john was a hero. his character, courage, honor, integrity, but i think the things understated the most is his optimism. that's what made john special, made john a giant among all of us. but in my view, john didn't believe that america's future and fate rested on heroes. what i talk most about him is he understood what i hope we all remember, heroes didn't build this country. ordinary people being given half a chance are capable of doing extraordinary things, extraordinary things. john knew ordinary americans understood that each of us has a duty to defend the integrity, dignity, and birthright of every child. good communities are built by thousands of small acts of decency. that americans, as i speak today, show each other every single day. very deep in the d.n.a. of this nation's soul lies a flame that was lit over 200 years ago, that each of us carries with us and each one of us has the capacity, the responsibility, and we can screw up the courage to ensure it's not extinguish. it's a thousand littl

john mccain had both. fortunately, all that intensity came paired with a world class sense of humor. as we all know, john really hated to lose. the line he used after his presidential campaigns still makes me laugh. some would ask how he's copying with defeat and john would say, actually, i'm sleeping like a baby. wake up every two hours and cry. seriously, it's hard to describe this larger than life figure without lapsing into what sounds like cliches. we've all heard our whole lives about the importance of patriotism and self-sacrifice. but we cannot take that culture of commitment for granted because just like our nation's security and our american liberty, the very notion that some causes really are greater than ourselves only survives because service members and statesmen like john mccain will fight and even die to defend it. the bond between john and his country was so deep, but of course other bonds ran deeper still. while john's colleagues grieve our own loss, we also send our love and support to t

john was a hero. his character, courage, honor, integrity, but i think the things understated the most is his optimism. that's what made john special, made john a giant among all of us. but in my view, john didn't believe that america's future and fate rested on heroes. what i talk most about him is he understood what i hope we all remember, heroes didn't build this country. ordinary people being given half a chance are capable of doing extraordinary things, extraordinary things. john knew ordinary americans understood that each of us has a duty to defend the integrity, dignity, and birthright of every child. good communities are built by thousands of small acts of decency. that americans, as i speak today, show each other every single day. very deep in the d.n.a. of this nation's soul lies a flame that was lit over 200 years ago, that each of us carries with us and each one of us has the capacity, the responsibility, and we can screw up the courage to ensure it's not extinguish. it's a thousand littl

john mccain without the massive campaign operation, john mccain, the maverick, john mccain on a wing and a prayer, he came back and won that nomination. and i think that really, it epitomizes the type of person he is. when you walk into his senate office, it wasn't cold. it wasn't corporate. it wasn't like a lot of senate offices that you walk into. there was just a bustle of activity. and anytime you went in to see the senator, you weaved through a thousand different desks and stacks of paper everywhere and people roaming here and there. it was not -- it was not the most organized office in the world. he was a constant -- he was constantly in motion and constantly moving. i think the one time i went into his office throughout the years where, there was more the silence. it was more contemplative, when i saw him in february -- i think it was february of 2017. it was so interesting, when i went to the hill, which i've been going to for 20 years, every time i go to the hill, i would have jesse rodriguez say, who do you want to meet? who do you want to line up meetings with? and he woul

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 remember, remember the things that went well and the things that did not so we'll be better off as a unit, as a nation. the title of the operation was pretty easy. you can say a lot of things about me but clever is not one of them. operation

john. a sign that this was so expected is that things started to move in pretty quick fashion. after senator john mccain left this earth we saw the flags behind me at the capital building in arizona be lowered to half staff. the pow staff went down first, down there on his own for little while and then we saw it followed by the american flag. and then the arizona fight. we started to get the outpouring of love and prayers for his family and for his family that is now in morning, of course. we heard from cindy mccain, his wife, of 38 years and she said my heart is broken. i am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving the suitable man for 38 years. he passed away the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved in the place he loved best and that would be at the ranch in arizona, northern arizona, in [inaudible] arizona, south of sedona. it's a place that meant so much to him. his favorite place on earth. as he like to say, his family, those who invest he started sa

