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Senator mccain back in 2008, will not be attending this ceremony or indeed any of the ceremonies in the coming days. youre looking at live pictures of the motorcade carrying senator mccains casket to the north phoenix baptist church where this ceremony is about to begin. were getting new information object absence of sarah palin. >> so wolf, what we do know was that senator mccain did not want sarah palin to come to the service, and weve just heard from a source close to the palin family, quote,...

Great for your son that he got to experience this. hell always remember it. thank you. >> wolf, back to you. >> thank you very much. the motorcade making its way from the church to the gold water air national guard base at phoenix international airport. take a look at the bottom, right corner of the screen. you can see all the u.s. military personnel who are already present, 150 army national guard troops, 150 air national guard troops standing on the west side in formation as the motorcade make...

The plane carrying john mccains family and the senators remains will arrive near washington, d.c. the senators casket will lie in state tomorrow in the capitol rotunda. today the mccain. to honor senator mccains legacy and to say good-bye. nick watt is joining us from phoenix. nick, tell us more about this extraordinary service. >> reporter: wolf, there were tears, music, a little laughter, all in remembrance of a politician the likes of whom this country might never see again. a flag-draped cas...

We are waiting for the final preparations of the flight that will take john mccain to washington for one final time. brooke? >> before we look ahead to him being in washington and, of course, on to his final resting place at his alma mater, the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, being buried next to his best friend, lets talk about what we saw and experienced today. it was such a symbolism of the ceremony, nick, not just in word, but in the democrats, you know, the republicans, hearing from his de...

President about don mcgahn, the outgoing white house counsel, he was very talkative. i dont know if you saw it -- >> sure did. >> -- we was talkative, took a lot of questions. maybe the president wants to talk and answer the questions as he heads out to this rally in indiana. of course with the services with john mccain upright now, brooke, one of the questions for the president, obviously, will be, does he have anything more to say about john mccain. he hasnt said much to this point. >> thank y...

Senator mccains body to the mortuary here. >> yes, and this will continue for the next several hours. the public will be allowed to go and pay their respects to a great american as well. jeff zeleny, you were watching very closely. and as you pointed out correctly, the senator himself over these past 13 months, as he was dealing with this severe form of brain cancer, he got very much involved in planning all of this. >> he did, wolf. and thats what we are going to see really playing out over the...

Those words are very appropriate and so powerful. >> ill do that, wolf and try to get through this. it will be the third time ive read this on air. and hopefully i can do it a little more smoother than before. i asked the senator back in january to send a letter to my son who was getting ready to be commissioned as an ensign. just giving him some advice. something that he could hold onto as he goes out to lead sailors. ill read a part of it to you. he wrote, as you may know, my father and grandf...

Rosenstein and the special counsel mueller. and thats why there would be, as lindsey graham said, a year nag july, holy hell to pay. >> hes changed his mind now. but he also says anyone nominated to replace sessions must promise during senate confirmation hearings and colluding in your judiciary hearing committee that this individual promise not to interfere, allow mueller to get the job done, finish his investigation. >> that may be a hope, but i think it is somewhat unrealistic to expect the p...

Unworthy of the office of president of the united states. >> it is pretty startling to hear the president speak, even though it was close to the press, it was to evangelical leaders. but once again cnn did hear an audiotape. >> thank you to cnn for reporting it because everything the president of the united states says speaks forth the presidency. >> those are pretty ominous words indeed. lets get your reaction, senator lindsey graham, he now says its basically a done deal, these two men, sessio...

Meeting of evangelical leaders at the white house last night. cnn heard an audio tape provided to us of what the president said. among other things, the president said they, meaning the democrats, if theyre the majority they will overturn everything that we have done and they will do it quickly and violently, and violently, he repeated it. there is violence when you look at antifa. these are violent people. those are startling words from the president, predicting theres a change in control of th...