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Borders and cannot be erased by dictators. perhaps above all, john detested the abuse of power, could not abide bigots and swaggering despots. >> so much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking and bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. it's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact, is born of fear. >> america does not boast because she has no need to. the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great.

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He loved freedom with a passion of a man who knew its absence. he respected the dignity inherent in every life, a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators. perhaps above all, john detested the abuse of power. he could not abide bigots and swaggering despots. >> joining us now, david axelrod and jeff zeleny. jeff, of course, is our senior white house correspondent. david was the chief strategist for president obama's presidential campaigns and his senior adviser in the white house. jeff, before we get into the politics of everything, that was said today, i want to...

Disability and of course dan on the other side and we were all good friends, all three of us. >> and of course that was another member who we've lost who was also able to be lain in state prior to john mccain and having that honor yesterday. you referenced the tributes we heard from two presidents who happened to be the two people who kept john mccain himself from the presidency. how significant was that? >> well, i don't know. john ran four years after i run -- ran and lost, and then he ran again in 2008, but that was all a race today about any competition. >> when we spoke last weekend, it ...

And manufactured outrage. it's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in fact, it's born of fear. john called on us to be bigger than that. he called on us to be better than that. >> david, obviously,you know obama well. those words carefully chosen, i assume. >> without question. and i think the other thing that he said in addition to those remarks, which were clearly a pointed reference to the way our politics are operating now, the way, perhaps, this president operates, is that he talked about his relationship with john mccain and the fact that they had deep disagreements, but ...