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More than three decades on the hill. a headline says, john mccain's death leaves a foreign policy void. joining me now to discuss mccain's influence on the u.s. world view, two senior foreign policy advisers to his 2008 presidential campaign. max, i want to start with you. we have seen this outpouring of tributes from all these foreign entities in particular. what does this say about the role that john mccain played in american foreign policy around the world? >> what it says is that john mccain was hugely influential, more so than a lot of secretaries of state and some presidents. he was a pr...

And the men. the mission and the men. in the prison camp, it was resisting exploitation by the communist north vietnamese. and at the same time, caring for those of us that inhabited that place. john had a great geopolitical sense about the destiny of humankind, if you want to put it that way. and he very often spoke of those things. i think that's why he got along with people of the other party or of other points of view. >> throughout his career, mccain was a champion and guardian of the military. he pushed, of course, for support. he pushed for strong relationships overseas. his death leavi...

Someone who transcended party. not in a way that he -- he's not perfect, but as the general just said, he did have this capacity to actually call them as he saw them, and in our tribal moment where everybody tends to take a position before they think about it, that is something that is going to be mourned until we can get it back. and i'm confident we can. i think senator mccain would be confident that we could, but it's going to take a lot of work. >> general, "the wall street journal" is noting this morning senator mccain's death as john is talking about the practicality of it, leaves a fore...