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The fondest memory was not when he beat me, john, i will tell you that. [laughter] it was never personal. In fact, john mccain was able to defeat me in South Carolina and that was the turning point. I was getting momentum up until that time but he had decided that if he did not win South Carolina he was pulling out because he was about out of gas and out of money and i was a critical moment. He and Fred Thompson had a great plan. The plan was fred would stay in the race, use ready to get out, fred would stay and basically drive back and forth between greenville and freiburg and beat the stuffi...

Capital rotunda this morning. John mccain will be the 31st american to lie in state. 242 years of this republic. We have a team of correspondents, analysts, friends, all here this hour, as we watch poet of theboth of the. We want to begin in detroit, where the final goodbye to the queen of soul is just beginning. As you might imagine, it is a starstudded sendoff for Aretha Franklin. Some of the biggest names in entertainment are attending the funeral in detroit. This is just beginning now. Ron mott is there. Ron, so far, seems like this is going to be a ceremony fit, fittingly, for a queen. Re...

Starting next hour in detroit, a musical, prayerful memoryfilled celebration of the life of Aretha Franklin. And my colleague Fredricka Whitfield is there. Ana, this is a service fit for a queen, indeed, from the pink cadillacs, the parade of punk cadillacs were coming in on the streets to the alist lineup on the stage of the Greater Grace Temple behind me here. Among the 19 scheduled performers, stevie wonder, Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson. Speakers including former president bill clinton, Smokey Robinson and Jesse Jackson so this event is set to last at least five hours long. But if you ...

Pride, patriotism, his strong relationships as a beloved colleague, father, and husband, and a reminder that there is more to washington than your personal politics. His daughter, Meghan Mccain, giving a heartfelt, powerful tribute to her father, that sentiment echoing throughout the service. I am here before you today saying the words i have never wanted to say, giving the speech i have never wanted to give. We gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic a...

President. Losing to george w. Bush and later barack obama. And he resisted a changing of the guard in politics often at odds with President Donald Trump and the two shared a little more in common than their political party. And, yet, mccain did not yield. Most wondrous land on earth, indeed. Ive had the good fortune to spend 60 years in service to this wondrous land. To fear the world we have organized and led the three quarters of a century, to boopd the ideals we advanced around the globe, to re fuse the obligations of International Leadership and duty to remain the last best hope of earth,...