemetery, where it all began. >> senator john mccain has died at age 81. coverage continues now on abcnews.com, and more on special edition of "20/20." have a great night. >> i thank you for being here, for being americans. i thank you for standing up for the things that we believe in. there are people all over the world that are watching this program, that are inspired by our desire for freedom of speech, for all the good things that america is all about. we're still as ronald reagan used to say, shining city on the hill. i have loved my life, all of it. some things didn't work out the way i hoped they would. i had difficult moments and a few disappointments, but by god, i enjoyed it, every damned day of it. >> this has been a special r

he entered the united states naval academy when he was just 17 years old. his service as a naval aviator took him around the world and eventually to the war in vietnam. it was there on his 23rd bombing run that john was shot down and captured, refusing early release for the sake of his comrades. he enudred five and a half years of confinement and torture. then, as now, americans marveled at the iron will of john mccain. but captivity did not diminish john's sense of calling or his commitment to mission. as he would later say, i fell in love with my country when i was a prisoner in someone else's. after he made it home, john traded service in the uniform of the united states for service in congress, exchanging the rank of captain for congressman and later senator. for 35 years, john served in these very halls under this very dome. and he fought for what he believed in. in my years in congress, and as vice president, we did not always agree either. he almost always noticed. but his support for limited government for tax reform and our armed forces surely left

enrolling in the naval academy, where he stood out for being a troublemakerer, not a future leader. >> i'm the guy that stood fifth from the bottom of his class at the naval academy. >> he became a fighter pilot, his first combat mission of aboard the u.s.s forestal. >> on deck, his plane was accidental struck by a missile causing a huge inferno, 134 fellow sailors died. a few n-- a few months later, hs plane was shot down. >> i was shaking violently almost straight down. so i had to eject very quickly. he was knocked unconscious. >> he found himself surrounded by angry villagers swinging baio nets, they forced him to give this interview in exchange for life saving treatment. he was taken as a prisoner of war and tortured. >> he was beaten on a regular basis. you know, being hung by his arms from a ceiling, sockets pulled out. >> when his father, jack mccain was named commander of u.s. pacific forces, the vee -- the vietnamese offered him freedom, he refused, it would have broken the p.o.w release protocol. release in order of capture. ultimately they broke mccain. getting him to sign

. >> he would consult with a linzie, i wish you are in my naval academy class.very nice, john. you know why lindsay? i said no, john. i wouldad been my class have been stuck in the mud. the more he humiliated you, the more he liked you. senatorrvices for the are scheduled for this weekend and he will be buried at the naval academy in annapolis. global news, 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. lisa: let's get a recap of today's market action. a crawl toward a new record. that is a sad crawl, but a crawl nonetheless. we have records that the s&p 500 and nasdaq. dow jones is still below this year's high that it made in february. a selloff in the bond market as well in this sleepy august. caroline: some of the tech names, and "what'd you miss?" with teching issue companies today. the president took to twitter to attack google saying republican conservative and fair media is shut out -- is straight out you legal. google and others also pre

naval academy. you heard the speech? >> i'm sure i did. know what he said. >> so what was happening in this time frame? >> here's what i think we need to do. i know this is a show about 1968, but it's very difficult to talk about the vietnam war and freeze frame it into one year or even a few months out of one year. >> certainly. >> by the way, my wife was born in vietnam during the tet offensive in 1968, and her family remembers it well. they became refugees after the fall of saigon. one thing that you will see in the communist strategy on the vietnam war is every presidential with year, they were able to mobilize some sort of an offensive that would get the attention over here. and that's one thing that happened in tet '68. the other -- by the way, this is kind of interesting, because we just showed a clip of a south vietnamese explanation. so many of these other documentaries, you get straight propaganda footage out of hanoi about what their soldiers were doing and direct interviews with the american marines and soldiers who are like re