john mccain and the grand canyon. imagining arizona without john mccain is like picturing an arizona without the grand canyon, it's just not natural. the woman who brought john mccain to arizona, cindy, thank you. the hearts and prayers of angela, and i and our entire state and nation are with you and your family at this moment. always known for your elegance, grace and compassion and those qualities have been on full display this past year. you are a model for us and an inspiration. arizona loves you, cindy mccain. to the woman that brought john mccain into this world, mrs. mccain, roberta, 106 years young, you raised a remarkable son and we are truly blessed that you are among us still. when we look to you, there is no doubt where john mccain inherited his determination, resilience and tenacity, it was built into his d.n.a. you see it in john's children, who carry on his spirit of service, doug, andy, meghan, sydney, jack, jimmy and bridget, may god bless you and keep all of you, your father was very proud and so is

like so many today, i rise to honor john mccain, to sing john mccain's praises. there are many here, most here who knew him longer than i did. i'll admit that when you and i, mr. president, first got here in 2014, i knew john mccain as somebody from the history books. i knew john mccain as somebody destined for the history books. i knew john mccain as an american hero. but i didn't know john mccain the man. i didn't know john mccain, the flesh and blood, genuinely hilarious guy. but over the past 48 months i had the privilege of actually getting to become friends with john mccain. it's sort of weird to say when you're our age -- you're a good bit older than i am, but when you're roughly our age, mr. president, i'm 46 and john mccain was an octogenarian, and he befriended me. i've been on many overnights with john mccain, i've been to war zones with john mccain. i've been cussed out by john mccain lots of times. he would call me stupid bastard on a regular basis and he meant it affectionately. i'm convinced he didn't use the term stupid bastard lately. he reserved

john was better than me, and i know it. john was the best of my generation. john mccain was and is a great human being. i don't know what's going to be said in the next few days about john mccain, by whomever it's going to be said. i don't know what's going to be done. but anybody who in any way tarnishes the reputation of john mccain deserves a whipping, because most of the ones who were do the wrong thing about john mccain didn't have the guts to do the right thing when it was their turn. we need to remember that. so i would say to the president or anybody in the world, it's time to pause and say this was a great man. he gave everything for us. we owe him nothing less than the respect that he earned. and that's what i intend to give john. in return for what he gave me. john took me to kosovo 20 years ago when clinton said we're going to send some people over to verify the crime sites, the ethnic cleansing. i went to pristina with john, went to montenegro, went to the world security conference in munich a few years after that. got to sit with piewp putin the

today, people wanted to be around john mccain. >> this is a message about john mccain but also john mccain's message to america. >> well said. joe biden gave a hymn to america. he said the america we know is an idea. it's a declaration of universal human dignity. 7.5 billion people across the globe created by god with rights. you don't have rights because we gave them to you. john was the proponent of that american ideal. you heard a lot of people singing a mccain refrain to that. >> one more question, how do you -- how do you take this message and continue it in a practical way? how do you take his life and legacy and what he did in the u.s. senate and politics and continue it in a real way, not just talking about it now, but in the future? >> sure. this is obviously a week, not just yesterday and today, through saturday and the burial coming. this is a time to celebrate john. one of the things you see are a civic that is are bigger than policy preference in john. we have a lot of people in politics who are mostly interested in their own incumbency and low grade tribalism. what should we do

john mccain, there it goes. doug, i want your thoughts as we watch this plane kind of start moving toward the runway. >> i think it's been a gorgeous send-off from the state of arizona. the service this morning, just a fabulous tribute. what he's given to the state and gave in the right way. i think it's worth repeating the research you made earlier. he could have gone after the goodies for arizona. that's not the way he did business. there was a larger purpose, the governance of the united states and things would be right for arizona. that's how he saw it and that's what happened. >> doug, senator kelly ayotte, very good of you both to join us. a remarkable day. my mistake. the plane is not moving. the camera was moving. apparently the plane is still static. so we're still waiting. we're going to take a fast break and come back. if the plane moves, we'll come back. we're going to take a fast break and continue our coverage of john mccain, the tribute to the former senator of arizona. >> many people might wonder

