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Thoughts about john mccain. >> it was john mccain not only the sacrifice but deserves the reverence. because of the decades, the stories that hes been a part of, hes in a way more known to americans, more accessible than even a president. i wasnt surprised to see people wilting in the heat waiting. it would have been fitting just to have a service just in washington as it wouldnt have been fitting just to have a service in arizona. theres people waiting him to see him lie in state of the capitol...

The vice-president biden said, its an american story. and i think his passing sort of brings into high relief just how tragic and dangerous this period were in in this country, that we have a chief executive who has seemingly no respect or reverence for the office he holds or the constitution he swore to uphold. and we have a congress that is not fulfilling its constitutional duty to be a check and balance on the executive. senator mccain was one of those, was one of those people, was one of tho...

Violence. america is the longest surviving democracy and its not that long of a period in the total history of the world. so we cannot take for granted that the normal in this country is democracy. i hate to say that, but i think john mccain would want it constantly said, that the area heros in this those not scoring points, but to have national interests prevail over partisan ones. and he was a fierce partisan. i appreciate your comments about them laughing. they had a great sense of the revere...

Hanoi and went to the prison where he was prisoner of war for five and a half years. it was a very somber visit. he took a whole group of us through the prison and talked about his experiences in real detail. we later had a whole series of meetings with vietnamese leaders and it was clear just the admiration and near reverence that the vietnam people held him in because of how hard he had worked to bridge that and reconcile the ulnited states to vietnam. thats one of the biggest lasting legacies...

Ordering the flags at half staff. >> it says the white house cant mourn properly. its not that difficult. chris is right. this is what the void feels like when you dont have a consoler in chief. you put your personal feelings aside. you put your own bickering aside and talk about the larger picture. what this person meant for the country. this isnt the first politician, by the way, of the same party john mccain had disagreements with. remember when it came to torture and water boarding, the publ...

Outpouring this morning of messages from leaders here in the u.s. and all over the world on the passing of senator john mccain. mccain was known as a war hero and foreign policy -- >> he flew combat assignments during the vietnam war. he was shot down. he spent more than five hell years as a hanoi prisoner in a war camp. here is what his peers had to say about his military service. >> his dad was a four-star admiral and so was his grandfather. so when john talks about the military, he does so wi...

>> always had good judgment. >> i thought this guy cant go anywhere. and then of course that campaign was so exciting because it was so boot strapped and unlikely and he really -- he would have won i think had -- he crushed george w. bush in the 2000 and new hampshire primary. the south carolina primary was ten days later, if it had been three or four days late are he might have ended up with the nomination. >> amanda, for a younger generation of conservatives, what does mccain mean and -- i can...

>> wonderfully said, it really is. >> its such an example of how gratitude can change your life and how you live with that. long before john mccain became this titan in the senate and a presidential candidate as he spoke about there,aways a war hero. i dont know if you know everything behind his story. but his colleagues are talking about it. especially his experiences as a vietnam pritsds prison vietnam prisoner of war. stay close. >> when john talks about the military, he does so with a revere...

With all of you. >> reporters who he would take issue with the premise of your question or didnt have time or something like that, he was never shy about showing his an tag nix when he had it. but i think in his mind and certainly in the way he comported himself, there was a bigger purpose. there was a bigger in the case of mitt romney, there was an election to win. and he cared about the country and cared about principle and what was so defining about covering him, i think, he had this real sen...

Anywhere. and then of course that campaign was so exciting because it was so boot strapped and unlikely and he really -- he would have won i think had -- he crushed george w. bush in the 2000 and new hampshire primary. the south carolina primary was ten days later, if it had been three or four days late are he might have ended up with the nomination. >> amanda, for a younger generation of conservatives, what does mccain mean and -- i cant help but think part of the reason why theres such reveren...