. - sarah palin. - who? [cheers and applause] [upbeat hip-hop music] ♪ - back in 1984, the selection of geraldine ferraro as the firu. woman of a major party presidential ticket catapulted walter mondale's struggng campaign, taking it from dull to dazzling. sarah palin knows at same feeling. brought on to john mccain's 2008 campaign to add a little energy and excitement, she did just that. both women dealt with t tacks that were st political but personal. nevertheless, these two trailblazers were arguably the two most consequentiavp picks in all of history. [upbeafunk music] ♪ en - ladies and gentl of the convention, my name is geraldine ferraro. [cheers and applause] - geraldine ferraro was a congresswoman from queens, new york. she was feisty. she was outspoken. she was from the district thate bunker from tv lived in. it was that kind of in-your-face, telike it is, no holds barred-- she had a perfect new york queens accent. father was an immigrant. my grandparents, my mother's side, were very poor people.

reiss r raised nearly $8 million online, and it's just been since sarah palin gave that speech lessours ago. >> with your help we're going to go to washington and we're going to shake things up. >> this is the real shocker among white women mccain leads 53-41 and that was 53-42 obama. >> sarah palin really does steal the thunder and garners all the headlines, and that is scary to barack obama. >> it was just like a month ago they were all saying experience, experience, experience. and then they told pailen and they started talking about change, change, change. what happened? >> pailen has yet to hold a news conference and steers clear of the national reporters who travel with her everywhere. >> eventually she's going to answer questions about her record. >> when it comes to stning a world view, i was curious what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped on this to stay informed. >> i've read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. >> what specifically? >> all of them, any of them that have been -- >> there's no more te

that was sarah palin. >> she could be vice president. >> she has more skills than anybody. >> sarah palinadlines and that's scary to barack obama. >> they were saying it's experience, experience, experience. then they chose palin and start talking about change, change, change. what happened? >> palin has yet to hold a news conference and steers well clear of the reporters that travel with her everywhere. >> she's going to have to answer questions and have to scans ans questions about her record. >> i was curious. what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand? >> i read most of them with a great appreciation for the press and the media. >> but what specifically? >> all of them. any of them. >> there's no more teleprompter. there wasn't anything for her to memorize in preparation for her interviews with katie couric. when she was asked about foreign policy challenges, she had nothing to draw upon. >> as part of your foreign policy experience, what did you mean by that? >> that alaska has a very narrow maritime border

. >> heads are spinnin', media heads are spinnin'. is is going to be so much fun. >> sarah palinomething republican voters loved in 2008. and you saw donaldrump completely take advantage of it and take all of these sort of palin vote and add to them. >> and breaking news from the campaign trail, trump is picking up the endorsement from sarah palin. >> ...struggle within the republican party... >> narrator: as the republicanmp nominee, txploited the forces that mccain would not. >> we are led by very stup people. we're going to drain the swamp of washington. we're gonna drive the cars over the illegals! build the wall! build the wall! >> almost everything stylistically, and many things about trump substantively, were anathema to john mccain. there's almost nothing about trump that is in the same space as john mccain. >> stunning upset, donald trump is on his way... >> narrator: and on election day, trump did what mccain coulh not-- wipresidency. >> well, donald trump pulled hf one of the biggest political upsets in americtory. >> ...in one of the most shocking elections in our pol

arrived and sarah palin was late. talking to john mccain for a while. you could tell there was a certain tension. having run it that year, i got to tell you when he selected sarah palin, it did bring a certain energy to his campaign. i saw people showing up at the call centers were much more energized. i think he was conflicted. she was a very polarizing figure on the one hand, but she brought a certain energy to his campaign that it lacked a the that moment. >> she was also sort of, i think, safe to say without spilling too much tea, a divisive figure within the family as well. in the moment i think she was the pick. maybe if this service were just john mccain, she would have been invited, but there's a circle, a web of networking people around her that became complicated for this family. i think the senator, you're right, always respected her but came to not appreciate the direction she decided to go in politically. >> any second now, senator mccain's casket, the motorcade will arrive at the north phoenix baptist ch

