senator dole had the greatest regard for senator mccain. senator dole wore the p.o.w. bracelet never having known john mccain when he was a p.o.w. but by happenstance chose to wear a bracelet in honor of and respect for, being concerned about a p.o.w. in vietnam. and they learned on the senate floor john mccain -- john mccain learned on the senate floor that bob dole wore his throughout much of his captivity. i respect and honor senator dole and i saw that day the respect and honor he had for a fellow senator, a fellow serviceman, a fellow veteran, both senator dole and senator mccain whose lives were dramatically affected by their service to our nation. quite frankly, when i arrived in the united states senate, i was intimidated by senator mccain. he was vitriolic. he had the opportunity, he had the habit of exploding at a moment's notice, something could set him off, something he cared passionately about could cause him to react. and in my early days as a new united states senator, i didn't seek the companionship of john mccain. that was a mistake on my part because

to establish cloture, you could do it by simple majority of the senators. 51 senators. this was threatened by senator bill fritz when he was the majority leader and opposed violently by senator harry lee he wasy reid when minority leader. it was invoked by harry reid when he was majority leader and opposed vehemently by mitch mcconnell when he was minority leader. it was then continued by its mcconnell and in fact expanded by him when he became majority leader. it is not a democratic or republican position. it is a majority party position and a minority party position. the majority leader has got to figure out how you get things done, and the senate became so polarized, especially over nominations, that nothing was happening, so eventually, they had to blow up the dam and let the water through. did an what reid mcconnell has continued. brian: is there any way to describe what impact this would have on the house? senateck: the house and are vastly different bodies and i think we often overlook that. people think there is a congress, and they know there's two bodies, but

only three senators came out and it was senator grassley, senator bob dole and john mccain. now, john mccain came out and i always remember this, we had a lot in common, but i hardly knew the guy. the first time he came out because he has a background in aviation, i have a background in aviation. and i remember i had a nice air conditioned twin engine plane, but i lost an engine the night before so i had to fly my kid's plane. it's very hot -- it's called a little gruman tiger. it doesn't have any air conditioning, it was in the 90's, it was close to 100 that day. i wrote down the places we went that day. first we went to oklahoma city, then to shaney, then to lawton, which is the home of fort sil, which is the number one area in the world for ar till tri, and we did our thing there all the time. he was campaigning for me, a guy who couldn't win. we went from there to altas air force base, and that is one still one of the top training bases, and we now train k-17 and kc-125's. as a matter of fact, because of john, we'll be flying the kc-46. of course, this is long before tha

what do you think the loss of senator mccain will mean for the senate and for the u.s.? >>. >> well, his voice was important to -- has been for years but never more important than the past year. and that's one thing i expressed to the family, the gratitude of all of us, that they took such great care of john and made sure he was able to speak in these last few months when it was so important. it's tough to have a voice like that silenced. but this voice for civility, to put you know, the country above your party, these are things that he taught for years and never more important than the last year. >> his life, his entire life was devoted to serving the united states, including enduring more than five years of confinement and torture in a north vietnamese prisoner of war camp and here's what he said to the american red cross in 1999. war is wrech he had beyond description and only a fool could sentimentalize its cruel reality. how did you see his experience in vietnam in how it shaped his character and way he lived his life? >> well, he said many times that he grew to ap

in the senate. he said, could you come into the caucus lunch we have every tuesday, just give a five-minute history minute about something members who are busy and don't have much time to read tomes of history, just the essence, maybe, of something related to the institutional development of the senate, historically speaking. so i did that for 12 years until i retired, and don ritchie continued, and his successor betty is doing it. the republicans, when i retired, mitch mcconnell said, we have been meaning to do this, too, so both the republicans and democrats, every tuesday the senate is in session, get to hear from a historian about something the historian thinks they ought to know. that is great fun. mr. ritchie: the senators love history. they see they are part of history. they still sit at the desks in the senate chambers that daniel webster, henry clay sat at. they actually carved their names in the desk drawer along with the famous senators there before them. i found when they were traveling,