john king is off today. this morning a nation in mourning for the loss of john mccain, the man and the loss of what john mccain represented to and about america. first the man. the john sidney mccain the third was as complex as they come, stubborn and flawed and survived many a wrush of death and spent a large time trying to live up to larger than life characters he idolized, both real and fictional, the hot dogfighter pilot with a dramatic flair, quick to anger but equally quick to forgive and share a laugh. he cherished his family and unusually open about the depth of his love for his friends. a towering figure despite his less than towering stat tour. sure, he was a hero and yes, a war hero. he was a conservative who fought for smaller government yet spent a lifetime revering and prote protecting the institutions of government and democracy and passionate about his beliefs but also understood the art of compromise for the greater good. he seized the moment on that veryish why last july during a dramatic r

that is john. john understands what it means to sacrifice for what you believe in. to put the greater good ahead of the personal feelings. president kennedy said moral courage in politics is a rare commodity that is encouraged on the battlefield. john has shown moral courage. he is a man who was terrorized, victimized, and abused. abused for five and a half years. as a u.s. senator, as was pointed out, he joined john kerry in normalizing relationships with vietnam. always country first, always country first. you know, here is what john said in 1995. she said, "we have looked back in anger at the anon for too -- at vietnam for too long. i cannot allow whatever resentment i incurred during my time in vietnam to hold me from doing what is clearly my duty." everybody talks about these virtues. but this is what this guy did. this is not only what he said. duty. duty. duty. it is the marrow running through that solid steel spine of this guy, and it made him such a formidable opponent and a fierce friend. john and i have been with one another, together, and we have been ag

john mccain and the grand canyon. imagining arizona without john mccain is like pictures an arizona without the grand canyon. it is not match rnatural. to the woman who brought john mccain to arizona, cindy, thank you. >> the hearts and prayers not only angela and i but the entire nation are with you and your family at this moment. always known for your elegance and compassion, those qualities have been displayed this past year. you are a model for us an an inspiration. >> arizona loves you, cindy mccain. to the woman that brought john mccain into this world, roberta, mrs. mccain, 106 years young. you raised a remarkable son and we are truly blessed that you are among us still. when we look to you, there is no doubt where mccain inherited this resilience. it was built into his dna. you see it in john's children who carried on a thirty of service, doug, andy and megan and jack and cindy and bridget. may god bless you and keep all of you. your father was very proud and so is the state of arizona. >> in may, angela and i

john mccain? >> john mccain wasn't john mccain until many years in the senate, developed a reputation, did a lot of things that made him the tower and figure he had become. there are several names that are being circulated. governor doug dohas to pick a replacement. a few of the names, his wife, the treasurer in arizona, and kirk adams, the chief of staff. the governor will be on the ballot in 2018. we'll see who he picks. >> he spoke with kelly o'donnell about this. >> reporter: a responsibility rests with you to choose his successor. what does it mean to you? >> it is a tremendous responsibility. john mccain is irreplaceable. this week will be about honoring his life and legacy and comfortable the family. there will be a time for that discussion later. >> reporter: is choosing a successor about modeling someone after john mccain, or is it an entirely different calculation? >> this is about doing the right thing. just like john mccain would advise me. >> anita? >> he is under intense pressure now

i took john with me or john took me with him. and we were in china, japan, russia, germany, france, england, turkey, turkey. all over the world. tens of thousands of miles. and we would sit on that plane and late in the night, when everyone else was asleep, and just talk, getting to know one another. we'd talk about family. we'd talk about politics. we'd talk about international relations. we'd talk about promise. the promise of america. we both were cockeyed optimists and really believed there is not a single thing beyond the capacity of this country. i mean, for real. not a single thing. and when you get to know another woman or man, you get to know their hopes and their fears, you get to know their family even before you meet them, you get to know how they feel about really important things. we talked about everything except captivity and the loss of my family, which had just occurred. my wife and daughter. only two things we didn't talk about. but i found that it wasn't too long into john's duties that jill and i got married.