>> let me ask you some facts about your running mate, governor sarah palin.o defend her. she lights up republican rallies wherever she goes. >> i don't defend her. i praise her. >> many think she's simply not qualified to be president. >> the fact is, she is a dynamic person with executive experience, leadership, reform, she's exactly what washington needs. >> mccain was old and had been through cancer. so, the idea of president palin wasn't some abstraction. it was a real possibility. >> heading into the fall of 2 2008, the race was neck and neck. then, on september 15th -- >> meltdown, the american financial system is rocked to its foundation as top wall street institutions topple. >> just before the first scheduled presidential debate, mccain decided to suspend his campaign to hammer out a deal on the economy. but at a meeting at the white house, he was silent while barack obama offered more input in the conversation. as the economy cratered, the campaign struggled to maintain momentum. >> politically, they felt they had to go after barack obama's early da

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the fact is that before i picked sarah palin, we were running behind. we stayed ahead until the day the stock market went down 700 points. we went from three points up to seven points down. sarah palin gave us a momentum that no other person could have achieved. she energised the republican party. she has been trashed by the media, she has been assaulted, continuously, by the media. she defeated joe biden, a united states senator in the debate... a senator, everything you have said... —— but senator, everything you have said... the fact is that she is still very much admired and appreciated by our party. i feel the passion in that answer, but it didn't directly address my question. do you regret it? of course not, of course not. i don't know why i should. you looked then, and you appear now, to be quite frank, to be out of sync with sarah palin's brand of republicanism. she says that the republican establishment, to use her phrase, is trying to "crush" newt gingrich. sarah andi sarah and i never agreed on that. nor did sarah and i never agreed on that.

she had an ability to spark interest. >> john mccain looked at sarah palin as his bold move, his sneakone that the political world wouldn't see coming that would make them sit up and take notice. >>> in dayton, ohio, august 29th, sarah pallen made her national political debut. >> as governor, i stood up to the old politics as usual. >> she gave a great speech. i think people watching that said, wow. he found a political star up there in alaska none of us had ever seen before. >> he shot up in the polls because it seemed to fresh and dramatic and woman and this is great. >> and we really did steal back the national media attention. we surprised everybody, maybe too much. there were a lot of things we didn't know about her. >> how long had she been governor? not long. and then the katie couric interview was really a disaster. it went off the rails. >> katie couric, then anchor of the cbs evening news. what sorts of things do you read? what newspapers do you follow? >> i read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. >> like what one specifically i'm curio

sarah palin served as john mccain's vice presidential running mate in 2008. in a recent milmar senator mccain said he regrets choosing sarah palin over his friend former connecticut senator joe lieberman. senator mccain also made it known he did not want president trump invited to his memorials either. >>> there's about to be a shakeup in the white house. don began his leaving. doug luzader explains it comes as democrats could soon have some new powers to pursue the president. >> reporter: mcgann is now leaving. so much of what happens next will depend on what capitol hill looks like after the midterm elections. the white house is now getting ready to hire some new lawyers. the president getting the attention, don began has been toiling behind the scenes. as white house counsel he has been inundated. just listen as he describes his portfolio. >> i advise the president on a range of issue come in constitutional law, executive power, whether or not we can go to war, judicial selection, administering of law. >> reporter: now he is leaving. not exactly a shock al

sarah palin was mccain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election, but sources for both families tell nbc news the former alaska governor is not invited. a source close to the palin family telling kelly o'donnell out of respect to senator mccain and his family, we have nothing to add at this point. in the wake of mccain's death, some lawmakers have suggested renaming the russell senate office building after the senator. google maps apparently getting ahead of itself, briefly displaying the building's name as the mccain senate office building. it has since been corrected. nbc's peter an >> reporter: at the arizona state capitol for the celebrated senator and statesman, a final salute. john mccain's wife flanked s flag-draped casket leading the somber procession. mccain just the third person to lie in state here in the past 40 years. >> imagining arizona without jo's jhncct not natural.

frrm attending the ceremony, sarah palin being one of trump's most vocal it was ii the resident reacting to this non-invitation? >> donaad trump has been aa6 c11 murder was silent, he tweeted his condolences to the former senatoos faaily but hhs not offered attributt to his life, leading some to believe he may actually be jealous of all the ofention that john mccain has-t from the toronto star hits the nail on the head with this cartoon, the left you can see military and the former senator has indeed been hailed by many as a war hero and if you compare that with donald trump's own achievements, you get quite a different picture, just a bunch trump is reading the newwpaper, and the headline reads mccain lying in state, trump is not amused, i do that eevry day,,he says. thatis the new store livee in a village in new zealanddis reeortedly trying to ban cap -- cats. >> it may seem like a rather on decision, but authorities say that our furry friends actually responsible for the death of thousands of birds and small mammals each year, some oo which are aready on the verge of extincti