the senate. then what do we do? they shifted their weight, everyone shook hands and left. during the actual impeachment vote, i was fortunate enough to be able to sit in the vice president's office just off the senate chamber with president clinton's legal staff, all his attorneys, while the vote was taken. everyone had one of those big sheets, and they checked yea or nay, and they knew he would not be removed from office. brian: ray, were you there during the impeachment of bill clinton? mr. smock: i was not in the house anymore, but i did get to see, thanks to senator byrd, tickets to go to the trial. i still have my ticket. brian: any memories from that? mr. smock: yes. in our two volumes of the congressional investigation, i did the research on the whole whitewater investigation, and the clinton impeachment, so i did a great deal of research on from taking the whole thing all the way back. i followed it very closely, even though i was no longer working for the house at that time. brian: don r

jane raybould: i am the 13th most effective senator in the u.s. senate. that is through the university of virginia study. you do not get that rating and less you work across the aisle. i get things done. -- iked the public and work with republicans and democrats. i fight for the state, get bills passed, whether it is agriculture industry and getting thatf crazy regulations will regulate waste omissions. >> moving on. it is time to ask each other a question. by a drawing of cards, senator fischer, you are first. deb fischer: i am a champion for paid family leave . i would ask my opponent, do your stores provide paid family leave for your hourly employees, for employees who need it the most? jane raybould: we are proud of our company. we have been in business for 54 years. we are an employee owned company, meaning our employees contribute their blood, sweat, tears, and years and we provide benefits. we provide paid time off which families can use at their own discretion. we give them independence of choosing what matters. we are also part of family medical

mccain: joe was a senator and i was a liaison to the senate and my duties included escorting senate delegations on overseas trips, and in that capacity i supervised the luggage. when no one of lord and was -- lower rank was available for the job, that could require that i carry someone else's bag. once or twice, that turned out to be the young senator from delaware. i have resented it ever since. [laughter] joe has heard me joke about that before and i hope that he has heard about my profession of gratitude for his friendship and love over these many years. it has meant a lot to me. we served in the senate together for over 20 years during some event full times as we passed from young men to the fossils that appear before you this evening. [laughter] we did not always agree on the issues and we often argued passionately. we believe in each other's patriotism and sincerity. we believed in the institution we were privileged to serve in and our mutual responsibility to make the place work and to find solutions to our problems. we believed in the country and the indispensability to international pe

a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that my fellow john price, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the year. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. gardner: mr. president, i rise to speak about the defense appropriations bill, con lating senators shelby p and others for putting together a very good product. for my home state it will give installations such as peterson, buckley, the air force academy, fort carson in colorado springs and beyond. this provides the first sig can't pay raise for soldiers, sailors, air mern and marines for -- in over ten years. in the -- i want to highlight several provisions related to these areas. the funding provides $356 million in additional funding to expand and accelerate the cyber defense including research efforts and $116 million in missile defense agency cybersecurity enhancements. legislation will support critical cybersecurity programs, including d.i.x. and army futures commands in austin, texas. the b

senate. it was obvious senator mccain was highly regarded, he believed to be right and what was good regardless of the side of the political aisle you fell on. i saw how respected he was and how much admiration he commanded from people across the political spectrum. that admiration was not surprising because senator mccain was known as a man of integrity and conviction. a man who, at times, after he sacrificed himself for his fellow pows willingly chose to sacrifice his own political gains in order to accomplish what he believed what was best for all. as a result of this sacrifice come he may have lost the support of a political ally here and there, but he gained the respect of an entire nation. in closing, i would like to honor the love i saw in senator mccain. he loved the people of arizona, serving them passionately and diligently for decades. he took that same love to washington and boldly advocated for freedom and liberties he had grown to love. as a young navy pilot. but the love i saw

senator murkowski, senator collins, would be two who are continuing to watch the nomination. we are going to have a big battle ahead. my view is at the end of the day, voters are looking for senators who are going to look at a nominee, ask tough questions, look at the record, and make a decision that is best for the people in their state. i think that is what people will do. nicholas: you don't see a potential, tangible impact on election day? sen. van hollen: i don't. i don't. i think there are so many -- this is a very important issue. a very -- the choice for the court will be with us for a long time. other key issues, for example, what we're hearing most about on the campaign trail, our rising health care costs. you have republican incumbents and republican challengers to some of our democratic senators who are talking about wiping out protections for people with pre-existing health conditions. we have over 113 million americans who would be harmed. prescription drug costs. the president likes to tweet about it, nothing meaningful about it. we have proposals that would cu