john chapman grew up in connecticut. from a very young age, john was determined to protect those in need. in kindergarten, john noticed that his classmate was being bullied, as he says, john stepped in and saved me. in his high school yearbook, john quoted these words, give yourself before taking up someone else. very farsighted. john lived by that motto, every single day. everybody that new him said that is the way he lived. graduatedafter he from high school, john enlisted in the united states air force. he was among the elite few to complete air force special tactics training, one of the most rigorous training programs in all of the military. john became an expert in avoiding undetected onto the uptlefield and -- to set airfields and direct fire support. now, john will become the first special tactics airmen to receive the congressional medal of honor. inn mack valerie pennsylvania -- john met valerie in pennsylvania while he was training with the army. it was a big day, a good day, right? they married in 1992 and the

what was it like to cover and deal with the senator john mccain and john mccain the person. reporter: really a fascinating character. he was serious about the issues, you heard him talk about the iraq war and afghanistan and policy matters. you see mccain when you are about to do a life shot with us or another network. he would wink with a twinkle in his eye. he would say what are you doing, boy? i would look over and realize i was being heckled by john mccain. my understanding is john mccain believed if we were telling the stories about what's going on and writing the stories in our nation's politics, having a relationship would help us know what he was thinking with his votes over the years. howie: i think he enjoyed the give and take with the press. he was such a fixture on the sunday shows. he was the most of frequent guest on "meet the press" ever. sometimes he got testy or i am patients with journalists. but i think he viewed it as another form of combat. >> reporter: no question. i think he enjoyed being the senior statesman on cap hill. putting his arm around a new m

john mccain served in the u.s. senate for more than 30 years, six terms in that term and many people in the u.s. and around the world know this man by that nickname, the maverick. >> that is right. absolutely. >> senator mccain passed away on saturday afternoon. he was at his home near sedona, arizona, he was surrounded by his family in his final hour. >> he just recently discontinued treatment for cancer. people knew that this moment would come, but still, it did not make it easier for the many who knew him, who admired him, and who loved him. his senate colleagues remember him as a giant. politically conservative, but fiercely principaled and independent. >> and mccain's absence was felt this year in the u.s. senate due to declining health. a true warrior though, until the end. he battled this aggressive form of brain cancer that was first diagnosed back in 2017. mccain served as a u.s. navy aviator for more than 20 years. he was shot down over north vietnam, and he was captured and held there as a prisoner of wa

now back to "headliners" john mccain. ♪ >>> as the millennium approached, john mccain, father of seven, decided to take aim at the top job in the country. >> it is because i owe america more than she has ever 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 ever seen in its presidential nominating process. >> short on cash, mccain skipped the iowa caucuses and focussed all of his attention on the new hampshire primaries. >> he just decided new hampshire is where he would start. >> mccain rolled out the straight talk express, his all access bus tour, 24/7 press conference on wheels. >> the straight talk express of 2000 was unlike anything that i had ever seen and that i have ever seen since. >> you had no idea what was going to happen at any moment. you weren't being spoon fed anything. it was just completely spontaneous. >> mccain held more than 100 town halls in new hampshire and the

farewell, john. i yield the floor. >> joining us now are michael jackson steele, former chairman of the republican national committee, and michael bechsloz, national historian. michael, let me start with you. what would a john mccain presidency have looked like either in 2000 or 2008? >> that's a very, very good question. >> bechsloz will bail us out if you or i flub it. >> i think it would have been an administration that was tempered by the harsh realities of the time. i think it would have been an administration that would have been far more open in its reach, not just across the aisle but across america to communities that are now marginalized or outright ignored in many instances. i think he would have brought that temperament, talking about his temper, that temperament of statesmanship, discipline, but a sense of hope, a sense of vision, and a sense of the purpose of the country which i think it was a hallmark of his life. it's something that i think was sort of forged in him during those five

why john mccain? >> yeah, i was working at the car wash across the street and i needed an internship in college. and my college professor knew i had an interest in politics. and decan seeny was a senator, and john mccain was also a senator. because i saw his name across the street, i went in and you know got the internship. and the rest is history. so -- >> so, max, i was digging up an old forbes article on you. this is the quote. mccain had long been struck by foss's technicality. max is the loveliest of young men, and if you asked central casting to send you revenge of the nerds they would cent send you mack. this was john mccain. >> yeah, i -- well my mom loved that quote. i'm probably turning red right now hearing it again. >> what was he like? >> he was an amazing person. and he was fun to be around. and you know, it was like being around a rock star. and you would walk through the airport with limb and people would turn and point. and you know -- you know, there's a thousand other politicians in