. >> picking sarah palin was, in some sense, the ultimate maverick move. >> the so-called straight-talk express. >> why don't you just say it? >> because i think i have to be honest with you. >> fighting brain cancer until the very end. just as he fought so many political battles. >> we're getting nothing done, my friends. we're getting nothing done. >> tonight, the senator who stood his ground and voted his heart sometimes against his very own party. >> it was a dramatic vote. his last big kind of maverick end dependent move. >> tonight, honoring the life of sacrifice and service of a hero who never wanted to be called one. >> steadfastly reject that label. >> remembering a maverick, john mccain. good evening. i'm david muir. >> and i'm amy robach. for over a year, john mccain battled brain cancer with the same tenacity he brought to all parts of his public life. >> tonightmaverick, the firebra, driven by his own convictions and the love he had for his family. near the end, john mccain retreated to a place he had grown to love. his home near sedona, arizona. >> he loves nature. he like

>> let me ask you some facts about your running mate. >> sure. >> governor sarah palin.o light up republican rallies wherever she goes. and i don't defend her. i praise her. >> yeah. many people think she's just simply not qualified to be president. >> the fact is she is a dynamic person with executive experience, leadership, reform. she's exactly what washington needs. >> mccain was old and he'd been through cancer. so the idea of president palin wasn't some abstraction. it was a real possibility. >> heading into the fall of 2008 the race was neck and neck. on september 15th -- >> meltdown. the american financial system is rocked to its foundation as top wall street institutions topple. >> just before the first scheduled presidential debate mccain decided to suspend his campaign to hammer out a deal on the economy. but in a meeting at the white house he was largely silent while barack obama offered substantially more input in the conversation. as the economy cratered, the campaign struggled to maintain momentum. >> politically they felt they had to go after barack obama

. >> somebody said have you thought of this republican governor from alaska named sarah palin?>> as the millenum approached, john mccain decided the take aim at the top job of the country. >> it's because i owe america more than she's owed me that i am a candidate for president of the united states. >> from the very beginning, he was an underdog against the son of a political dynasty. >> george w. bush emerged in the summer of 1999 as the most potent political force either party had seen in its presidential nominating process. >> short on cash, mccain skipped the iowa caucuses and focused on the new hampshire primary. >> he decided that's where he would start. >> he rolled out the straight talk express. his all access bus tour. a 24/7 press conference on wheels. >> the straight talk express of 2000 was unlike anything i had ever seen and i have ever seen since. >> you had no idea what was going to happen at any moment. you weren't been spoon fed anything. it was just completely spontaneous. >> mccain held more than 100 town halls in new hampshire and the hard work paid off. he

a lot ofolks will point to his decision to pick sarah palin as his running mate.s never apologized for it. >> reporter: more than anything, john mccain lived his life with gusto, looking ahead, ever optimistic about the country he so loved. joyful and resilient and grateful for it all to the end. >> i'm the luckiest guy on earth. i have served america's cause, the cause of our security and the security of our friends, the cause of freedom and equal justice. and i've enjoyed it. every single day of it. ff> next here, a bow of respe erentoce. jimmy's gotten used to his whole room smelling like sweaty odors. yup, he's gone noseblind. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily for all your hard-to-wash fabrics... ...there's febreze fabric refresher. febreze doesn't just mask, it eliminates odors you've... ...gone noseblind to. and try febreze unstopables for fabric. with up to twice the fresh scent power, you'll want to try it... ...again and again and maybe just one more time. indulge in irresistible freshness. febreze unstopables. breathe happy. wi

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we can litigate sarah palin a lot.totality of john mccain's career, as a republican and as a conservative, i would sure as hell rather have john mccain's running this party than donald trump's running this party by any stretch of the imagination. >> all right. rick wilson, betsy woodruff and jake maccobey. great to have you with us. thank you for your time. >>> we continue to follow that shooting at a madden video game tournament in jacksonville, florida. multiple fatalities reported. the gunman also dead. we'll have the very latest when we come back. we'll have the very latest when we come back it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our cli