senate. and as we were standing out here we saw a parade of suvs arrived, led by a procession of police officers on motorcycles and a hearse and then not so much longer after that we also saw that same procession leave the property here. and from what we understand the senator was very much a part of planning how he wanted to be remembered and also planning how he wanted his funeral procession to go. just another showing of just the strength that this american icon had all the way up until the end. stephanie elam, cnn, sedona, arizona. >> stephanie, thank you. let's now bring in political analyst michael genovese. michael president of the global policy institute at loyola-marymount university joining us this hour from los angeles. michael, again, thank you for taking time with us. it is certainly a day that many people in the united states and quite honestly people who know of this man around the world mourning his loss. let's talk about the career first of senator mccain. the statesman. he r

let me turn it over to senator house, and then senator blumenthal will talk about his -- oh, senator blumenthal. thank you. sen. blumenthal: thank you for your leadership on this. this foia request is a last resort it is unprecedented because this concealing of documents is unprecedented and , and when i say concealing of documents, it's literally hiding documents. from a relevant period in the nominee's professional career. not only obstructive but what he instructive but what he called the most instructive period of his professional life. three years as staff secretary to the president of the united states. the chairman has shattered all the norms and potentially violating the law, but we need these documents to do our job, literally to perform our constitutional duty to thoughtfully and deliberately consider this nomination and to ask insightful questions during the hearing and to decide how to vote. the request we've done, the freedom of information act requests, are two nine separate offices, principally the national archives. i am prepared to go to court, and they have 20 days

senator graham. what was mccain like to have as a friend? >> it's ain't credible friend and for me, jake, not only was he a dear friend but he was a mentor. he took me under his wing on the senate and on the armed services committee. first of all, hanging out with john mccain, he has the most wonderful sense of humor. he is always cracking jokes. obviously he's tough as nails, incredibly bright, so strong and courageous, but to his friends we loved his sense of humor, his optimism. you know, and he was always getting ready for the next fight because he was fighting for people who couldn't fight for themselves. i mean, traveling around the world with him he always stood -- anytime there was a member of our military serving somewhere, he would go visit and anyone who was oppressed around the world, as you know, just a champion for human rights and for people around the world. >> i want to play a clip for you, it's from 2016 after you lost your reelection bid for the senate. take a listen. >> there are

senator ben sasse, you are with me. a quarter of the senate was here. you are somebody who, you are republican, but somebody who understands intuitively the essence of the mccain rebellious streak. >> yeah. >> what did you take as you sat in that church and listened to the ceremony? >> it was a beautiful service. the juxtaposition of john mccain, an american hero, a man destined for the history books for decades and decades, something we want our doukids t imlate. senator garcia told of hope. it was a special event, a painful event. you saw the wide diversity of the people from across the state and country who loved john and wanted to be here and pay tribute to him today. >> you are a relatively new member of the senate, compared to john mccain. the fact that you felt close enough to him to want to not just pay tribute toe him in the u.s. capitol where you served together, but here in arizona. why did you feel that desire? >> i went home, picked up my 7-year-old and brought him here to be at a hero funeral. it's weird to be 46 and speaking of an 81-year

but senator shelby and senator leahy have led us, along with senator schumer and senator mcconnell, to say we're not going to try to solve every controversial issue that we can think of on the appropriations bills because we have learned in the past that that will sink them. so we have tabled a few bills, a few amendments that have come before us because they would have kept the appropriations bill from proceeding. we can deal with those more controversial ideas and amendments at another time. transportation, housing, and urban development and related agencies, that's been passed. financial services and general government, that also. so seven. that's the largest number of appropriations bills the senate has passed before august since the year 2000, 18 years ago. and this week, mr. president, we're debating the third package of appropriations bills which includes labor, health, and human services, education, and related agencies, and the defense appropriations bill. that means if we're successful in completing our work this week on those two, we will have considered all nine of those ap

