i--in many ways, that was inauguration day for george w. bush. people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. - the american people expect someone to be there who willthe hard decisions so that they can go on about their lives. they can take their kids to, of, uh, terrorism. - if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. - you didn't wonder if he was racked with doubts and unsure and--you want a guy who makes a deciwion and will stic it, and he did. - i will never relent in defending america, whatever it takes. - it wasn't until things unraveled in, uh, iraq and, uh, afghanistan that, uh, you know, all that was rethought. - he went into the family business; bizarrely turned out to be more successful than anybody else. george bush's model as a candidate, uh, particularly, was to, you know, accept that he wasn't always great at everything, ist to barrel on and doest. it turns out he was

i want to share some of it from george w. bush. he says, senator mccain is a friend i'll deeply miss. laura and i send our sympathies to cindy mccain and the family. thanks to god for the life of john mccain. he was a man of deep conviction and a man of the highest order. you intimated and tom brokaw laid out for us with an anecdote on the campaign trail, was not always the same, was it, mr. card? >> no. there was strain in the relationship. they ran against each other for president. i happen to be talking to you from jaffrey, new hampshire. new hampshire was a state where george w. bush was campaigning vigorously and trying to win but john mccain carried new hampshire. that meant that george w. bush had to saddle up and buckle his cinch a little tighter and go to south carolina and win there to win the republican nomination and the presidency. they had a strained relationship at the beginning. after that, it became a relationship of, i'm going to say, first, convenience. they worked together on things they agreed on. a second one,

first you worked for george w. bush. if you had any friends, it could be interesting at thanksgiving like it was during the gulf war and certainly after the recount and the supreme court decision. things were intense then. but they have changed. i know for you and for me we grew up in the deep south, i grew up in georgia, alabama, mississippi, northwest florida, and you know most of the people in my quote tribe, are trump supporters. i'm wondering what you -- when you go home -- i know when i go home, i say hey we can talk baseball let's talk about kids, let's talk about grandkids, i don't want to talk about politics. so i'll just sit and i know it's hard to believe and listen. what about you? are you finding dinner with friend in mississippi a little tougher? >> well, specifically with my family, i just heard from so many of them. they are sick of talking about donald trump period just because he's sucked up so much of the oxygen justin national conversation. while george w. bush was president he might not have been uni

in this case, president george w. bush. indeed, the white house staff secretary, is essentially the inbox in outbox for the president of the united states. now, that's not to say that is not a very important position but it does not get involved in much policy in the senate current task force is to evaluate the qualifications for judge kavanaugh, not to relitigate every political and policy disagreement from president george w. bush's eight years in the white house. as my democratic colleagues keep pointing out judge kavanaugh has described how his time as staff secretary was a formative experience for him. well, justice kagan said the same thing about her time as solicitor general but in the case of justice kagan the democrats refused to request for records.le on top of the undisputed relevance of solicitor general's material judge kagan, however, backed by judicial record. in other words, unlike the more than 300 opinions that judge kavanaugh altered and the hundreds more opinions he joined in his 12 years of service on t

hw bush and george w. bush. mark is a commentator for abc news, good morning america and this week. finally our third panelist is stewart mclaurin . he's president of the white house historical association. his 30 plus career in washington has been in senior roles at georgetown university, american red cross and motion picture association. he worked with ron reagan presidential foundation to conceptualize, plant and execute the ronald reagan centennial celebration in 2011. please join in -- me in welcoming -- welcoming today's panel anita mcbride, mark updegrove and stewart mclaurin. [ applause ] >> thank you. i want to recognize gail west and teresa barrett the wife of john.. a wonderful board member. anita is on our board. they give extraordinary leadership to the organization. started by mrs. kennedy as a nonprofit, not pot -- nonpartisan and we are honored to be the convener of this presidential site summit this week. today we will talk about presidential legacy and commemoration. let's start by diving

