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President. president trump looms so large over our political discourse currently that it was always going to be interpreted that way. i do think these presidents with were intentional in the veiled shots they took sat trump. i can see pushback from people who might honor john mccains service. it would be difficult to give a eulogy where president trump is obviously not present. mike: we have seen bipartisan praise for john mccain. bipartisan former president speaking, his former political oppone...

And losers. that some how he believe these are the winners and theres a loser somewhere else. im struck by the idea that people like jeff flake, barack obama, want to tell thaws the funeral -- tell us that the funeral was all about uni at thiunity butthey didnt invite t trump and they didnt invite sarah palin i think it was the place to celebrate john mccains awesome life and legacy. barack obama spent a lot of time in the eulogy talking about himself, talking about john and i both felt like ame...

This community and to the entire naval family throughout the town. there are flags draped throughout. you really get a sense that this was a place that john mccain thought of as one of his homes. its where he ultimately wanted to come back to. now, meghan mccain, as you mentioned, she was vo sifrerous in that funeral, giving that public eulogy. but lindsey graham, who will be speaking here, part of the eulogyists here today, he was asked about meghan mccains comments. here is how he responded. >...

Friend and naval academy classmate chuck larson. the ceremony is the conclusion to an extraordinary week of mourning and celebration, including eulogies from two former presidents at the national cathedral yesterday. perhaps just as notable, the fact that the sitting president was not in attendance at mccains request. it may have been a thinly veiled shot from meghan mccain that caught president trumps attention. >> america does not boast because she has no need to. the america of john mccain ha...

No emotion at all. he did a eulogy, talking about how much money shauna liked to spend, and that there was one time she was at the gas station and accidentally left the pump in the car. >> reporter: in the eulogy? >> in the eulogy. >> reporter: paula watched george and his daughter at the cemetery and fumed. >> they hadnt even lowered her in the ground yet, and he said, "come on," and took her hand, "its time to go." and i watched him walk off with my little niece, you know, 8 years-old, just lo...

The america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always grea great. >> we know from president trumps tweets around that same time of that eulogy from meghan mccain, the president tweets make america great again. is this what the president has intentionally fostered? you believe that he thinks that this helps him politically. >> its interesting you had a split screen here. on one hand, this funeral was about civility urging washington to come together in a biparti...

The life of senator john mccain. his daughter delivered an emotional eulogy and taking swipes at president trump. president trump was not invited to attend the funeral and instead spent the day golfing. in a series of tweets saturday, he threatened to leave canada out of a new nafta deal with mexico and for congress not to intervene. now back to "dateline." ♪ welcome back. im craig melvin. just months after one woman was raped and killed in a texas college town, a second woman was under ...

Opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served. the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. >> theres a lot of angry conservative republicans out there, trump allies according to politico fuming at this mccain memorial address and urging a counterattack against the daughter of the late senate oor >> the truth hurts. meghan mccain gave what i believe was the best eulogy of the entire ser...

Both george w. bush and barack obama never mentioned donald trumps name, but it was there in their remarks when they talked about how mccain had no bigotry whatsoever. there were lines, particularly from george w. bush, that had donald trump written all over them. however, what i thinks going to be most remembered here is how remarkable it is that john mccain lost to george w. bush, never was able to get the republican nomination, and lost in 2008 to barack obama, yet he chose those two to deliv...

The express on his face when i climb back up and rode again. i see the pride and love in his eyes as he said nothing is going to break you. for the rest of my life, whenever i fall down, id get back up. whenever i am hurt, i drive on. whenever i am brought low, i rise. that is not because i am uniquely virtuous or strong or resilient. it is simply because my father, john mccain, was. when my father when i asked him what he wanted me to do with this eulogy, he said, show them how tough you are. t...