alabama senator shelby and louisiana senator cassidy. mitch mcconnell announced a gang of bipartisan members to come up with a fitting memorial for the late arizona senator. minority leader schumer is supportive of this effort. renaming it. >> for three decades, senator mccain was a fixture in those marble halls, an institution of the senate. it's only fitting that his name should adorn a physical establishment. >> i'd like to elaborate an bring ideas of current members, former colleagues and friends. it will be bipartisan as only befits john's legacy. and come to think of it, we'd probably call it not a committee but a gang. >> senator mccain's name would replace that of senator richard b. russell, long time georgia secretary and segregationist with a storied past. let's talk about that president with historian tim naftali. tell me about senator russell. >> senator russell was a powerful legislator. he was from the early 1950s until 1969, he was chairman of the senate armed services committee and he was chairman of the armed services su

the return of senator john mccain. he had hoped he would be able to come back one more time and would be strong enough and would be able to come back to the senate but that was not to be. now he returns for an outpouring of love and affection that we're going see witness over the next really until sunday when he is buried at anap plinapolis, as we about before not with his father and grandfather but where it all began for him at annapolis next to his dear friend from vietnam. he's really planned all this out. not a lot of people have thought about when they die but what i found courageous is he was willing to choose his pallbearer and as a result we'll see a very personal experience over the next 48 hours watching this part of his journey home back here to washington, d.c. and as we said, general mattis waiting. it is very touching to have all the members of his staff, we understand cindy mccain will ride in the suv right behind the cas set -- casket and the staffers will proceed to the capitol rotunda that's existed s

cornyn: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, early this summer i was privileged to be at the white house when president trump announced his nominee to succeed justice anthony kennedy whose retirement from the u.s. supreme court became effective just a couple of days ago. judge kavanaugh's nomination continues the streak that we republicans in the senate have been on for the last 18 months under the trump administration. we have set new records. specifically, we set a record last year for the most circuit judges confirmed in a president's first year, and we set a new record this year with the recent confirmation of president trump's 23rd circuit judge, texan andy oldham who will serve on the fifth circuit court of appeals. and that's two weeks ago. we already set the record with the most judges confirmed in the president's first two years and we still have five months to go. that's unprecedented. that's huge. it

senate. it was obvious that senator mccain was highly regarded. he believed to be right. and was good, regardless of which political side of the aisle his opinion fell on. i saw how respected he was and how much admiration he commanded from people across the political spectrum. but that admiration wasn't surprising. because senator mccain was known as a man of integrity and conviction. a man who, at times, just as he sacrificed himself for his fellow pows in vietnam, willingly chose to sacrifice his own political gains in order to accomplish what he believed was best for all. as a result of this type of sacrifice, he may have lost the support of a political ally here and there, but he gained the respect and admiration of an entire nation. in closing, i'd like to honor the love i saw in senator mccain. he loved the people of arizona. serving them patiently and diligently for decades. he took that same love to washington and boldly advocated for the freedoms and liberties he had grown to love as a young navy pilot. but the love i saw most was the love he had for his wife ci

the senator from west virginia, senator capito and the senator from maine, senator collins. it is an indication that there is broad support, and i now notice that the ranking member, the vice chairman of the committee, is with us as well, senator leahy from vermont. and for as long as i've been in the united states senate -- and i've been a member of the appropriations since that arrival -- it's been a mission of mine to see that we increase the amount of funding for the national institutes of health. and today we particularly highlight the consequences, the good things that happened in that regard with the diseases of the mind. alzheimer's, in particular, it is a devastating disease which places such an enormous burden on so many people, so many families across kansas and around the country, and it has huge impact on lives. there is currently more than 5 million americans living with alzheimer's, and their combined care costs us $259 billion, $259 to our health care system each year. i appreciate the opportunity to work on issues which combine the opportunity to help indivi

senator grassley: senator booker? pardon me, senator hirono. senator hirono: it has them a clear that the government has no kind. -- no plan to reunite the separated children with their parents. commander white says if the judge had not ordered to read, it would happen because these children were made orphans and are then in hhs custody. presumably they had no parents. the judge, if he had not forced the mitigation, it would not be happening. what is the plan for these children once they were separated from the parents? >> again, ice has a policy that facilitate unification of a parent and a child at the time of removal. senator: even without the judge's border, you would have proceeded to reunify as appropriate 3000 children? >> at the end of that process had been ordered to be removed by an immigration judge, the individual would have had the right to take that child with them, should they choose to do so. senator hirono: excuse me. what you did was you separated the children from their parents before any kind of process even began. i underst