naval academy. it is a fitting resting place for someone whoing belonged in - who belonged to the united states navy and characteristic of him that in death he wished to rest with his comrades at arms. it was during his service at the navy that lieutenant mccain's plane was shot down over north vietnam. he was ejected and taken into captivity. during world war ii admiral chester nimitz noted that, and i quote, uncommon valor was a common virtue. end quote. the same can be said about the american soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the prison camps of north vietnam. john mccain joined their number in october of 1967. during the years of his confinement he was regularly beaten and tortured. he survived thanks in part to the friendship of his fellow prisoners of war. in 1968, his captors offered the malnourished and ill mccain the chance to be returned home early, ahead of prisoners who were next in line. john mccain said no. he spent another almost five years in captivity before being released on

for young john mccain, entry into the naval academy was a foregone conclusion. aval cadet, he quickly established a reputation as a rebel and a party boy. >> we really did have the most enjoyable times, perhaps i've had in my life, that period in the naval academy when i ran around with a like-minded but perhaps not as assertive group of young men. he was very knowledgeable. well-read in history. he was a strong leader. you knew when he was in the room. he had a lot of energy. always had superb sense of humor. that's what attracted him to a lot of people. >> reporter: upon graduating from the naval academy, fifth from the bottom of his class, he decided to become an aviator. his first experience with combat came when he was shipped to vietnam in 1967. at the onset of his deployment, mccain was assigned to "the uss four star." and in july of that year it was at the center of one of the deadliest naval disasters of the vietnam war. >> because of an electric malfunction, a very large rocket was fired across the flight deck. hit the fuel tank underneath my airplane f

naval academy graduate. is home to him, a place where i hear he didn't originally want to go. >> he comes from great naval traditions. his father and grandfather graduated from annapolis. i was in school with his younger brother joe. the transition and the ambiance and the tradition of the naval academy is the perfect place. >> what was he like as a flight instructor? was he pretty tough? >> he was tough. a guy did not want to have his final check ride with john mccain. i remember, the way we were flying these jets, the student was this the front seat. the instructor was in the back. john mccain in the back seat could not reach the student. his arms around long enough. so he would take off his knee pad, a metal heavy knee pad and he would bang on your helmet. it was sort of a badge of honor to have a knew knicks from john mccain. but it was all -- it was all for our own good. he was intent on making us good fighter pilots. and i'm sure that a lot of guys survived because he was so tough on us. so we respected

naval academy. he will be laid to rest next to a lifelong friend and a naval academy class mate. abc news washington. >> you can remember senator john mccain on the abc 7 facebook face. share posts on your wall and write your own tribute. >> rallies took place against the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. dozens gathered urging sen to vote know on his nomination. the senator is supposed to begin confirmations for president trump's pick to replace justice kennedy next week. crowds also gathered in santa clara. protesters hearsay they are concerned about how brett kavanaugh will rule on women's rights and other issues. >>> a crash involving a tesla. officers arrested the car's driver for dui. he slammed into the back of the fire truck early saturday morning as fire crews responded to another crash on highway 101 near coy yote creek. he thought he had autopilot on during the time of the crash. that has not been confirmed. nobody was seriously hurt. >>> a look at the big project happening right now and when it will wrap up. >> steph curry is speaking out once again.

naval academy next to his best friend, and admiral who he met when they were both at the academy backthe 1950s. >>> today senator mccain will lie in state at the arizona capital. the first of many events this week honoring his life and legacy. ray bogan joins us now from phoenix with details of the event that senator mccain planned himself. >> reporter: good morning. arizona may have been senator mccain's adopted home, but thousands here in phoenix are expected to pay respects to a man who gave nearly 6 decades of his life to public service. the motorcade caring the body of john mccain will arrive at arizona state capital letter this morning. he will lie in state on the day which would have been his 82nd birthday. a private ceremony will be held in the rotunda. the mccain family will be in attendance. arizona governor doug ducey will deliver remarks . congressman jim colby will present every. senator jeff flake bullied the benediction. >> only john mccain could read a big birthday celebration for himself like this. >> reporter: the capital will be open for public viewing. >> i have re

naval academy. former presidents george w.ush and barack obama will deliver eulogies, something i'm told each asked to do before he died. two men who at different times kept mccain from becoming president. in a statement president obama wrote, few of us have been tested the way john was once or required to show the kind of courage that he did. but all of us can aspire to the courage and put the greater good above our own. at john's best, he showed us what that means and for that, we are all in his debt. and from president george w. bush, some lives are so vivid it is difficult to imagine them ended. some voices are so vibrant, it is hard to think of them still. he was a public servant in the finest traditions of our country and to me he was a friend whom i'll deeply miss. and mccain spent years going aout of his bway to take senatos in both parties under his riwin. and senator chris coops of delaware, a democrat is one of them and joins me from his home state in lewes, delaware. i know it's a very difficult morning for you and

