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Entered the room. i'm thrilled that senate minority leader chuck schumer proposed renaming the russell building the john mccain building. i hope every person who served in those buildings feels his heroic presence for years and years to come. >> it's really actually quite brilliant to do this. you get rid of dick russell's memory of giant of the senate but horrific white supremacist who blocked civil rights legislation, a democrat. you get to erase him from the democratic archives and it's a nice bipartisan moment. >> mccain would appreciate that. he was a clever tack tigs in the senate as wel...

Themselves. he wanted to see them, understand what they're going through. and by his person, his physical presence being there, he was conveying to them that the rest of the world knows what's happening, we care about you, we support you. there's a piece that mark salter wrote in the "washington post" today, he talked about these burmese political prisoners. all john mccain did was really read out their names and call attention to them. years later when they met, they were in tears because it meant so much that someone like john mccain called attention to what they were going through. >> you k...

The age of 81. this is a man who had many words that he shared over the course of his life. he wrote three books. the most recent was published just this past summer. i know you have some new information for us. >> reporter: he wrote i think maybe about a half a dozen books believe it or not with his co-author and close friend mark salter. i want to read a couple of quotes which i think are telling right now, but before that i wanted to share something that the democratic leader, senator chuck schumer, who, again, this is a familiar theme you'll be hearing, a democrat who has the utmost respec...

Compassion. i don't think we are going to see that kind of statesman, who can work with conservatives and with liberals and he saw them all as friends. the best evidence, you have done a great show this morning. he wanted to put senator lieberman on the ticket. it would have been revolutionary. i wish he had. >> is there something you know about him that the rest of us don't? something you can share that we don't know about him? >> i don't think so. i would tell you, i think you have done a great insight into this. he was a person and, i mean this sincerely in my interactions and i know throug...

I remember sitting in a gloomy time square hotel room with senator mccain and mark salter in august of 2007. so exactly 12 years ago. and basically -- john mccain couldn't -- as joe said, he could barely get arrested. because he had put all of his chips on the fact that he thought the surge in iraq was an essential policy decision and he been very critical of george w. bush on the the other parts of that policy. but he called it as he saw it. and he said, if the surge works, people will give me a second look in this race and we'll go out and test our medal -- we'll test our metal. as if he had...