, senator john s. mccain passed away. knowing his prognosis prepared us for the inevitable but it has not softened the blow. we feel a great and inexpressible loss. i know i do. but i also feel lucky that i was able to call this great man a friend. today i'd like to share a few reflections, unorganized and incomplete although they may be, i suspect i will have more to say about senator mccain with the benefit of a few days' time. senator mccain and i didn't get along very well at first. he was close to my mentor in the senate, ted kennedy, but not so with me. i never served with senator mccain on any committee. we get to know other senators up close. before our friendship, my closest brush with him was over a comment he made during a debate on defense policy when he said that long island was, quote, regrettably part of the united states. i blasted john's pejorative, which of course prompted him to reply from the senate floor, quote, i'm sorry there is at least one of my colleagues that can't take a jok

junior senator from delaware? first, my predecessor former senator and vice president joe biden let me know my first day here, john was a treasure and a challenge. i would in serving alongside him have a unique opportunity to learn from someone who spoke of experience that was in many ways unmatched among our senate colleagues. i had the honor of traveling with john and seeing him at his best, seeing him show compassion for syrian refugees at a camp win jordan, hearing him confront foreign leaders and encourage our men and women in harm's way, memorably revisiting vietnam and showed a generous warmth. i first encountered john overseas on my first congressional delegation, a trip just a few months into my first term in 2011. traveling with the senators mentioned, we had visited pakistan, jordan and israel and beirut, a memorable trip , particularly in afghanistan and pakistan. it was our last day in israel before anreturning home and i spotted joe lieberman of connecticut at dinner. he waved me over. he and mccain

if you recall, it was the first 50-50 senate. and so we were trying to figure out how you govern with a 50-50 senate. and almost immediately there were overtures on both sides, trent lott was reaching out to republicans -- i mean to democrats and i was reaching out to republicans. and we had picked up that there was a lot of frustration that john was feeling. and so it was early on, i would say february or march, that the conversation started. >> did you invite him into your office? did you talk on the floor? how did it happen? >> no, we primarily talked on the floor. the office would be too transpetran transparent. >> so you were hiding in plain sight? >> exactly, yeah, having those initial conversations. >> and i guess the fact that he didn't say are you kidding me, are you crazy -- >> right. >> -- made it clear there was an opening there? >> that's right. there was an opening and we began talking about the possibility that -- not that he would switch parties but that as an independent he would caucus with us. and we even got t

senate. he served the american people and the senate on his own terms. he left us on his own terms as well p. -- as well. we grieve him today because, for us, it just was not enough time. that's the thing about our heroes. we start to believe that they will live on forever, but of of course -- but of course they do not. ronald raying p ann says this, -- reagan said this, when the lord calls me home, i will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and with the greatest future. john mccain left with this greatest love of country for us and eternal optimism for the future. rest in peace john mccain, rest in peace. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. a senator: thank you, senator mccain may have represented the people of arizona but in doing so he changed the world. mr. schatz: his family legacy and leadership are actually rooted partly in the pacific. he met his wife, cindy, in honolulu, and generations of mccains have left their mark on the region. his grandfather serve

a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. paul: i ask unanimous consent that we vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. paul: mr. president, planned parenthood ends the lives of 320 ,000 babies each year. that's about 900 babies every day. planned parenthood receives over $400 million of taxpayer money. the government with the wink and a nod tells us that planned parenthood doesn't spend the money on abortions. but everybody knows that the taxpayers really cross subsidizing planned parenthood's abortion bills. my amendment would end funding to planned parenthood. my amendment is already included in the house version. and yet my amendment is now being blocked by republicans. why would republicans block a vote on defending planned parenthood? it may surprise some. because so many republicans go home saying they're against planned parenthood but this vote could happen right now, right now today if republicans don't

senator. that ceremony set to get underway within the next hour. we will take you there live momentarily. we're also monitoring another great in america, the life and legacy of aretha franklin and her ceremony. a five-hour long ceremony is getting under way in chicago. that's where we have fredricka whitfield. >> you can hear the activity overhead and see the sea of people filing into the greater grace temple church where the funeral service for aretha franklin, the world's beloved queen of soul, will begin in just moments from now. what we have been able to see is besides the motorcade of pink cadillacs who have pulled up, a number of dignitaries and celebrities from the world of music, from sports, from the church, they have all been lining up to go inside the sanctuary there. 4,000 seat sanctuary. you can see it filling up. it will be a day of amazing speeches, eulogies and, of course, song. a former president, bill clinton, ariana grande to take to the podium there and deliver their eulogi