naval academy, the place where he chose to be laid to rest.was striking how here in arizona so many came out to pay their respects as a police-escorted motorcade traveled two hours from sedona, the ranch he loved so much, through the streets to phoenix, the place where he had also made his home for so long. it carried the senator, his family, and there were flags and signs and admirers along the route. daughter megan mccain shared an essay about her own reflections, and in part she writes, all that i am is thanks to him. now that he is gone, the task of my lifetime is to live up to his example, the expectations and his love. also, his family remembers him, but the loss goes so much more beyond that. his support and love was broad and bipartisan. one example, senator chuck schumer of new york, the top democrat, says that the world will be different without mccain. because he wants generations to know him, he said he will offer a resolution to rename one of the senate office buildings in honor of john mccain. vicki kennedy, former wife of ted ke

he graduated from the naval academy in annapolis in 1958. this war broke out in vietnam he volunteered for duty. he flew attack planes near the north the enemies escaped june june 92671 a record of where the aircraft carrier accidentally struck mccain's plane. the explosions and fires killed 134 people. >> i felt this tremendous blow to my airplane and saw the fire coming out so i probably had reacted more quickly than those in the planes near me. some of those plays near me did not survive. >> on the 23rd air mission on october 26, 1957 his plane was shot down. this time during a bombing mission over hanoi. the north the enemies captured him and moved him to the infamous hanoi hilton prison. >> it was terribly injured, fractured arms, broken knee, left arm was out of the socket. he is often said and basically he was starving to death. >> mccain's captors offered him early release because he was an admiral son but he refused. he endured torture in more than three years in solitary confinement. he said air force colonel day is like. >> he was

he entered the united states naval academy when he was just 17 years old. his service as a naval aviator took him around the world and eventually to the war in vietnam. it was there on his 23rd bombing run that john was shot down and captured. refusing early release for the sake of his comrades, he endured five and a half years of confinement and torture. then as now, americans marvelled at the iron will of john mccain. but captivity did not diminish john's sense of calling. or his commitment to mission. as he would later say, i fell in love with my country when i was a prisoner in someone else's. after he made it home, john traded service in the uniform of the united states for service in congress. exchanging the rank of captain for congressman and later senator. for 35 years, john served in these very halls under this very dome. and he fought for what he believed in. in my years in congress and as vice-president, we didn't always agree either. and he almost always noticed. but his support for limited government, for tax reform and support for our armed for

for young john mccain, entry into the naval academy was a fore gone conclusion.on as a rebel and a party boy. >> we really did have the most enjoyable times, perhaps i've hood in my life was that period at the naval academy as like minded but not as assertive in their rebellion >> he well knowledgeable. well read in history. he was a strong leader. you knew when he was in the room. he had a lot of energy. always had a superb sense of humor. that's what attracted him to a lot of people. >> reporter: upon graduating from the naval academy, fifth from the bottom of his class, he decided to become an aviator. his first experience with combat came when he was shipped to vietnam in 1967. he was assigned to the uss four star and in july of that year it was at the center of one of the deadliest naval disasters of the vietnam war. >> because of an electric malfunction, a very large rocket was fired across the flight deck. hit the fuel tank underneath my airplane from which fuel flowed on fire. >> cameras mounted on the flight deck captured the horrific scene. >> there are

he will buried at the naval academy where his career in the military really began. >> in arizona when his cast cut was there at the - casket at the state capitol, about 15,000 people came to pay their respects. any idea how many people will be coming by the rotunda? >> reporter: we don't have a head count. but we know people have been standing outside since early this morning. the public viewing starts in a little less than an hour. they'll have a chance to walk into the capitol rotunda and pay their respects. this is the last chance the public will have to interact with that fashion. but a lot of folks have traveled here to pay their respects to the senator and recognized this life time of service. >> senator john mccain back in the building that he worked in for so many decades. thank you for that report. >>> a memorial service was held at a church in phoenix, arizona yesterday. vice president joe biden you'll eulogized him. >> my name is joe biden. i'm a democrat. i loved john mccain. i all thought of john as a brother. we had a lot of family fights. >> again tomorrow a private ser

