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2016 presidential campaign and we start with you sher michael, you have several republicans asked about this and ways to honor john mccain and in this one specifically, so here are some of the responses. so far david purdue called it troubling and tim scott is open for discussions and richard shelby who defended richard russell saying he was awell respected senator. and so why the resistance and the republicans hesitating to replace a legacy with john mccain. >> look, i would go back to the statute's argument and people think that is a weird parallel, but a lot of republican voters at the base...

Not of all of it, lot of the rest of it. i just believe -- i don't mean to reign on the parade of all, i believe a man big enough to be a hero for an age is big enough to have the truth told about him. we can look and celebrate the life of john mccain in the totality of his actions and still say, i like what his name, angus king in maine. he said when i worked at the russell office building name the mccain building, he said we called is the senate office build, s.o.b. for short. he said we're getting the right guy. >> martha: my guess assemble would have -- senator mccain would have a good lau...

The arms services and intelligence committees there's no such thing as a surgical strike. this is not something where we want to face some kind of military result. >> back to senator john mccain's legacy. chuck schumer, senate minority leader, senatuggest the russell senate office building be renamed the mccain building. are you in favor? >> yes. i'm standing in the russell rotunda. it was only named the russell building some time in the late '70s. when i worked here as a staff member this was called the old senate office building or affectionately we referred to it as the old s.o.b. and i can...

>> it will be interesting as well to see if that bill from chuck schumer to get the russell building renamed as the mccain building will get bipartisan support and perhaps a signature from the president if it is required. heidi przybyla, thank you very much. we will talk to you in a little bit. a friendly reminder senator jeff flake will be on "morning joe" later this morning. you should turn in for that voters in arizona and florida will head to the polls to make their picks. in arizona, the race to fill jeff flake's u.s. senate seat is under way. republican congress within martha mcsally, ...

Ourselves in opposite dugouts. you see, john and i spent neighbors in the russell building. when softball season came around, we would take the field together as one united team. as a seriously wounded war hero, add a childhood polio survival, john and i did not have the makings of an elite double-play duo. i took the mound once or twice, but we mostly offered moral support. moral support. really, that is what john mccain gave this body. and this country. for so long. his memory will continue to give us. while john continued to serve for senator in arizona, he was america's hero all along. jus...