. >> he picked sarah palin, who brought the tea party and donald trump. >> history is funny, in many respects. >> john mccain was the hair to the great states people of the republican party. i haven't often found in history, i agree they were. i will say for senator mccain was a patriot that believed in america. i think donald trump was an heir to sarah palin in terms of the acrimony, you against them politics she brought into politics in 2008 and that he kind of brought to another level now or to a lower level, depending on your opinion. >> he never said a bad word about subpoena. nor questioned the decision. even though she launched the tea party, which brought in president trump and they are not friends, he never said a bad word against sarah palin. they spent a lot of time together. it was a controversial course at the time. >> do you think that if john mccain had become president in 2008, this country would have never seen donald trump and how would it have changed? >> no question. the republican party would have gone on a different trajectory. if romney would have been presiden

first-term alaska governor sarah palin.t first, palin helped campaign draw support he was lacking. but after some bizarre interviews, many campaign aides considered her a liability. >> putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the united states. >> reporter: mccain would never say he regretted choosing palin. he never talks about it? >> no. >> reporter: ever? >> and he never will. >> reporter: the economic collapse in 2008, ultimately sealed mccain's defeat. still, he worked to stay out of gutter politics, taking the mike from a voter who claimed barack obama was arab. >> no, ma'am. >> reporter: and giving a concession speech that marked the historic moment for the country. >> this is an historic election and i recognize the special significance it has for african-americans. and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. >> reporter: mccain settled into life as a senior statesman and fulfilled a dream of becoming senate arms services chairman and traveled around the world every chance he got. an informal

on the other hand we have had a comment from sarah palin, talking aboutjohn mccain as being a maverickshe wasn't invited, they will have fond memories of each other. scientists in london and texas say they've made a significant step towards an effective treatment for the fatal muscle—wasting disorder, duchenne muscular dystrophy. using a technique known as gene editing, the researchers were able to correct the dna of a small group of dogs with the condition. our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. part beagle, part king charles spaniel, these young dogs all have duchenne muscular dystrophy. the condition mostly affects males in both dogs and humans, and it gets progressively worse as they age. now look at the contrast with these females, who carry the faulty gene but are unaffected. the dogs are part of a groundbreaking project published in the journal science involving the royal veterinary college and the university of texas. this research involved editing the dogs‘ genome, the recipe book for life. a faulty gene in the dna causes their disease, duchenne muscular dystrophy. th

there was -- there were the pre-sarah palin rallies and the post-sarah palin rallies. prep pre-palin were fine but lacked energy because of his complicated relationship with the base. post-palin -- >> and the size was different. i don't think a mccain rally ever got more than 1,000 or 2,000 people. when sarah palin came on, there were regularly over 10,000 to 20,000. but you also go back to a year before that, the summer of 2007 when mccain had come in as the front-runner and his campaign completely imploded. people think it imploded over the iraq war because he was one of the supporters, but it really imploded over the issue of immigration. at town hall after town hall after up to hall that we were both at, we would get assailed by this party of the republican party that was really upset that he was more moderate and working with ted kennedy and george w. bush on immigration. you know, that really was kind of an example of the kind of tension between him and a certain part of the party that never went away. >> and then later when he was -- he had the toughest re-electi

he never said he regretted picking sarah palin. >> he didn't blame her. >> and it's such an interestingnt, too, because clearly the palin pick and the reason he was advises not to pick joe lieberman, in addition to not wanting to have a mess of a convention and alienate a large portion of the republican party, which would have happened likely as well, he was envisioning -- the whole point of this was envisioning a presidential ticket that reached across party lines that could afford to alienate a large portion of the republican party and draw in independents and even draw in democrats who liked the idea of a more centrist approach from the presidency. and that just was not to be. his advisers basically told him that wasn't going to work. >> let's not imbue the vp pick with magical properties either. >> but it could have negative. >> itbut let's not pretend it h magical properties. yes, it could have hurt him. yes, you could talk about the benefits from the palin nomination. i just don't know a lot of american voters who look at the second name on a president ballot and say, a-ha, this i

one of those was who he chose to one with this 2008, sarah palin. and you wrote this in your column. the anti-washington rage embodied by palin came back to haunt mccain in the person of president trump. my guess is mccain was one of the many millions of decent republicans and democrats who could never imagine that the gop and then the american electorate, or at least the electoral college, would vote for someone with such low moral character. i guess there are some out there who could argue that the choosing of palin andy legitimate mizing that voice, legitimizing that grand of politics, that reality show brand of politics, you could draw a straight line from that to the election of donald trump. >> i wrote, katy, that i think that choice of sarah palin was probably the biggest political mistake that john mccain made in his career. i think what he was trying to do was to connect as an older establishment republican with the energy that he understood rightly was out there. there is an insurgency in the republican party. sarah palin was an early exam