. >> you were at the naval academy in the 1960s.hat was that like as you and eurocolleagu eu your colleagues were preparing to serve? >> i graduated in 1968 after the tet offensive and people seemed to understand pretty clearly that there were objectives over there. i think the best place to start on the question you asked david, what is it that we were attempting to achieve and how can you measure that now? there's a latin saying, we saw now how the war ended but what was it looking like in 1968, first of all, there were valid reasons to go into vietnam. if you look at the east asian region as a whole coming out of world war ii, it was torn apart by war. japan receded back into the boundaries and. colonial powers left and a lot of turmoil in terms of governmental and economic systems. we had the korean war and legit met international communist movement. we can smile a little about that now, but it was ho chi minh had the common turn in moscow for years. it was between him and stalin back in 1954. the question was, how do you fight

naval academy in annapolis. >> thank you so much. we'll bring you a special report tomorrow morning of the ceremony for john mccain. and ahead, we talk with senator lindsey graham about mccain's life and legacy>>> the latest high ranking official to leave the trump administration is white house council don mcgahn. he is leaving this fall after telling associates for months he was looking to leave. he's been the main contact with robert mueller's russia investigation. his departure comes a week after it was reported he was cooperating extensively with investigators. >> don mcgahn is a really good guy. >> president trump announced that don mcgahn will leave his position in the fall after the confirmation hopefully of judge cavanaugh. he was surprised by the president's tweet because they had not discussed it. he was the lead man for the trump campaign but the relationship between the president and his top lawyer has been rocky. mcgahn threatened to re-sign over stress and frustration with the president. he also spent hours being interv

naval academy in annapolis. that is the place he chose. that is the mccain name.it on the ground here in arizona, how much love there is for this man. sure, he was a politician, but, because he was so devoted not just to the country and the world, but to this state and to all of the intricacies and the needs of this state from water to native americans, to just the basics. you saw that represented in the kinds of people who were chose to speak, to sing and to pay tribute to him. senator ben sasse, you are with me. a quarter of the senate was here. you are somebody who, you are republican, but somebody who understands intuitively the essence of the mccain rebellious streak. >> yeah. >> what did you take as you sat in that church and listened to the ceremony? >> it was a beautiful service. the juxtaposition of john mccain, an american hero, a man destined for the history books for decades and decades, something we want our doukids t imlate. senator garcia told of hope. it was a special event, a painful event. you saw the wide diversity of the people from across the

naval academy.this plane took off from phoenix, i don't know if you heard, the air traffic control was getting the plane off the ground and then they took a moment to say thank you for your service, senator, we'll miss you in arizona. it was a poignant moment today to listen to all those remarks at the ceremony. i think you'll hear a lot more stories filled with humor and remembrances from his colleagues, some standing on the tarmac at joint force andrews. >> martha: we understand the plane will take the long way around. it came from the opposite direction to take a moment to have the longer taxi area as it moves over to the stairs. this is obviously as bret said a very poignant moment. the return of senator john mccain. he had hoped he would be able to come back one more time and would be strong enough and would be able to come back to the senate but that was not to be. now he returns for an outpouring of love and affection that we're going see witness over the next really until sunday when he is b

to visit their father, they will need to do it at the naval academy. yet, john mccain will be in the essence of all of arizona for as long as arizona is around because his legacy will be inescapable. he filled not only barry goldwater's seat, but his shoes. the long list of rugged individualists carved out of the arizona mountains from barry goldwater, john mccain, it's a long one. it's a proud one. arizona is deeply, deeply proud of john mccain. he is leaving right now but he will never truly be gone from arizona. >> jaime, can't help but think if john mccain was around what he would be saying about all of this? >> i think it went according to plan. i just want to come back to this notion, this theme of bipartisanship. there are three sentences i will never forget from today. they were i'm joe biden, i'm a democrat and i love john mccain. that message is going to go forward, as we were talking before about sending a message to those senators who are sitting there and what comes next. hopefully, look, john mccain set this up. there was a lot of biparti