with john. it was the underlying values that animated everything john did. >> in california, charged with repeatedly threatening to shoot employees of the boston globobe >> the agents seized more than 20 guns. >> in chicago, several people are injured after an explosion at a water reclamation plant. >> a very dangerous situation. >> in detroit, a special tribute to the queen of soul. >> performers came together for a nearly five-hour concert. me ♪ >> accusing the network ofin >> all that. >> this could have been a desafer if not for a really quick thinking and fast-moving father. >> and all that matters. >> uk prime minister theresa may. she's donned her dancing shoes. this time, in kenya. >> no. no. >> on "cbs this morning." >> swung on. there it goes to right. it is high. it is far. it is gone. number 300. >> john carlos stanton career home run number 300. yes, gets the curtain call for his efforts. a home run. >>> welcome to "cbs this moing" on th friday ase head into the labor day weekend.

john. a sign that this was so expected is that things started to move in pretty quick fashion. after senator john mccain left this earth we saw the flags behind me at the capital building in arizona be lowered to half staff. the pow staff went down first, down there on his own for little while and then we saw it followed by the american flag. and then the arizona fight. we started to get the outpouring of love and prayers for his family and for his family that is now in morning, of course. we heard from cindy mccain, his wife, of 38 years and she said my heart is broken. i am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving the suitable man for 38 years. he passed away the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved in the place he loved best and that would be at the ranch in arizona, northern arizona, in [inaudible] arizona, south of sedona. it's a place that meant so much to him. his favorite place on earth. as he like to say, his family, those who invest he started sa

and john was loyal. we traveled a lot together to afghanistan, and iraq, to munich and mali and mongolia, to many, many places, but most poignantly to vietnam. my dad served five years in vietnam and he told me about his colleague, admiral mccain, whose son was a p.o.w., who had been shot down and wounded terribly, but refused early release. as a boy i went with my father to an air base in saigon, the night that our p.o.w.'s returned from captivity. john had left straight from hanoi and did not pass through, but i witnessed how frail and ill and pale and battered his fellow p.o.w.'s were as they clamored out of the helicopters and into the glare of the tv ligh lights. well, i was ready to revere any man who had been through that and to find that this man was so friendly, and cheerful, and feisty, and irreverent, that put me irrevocably into his club. and john attracted people of exceptional talent and ability to became so devoted, they would walk through fire for him. john attracted the admiration of for

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he just jumped up -- that was john. he was restless and went onto the next challenge and did important and great work. so he accepted defeats in life more graciously and gracefully than almost anybody i've seen in public life. >> accepted defeat more graciously than i've seen some people accept victory. steve dupree, thank you so much for your time today. we appreciate and deepest condolences in the loss of your friend. >> thanks, jake. >> i spent 25 years on plane and trains and automobiles reporting on john mccain from the straight talk express to one of his last interviews. we'll look back at covering an american original next. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness

john mccain. a titan of politics and american hero. he died at his ranch in sedona, arizona. his death coming the day after his family announced he stopped treatment for brain cancer which he had been battling for over a year. >> he served six years as prison or of war in vietnam -- prisoner of war in vietnam. he was a giant of the senate and two-time presidential candidate. mccain is survived by his wife cindy and seven children and mother roberta who is 106. there are plan force a full week of memorandum -- plans for a full week of memorials. we get the latest on that from kyung lah in phoenix. >> reporter: dave and laura, senator mccain, such a prominent figure, and arizona's favorite son. services will begin in his home state here. flags at the capitol lowered in remembrance of the senator. it is here where the services will begin. after a private service at the rotunda, he will lie in state for six hours. members of the public will begin to come in and say farewell. on thursday morning, there

