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A man who made an enormous difference in the lives of countless people, a man of conviction. a man of state. there's a line from his farewell statement that really just grabs me. our identities and sense of worth are not circumdescribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves. that's john mccain. how fitting and how true. >> we gather here today to honor an american patriot. served a cause greater than himself. and we gather here remembering a man who knew how he wanted to be remembered. and so let me say to all those

Remembered as he wished to be remembered. a patriot who served his country, a man, yes, of the senate but also a man of the house. a navy man. a family man. a man who made an enormous difference in the lives of countless people, a man of conviction. a man of state. there's a line from his farewell statement that really just grabs me. our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves. that's john mccain. how fitting and how true. >> we gather here today to honor an american patriot.

I lost south carolina anyways. but looking at john mccain more in this particular moment, i think what we will see from him going forward is not just the memory of the legislation he was involved with, reaching across the aisle, not also the bad things that people will ding him for, decisions or the support for the iraq war or choosing sarah palin as a running mate, but also the foil that he ended up being in this particular moment to the president. listen to john mccain's farewell statement, just a portion of it. i know we have been talking about it a lot. we weaken our greatness when we conf...

The character of washington? >> something very alarming about the nature of politics. something john mccain talked about in his farewell statement how it weakens the greatness when we talked about the tribal rivalries. that is exactly my point and what happened. donald trump didn't create this environment. he's the culmination of it, but his exacerbates it and makes it worse and does so for cynical political gain. this is how he solidifies his base. john mccain stood for different politics where it was not about himself, but putting the country first and being willing to suffer physically and ...

Farewell statement was meant to undercut her chances and then yesterday using the word cancer in a statement. what's happening out in arizona, that's what kelli ward tweeted yesterday, political correctness is like a cancer, saying the day after john mccain died. tell me, what's going to happen in arizona today, and how split is the republican party there? >> yeah. well, this is a longer term story, the split you're talking about in arizona. kelli ward's tweet that you just put up there, running this insurgent campaign out there against martha mcsally, the pick of the republican establishment ...