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Now from tyson bucca u.s. affairs an analyst with the aspen institute in lynn tyson good to have you with us again thats a message that we just heard about at the end of our report reaching across the political divide very close of course to john mccains right to the point that he even designed his own memorial service in such a way that it stressed his wish for bipartisanship just walk us through some of the symbolism yeah i mean well you know hes having three services this week the first was i...

A way that it stressed his wish to bipartisanship just walk us through some of that symbolism yeah i mean well you know hes having three services this week the first was in arizona that hes got actually two in in washington and then hes going to have a private ceremony at the naval academy where he will be laid to rest with his family and each one represents a different identity that he has one is arizona and the second which we just saw a statesman the third is soldier and family man so here wh...

Very much to leave it. for whom the bell tolls lies wounded and waiting for last fight. these are among his final thoughts. my father had every reason to think the world was an awful place. my father had every reason to think the world was not worth fighting for. my father had every reason to think the world was worth leaving. he did not think any of those things. like the hero of his favorite book, he took the opposite view. i am here before you today saying the words i have never wanted to say...

Defined an end at times haunted by a code of honor that he carries within himself. and i think that is the thing the senate is really going to miss more so than any imprint he may have had on any particular piece of legislation or policy. >> sandra: you wrote his obituary in "the washington post." it starts by you saying this is a man who was bred for combat. he went on to say a man who seemed his truest self when outraged. he reveled in going up against orthodoxy. the word maverick practically ...

Of our highest values. and mccain is so integral to our senate where advances its a great debates. america will miss her devoted son, her starwood champion, her elder statesman. i will miss one of the very finest gentlemen of whom ive had the honor to serve. we will not forget him. i consider it a privilege to return some of the love that john poured out for this countr country. it is our honor as americans to say that the late great john mccain the third, what we have already heard from his cre...

Maybe most of all he was a truth teller. >> it is our honor as americans to say that the late great john sidney mccain the third, what we pray he has artie heard from his creator, well done. good and faithful servant. well done. >> martha: very moving today as lawmakers brought congress to a standstill to remember senator john mccain whose life and legacy will be celebrated across five days and three cities. im honored to be part of fox news coverage for these events. on wednesday senator mccain...

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Senator graham is not the only one that feels that way about john mccain in the senate. there are a lot of people. were going to talk to a few, a couple other senators, one a democrat in the next hour. >> and right, that was a town hall that we did at cnn a couple of months, maybe three months into the trump presidency and point was to talk about how the republican party deals with president trump. but that moment, youre exactly right, really does show the depths of friendships that john mccain ...

And that was important. his voice will be missed but his legacy in that area certainly lives on. >> what do you think is his legacy? what is the most important part of his legacy? what should people take away from the life he led? >> what the american people should know was that john mccain was a true patriot. a man who loved his country, who would do anything to advance his country, a man who believed in national unity, who put his country about himself and lived a life of self-sacrifice and wh...

Public service, covering john mccain was a lot like john mccain himself. it was complicated and a lot of work and full of contradictions bell but it was fun and ultimately full of meaning. >> how are you? >> the very last time i interviewed senator mccain he was blunt. >> but, jake, every life has to end one way or another. >> it was the kind of straight talk that characterized the arizona senators career. i first met him aboard the straight talk express in 1999. >> look at that. >> five times. ...