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Capitol rotunda, today, as our country hold him, senator john mccain joins those ranks. >> nbc's kelly o'donell, one of our few reporters let inside to report from the rotunda. >> since the doors were opened to the public, there has been a steady stream of americans who have come here to personally pay their respects and take in this moment. as you can see some of are flying past the casket and others are stopping and spending some time to offer a prayer to think of the moment of the history of the man and why the country had taken such time this week to honor the memory. senator john mccain's...

The disdance around the world. cindy mccain has traveled to many places and she has a body of work that she has been doing for years and years. it has relevance of the modern world of today's politics of the security front. whether he's named or not, expect her to take a visual role and you will see a lot of cindy mccain carrying on the institute. so whether if it is possible as andrea noted, there is a history for it and whether she gets the seat or not, expect cindy mccain to be talking about the same kind of things that john mccain have been talking about. >> kelly, thank you. residents and...

Vote in the u.s. senate. >> it is going to restore the majority of the republicans to 51 votes since john mccain have not been voting since december of last year. it has been a narrow majority and that will certainly with the nomination of brett kavanaugh making it necessary to have not just the murkowski and the susan colli collins votes. with a lot of close votes coming up, it will be a lot of pressure to governor ducey not to give the honor to cindy mccain. >> kelly, o'donnel there on the ground there for us in phoenix. kelly has been around this family for about a number of years covering ...

Difficult not to recognize just how much of a spinning image he is, of his father, he was there in the white uniform, it is like looking at a young john mccain. >> that's true. >> kelly o'donell, our colleague, peter alexander this morning on the "today" show noted that only john mccain would be able to probably orchestrate a service like this on his 82nd birthday. only john mccain able to pull something like this off. walk me through and walk us through what happens next, what are we looking here the next three hours and next few days as we remember john mccain. >>. >> reporter: your conversa...

The different jokes. >> it interesting that it goes in the family, i was talking to someone i met the other day that he driven roberta mccain to an appointment in washington, d.c. and, he acknowledged that he was a retired army veteran and she said, let me out of this car. it was so john mccain. that was the way he used to call us jerks in the hallway, kelly o'donell, how many times john mccain in the bus or at the capitol insults you? >> reporter: so often. he's known to be the son of an admiral and grandson of an admiral. he was with his mother far more because they were deployed and serving...