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only three senators came out and it was senator grassley, senator bob dole and john mccain. now, john mccain came out and i always remember this, we had a lot in common, but i hardly knew the guy. the first time he came out because he has a background in aviation, i have a background in aviation. and i remember i had a nice air conditioned twin engine plane, but i lost an engine the night before so i had to fly my kid's plane. it's very hot -- it's called a little gruman tiger. it doesn't have any air conditioning, it was in the 90's, it was close to 100 that day. i wrote down the places we went that day. first we went to oklahoma city, then to shaney, then to lawton, which is the home of fort sil, which is the number one area in the world for ar till tri, and we did our thing there all the time. he was campaigning for me, a guy who couldn't win. we went from there to altas air force base, and that is one still one of the top training bases, and we now train k-17 and kc-125's. as a matter of fact, because of john, we'll be flying the kc-46. of course, this is long before tha

elizabeth warren, you have senator harris, senator booker. plenty of speeches. >> dana: i'll be there with you and look forward to it. thank you. a tribute to the life of john mccain about to get underway on the floor of the senate. senator lindsey graham remembering his long-time friend. and a court ruling that could rock the november mid-terms. why elections in north carolina might not be decided until 2019. dear great-great grandfather, you made moonshine in a backwoods still. smuggled booze and dodged the law. even when they brought you in, they could never hold you down. when i built my family tree and found you, i found my sense of adventure. i set off on a new life, a million miles away. i'm heidi choiniere, and this is my ancestry story. now with over 10 billion historical records, discover your story. get started for free at ancestry.com when the guy in frontd down the highway slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you've got a good record and liberty mutual won't hold a grudge by raising

but the senate at that time which i have called the last great senate, i would call it mansfield senate. mike mansfield set the tone the longest-serving mutual respect and good faith engagement and then to work for senators in the 70s senate carried over into the 80s even though we lost majority control in the senate. so i loved what i was doing and i think everybody there loved what they were doing. it was a great place. it is no accident. that the people that we know now i cannot even begin to fathom what it would be like now. all these bright people who want to work in the senate come to the senate, they are very busy still. they do good work. sometimes they produce things in committee then but the evolution of the leader driven senate and that between the committees is an important problem. >> i don't thing the relationship factor is narrowly what it is when we were there but friendships are built across the aisle and social opportunities to really engage deteriorated over the years and that has affected and has been pervasive so that is a troubling aspect causing much of what we ar

election to the senate. it didn't take long for scandal to threaten his political career. during the 1980s, the savings and loans crisis rocked the country. >> it was the mini version of the wall street street blow up of 2008. voters were angry. >> john mccain's old arizona friend and political contributor was at the heart of this scandal. because of his close ties to the embattled businessman, mccain became embroiled in one of the biggest financial scandals in u.s. history as a member of the infamous keeting five. >> it was the acquisation that members of the u.s. senate had been showered with gifts and they had intervened with federal regulators to try to get them off his back. >> the senators fought back against charges of wrong doing. >> when he came to see me in march of 1987 and asked me to do something i thought was improper, i said no. >> he was criticized for exercising poor judgment but eventually he was cleared of wrong doing. >> the notion that anyone would question his honesty or integrity or to

senator leahy. go ahead. leahy: i have listened to the statement, -- >> before you speak i want to ask unanimous consent since we don't have the proper number of people here for chairman leahy to speak. i don't hear any objections, so proceed. sen. leahy: thank you. the senator from iowa and i have been good friends for decades, but i must admit, listening to his recitation of history -- i recall as a child, i remember enjoying reading alice in wonderland. listening to the statements here, it brings me back to a happier, in some ways, more realistic time, reading alice in wonderland. there are so many things wrong with the judiciary committee's vetting of judge kavanaugh, it is hard to know where to begin. the white house is well aware of judge kavanaugh's lengthy record as a political operative, but the president selected him nonetheless. now the burden falls to this committee to review his record for the american people. today, we are failing miserably. the full record is not some optional thing that we dec

