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Not only his party, the other party. he was adamant that the fight against al qaeda should be very strong. he was a big proponent of kind of big, strong military. he was not a proponent of any kind of torture. enhanced interrogation techniques. that was a pushback he made in the bush administration. he had a lot of push as chairman of the senate armed services committee. judge jeanine: also in addition to aggressively pushing for an expanded u.s. military presence in iraq and syria, he also i guess true to his personality caused a stir in 2013 when he ventured into syria to meet with

Know? i talked about it yesterday a little bit, that when i covered the pentagon, you know, people were, would shudder in their boots to testify in front of him. but they always knew that he had the military's back. and, you know, remember abu ghraib during iraq, you know? mccain was on the forefront of pushing the administration on that. remember, you know, all of the different elements. gitmo, pushing back on extreme interrogation techniques. i mean, he stood on principle, and a lot of it had to do with the u.s. military. ed: yeah, when you mentioned that last night, vice president cheney pu...

Party. he was adamant that the fight against al qaeda should be very strong. he was a big proponent of kind of big, strong military. he was not a proponent of any kind of torture. enhanced interrogation techniques. that was a pushback he made in the bush administration. he had a lot of push as chairman of the senate armed services committee. judge jeanine: also in addition to aggressively pushing for an expanded u.s. military presence in iraq and syria, he also i guess true to his personality caused a stir in 2013 when he ventured into syria to meet with

Interrogation techniques in the war on terror, and he call them as he saw them. when we discuss our frustration with american politics now, what we're missing -- in a sense, what we're missing is dignity and grace absolutely, but we're also missing the capacity of the leaders at the very top of senators like mccain who were able to look at an issue and decide what they thought was right, and pursue that, and senator mccain -- whether it fit neatly into an ideological box or not, and in this tribalized time, we basically fear that we have lawmakers and a president who decides our priority if yo...

These were not popular positions that he took. >> no. we used to think of him as kind of the umpire of american life. he would call them as he saw them. and where -- to belabor the metaphor, we're at a moment in our politics today where everybody is on one team or the other. it is a ferociously tribal moment. you cheer or you -- you hiss depending on which side of the stadium you are on. and senator john mccain lived up to the great american tradition of using reason as the approach to different issues. so yes, he was a ferocious critic of the war on terror, more of the harsher interrogation t...