america will miss john mccain. the world will miss john mccain and i will miss him dearly. on behalf of myself, jill, and the entire biden family, our n condolences go out to the entire mccain family. i want to go live now to stephanie elim. she is outside the ranch where senator mccain passed away this evening. these are live pictures. very sad moment. we learned that john mccain passed away at 4:28 this afternoon. i believe that is local time according to the press release put out from the senator's office. stephanie is live in arizona. fill us in on what's been happening there and what you're hearing on the ground. >> reporter: well, right now you're seeing the most activity. there was just a police escort here to the ranch that dana so beautifully described just a few moments ago here at what they call the cabin out here in the rural part of arizona. i have to tell you, it has been such strikingly beautiful day up here with the cloud cover and the rain came in. up against those stark red rocks, i could see why senator mccain called this home. just now we saw the suvs ma

john: yeah. host: the good humor man. john: yeah, him. when the first americans were shot down, he kept them all in the old french prison. as the population increased, they branched out into two others. this one we are about to see anyone other. host: how many were here with you? john: around 50-60 people. for reasons we never understood, the vietnamese would move us around. we never understood the rhyme or reason. generally, if the soup and the peace of bread. again, in the last year-year and a half, it approved significantly. as part of this change in treatment. none of us have quite understood , except for a combination of things, including international pressures and the efforts of millions of americans. host: what other time have you been back? john: april 1991. i am a member of the committee on pow affairs. i assume there are americans alive until we have as full a counting as possible. we still have not gotten the full accounting. i have not yet seen hard evidence of their argumentative alive. i'm somewhat pleased by the progress t

john mccain did not respect or understand or trust as john kerry acknowledges what john kerry did after the war. being one of the leading -- first appearance on "meet the press" as a protester against the war. but they worked together and i was covering the pow commission they created together. as john kerry wrote in the tribute last night, he was savaged by lesser people but words could never hurt him because he was stronger in the broken places in the words of hemingway, of course, who is the great literary hero that john mccain loved so much. john mccain with john kerry helped bill clinton who was an accused draft dodger in the '92 campaign, normalize relations with vietnam. it's hard for some younger people to realize how bitter that was and how much they had to pay in a political price but together they gave these two veterans and john mccain of course, the pow, gave bill clinton in 1995, the political cover to actually normalize relations with our former enemy. >> tom brow kbrokaw, there is a least 70 people that are nominees for the united states senate this november. there's goi

john mccain was john mccain's man, he wasn't ours. he wasn't there for us, he was there for what he thought was right and he was a hawk but i'll give him credit and always have. the hawks that served in war are fine with me. it's the one who support war as an ideology that i have a problem with but he was always -- when trump -- when the president made fun of him for being a prisoner he acted like he had thrown his arms up or something. john mccain was diving his plane over hanoi. if you go over you can see where he was fished out of the water by the people that beat him up. he was treading water and they tried to kill him. he was on the attack when he was captured and then brutally treated for all those years and he was a hero. >> and michael bern loss, military heroism used to be one of the -- if not a prerequisite for service, it was a great precursor to political success. you think of dwight eisenhower and the greats that came along politically. >> euleulysses grant. >> people that have great reverence for the military. the fact t

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and, you know, john mccain told john weaver at the end, so john told us, these are dark times, how dark you do not know i think is the quote that you had from him. and one element of those dark times is that we're now in a time where having ten democrats, if you're a republican senator, at a service, is a maverick, revolutionary act. that's how bad things are. you have a russian dissident as a pallbearer. that's seen as something that's radical with a republican president who is accused of being too close to the russians. look at this in counterpoint to the age of donald trump. >> i just want to reflect personally, one of the people i covered in washington, really even before i came to washington, in the '72 and '76 campaigns for the presidency, the democratic primaries, was senator henry "scoop" jackson. when i was the energy correspondent, he was someone i talked to constantly as i learned a very difficult beat in the late '70s and early '80s. and he was the person who really was the mentor to john mccain. he was a democrat. he was a social liberal, a civil libertari libertarian. he w

that's john mccain. so as we move forward in this chamber, i hope we will remember his word, that the most liberating thing in life is to fight for a cause larger than ourselves. he did that every single day and we must now carry on that torch. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: today i want to join my colleague from minnesota and other senators in talking about our colleague, an american icon, who played an outsized role as our country's story. senator john mccain was first and foremost a patriot. throughout his whole life and very prolific life, he lived the motto of his 2008 presidential campaign, which was simply, country first. i had the privilege of helping senator mccain during that 2008 campaign. i was in the private sector then, and i took time off to spend about six weeks with him traveling around the country. i was on the campaign trail with a group of his loyal friends, including the first friend, lindsey graham. i had known

