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Release as a propaganda coup. mccain refused, sharing his guards with defiant profanity. he spent the next three years in solitary confinement being tortured with ropes. the experience pushed him repeatedly to the edge of death. he was sustained by fellow american prisoners with whom he communicated by tapping in code on the the walls of the prison. one of those was air force colonel bud day. >> bud day was the most steadfast, the most inspirational and the toughest of anybody that i -- must have something to do with his iowa upbringing. >> mccain was finally released in 1973 to a hero's welco...

Explain himself. of i'm not sure this explains it. "the new york times" asked me to the write a piece on what socialism means, my answer, the argument against capitalism is not that it makes us pure, it's that it makes us unfree. that seems even more bizarre. >> well, of course it is. i almost am happy that it's behind a a pay wall, because it stops a large amount of people from reeding it in the first place. [laughter] you know, as he said, capitalism, you know, socialism prevents us from being unfree, that paywall is also unfree. ed: well, good point, especially right now when you have a gro...

Know? i talked about it yesterday a little bit, that when i covered the pentagon, you know, people were, would shudder in their boots to testify in front of him. but they always knew that he had the military's back. and, you know, remember abu ghraib during iraq, you know? mccain was on the forefront of pushing the administration on that. remember, you know, all of the different elements. gitmo, pushing back on extreme interrogation techniques. i mean, he stood on principle, and a lot of it had to do with the u.s. military. ed: yeah, when you mentioned that last night, vice president cheney pu...

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