. >> and sam katz. welcome to all of you. so, john mccain is here to get this award.e thought it was going to be a lovefest with him and joe biden. he shows up, and he makes some remarks, and then the president responds. we'll let you hear some of what they said, and then there was more to come in the week. let's get started with this. >> to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last, best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems... >> and, indeed, speaking of "not pretty," shortly thereafter there was a back-and-forth between the president and a democratic congresswoman from florida over his condolence call to the widow of one of the soldiers killed in niger. and, also, we heard from two former presidents, former president bush saying this later this week, that it was "time to reclaim our identity," talking about casual cruelty. "nationalism distorted into nativism." president obama, campaigning for democrats in virginia and in n