Welcome. Guy great to be back, thanks for having me. Molly and we are awaiting the motorcade carrying john mccains body to depart in route to the statehouse and the Church RatherMemorial Service will be taking place. Vice President Joe Biden will speak at that service along with two of the late senator s children. About two dozen sitting senators and former senator s and other notable leaders from the state of arizona are expected to be in attendance. Yesterday, mourners lined up for hours to under senator mccain as he lie in state inside the rotunda of Arizona State capitol. Wednesday evening, members of the mccain family grading some of the thousands of people waiting in the sweltering heat to pay their respects. Some of the wellwishers reflecting on what they admired most on the late senator. All the important things that we as americans hold dear, from duty, honor and country, he represented all of that. I think he was really down to earth. It didnt matter where you came from or what party were affiliated with, he seemed to respect everyone. I think he brought a unity, brought change from the beginning to the end, and he died a great man. I wasnt always about the politics that he did but i loved the man. Molly Trace Gallagher joins us outside of the church for the Memorial Service will begin later this hour. We just talked to john mccains people and they say now apparently the casket will leave the Arizona State capitol sometime in the next three or 4 minutes and make its way here to the north phoenix Baptist Church. The trip is about 10 miles and it should take somewhere around 30 minutes and the streets will be lined with people saying goodbye to john mccain and paying their respects to him. We have just been notified that the local high schools that are on the procession route will also let out of school and a day to, will join in with the flags and the cheering to say goodbye to senator john mccain. Talk about an amazing History Lesson, if yesterday really was about paying their respects to john mccain, today is all about saying goodbye, as you alluded to. At 2 00 this afternoon, john mccains casket will then be loaded onto an airplane in route for d. C. And that will be of course his last time leaving his adoptive and beloved state of arizona. You can see at the capital, it is kind of the same in reverse as we saw yesterday. You have the mccain family being taken, cindy mccain by the honor guard and of course the casket will be brought out and placed into the hearse and brought here. Its kind of been reversed, the mccain family also on scene. You mentioned earlier, we will hear today from Andrew Mccain, john mccains son from his first marriage, and Bridget Mccain, his adoptive daughter. We will hear from both of them during the services along with the former vice President Joe Biden. If you think about joe biden and john mccains relationship, it goes back more than 40 years. Remember, john mccain before he entered congress and in the senate, he was the navy liaison to the senate so he and joe biden will do a lot of overseas trips. During those trips they became very tight. Of course the sad irony of all this is that joe bidens son died from the very same cancer that took senator mccains life last friday. You can see here, the honor guard and every branch of the military will be lined up outside of the states capital. If yesterday we saw this amazing outpouring. They just could not have been more impressive, more inspiring, as senator mccains casket now being carried by the honor guard out toward the hearse and then will make its way on that route 10 miles here to the north phoenix Baptist Church. This is the grand ceremony. Yesterday we had a smaller ceremony, we heard from former senator john kyle, we heard from the governor of arizona, doug ducey. The governor will also be here today, he will not speak. And there will also be some 24 current senators on hand for todays ceremony and a four former senators. We are talking about everybody from Lindsey Graham who was very close to john mccain, joe manchin, ben sasse is directly next and we will be able to bring him in moments from now, to Lamar Alexander and senator john kyle, the former senator of arizona will also be here. This is one of those powerful moments that you will see repeated not just today and this afternoon but again tomorrow in the Nations Capital, where john mccain will go into the Capitol Rotunda and he will lie in state there for 24 hours. The funeral will be held on saturday. As you look at all of this, you have to think that john mccain himself began planning this for or five months ago. He personally called former president s obama and george w. Bush saying to them, we are pleased speak on my behalf. President obama and john mccain had not only a very tightly contested race in 2008, but there was some acrimony between them. And yet john mccain became a big fan of president obama and when he asked him to speak, the president immediately said yes. George w. Bush will also speak at the ceremony and washington tomorrow. As they place the casket into the hearse, lets just hold off on second and hear this. First closing the door on the hearse, that will happen a few more times today and if you think back to yesterday, the powerful emotional picture of watching Meghan Mccain, our former colleague, as she addressed her fathers casket. And she broke down. You think you go back to nancy reagan and