president by subtweet in a eulo eulogy. i would like the people who gave these eulogies to be leading movements right now. to be out on the streets. to tell us what to do, to be protecting us and guiding anyone in particular you re talking about. whether it s president bush, president obama, president clinton, secretary clinton, any of those people in that front row and many others in the room. i understand their desire to keep it classy but we risk classing ourselves into authoritarianism. so i hope it goes beyond the eulogizing. this was such a celebration of senator mccain s courage and valor and ability to stand up to torture and he spent by the reporting months preparing his funeral as a rebuke to the president and i think that s a great use of a ceremony but it also occurs to me that in that time he was preparing it he could have chosen to caucus with
as the nation mourns senator mccain, we want to note another incredible final tribute. funeral services were held for the queen of soul, aretha franklin on friday in her hometown of detroit. the marathon celebration of her life lasted eight hours and featured such high-profile speakers as former president bill clinton, an incredible performance by artists like fantasia, jennifer hudson, shaka khan, smokey robinson, ariana grande and stevie wonder. also in aten dance william barbour and al sharpton who brought the crowd to their feet with this searing response to donald trump whose tribute to franklin was to tweet that she once worked for him. i say that because when word had went out that ms. franklin passed trump said she used to work for me. no, she used to perform for you.
as steve schmidt said, i identify with his comments about what this election may mean in terms of either repudiation or affirmation and cementing of trumpism and that will set the course for not just the next two years but many years to come. my producers informed me lindsey graham is denying the reporting that he was behind inviting jared and ivanka to the funeral. here is graham on cnn. when i saw ivanka and jared i was surprised, i didn t know they were on the invite list. it turns out senator graham you were behind that. no. you were not behind that. nobody was at that funeral that didn t get invite bid the family. earlier i meet with ivanka about a trip we were planning in africa. ivanka said nice things about senator mccain that was not unnoticed by the family. michelle bernard, that is the new explanation for how they
invited to the funeral. here s how former mccain adviser steve schmidt summed it up during our coverage yesterday. it was a fundamental rebuke to the vileness, the corruption, the self-centeredness, selfishness, cruelty that we see emanate from the oef office in the form of president donald j. trump everyday. the choice the country faces in a couple monos about whether to repudiate trumpism or validate is an essential one and you saw today the argument being made for its repudiation. joining us now is the author of winners take all, the elite charade of changing the world michelle bernard, president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy and back with me, jonathan capehart and michael steele. the washington post
capehart will be back with us, christopher metzler my friend saying my friend doesn t help. chris her metzler, thank you for being here. coming up, john mccain trolls trump one last time. -i ve seen lots of homes helping new customers bundle and save big,