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Time you spent in the senate know this is true. there are very diminishingly few united states senator who you would always want to have dinner with. it used to be in the senate there were an awful lot of them. there are very few of them today that you would be dieing to go out and have dinner with. john mccain is someone i would have dinner with seven nights a week. always interesting. a spirit of independent judgment. god, i hope he gets well. >> to that point, john, i think about people working in the senate today and especially the young people working in the senate today who will do two o...

Saying, you know, i want him to quit. >> it certainly was, and it's starting to sound again like the saturday night massacre. and it was never clear whether the attorney general resigned in protest or was fired, and similarly the deputy attorney general. both of them think they were fired. both of them think they resigned. either way it doesn't matter. he sent a clear message. in any event, let's remember that he could not have told him he was going to recuse himself because he wasn't caught in his lie until after he had been confirmed and appointed. he lied to the senate about his russian dea...

United states senator who you would always want to have dinner with. it used to be in the senate there were an awful lot of them. there are very few of them today that you would be dieing to go out and have dinner with. john mccain is someone i would have dinner with seven nights a week. always interesting. a spirit of independent judgment. god, i hope he gets well. >> to that point, john, i think about people working in the senate today and especially the young people working in the senate today who will do two or three years, some of them less. but it will be the memory of their lives. one o...

>> i got a call from rick davis saying you know it's tough news and it is tough. talked to john. said yeah, i'm going to have to stay here a little bit longer. take some treatments and i'll be back. and we talked about five minutes you know, it's going to be a tough way forward but he says i've been through worse. and basically, then we started talking about health care and the nda. literally it wasn't five minutes until he turned away from what i think most people would have a hard time absorbing and focused on what he loves the best. so pray. i don't know god knows how this ends, not me. but...

God bless john mccain. and barney, this is among the kind of unpredictable things that can happen. i mean here at the united states senate where mitch mcconnell's counting every vote and now, it's hard to say when john mccain will be okay. >> lawrence, to reinforce your point that mcconnell seems to want to get rid of this, if he were absolutely trying as a maximum to get those votes, he would delay it for john mccain's presence. i don't think anybody would expect john to come from the terrible thing he's going through now to be there. that's one more example from mcconnell not wanting to do i...