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Rachel: the senator war hero losing his year-long battle with brain cancer. griff: on friday senator mccain s family announced he was ending treatment he passed away saturday afternoon just days before his 82nd birthday and joining us now on the couch maria bartiromo, host of sunday morning futures. good morning, maria. maria: good morning, good to see you all. john mccain should be celebrated and praised because of his incredible work for our military he worked so hard and severely took on so m...

Courage and loyalty, i can think of no better description of the man were honoring tonight, my friend john mccain. >> the one thing that i like most about john mccain, he doesnt run away from the shortcomings. when you balance out john mccains life, its something we admire. i dont know about you, but i feel like ive been very lucky to be in his shadow and to be his friend. >> john mccain is survived by his wife cindy, seven children, and his mother roberta whos 106 years old and every bit as tou...

2000 and then when he asked me to serve on his campaign team in 07, 08, i was honored to do so. we didnt anticipate the campaign would collapse and run out of money and our 50 state strategy would be reduced to survive and win new hampshire but it worked out fine. >> what was working with him in that second campaign teach you about john mccain the man? everybody knows he had a temper. he had rough edges. he wasnt your typical poll tested politician. >> he was authentic. that came through and peo...

Brought in and it was a great team and very loyal to him and they loved him and wanted him to become part tv for a while and it all started at the top. he served with such -- such integrity and it was all about service to america. and so all of the people around him emulated him and followed that. that leadership came from him. so it is an honor to be part of it. >> and did he have the sense after the crash, after the economic crash that they were just not going to pull it together. when did he ...

Mistakes along the way but in the house before that he really showed that kind of determination and dedication. and he liked to portray himself as a maverick. he wasnt always a maverick, but when he was, he was grand. >> and the way he was grand, andrea, you remember in 08 during the election when he did something that really hadnt been seen in elections before and during a town hall defended his opponent and that was barack obama. >> exactly. that moment was so crystal clear, when he said to th...

He spent the 2000 rolling around on the straight talk express. more than people had sat alongside a candidakancandidate since. >> nicolle, one of the examples we were talking about earlier, standing up for his beliefs if he was right or wrong or regretted it later on. an example, you were the campaign adviser in 08, where he had to address a woman in the crowd. i want to play that quickly. that is a very good example of him standing up for his beliefs, right? lets listen to that real fast. >> i ...

Thoughts because you know that ernest hemingway was a literary hero of his. nicolle wallace, our colleague, was recounting one day in the campaign in 08, when they were in some no-name motel in the midwest and he was reading "the snows of kilimanjaro" to nicolle and the rest of the staff. what an ingrate i would be to curse the fate that includes the blessed life i led. i give life to those blessings and the love of those who bless med with theirs. the bell tolls with me. i knew it would. i trie...

Integrity and it was all about service to america. and so all of the people around him emulated him and followed that. that leadership came from him. so it is an honor to be part of it. >> and did he have the sense after the crash, after the economic crash that they were just not going to pull it together. when did he know they could not win the 08 campaign? >> well i think had his eyes open throughout. historically it is difficult to follow someone from your own party, other than president geor...

Become part tv for a while and it all started at the top. he served with such -- such integrity and it was all about service to america. and so all of the people around him emulated him and followed that. that leadership came from him. so it is an honor to be part of it. >> and did he have the sense after the crash, after the economic crash that they were just not going to pull it together. when did he know they could not win the 08 campaign? >> well i think had his eyes open throughout. histori...

Confederate battleflag, that is the honest answer. i never gave to a fair question. >> susan page, what does that say about him? >> its a reminder he was not a perfect person. that he made mistakes in his life and political life. but he would come around and admit it and apologize for it. he did this with reporters. there were times when he unfairly criticized reporters for stories and then two days later call you back and say i was wrong, you were fair. who does that? >> i know. >> somebody who...