he went on to attend the naval academy in annapolis, ryland, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who both servemias four-star ls. mccain graduated in 1958 and became a navy pilot two years later. he volunteered for combat during the vietnam war. in october of 1967 his plane was shot down over hanoi, during a bombing mission. he was captured, beaten and istortured, and held as prer of war for five and a half years. in that time he tried to take his own life twice and signed a coerced confession. he refused an offer of early release after the vietnamese learned that his father was a high ranking navy official. mccain was released in 1973, returning to the u.s. a hero. in 1982, mccain began what would be his decades lonpolitical career winning a seat in the u.s. congress from his homon state of artwice. four years later he was elected to the senate where he remained for six terms. but his political career was not always successful. in 2000 he made his first ntial run, and lost to george w. bush in the primaries. know how to fight and i know how to make peace. i know

for young john mccain, entry into the naval academy was a foregone conclusion. as a cadet, he quickly established a reputation as a rebel and a party boy. >> we really did have the most enjoyable times perhaps i have had in my time, was that period in the naval academy when i ran around with a like minded but perhaps not quite as assertive in their abase in this group of young men. >> he's knowledgeable, he's well read in history and you knew when he was in the room. he always had a lot of energy and a superb since of humor. that's what attracted a lot of people to him. >> after graduating from the naval academy fifth from the top of his class, he decided to become an aviator. mccain was assigned to the uss "forr "forest "forester" and it was sent to one of the bigge egest disaster >> a missile was fired at my airplane. >> cameras mounted on the flight deck captured the horrific scene. >> there are explosions. one after another. the ship really was completely engulfed. >> mccain escaped the fire with minor shrapnel wounds. but 134 of his shipmates were killed. m

he took the oath as a 1954 as he in entered the naval academy.repeated that oath many times when he was commissioned as an officer, when he was elected to represent arizona in congress, and each of the six times he was elected to the united states senate. senator, as a citizen who has admired you, i must believe every time you took the oath of allegiance, you were pledging your heart to our country. more than an oath of loyalty, you pledged an oath of love. with that in mind, the honor of speaking here tonight has given me an opportunity to appreciate what it means to love something as you love our country and the responsibilities that come with it. i would like to speak about such love and responsibility in the context of our country and senator mccain's life. let me begin with a story we know. mccain's jet was shot down. the force of that broke his leg and his arms. we recall how he was taken prisoner. to remember how his fractures were set without anesthesia and the additional damage doctors inflicted. we ask, would we have the pain ore to end

naval academy was one of them. he loved to remind people that he finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class and he's asked to be buried there in anapolis maryland near the grave of a long time friend. >> here's a schedule of the tributes and remembrances for john mccain. he'll lie in state at the arizona state capitol on wednesday. funeral will be held at the north phoenix baptist church on thursday. in washington on friday mccain will lie in state at the u.s. capitol rotunda and on saturday a funeral will be held at the washington national cathedral and a private funeral will be sunday at the u.s. naval academy in maryland where john mccain will be buried. we'll speak with rick davis about the senator's legacy. >>> pope francis says he won't say a word about claims he knew years ago against the former arch bishop of washington. it comes as the retired ambassador of the u.s. was calling on francis to step down. they come as the pope wrapped up a closely watched visit to ireland. >> reporter: it marked t

from the naval academy to government service, it encouraged me to work for others. god blessed me with the company of heroes and it has made all the difference in my life. and then he wraps it up here. be proud of your accomplishments and never stop believing in yourself. and most importantly, you will find the most happiness in serving a cause greater than your own self-interests. and that's -- nothing that -- nothing that i could have said to my son as a dad could be better than what senator mccain said to my son. >> it's a beautiful letter. something you will cherish. your son will cherish. as all of our viewers now will cherish as well. we're going to continue our special coverage of a very special man right after this. hey allergy muddlers. are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec®. it's starts working hard at hour one. and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. with tough food, your dentures may slip and fall. new fixodent ultra-max hold gives you the strongest hold ever t