press appearance. attaching those things to me is ridiculous. we need to have a hook to get you guys interested in seeing the bus tour, and so, you know, just having a great candidate isn t always enough for the media sadly. you need someone to spin things up. and vaughn has been following the arizona senate race this week. he joins me from phoenix. what is it looking like on the ground there? and so many dynamics at play. now, of course, that all comes under the shadow of senator mccain passing. come this winter, arizona will not be represented by jeff flake or john mccain anymore. there are three individuals vying for that republican nominati nomination. none of them have stood or sung the praises of either jeff flake or john mccain. the one who has has been the democrat, who has marketed
president. losing to george w. bush and later barack obama. and he resisted a changing of the guard in politics often at odds with president donald trump and the two shared a little more in common than their political party. and, yet, mccain did not yield. most wondrous land on earth, indeed. i ve had the good fortune to spend 60 years in service to this wondrous land. to fear the world we have organized and led the three quarters of a century, to boopd the ideals we advanced around the globe, to re fuse the obligations of international leadership and duty to remain the last best hope of earth, for the same of some half-baked spurious nationalist cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. [ applause ] is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired
with saings and loan regulators on behalf of a donor, charles keating. john mccain said, was so horrified, at his own behavior even though of the keating 5, he got the least, you know, serious admonishment from the senate. but he said this is going to be on my tombstone, but it was from that that he really decided to pick up with russ feingold and for seven years, it took them to get campaign finance reform through. so it was just so typical of the way john mccain would handle his own shortcomings and in this case it was a lapse of judgement. yeah. another sort of correction he made to himself, jake, was the issue of the confederate flag and this was back in the 2000 campaign when he said that he should not have stayed neutral on the confederate flag. that was something that he later went out and made a statement
he had weak ties to the area he was running. he quickly deflated that by saying the longest spot he had been in was prisoner of war. nobody ever raised that question again. mccain won the primary and general elections. as a freshman congressman quickly developed a reputation for not necessarily towing the party line. civil war broke out in lebanon and by the fall of 1983, the situation was a powder keg. u.s. peace keeping forces were in harms way. opposing his own party s president, mccain sided with majority of the democrats in calling for the withdrawal of troops deployed in lebanon. he has sort of made this a hallmark of his career to try to be a truth teller on all things foreign policy and the 83 vote is a first step along that way. in arizona this is man we ll all want to watch.
people in your love, men who came before you and helped you out and introduced you around. well, that s what he did to so many senators and especially women senators on the world stage. and at times when we would be at meetings with all-male leaders, especially in asia, and it was lindsey and me and john mccain and of course john mccain would start. he was the head of the delegation. then they d all turn to look at lindsey graham. every single time john mccain would look at them and say, i m sorry, senator klobuchar is a democratic lead of this delegation. she will go next. and he was in that moment telling them, no, this woman is someone to listen to. and i can t tell you how many other women, democrats and republicans, have told me similar stories and part of it may be that he spent his life surrounded by powerful women from his mother, who is still alive, to cindy mccain who s an incredibly strong person, to