we both loved the senate. the proudest years of my life were being a united states senator. i was honored to be vice president, but being a united states senator. they both lamented watching you change -- watching it changed. during long debates in the 1980's and 1990's, some colleagues around the would know i would go in sit next to john, next to his seat, or he would come to the democratic side in sit next to me. i am not joking. we would sit there and talk to each other. i remember the day i came out to see john and we reminisced about it. it was in 1996. we were about to adjourn for the caucuses. there was a luncheon once a week where all the democratic senators have us together and all the republican senators would have lunch together. we both went into our caucuse and we were approached by our caucus leaders with the same thing. joe, it doesn't look good, you sitting next to john all the time. [laughter] swear to god. the same thing was said to john and his caucus. that's when things began to change for the worse in america , and the senate. that's when it changed. wha

it is good to be here with our colleagues from the senate, senator michalski and james and senator wyden. mr. secretary, it is so good to be with you today as he make this announcement. you and miss christiansen, who are leading the efforts for the foreign service, we are here today because a few months ago, the u.s. congress gave the second terry of agriculture new tools to fight fires. the advent of that has been they have come up with a new vision on implementing the tools. it cannot come at a more important time. we have lost tens of thousands of homes in the last year. wildfires have killed 43 people. we needed a new tool. we certainly need the new vision . we need further cup -- cooperation by all entities. the challenges we face with changing climate and more dire conditions are allowing for more fires start and more volume in a types of fires that are burning across the west. my colleagues have done a great job communicating to you what it is like in the west now. it has become the new normal. it is small communities trying to fight fires with as many beautiful -- resources as th

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there were five senators. another senator from arizona. john mccain, the ethics committee didn't come down terribly hard on him. they came down on allen cranston, the senator from california much harder. but mccain said the appearance of impropriety on his behalf was wrong. this set something into motion with john mccain. this was the side of him always fighting back against power and influence. if you look at the famous mccain feingold campaign finance law, that's part and parcel of what they went through. when you hear those ads, we'll tart to hear a lot of them in the next couple months. a candidate will appear on tv and say i'm so and so and i approve this message. the version they ultimately signed into law was the house version. but it's the companion piece of legislation. everybody knows it's mccain feingold. judge jeanine: chad pergram, senior producer for capitol hill. thanks for sharing your thoughts on the passing of senator john mccain earlier this evening. right now we have on the phone -- senator jeff flake from arizona. sena

senator john mccain has died at 81. >>> good evening and thank you so much for joining us. >> senator john mccain died late this afternoon following a year-long battle with brain cancer. his wife cindy was at his side. he is being remembered tonight from his steadfast views which sometimes die ver sometimes diverged from his party. >> we're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat. >> unapologetic and unwavering, senator john mccain praised as a maverick, a larger-than-life force in washington. for more than three decades, mccain served in the u.s. senate. an arizona republican, but known to dramatically break party lines. one of his final acts on the senate floor, casting the deciding vote to doom his party's obamacare repeal. >> i'm a fighter for this mccai his country long before entering the halls of congress. born to ami u.s. navy family, the son and grandson of admirals, mccain graduated from the u.s. naval academy in 1958. a fighter pilot in vietnam, mccain was shot down and held captive in a vietnamese prison, the infamous hanoi hilton. mccain was offered early release becau

senate toss up. >> agree. democrats take the house. and senate is -- >> juan? >>i think right now the president said this week, a red wave. i do not see a red wave. instead what i see is likelihood that i would say a third a chance of a strong blue wave in which the democrats not only take the house but control in big numbers or secondly a third chance they don't make it and in the senate i think the odds given the playing field is still with the republican -- >> if democrats win control of the house, will they move to impeach the president? >> i think after the last week, it is a conversation worth having. that wasn't worth having a week ago. we're going to have it. sandra: you guys are good. right on your time cues. it was fun to have you guys as our panel this morning. thank you very much. >> it was fun to have you. sandra: thank you. we will see you next sunday. up next, a final word. i work hard to protect this tookus. to take care of any messy situations. and put irritation in its place. and if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected.