sarah palin said barack obama was someone who palled around with terrorists.hat campaign, he recognized that she was not the tone that he wanted to set. you heard him on the night of his defeat in phoenix. i was down there with him. and he gave this speech that was full of generosity towards barack obama and the country and full of hope. and i remember thinking, if it had been that john mccain who had run this election campaign in 2008, maybe we would be looking at a different scenario. >> yeah, i think one of the things we -- one of the things that goes along with being a maverick is being something of a gambler. sarah palin was a huge gamble. >> indeed. >> at the time all the enthusiasm, all the excitement was with barack obama. mccain saying, we're going to roll the dice. we're going to try something new. we're going to shake things up. the thing we forget today is initially it appeared to be working. he had spent years attacking the republican party. he was not beloved by the base of the republican party and sarah palin was a shot of pure adrenaline to rep

and i don't think he could have known this at the time, but in picking sarah palin, he basically took a disease that was running through the republican party, not palin herself, she's a normal human being, but a disease that i'll call anti-intellectualism, disrespect for facts, and she was a chapter in the rise of a cheap kind of populism. >> i've got to ask you a question. i do not believe in -- i can't trust obama. i have read about him, and he's not -- he's an arab. he is not -- >> no, ma'am, no, ma'am, he's a decent, family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. that's what this campaign is all about. he's not. thank you. thank you. >> the environment in which he was already headed in an uphill battle where the energy of the party was being captured by his vice presidential nominee, sarah palin, and it was a much more red meat, populous angry tone, for john in the middle of that to say, hold on a second, we don't demonize each other, we're all americans, we're all on the same team, i thought was an indication of who john fundamentally was

mccain did not invite sarah palin and trump to the funeral. that was wrong.e is the president of the united states and if he wanted to be bipartisan, if that president would have been at the president -- at the funeral, republicans and everyone else would have had more respect that he deserves. number two, the money being spent for this funeral cost over $200,000 to start that plane. that is what was said in 1993. that money could have been spent for the veterans suffering today. it takes more than one man to win a football game. this baloney about any bipartisanship and him being so great is not so great and he never helped the vets in arizona. my father was one of the people that died because of in 1976ment of the vets because they performed a test that wasn't done right. , iator, rest in peace don't think you deserve everything going on for you. goodbye. our: jody has this tweet, government works best when all lovers of government are split between the parties, not all one party like it is now. from the wall street journal, a photograph of the body of john

he also gave the rise to sarah palin, and by opening the door to sarah palin, he opened the door to donald trump, and he has covered an arc from william buckley, barry goldwater, up to donald trump, and that is the complicated legacy of someone like john mccain. >>> and what bitter person to carry on his legacy than his wife, cindy mccain. i know her name has been widely cited as a potential appointee. >> yeah, certainly cindy and megan mccain have served with class in this very difficult time. they've been front and center, not only predicting the family, and talking about his health, but also pushing back at the administration, against the trump dimension, and trying to elevate the discourse. that is something that john mccain himself was well represented, and certainly cindy mccain would be mentioned, but governor ducey will look at a number of candidates, and the republican arizona are wide ranging. you have a primary on tuesday. that's going to be a mess. so in the midst of all of that, you're trying to elevate the discourse and a difficult time in the country, as well. >> certainly a

and in many ways he was contributing in some ways to it by elevating sarah palin who was a ka facanaryhe coal mine trump. i guarantee you that statement written by george w. bush was not hard for him to write. it was easy for him to come up with nice, easy, warm genuine things to say, even though i have heard him swear about john mccain, when during the campaign they did not like. your area of expertise, i'm just blown away by the outpouring of sentiment around the world. freedom fighters around the world, as mark noted in his piece over the weekend, these are people that always knew they had a champion in john mccain. >> that is truly what he devoted his life to. championing freedom. he did it and he was tire increase that cause. during congressional recesses when other members are going home, he was going to ukraine, georgia, afghanistan. he believed in tending to alliances. he believed it was so incredibly important to attend to that world order. he also believed that not just to tending to our democratic allies, but standing up for embattled democrats. he was someone that always kn

