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>> we know mccain planned his own funeral while he was still alive. he requested that he be eulogized by george w. bush and president obama. what can you tell us about mccain's process in planning his funeral? >> reporter: notably he specifically asked that trump not attend. this is going to be a week long remembrance of senator john mccain. you can see the area i'm standing in is the arizona capitol. the flags to my right are the state flag, u.s. flag. they are lowered. and they are lowered in honor of senator mccain. the services will begin here on wednesday. first a private ceremony will be...

Phoenix heat, standing on the desert winding roads and waving flags as his hearse arrived at the funeral home. there were people there waving flags to say thank you to senator mccain. but also in the political world, we're hearing from both sides of the aisle within the state. people i know that are democrats here, long time democrats as well as long time candidates for the republican side, they are all responding saying that this is a tremendous institutional loss for the state. >> and he took on the somber task of planning his own funeral while he was still alive. mccain requested that he be...

Counter part there hoping to some talks in geneva about this. so we continue to put a lot of thought, a lot of effort into it and it's constantly evolving evaluation on our part. >> some white house spin there. what are the thoughts of the reaction inside washington about mccain showing up there. >> we know that the white house is going to want to know what john mccain was able to find out or glean from the ground to be able to figure out a little bit more of what the situation is like. after a decade of war in this country, americans are not too eager to find u.s. involvement in another middl...

>> there was a big disagreement between senator mccain and secretary panetta about the u.s. going alone into syria. mccain made a very strong point going back to the '90s saying, look, when the atrocities were happening in bosnia, the united states acted and it's time for us to act here. he had a very pointed question to panetta saying, how many more tens of thousands have to die before you're willing to go in? but panetta countered and said, look, i'm not going to send american troops, men and women, into this situation unless i'm sure of exactly what we can accomplish there. we hea...