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Senator. i consider it a great privilege to have served with john and i will miss him as a friend and as a strong force for america in the world. >> we've all seen the grainy video. a young man in his 30s emerges from behind the folding doors of a bus. plows forward with strength. his feet land on the ground, and he limps forward towards freedom. it's john mccain, and he's just spent five years as a prisoner

This. and i know that even as much time as she had to prepare for this, she is grieving. grieving today. they were incredibly close. no father and daughter were closer, in my opinion. he relied on her. called her multiple times a day. she was his touchstone, and he was her rock. >> our heart goes out to her, her brothers and sisters and her mother, grandmother. the whole family is suffering, clearly suffering right now. but they certainly can appreciate the unbelievably important role that john mccain played in our history over these many recent years. jan brewer, we just see the former govern...

Of war, shot down, ejected from his plane. his right leg and both arms broken. he managed miraculously to save himself from drowning in the lake in which he landed only to be captured by the north vietnamese. no one expected john mccain to make it through the night, but as one of his fellow p.o.w.s put it, dying was not in his plan. confined to solitude, tortured, this son and grandson of navy admirals repeatedly refused release until every other american brother was released with him. of all the speeches, interviews and town hall meetings that have been played and replayed these days since jo...

Draped coffin. arizonians are paying their final respects to the man who served them for more than three decades. i want to bring in nick watt. he was inside the room for this ceremony. nick, emotional there certainly for the family and it seems for the arizona public as well. >> reporter: absolutely. they have actually starting letting people in early to pay their respects. they have been standing in line in 102 degree heat for a few hours now. yes, the service was emotional. meghan mccain clasping her brother's hand. and the governor described him as a fighter. as the political world struggl...

Mccain did not want the president at his funeral. trump criticized his service and his capture in vietnam during the elect. and mccain famously voted down trump's attempt to repeal obamacare. it took the president more than a day to respond to repeated calls to appropriately pay tribute to mccain. >> why won't you call john mccain a hero, sir? >> reporter: and perhaps a final jab at the president, mccain asked a russian dissident and putin critic to be one of his pal bearers. even in death, the senator appealing to the better angels of our nature. >> john is probably the only politician who co...