Ronald Reagans caskets and you go back to the state funerals that we have seen, and these are the poignant moments that you will see throughout the weekend. This is a 15 car procession that will go from the state capital here to the north phoenix Baptist Church. This wasnt john mccains home church, just to let you know, this happens to be one of the largest churches in the area, it can handle the crowd. Not only are we talking about former senators, House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy, dan quayle and joe biden, we are also talking about a thousand people from the public. We had 15,000 people who came through last night and waited in line. It was 100 plus degrees and some waited for three or four hours in line so that they could pay their final respects to john mccain. It was impressive and inspiring and amazing to watch this. To see this repeated today, and as we watch this again, you look at john mccains 15 car procession, what goes through your mind . You talk about high schools lining this route and what a History Lesson it is, i got to learn about him and anywhere you go in the world, enlisted and officers, young troops that were men or women, they all delayed their promotion ceremony if they heard john mccain was coming to town sometime in the future because they wanted him to read them the oath, they wanted to be sworn in and promoted by john mccain, he was everyones hero. You often mention kind of a similar political attitude, and when we talk, i was teasing earlier saying there were 24 former senators or current senators and the breakdown is 14 publicans and 15 democrats. I was a lot more conservative than he was and we would fight about policy but an awesome thing about john mccain, for a guy that had been in prison for five years, he didnt have patience for small stuff. The thing that john mccain glove was the people that wanted to fight about big thing where less and ignore anything little. I was talking to jeff flake yesterday and he was talking about the fact that john mccain was like his big brother in the senate. You knew that nobody was going to mess with you so when he went into the senate it was like, no one will mess with John Mccain John mccain. I had known him out of the history books, and that is a man destined for the history books. He endorsed against me in my primary because he thought i was too conservative. It was like, i dont even know this guy and hes endorsing against me so when i won my primary i cited to talk to him. I said youre a hero, i volunteered on one of your own campaign and i said by the way, you are a jerk. And right away, he let out this string of expletives and i knew we would be fast friends. He was at town hall one time and he blurted out something that some people thought was inappropriate and he countered by saying, look, i have this personality disorder, im a wise guy, thats who i am. I cant help it. I speak my mind and i try to speak the truth and sometimes it offends people. I think those of us on the end of a mccain tirade, it was a badge of honor. This guy was tortured so long that he couldnt even lift his hand up high enough to calm his own hair. He wanted to get out there and celebrate the troops and promote the american idea. Its its amazing, i want to focus on the left part of your screen, the cortege, the procession, the motorcade to come up whatever you chose to call it. 15 cars, 15 vehicles. It will take us probably 30 minutes to get from the state capital here. If you missed it earlier, the high schools have been let out so they can join in this. We talked about 15,000 people come here yesterday to pay their respects to john mccain from all over the state of arizona. I mean the farthest reaches of arizona, from surrounding states. And it was payback. We talked about this, it was payback because john mccain when he would run for congress in the early years in the senate, he made an habit of canvassing the states. And senator sasse, this is one thing i talked about, he went to these towns with 50 People Living in them and held town halls. Thats just the man he was. He is a worker. Its weird to say as a 46yearold that john mccain, an 81yearold, became my friend. But he became my friend because he wasnt stuck at some moment in History Company was always active in the now, he was tireless. Do you expect funny moments to happen today . We will hear from former Vice President biden, you know there will be some funny stories about him. John would be terribly disappointed if people werent were irreverent at some moments. There are all these conversations about naming an Office Building after john and i personally think you cant reduce his legacy to marble. But if a senate Office Building is renamed for him and it becomes the mccain s. O. B. , senate Office Building, he would love that. He was such an avid sports fan, he adopted the diamondbacks, and there will also be some funny stories about how john mccain was such an avid sports fan. It was the phoenix coyotes that became the arizona coyotes, and its amazing. A lot of those people will be pallbearers including Luis Gonzalez who had the gamewinning hit in the 2001 a world series for the Arizona Diamondbacks when they weep beat the new york yankees. That was one month after 9 11 and the world was kind of pulling for new york saying, come on. And john mccain said, no, we are pulling for the Arizona Diamondbacks because this is their home team. The