john was immune to jet lag. he was never more excited than when he had the opportunity to share american values abroad. of course he was devoted to the men and women of our armed forces. from countless visits with deployed units in iraq and afghanistan to his committee meeting here in this body, john honored their sacrifices in a way that only he could. he never forgot that not with standing the gran dor of the might, our armed services are made up of people, of our constituents, of volunteers, of the brave. john's favorite -- >>> you are listening to senator mitch mcconnell deliver heartfelt words of john mccain, his colleague in the senate there, demonstrating a lost tradition, praising a colleague that we have differences with. as we were listening to the senator, breaking news from the white house. the white house, once again, lowering the flag above the white house to half staff. the president, now releasing a new statement, his first direct comments about the senator personally. abbey phillips joins us fro

john mccain was a politician of principle. a patriot who believed in his country, and fought for it at tremendous cost to himself. as a young navy pilot, he was shot down over hanoi, interrogated and tortured. his capture saw a potential propaganda coup, when his father became the commander of us forces in vietnam and offered him release. but john mccain refused despite the many beatings he had suffered. on his return, he was hailed as a war hero and entered politics. and would eventually spend 35 years representing republicans inside congress. but he was fiercely independent and often spoke out against the party, notably challenging the influence of big money on american politics. the party establishment will not finish me off anywhere. why is that? because i will break the iron triangle in washington of money, lobbying and legislation and they know would that would be very, very disruptive financially to a lot of people's lives. he may have challenged washington, but he was respected here too. and in 2008, he was selected as

he was the john mccain who aspired to perfection and he's the john mccain who sometimes fell short. >> mike murphy, pick up on that point. you are somebody who worked with mccain in 2000 on that sort of improbable run that he made against george w. bush when he really earned for all of the country that nickname of maverick. >> yeah, well, he -- he was a rascal. he was driven by honor. his entire focus was serving with honor. but he was also human and he knew his flaws and he was very hard on himself because he was, you know, a flawed person like all of us. so -- and he was in the political world where you spend half your time trying to navigate mine fields with honor and the other half suffering fools, which took him some patience to do. >> i'm not sure he actually had the patience to suffer fuels. i don't know he actually had that patience. >> i think he had pretty remarkable patience. i was around a lot of the fools he was suffering and it was pretty remarkable in 2000. i think people miss it. which is, mccain would -- what mccain never liked in life -- excuse me. his favorite word,

>> well, it was very unusual by the time john mccain died. he was really the last of those people who could reach across the aisle and actually get things done. ironically, he died on the same day from the same disease as the democrat who was able to do that, who was ted kennedy. kennedy had his name and a republican name on every bill that he sponsored, and the same thing was true of john mccain. he always tried to make it bipartisan, and when you go back and read his speeches and see what he said over the years, he always said, if we want to get it done, and he was always interested particularly in getting reforms enacted, if we want to get it done, we have to do it in a bipartisan fashion. that's gone. that's gone from the senate. jeff flake, who is going to be on "this week," who is a senator from arizona now, tried to live that kind of life and realized he would be defeated as a result of it, so he is not going to run again. so the senate is really a less civil place, a less effective place without john mccain. >> repeatedly in the last

his name was john, john diamond. >> john loved women. john was a lady's man. john always had girlfriends. >> so debbie, john's kid sister, could certainly see her brother responding to a solicitation like michelle's. >> my brother's got a great personality. he's an attractive guy and, you know, his personality makes him that much more attractive. >> then a few days after meeting online, they met in person at a local restaurant. >> he was charming, he was funny. talked about movies and music and things we might even talk about. >> john diamond was an army staff sergeant based at fort bragg and trained as a sniper, highly regarded, decorated. had been in the service since he was 18. >> by all accounts he was a good soldier, but he was a playboy himself. he had been married once before and had a child from his first marriage and he left the first wife and married and they had a son together. >> michelle didn't know that john was still married, but maybe it didn't matter, at least not then. she loved the sex, the attention, the excitement. >> he seemed very attent