he was chief of staff to president george w. bush. the president of the american for action forum, director of domestic and economic policy on senator john mccain's 2008 campaign for president. andy card, let me start with you. we hear about the way john mccain was able to reach across the aisle. he was something that you -- somebody that you interacted with in 2000 when the primary campaign was between john mccain and george w. bush. i am reminded in may of 2000. they got together over a bruising primary campaign. they spoke for 90 minutes and delivered a press conference on the heels of that. i want you to take us back to that. what emerged from that conversation, the way that john mccain was able to leave that primary behind and endorse the candidate you were working for and went on to work for in the white house as well? >> first of all, john mccain was someone who celebrated democracy. he was an advocate for democracy not just in the united states, but around the world. but he really did motivate people to get involved in the pol

that was the way it was with george w. bush. but president george w. bush has great respect for the work that john mccain did and the leadership he gave. i know the whole bush clan and the entire bush political family really respects john mccain for weather did for this country. as a unable aviator, as a prisoner of war, as someone who defended democracy and worked pore democracy and served this country so well in the house and in the senate. but more than that, being a real conscience for the tough things that have to be considered when you're in government and he also had the courage to look for compromise. he was not a zero sum game person. he would look for common ground and try to define it in such a way could you find a way to stand on it with him. that was important. >> that was so important that he worked across the aisle. teddy kennedy, joe biden and others could disagree on policy but they could come together and try to legislate. i'm also struck as i bring in robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post" and, of course,

. >> no republican wants to be the third term of george w. bush. he is a radioactive figure at that point for the party. and they are divided over what the party should stand for at is point. >> mccain, frankly, has shown conservatives little but contempt...ra >> nartor: inside the republican party, a rebellions derway, and mccain-- now the establishment candidate-- was a target. >> i think john mccain has a big problem with conservatives. >> narrator: they caim a rino-- republican in name only. >> he's confusing republicans with his liberal friends...h >> ...ret to democrats... >> how's this guy going to unite his party? what's he gointo do? rush limbaugh's out there on the radio every day telling people they'd be crazy to vote for this guy. >> narrator: the opposition to mccain came to a heahere-- at the annual meeting of cpac, the conservative political action conference.ta they relly agreed to hear john mccain plead for their support. (crowd booing) >> i've never seen ainstance where somebody in his position, who is the de facto leader of the p

." [♪] howie: tributes are pouring in for john mccain from george w. bush to barack obama. from liberal and conservative commentators after his death yesterday at 81. i knew him well but i'm not here to lionize him. from the keating five that inspired his campaign for campaign finance reform. it's a fact many republicans have been upset over his acrimonious relationship with president trump and casting that no vote on repeal of obamacare. he had a wicked temper which i and other journalists felt when someone displeased him. he said i shouldn't have expected anything better from you. i spent days and days on his trait talk express. he was a presidential candidate with no money and he spent hours a day talking to reporters on his bus and drinking coffee with styrofoam cups. people said it was like having sex with a scorpion. you never knew when you would get stung. but we got to know the real man who denounced communists in the back of the room. but the press liked him better as a maverick taking on the gop establishment. this navy pilot as everyone knows was tortured during

bush went on to win. the presiden >> the president-elect, george w. bush, will become the 43rd t president united states. >> narrator: as john mccain returned to the senate, to manyu icans, he was an outsider. >> it had been bad for him in the repuican caucus. he had been booed at one point when he walked in. he really felt like these are not the guys he was comfortable with. they didn't have that much in common. he was really a bitter man in those days. >> he was angry for the way he was treated. he was angry bause his staff were not asked to be part of the new administration. he was angry, because he thought george bush was playing to the most conservative elements within his own party.th and foose reasons, he felt alienated. >> narrator: mccain positioned himself as the voice of dissentl in bush's rean party. >> mccain came out of the 2000 campaign drawn to th that he had become a brand.ep hesented something to the american public of independence, pragmatism, bipartisanand he moved very aggressively to maximize the leverage of the brand legislative

