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Emotional goodbye. Good morning, im sandra smith live inside americas newsroom. Jon good morning to you, im jon scott in for bill hemmer. Mourners gathered if phoenix yesterday to celebrate the life of the sixterm senator. Joe biden lost his son to the same aggressive form of brain cancer and Larry Fitzgerald who became friends with mccain in the last few years. John was a hero. His character, courage, honor, integrity. I think the thing understated is his optimism. Thats what made john special....

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon, you’re talking about real money.” That’s a quote from Senator Everett Dirkson, from back in the 1960’s.

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Everett dirkson once said every american politician has to get right with lincoln, and i think every american in this hour, i believe, needs to grapple with what he did because, as mike just said, we may be confronting this question ourselves. and so why wouldnt we want to be in conversation with someone who saw us through a storm like this? >> jon meacham, thank you very much. and jon will be back with us throughout the week for more on his brand new book entitled "and there was light" abraham ...

With the calendar. this was a 65 states that were delegated as having this pattern. therefore we need a new map. congress took until now to have the new map. youre doing what the court asked of them to do, and while we are haggling over whether we do it, i remember when i was a kid in elementary school, exactly what you said, the 65 voting rights passed. one of the advocates was a republican from illinois. edward dirkson, i just remember his name because he became an outstanding part of that his...

Brooklyn, there was a republican named everett dirkson, that my mother loved because he was voting for us not to have to sit in the back of the bus anymore. secretary of energy, jennifer granholm, thanks for being with us this morning. lets talk about these disaster, and how much money you think ought to be committed to fight claimant change. we know the white house is going to ask congress for $25 billion for immediate relief as we look at hurricane ida, and the wildfires in the west. i know ...

...youre about to find out! you dont even know where i live... hello! see the grinch in theaters by saying "get grinch tickets" into your xfinity x1 voice remote. a guy just dropped this off. he-he-he-he. how are you? >> all right. >> i want to talk to you as a friend. >> three days before the election. lyndon johnson strikes back. the president calls senates top republican, everett dirkson with a message for dick nixon. nixons people, he says are treading on dangerous ground and the president...

Bigger defenders of slavery. it took a republican president, abraham lincoln, to end it. dixicrats filibustered, opposed expanding civil rights. although it was a democratic president and a majority democrat congress spurred on by young marchers and protesters that got the civil rights act and the voting rights act over the finish line, those historic laws also got passed because of the leadership of republicans like illinoiss own everett dirkson. so neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom. n...

This to build on something bret said is how presidential this seems. this is a five-day funeral and we saw a couple of days in arizona and then we have coverage of the plane and the car and now taking senator mccains body into the capitol. this is very much treatment you would see for a president. there will be a big memorial service tomorrow at the national cathedral and buried at the naval academy on sunday. has not been accorded to a lot of members of congress. i counted three in the past 50 ...