in need and in kindergarten john noticed that his classmate was being bullied and as bill says john stepped in and saved me. in his high school yearbook, he said give yourself before taking of someone else. very farsighted he lived by that motto every single day. everybody that knew him said that is the way he lived. two years after he graduated high school john enlisted into the united states air force and among the elite few to complete air force special tactics training, one of the most rigorous training programs and all of the military. he became an expert to go undetected into the battlefield to set up airfields airfield and direct fire support. now john will become the first special tactics airmen to receive the congressional medal of honor. john met valerie in pennsylvania while he was training with the army. that was a good day. right? they married in 1992 soon their love grew into a but long -- a beautiful family. whatever he was home he would go on dad duty the girls and playing with them and even that amazing swingset. do you remember that? that? that was a long time ago.

was think john for his act of kindness. ique it was my first exposure to the unique style of communication america would know as the straight breath sitting back interview was the biggest actn for which i am still grateful there is a joke about he says in this a private fight work anyone get into it? i think his name may have been r making. everybody knew. everybody knew her served with him for any period of timeiod ct remember. i remember him walking up to me getting within an inch of my face chewing me out about the article he had read in the chicago tribuneed aroun. he was so mad he was about to explode and he walked away and i said what did i say? i cannot remember the article. and id back erredreferred to and i could not understand his lo anger i have been friends for se long to get ready for the round is that it wasn't that bad after all we are still friends. a typical john mccain a volcanic temper but a loving approach it c liefs. passionate belief.h le this that was john. but doesn't hold grudges understanding to pe

newton small and john nichols. with a welcome to both of you, i'll reach to you first, jay, and you have known him for a decade and a half. what are your most distinct memories of that? >> i remember meeting him in 2003 in the capitol and i was a young reporter starting to cover politics, and all the other reporters would say if you want an anti-bush quote, go to john mccain because at that point, he was still hurting from his 2000 loss, and he had this temper and he could, you know, he would get mad and mad at losing that election and the way that bush won that election, and for a long time was very much, you know, sort of very critical of bush for the first few years after that election. but then he forgives you and he forgave bush clearly by the 2004 election and he was out campaigning for george w. bush and i experienced that myself. there were some stories i wrote about him over the years where i would write things he did not like and he would get really mad at me and we would be in scrums in the capitol where

what does arizona oh john mccain? now hee were here right would say arizona doesn't owe him anything. he loved the state. i was his desk in his office in december and we were looking pictures. much to move the state forward. >> ultimately there has to be a , he did so much for .he military it would be nice if there were some way we could do that. they named a ship after him. thank you. we appreciate that. >> john mccain was truly an icon. john is bigger than politics. >> thank you so much for your time. when you consider the generations on -- 40's on down there he goldwater -- barry goldwater in our state politically as well and in far reaches of the state. up in a little place named cornwell. ,hey also appreciated the fact growing up as a child of people in the navy people --. he looked arizona. we are making our way through the crowd right now. many people have moved to the edge of the street to try to get a glimpse of the horrors -- hearse. huge crowds have gathered here. they have officially entered on camelback.

he was the john mccain who aspired perfection and he's the john mccain who sometimes fell short. >> mike murphy, pick up on that point. you're somebody who worked with mccain in 2000 on that sort of improbable run that he made against george w. bush when h he really earned for all of the country that nickname of maverick. >> yeah. well, he -- he was a rascal. he -- he was driven by honor. his entire focus was serving with honor. but he was also human and he knew his flaws and he was very hard on himself. because he was a -- you know, a flawed person like all of us. so, and he was in the political world where you spend half your time trying to navigate mindfields with honor and the other half of your time suffering fools which it took him some patience to do. so it was a lot of fun. >> i'm not sure he actually had the patience. i don't know that -- >> i think he had pretty remarkable patience. i was around a lot of the fools he was suffering and it was pretty remarkable in 2000. i think the whole temper thing's overrated. i think people miss it which is mccain -- what mccain never liked i