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Interventionist for decency. mark salter, mccain's long-time collaborator, describes mccain as a romantic about his causes and a cynic about the world. mccain's life had shown him the ease with which the powerful can punish and the cruelty with which they can do it. so he made it his purpose to give the afflicted hope and to use american power to try to tear down oppression. that commitment made him a hero, salter says, all over the world. >> there's a story we talk about in the book where he goes to berma and meets with three guys who had been political prisoners for 20 years, had just been r...

>> jared kushner's own words. let's go to phil mattingly, covered mccain up on capitol hill. our congressional correspondent. i was listening to that and i was reading, so this is from dana, from mark salter. i was wondering you know at what point would senator mccain have thought to have written those words. john salter told me early spring he wanted a statement issued postmortem. we discussed what he wanted to say, did a draft. he took a cull couple of things out, added a few lines and i put it in a drawer until the time came. phil. >> brooke, i think it's important to note with the senator ...

>> i hope to impress on you again that it is an honor to serve the american people in your company. thank you fellow senators. mr. president. [ applause ] >> that was john mccain's final speech. in a moment we'll be joined by "hardball" chris matthews. first let's bring in mark sal terrify, john mccain's friend, former chief of staff and speech writer. he co-authored john mccain's last memoir "the restless way" which was published this past may. he's out with his latest piece in the "the washington post" entitled "john mccain spent his life serving the dignity of his fellow man." mark, we know...

Former chief of staff and speech writer mark salter who, my gosh, knew john mccain more than anybody outside of the senator's immediate family. also, many, many more guests with us. "morning joe" will be right back. >> i spend everyday saying to myself, stay calm, stay cool, be passionate but neither get angry or personal. those are two important lessons i learned. i burnt bridges early in my campaign. now i work to build bridges. >> we'll be watching. thanks for sharing your views. >> i haven't had as much fun since my last interrogation. my . you're turning onto the street when you barely ...

Had the obamacare vote and we were at his condo in phoenix and i went over for dinner with cindy and john. when i walked in he was -- he had just been given the terminal diagnosis and he was sitting at a table with a list of names of family members from the "uss john s. mccain" who had been, whose loved ones had been killed in the accident that just happened. he was calling each one to express their condolences and requested what he could do for them. then he would assign staff to take care of whatever they need. just in that moment, his typical decency. it really drove the guy. >> mark, thank...