to george w bush and is now a bbc political analyst. tell us what he was like? you knew him very well. i did. senatorjohn mccain embodied the naval academy here, which is duty, on, country. he was a patriot, someone who served in the navy a month his father, his grandfather, he had been tortured severely in that beckham walcott refused to offer himself to come home because he said he would never come home and tell all the soldiers we re come home and tell all the soldiers were there before him and have the opportunity to come home. i think he embodied the spirit of whatjohn mccain brought not only to the house of representatives, but the united states congress, someone who is willing to cross party lines and do what was right or the country, not necessarily in the best interests of his political party and that is what so his political party and that is what so many americans tonight are thinking about as we mourn the loss of this true american hero. when he was at the naval academy, he wasn't necessarily seen as someone who would go on

on of the george w. bush under thetion -- george w. bush administration, they were focusing on those high profile rates. rounding up dozens and some cases over 100 workers at a time and arresting all of them. under his administration, the last year of the administration they ran about 503 audits of employers. president obama came into office in they changed that and pushed that over 2000 audits of employers every year. under the bush and administration, one company was barred from getting federal contracts as a punishment. under the obama administration it was over 700. -- under trump, they are going after workers, has beener -- ice arresting more of them throughout the country whether they are working or not. they also increased dramatically the audits of these employers. under obama, it was about 2000. 1500 to 2000 a year. in the first half of fiscal 2018, there are already over 2200. the number could be double what it was under obama, which was quite a bit more than it was under president bush. we are seeing a gradual increase in th

. >> over the years, mccain and george w. bush have talked on the phone quite a bit. even more in the period during his illness, i think about old times, like former football players. they talk about old rivalries but it became very warm, i think genuine friendship and senator mccainsked president bush to give eulogy months ago. as he was thinking about who he wanted at his own funeral. so i think it's a sign of reconciliation in a lot of ways. a good one. >> he asked george w. bush, barack obama the two men who defeated him in bids for presidency, what is the message that this the senator was going for in choosing those twosome. >> i any the message he always moved on. he didn't live in yesterday with all of the recrimination. >> yet president trump. >> moved on to the next stage. i think that this represents that. these were rivals but these were the kind of rivals where they believed the other side was go willing to serve the country. they had different views but similar goals i think we're losing some of that. >> the conflict with president trump is interesting be

bush and george w. bush." mark is a commentator for abc news, good morning america, and "this week." and finally, our third panelist is stewart mclaurin. his 30-plus career in washington has been in senior roles at georgetown university, the american red cross, and the motion picture association. he also worked with the ronald reagan presidential foundation to conceptualize, plan, and execute the ronald reagan centennial celebration in 2011. please join in welcoming me -- please join me in welcoming today's panel, anita mcbride, mark updegrove, and stewart mclaurin. [ applause ] >> thank you, bob, very much. and i would also lake to recognize gael west on our board of directors and teresa barrett, the wife of our other board member, john barrett, who couldn't be with us today. wonderful board members and anita is on our board. and these men and women give extraordinary leadership, guidance, and governance to our organization. it was founded by mrs. kennedy in 1961 as a nonprofit, non-partisan partner to the wh

he just lost major primaries to george w. bush. i said could you do this again? he said no, you can't catch lightning in a bottle twice. but he did run again. in the summer of 2007 he was out of money and down in the polls. and the pundits were saying he's toast, there is no way he'll ever come back from this. but he did. he also was pushing for victory in walk at a time when the war was very unpopular. he also got bad press for picking sara palin. a lot of republicans came to believe that she wasn't ready to step into the presidency. joining us now from connecticut is charlie gasparino. some thoughts on john mccain, i know you dealt with over the years and could be a great source and great interview, but also could be testy at times. charlie: i covered him a lot in 2008. i covered the financial crisis in 2008. but the other story was the financial campaign. they were sort of tied together. john mccain, you could see this when you were doing the report being his campaign. he was frustrated because he thought he had a good chance of winning. but then the financial