every senator who ever traveled with senator mccain shared a common experience. it was being approached by someone on the street or in a restaurant and being asked, are you with senator mccain? of course we would say yes. then they would -- they would hand us a cellphone and say, could you please take a picture of me with senator mccain? and, of course, we always said yes. you could see the reverence and respect that each of these individuals had for senator mccain. people also respected his incredible legacy of service, his strength as one of the fiercest legislators in our nation's history. it is fitting just a few weeks ago congress paid tribute to him by passing the john s. mccain national authorization act for fiscal year 20919. -- 2019. we all know that caring for the military was a abiding concern in his military career. he wanted to make sure that the men and women in uniform were treated fairly by the government, that they were respected and that they were honored for their service. you know, we get used to using language of combat around here and all so

of the senate. one of the senate great moral accomplices. he was going fill that void that is senator mccain left this earth? >> i don't think any single person is able to fill the void. but we have left are the lessons that he taught us and i think that all of us heeding those lessons can make the process better. >> a cut so many lessons, but what is one that sticks with the outcome of the greatest blessing of take away from his life and legacy. >> the fact that he never gave up in in that way he was very much churchillian and did not allow a party to determine how he viewed right and wrong. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. tranter from the other side of the aisle, dan kildee. good to see you as always. appreciate it. it is interesting in washington especially these days to find somebody who is so uniting and receiving universal praise as john mccain has. why? >> well, we were all drawn to. the entire senate and the entire house in the one person i wanted to make sure i coul

a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. sasse: thank you, mr. president. like so many today, i rise to honor john mccain, to sing john mccain's praises. there are many here, most here who knew him longer than i did. i'll admit that when you and i, mr. president, first got here in 2014, i knew john mccain as somebody from the history books. i knew john mccain as somebody destined for the history books. i knew john mccain as an american hero. but i didn't know john mccain the man. i didn't know john mccain, the flesh and blood, genuinely hilarious guy. but over the past 48 months i had the privilege of actually getting to become friends with john mccain. it's sort of weird to say when you're our age -- you're a good bit older than i am, but when you're roughly our age, mr. president, i'm 46 and john mccain was an octogenarian, and he befriended me. i've been on many overnights with john mccain, i've been to war zones with john mccain. i've been cussed out by john mccain lots of times. he would call me stupid bastard on a regu

of the senate. what's your feeling about john mccain in his place in senate history and perhaps a way the senate no longer works? >> well, i this i he will be remembered as one of those giants. in some ways, he was the conscience of the senate. he wanted them to correct rights. he wanted them to address things. i mean, not many people wanted to do campaign finance reform when john mccain made that his issue. he and rush feingold, the democrat from wisconsin were able after years to finally get that legislation passed. but some things, many things don't last forever. i was thinking, a while ago, we were talking about this, in 1975 after the nixon-watergate situation, i think it was 32 people went to prison or paid heavy fines for finance -- campaign finance law violations. this was even before senator mccain and feingold had passed their thing. having said that, 32 of them went to jamie. all of the things that those people when to the jamie for are now legal. so. >> bob. we see now cindy mccain, his

thank you. >> senator blumenthal? or whitehouse. sorry. senator whitehouse. i majored in how to introduce the next person. >> having been attorney general with senator blumenthal, i take any confusion with him as a great compliment to me. >> two of the most brilliant lawyers in the u.s. senate. >> so we are now in a situation in which the best path for senators on the judiciary committee to get access to a nominee for the supreme court's records is through the public foia process. the committee process for senators on the committee has forced us to go to the foia route which is available to the general public. that is a very troubling fact in the present state of affairs. throw in that materials that we will be getting as senators will be given to us so-called committee confidential, meaning the public won't have access to them and setting a trap for any inadvertent release of those documents. finally, we have just a complete variance from the past traditions of the senate in terms of what types of documents were provided for the committee about nominees. now

people who were senators but more than senators. all those people wanted to be president, ran for president. they failed. i think i remember when i studied american history way back when, there was a category of great senators who never made the presidency, who were maybe superior to some of the people who did make the presidency. nonetheless, helped shape american history. >> i've been so taken by the reaction really from around the world, not just in this country. again, all these foreign leaders who have put out statements and tributes to john mccain because they felt a connection to this senator from the united states of america. as you point out. not even a president. although we know he had the political ambitions. but perhaps it was his military service and that drawing him to really foreign policy issues, often front and center were the military issues. he was a foreign policy hawk. champion wars in iraq and afghanistan. yet he vocally opposed torture calling the bush administration's use of waterboarding immoral and really