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for thec presiden in 2008, winning the nomination and choosing ati re unknown, alaska governor sarah palin as his running mate. the night he lost to barack obama, mccain conceded with grace. >> senator obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. i applaud him for it. >> reporter: mccain wasct e six times to the senate. a republican but unafraid to challenge his own party. >> we're getting nothing done, my friends. we're getting nothing done. >> reporter: guided always by thens lese learned from his father and grandfather. >> do what you know is right. act in a fashion that you can lo back and not be embarrassed but proud. >>> lester holt reporting. >>> at n9:14 this saturday. a stunning start to your weekend as we give y a live look outside. 'l had a beautiful sun rise as well. check in with lauren rickets afr this.te you wanted to save on prescriptions... so you went online... and got so lost in a mumbo-jumbo of co-pays, coupons and codes that your brain went offline. next time ask your cvs pharmacist. our proprietary search tool analyzes ways to help lower your pres

mccain to put sarah palin on the ticket in two thousand and eight which his own campaign staff have later said was a big mistake it can even hurt him he was he surprised many when he suspended his presidential campaign to deal with the global financial crisis that was exploding at that time and that left many people wondering well how can someone running who can't run a campaign and deal with a crisis is he really fit for president he's famous for his literal thumbs down of trying of republicans efforts to repeal obamacare but he himself voted against the obamacare two thousand and nine along with all other republicans so if you look at the big picture his decades long voting record he's really quite squarely in the middle of the road of conservative politics even donald trump who is sparred with publicly he's voted more than eighty percent of the time with trump's positions according to five thirty eight statistics platform well william mccain's term as senator was actually supposed to go on until twenty twenty two briefly if you can what happens to i think now yes rather complicated so

catapulted sarah palin to acclaim. in shadow of unpopular republican incumbent, struggled to build momentum and at times strike the right tone. >> fundamentals of our economy are strong. >> overtaken by resurgent senate colleague barack obama, on a history making run. true to form, mccain didn't fade away, turning misfortunateune into role of senior congressman. july 17 no vote on the gop health care repeal, one of the several failed attempts to dismantle obamacare. budget hawk who led the charge against obamacare while trying to broker a compromise on immigration. fierce supporter of the military. >> reactions from social media. president defeated my deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi tweeted, he was patriotic hero who served his country above all. >> republican lindsey graham tweeted, america and freedom have lost one of her greatest champions, one of my greatest friends and mentors. >> chuck schumer, meet few truly great people. john mccain was one of them. tru

. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> sarah palin was a surprising and bold decisionrt he was sore lil ly -- lacking. >> i'm very serious about it. i said okay. okay. >> his first choice, close friend and democrat turned independent senator joe lieberman. >> he clung to it a long time even after people in the party were telling him there would be a walkout of like a third of the republican delegates because of some of my liberal domestic positions. >> mccain later admitted regretting not picking lieberman, but always defended palin. >> the treatment that she received was still the worst that i've ever seen any politician receive. >> he's loyal to a fault and that was his decision. >> it was also his decision to not let his campaign turn ugly like in 2000. it came to a head at a town hall a month before election day. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. no? >> no, ma'am. no, ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. >> you know, john believes so deeply in fundamental fairness, but if he thinks you're

. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> sarah palin was a surprising and bold decisionew the conservative support he was sorely lacking. >> it's not who he wanted to choose. >> he told me he wanted to put my name on the list to be vetted for vice president. are you serious? he said i am. i said you don't have to do that, i don't know how you can do it as a matter of fact. >> you're not a republican. >> i'm not a republican. no, i'm very serious about it. so i said okay. okay. >> his first choice, close friend and democrat turned independent senator joe lieberman. >> we clung to it a long time, even after people in the party were telling him that there would be a walkout of like a third of the republican delegates because of some of my liberal domestic positions. >> mccain later admitted regretting not picking lieberman, but always defended palin. >> the treatment that she received was still the worst that i've ever seen any politician receive. >> he's loyal to a fault and that was his decision. >> it was also his decision to not let his campaign turn ugly like in 2000.

