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Time you spent in the senate know this is true. there are very diminishingly few united states senator who you would always want to have dinner with. it used to be in the senate there were an awful lot of them. there are very few of them today that you would be dieing to go out and have dinner with. john mccain is someone i would have dinner with seven nights a week. always interesting. a spirit of independent judgment. god, i hope he gets well. >> to that point, john, i think about people worki...

Saying, you know, i want him to quit. >> it certainly was, and its starting to sound again like the saturday night massacre. and it was never clear whether the attorney general resigned in protest or was fired, and similarly the deputy attorney general. both of them think they were fired. both of them think they resigned. either way it doesnt matter. he sent a clear message. in any event, lets remember that he could not have told him he was going to recuse himself because he wasnt caught in his ...

United states senator who you would always want to have dinner with. it used to be in the senate there were an awful lot of them. there are very few of them today that you would be dieing to go out and have dinner with. john mccain is someone i would have dinner with seven nights a week. always interesting. a spirit of independent judgment. god, i hope he gets well. >> to that point, john, i think about people working in the senate today and especially the young people working in the senate toda...

>> i got a call from rick davis saying you know its tough news and it is tough. talked to john. said yeah, im going to have to stay here a little bit longer. take some treatments and ill be back. and we talked about five minutes you know, its going to be a tough way forward but he says ive been through worse. and basically, then we started talking about health care and the nda. literally it wasnt five minutes until he turned away from what i think most people would have a hard time absorbing and...

God bless john mccain. and barney, this is among the kind of unpredictable things that can happen. i mean here at the united states senate where mitch mcconnells counting every vote and now, its hard to say when john mccain will be okay. >> lawrence, to reinforce your point that mcconnell seems to want to get rid of this, if he were absolutely trying as a maximum to get those votes, he would delay it for john mccains presence. i dont think anybody would expect john to come from the terrible thin...

Got to look at whether any financial links between trump and the trump organization and the russians led to a relationship that made putin want to intervene on his behalf. and if mueller has to walk away from that or face some kind of action from trump, then trump is saying, i dont want to be investigated. >> john, the possibility next week of this thing becoming very public includes something we wont really be able to see, jared kushner testifying to the senate intelligence committee staff behi...

Tougher on whoever trump chooses if this comes to pass. >> i want to take a moment before each of you go to turn to john mccain and the difficult news that he and his family have received tonight about brain cancer that senator mccain is now dealing with. john heileman, i know youve covered john mccain very closely, especially in the 2008 campaign and described vividly in your book, game change, played brilliantly by ed harris in the movie of your book. your reflections tonight on the john mccai...

Sessions confirmation hearing testimony and his forgetting his meeting with russians in his confirmation testimony. lets listen to what al franken said on this program about that. >> theres no other conclusion that you can come to other than that he was lying and was committing perjury. >> and now lets listen to what donald trump said to "the new york times" about that very same thing. donald trump said, jeff sessions gave some bad answers. he gave some answers that were simple questions and sho...

Mccain will be okay. >> lawrence, to reinforce your point that mcconnell seems to want to get rid of this, if he were absolutely trying as a maximum to get those votes, he would delay it for john mccains presence. i dont think anybody would expect john to come from the terrible thing hes going through now to be there. thats one more example from mcconnell not wanting to do it. can i say one other thing thats very important? im indebted to donald trump for a long type, weve had this problem that ...

Hours very much anymore. but john mccain, john mccain is one of the lucky ones. he does have a best friend in the senate. and that best friend is senator lindsey graham. >> i got a call from rick davis saying you know its tough news and it is tough. talked to john. said yeah, im going to have to stay here a little bit longer. take some treatments and ill be back. and we talked about five minutes you know, its going to be a tough way forward but he says ive been through worse. and basically, then...