yankees have had the pennant, its time for us. When mccain is out there singing the song of america, free speech, liberty, religion, press and protest, he shows up and basically says im here as his bodyguard. And you know john mccain, if you dont know, he planned every detail of this. He called those to speak to eulogize him in washington on saturday but even today they will play Amazing Grace by the Brophy School choir. That is where jimmy and jack mccain, johns sons went to school. So theres a big connection with that school and john mccain. Its a very close mitt community over there and a lot of that will happen. Of course the last song in todays ceremony will be Frank Sinatras my way and thats what he wanted to leave the ceremony under. Its a fitting thing. Im 1 of 8 people in the senate who has never been a politician. Ive only seen one person stand up at us and at lunch, scream at his colleagues and i cussed them out, walk out and then slammed the door. And he could come back and when you all back immediately. Its amazing for me to see how the mccain family has handled this. Cindy mccain, the grace and the composure as she handles each of these different events, and Meghan Mccain broke down yesterday but she composed herself again. The mccain family going out last night as you watch the motorcade come down, i believe this is highway 17, coming down and making their way here to the north phoenix Baptist Church. Its amazing that the mccain family last night after a celebration at a local hotel went out and to thank the people in line for hours in the hundred plus temperatures that came and pay respects to their father. It is an amazing thing. This state loves john mccain, ive been up in the northern part of the state, in the desert, where they have their ranch. People in the community if they hear that john mccain is in town they want to come and salute the guy. Senator sasse, i know that you have to go, thank you very much. Very good at, great insight. So that cortege is maybe 15 or 20 minutes away and they will arrive here. When they get here, we will kind of go to the same ceremony again and we will take you there live. Lets go back to the outnumbered crowd on the couch because they are watching us. Its truly aweinspiring to see these types of state events. Before thank you so much, fascinating interview with the senator got one of many who will be in attendance from both sides of the political aisle. A republican antidemocratic, speaking to how senator mccain lived his life reaching out across that bipartisan aisle. As we look at the screen and come up we can see the motorcade as it travels through phoenix and this is an opportunity for the people of the state to state her final very well. Senator mccain slated to go to washington later today. Let me bring in guy benson, sitting on the center of the couch in the hot seat. As he watched all of this unfold, weve been seeing for days the out outpouring. What are your thoughts . Guy i think the greatest test amount is 15,000 arizonans lining up in brutal temperatures for hours to pay their final respects yesterday. At the very end we heard from Trace Gallagher talking about the family. We have all sat on his couch with Meghan Mccain. I have never lost a parent, thank god. And i can imagine when that happens one day it will be really, really hard. I cant imagine being so public about it over the course of many days, with the eyes of the nation watching you, to me that has been really profound. Watching the family grieve the loss of someone that was not a historical figure, not a war hero necessarily, it was a dyadic, a husband. A deeply personal experience for them. But playing out on national television, its got to be really tough. Molly thank you very much. We will continue to watch these events unfold in phoenix and we will bring you more on the Memorial Service when it all begins. E. The wonderful thing about polident is the fact that its very, very tough on bacteria, yet its very gentle on the denture itself. Polidents 4 in 1 cleaning system consists of 4 powerful ingredients that Work Together to deep clean your denture in hard to reach places. 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And what a service its going to be. This service is choreographed by the senator himself over an eight month period, every song selected and even the movement of his body in the casket throughout phoenix, throughout his home state and on its way to washington where the senator will lie in state. And the Nations Capital to another large funeral celebration at the cathedral on saturday and then he will be buried at the Naval Academy in annapolis, maryland. We are watching as this funeral procession or cortege is making its way to the North Baptist Church there. This is something that every american, whether you met john mccain, guy, got to witness is his sense of humor and his irascible nature. Guy everyone has lost someone and our nation has lost someone great. We could go around the couch, with probably had our own frustrations with john mccain at some point, and if he were here he would come right back at us, but you cant take away from him what he sacrificed for this country. I think the ultimate reminder of that will be his final resting place at annapolis, right at the Naval Academy and the branch of service in which he served and was shot down and tortured for five and a half years, declining to come home early.