he picked sarah palin.arah palin was standing by him at the rally that's we would arrive as reporters and there would be people screaming obscenities and press and the sort of anger of that campaign really spiked -- i mean, it's nothing compared to what everybody saw later with trump years later but there was a real sense among john mccain's campaign driven by john mccain himself that he had to tamp that down and again and again and again it was the most memorable moment. he would try to do that. >> it was simmering then, he tried to tamp it down but it since exploded. thank you all for your insights and for coming in. i appreciate it very much. up next, we're going to talk to mccain's closest colleagues about their personal stories remembering john mccain. as king midas, i here, you will too.nt. your oil change comes with a tire rotation as well. ooo! i could put that on an airplane banner. our $19.99 oil change also includes a tire rotation. book an appointment online. now t-mobile has unlimited for the r

jillian: it's 2008 running mate sarah palin is reportedly not invited to his funeral on sunday.der suspect is waking up behind bars after police find the body of a missing boy on long island. carlos hernandez is accused of killing the unidentified teenager whose body was found in a shallow grave one year after he was last seen. police believe the ms-13 gang is connected to the boy's death but it's unclear if hernandez is a member of that gang. president trump says there's no reasonable to resume war games with south korea after that north korea summit between president trump's scraps military exercises with south korea as a goodwill gesture. the president says he has a good relationship with kim jong un and the drills cost too much money. just a few days ago trump cancelled a visit by mike pompeo. anger over baby trump blimp flown ahead of the president's pre-k visit have a plan for revenge. bikini clad london mayor sadiq chan with chest hair. raising $60,000 to bring it to live. must approve the balloon. since he approved the trump blimp he must sign off on this one. so there y

just in the last second, sarah palin put out a statement. today we lost an american original.enator john mccain was a maverick and fighter. never afraid to stand for his beliefs. he never took the easy path in life and through sacrifice and suffering he inspired others to serve something greater than themselves. john mccain was my friend. i will remember the good times. that's sarah palin, his vice presidential nominee who obviously in years later said that he had doubts whether that was the right pick. but the fact -- you are seeing all kinds of statements from all kinds of ideologies. because he was kind of bigger than washington. judge jeanine: let me interests rucht for one moment. what we are seeing now is a flag being lowered to half-mast at the state house in arizona. all of the people who areo of -- all of the people o -- referenci am packet had on their lives. not just the fighter pilot and a statesman. he was chairman of the armed services committee, who could comment on benghazi and iraq. and they would take him and what he was saying seriously when it came to the a

first term alaska governor sarah palin.t first, palin helped mccain draw conservative support he was lacking. but after some bizarre interviews, many campaign aides considered her a liability. >> putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the united states. >> reporter: mccain would never say he regretted choosing palin. >> he doesn't talk about it? >> no, never, and he never will. >> reporter: the economic collapse in september 2008 ultimately sealed mccain's defeat. still, he worked to stay out of gutter politics, taking the mike from a voter who claimed barack obama was arab. >> no, ma'am. >> reporter: and giving a concession speech that marked the historic moment for the country. >> this is an historic election. i recognize the special significance it has for african-americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. >> reporter: mccain settled into life as a senior statesman, fulfilled the dream of becoming senate armed services chairman, and traveled around the world every chance he got. an info

but by leaving out sarah palin, by leaving out some of these trusted aides and associates for whateverson, you think he fueled an argument here that he was petty? >> oh, by no means. i've known john for 35 years and he has strong views how they conduct themselves. there was an expectation and always was and always he be for most americans how you conduct yourself when you hold the highest office of the land, when you're president of the united states, leader of the free world. some of them may have been policy. some have to do with how you comport yourself. there were many times that he disagreed with president trump. equally with president obama. that's immaterial. it's the code of conduct and how they comported themselves. if that's the criteria, it was very appropriate for him to make the decision whom he would invite and whom he would ask to celebrate his lifetime of public service. it's entirely appropriate. >> neil: he's entitled to that. i have italian relatives that haven't spoken to each other in decades. they have forgotten why. glad to see you. good back in health. you scare

>> one study just out showed sarah palin's favorability rating dropped after viewers watched an "snl"nor. >> tina fey destroyed that woman's political career. destroyed it. god wlebless her. >> we're doomed! we need a revolution. millions of people on the streets. and we got to do something! and we got to do it now. ah. >> after the first debate, my agent called me on the phone and i started talking like bernie and he said, oh, my god, that's so funny. you should make a video, put it on the internet. hits and all this. i said, it's not -- i don't want to do that. it's more of an sn -- before i got the l out of my mouth, he hung up the phone and ten minutes later, lorne michaels called, and that was it. >> oh, my god. mr. bernie sanders. i'm your biggest fan. i'm and telling you, i'm feeling the burn. >> that's okay. >> caricatures are fun, because you don't have to give the back story. you can get right to the bpunch line. you know what donald trump is. >> i'm going to start this debate in the quietest voice possible. in the past, i have been big and loud but tonight, i am a sweet lit