. [♪] howie: tributes are pouring in for john mccain from george w. bush to barack obama. from liberal and conservative commentators after his death yesterday at 81. i knew him well but i'm not here to lionize him. from the keating five that inspired his campaign for campaign finance reform. it's a fact many republicans have been upset over his acrimonious relationship with president trump and casting that no vote on repeal of obamacare. he had a wicked temper which i and other journalists felt when someone displeased him. he said i shouldn't have expected anything better from you. i spent days and days on his trait talk express. he was a presidential candidate with no money and he spent hours a day talking to reporters on his bus and drinking coffee with styrofoam cups. people said it was like having sex with a scorpion. you never knew when you would get stung. but we got to know the real man who denounced communists in the back of the room. but the press liked him better as a maverick taking on the gop establishment. this navy pilot as everyone knows was tortured during

just in the past minute george w. bush sent out a statement, remember george w. bush ran against john mccain in the gop primary in 2000. and butted heads with him numerous times when i covered the bush white house. he said this some lives are so vivid it's difficult to imagine them ends. some voices so vibrant it's hard to think of them still. john mccain was a man of deep conviction and patriot of the highest order. he was a public servants in the finest traditions of our country. and to me he was a friend whom i will deeply miss. laura and i send our heartfelt sympathies to cindy mccain and the entire mccain family. obviously president obama has put out at statement. joe biden. what you are seeing, judge, is reaction to the death of a man who was unique in washington. and, you know, i think there are going to be a lot of people who look back at his life and all he did for the country, serve the country, not himself. judge jeanine: ways so striking is all of the things, are all of the things he accomplished. there were 233 bombing missions -- there were 23 bombi

george w. bush, dick cheney, bob dole, dan quayle are very different in their styles. they all are comfortable speaking in public if you are comfortable speaking in public, you can read a speech that is decently written that follows the basic elements. one main element is the sentences need to be short. it's the spoken word. it's a little bit different. in some ways very different from other types of writing. you have to read it out loud. you have to be careful that things don't rhyme or maybe an alliteration that's not intended or other strip -- structural distractions that would hit the ear differently from how you would expect it. the main point of variation among the people i've written speeches for is how they get into a speech. what that first page is like. how they bond with the audience and how they get comfortable. president bush like to do extensive acknowledgment. so extensive we would not right these things. they would be gathered up -- a would be -- it would be everybody. >> we had acknowledgment pages. we had to list them. >> vice president quayle remembe

and george w. bush also had sharp elbows but he worked with john mccain and they came together and did some remarkable things. and i was impressed with the leadership that they both had. i was respectful of how they respected each other. that was very important. john mccain was someone who grew up in a military family. he understood the role of respect and he did show great respect to people. but he also had the courage to be a maverick. and there aren't a lot of people that do that. they kind of follow the false expectation that you have love everybody. he didn't love everybody. but he respected everybody. and he found a way to work together. i was glad to hear joe leiberman's name mentioned the other day. clearly he had a remarkable relationship with john mccain that -- i think they could have been a ticket to run for president and vice president. they were so close. and there was great respect for both of them. and joe lieberman's relationship with john mccain was something to witness in the sen

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and george w. bush also had sharp elbows but he worked with john mccain and they came together and did some remarkable things. and i was impressed with the leadership that they both had. i was respectful of how they respected each other. that was very important. john mccain was someone who grew up in a military family. he understood the role of respect and he did show great respect to people. but he also had the courage to be a maverick. and there aren't a lot of people that do that. they kind of follow the false expectation that you have love everybody. he didn't love everybody. but he respected everybody. and he found a way to work together. i was glad to hear joe leiberman's name mentioned the other day. clearly he had a remarkable relationship with john mccain that -- i think they could have been a ticket to run for president and vice president. they were so close. and there was great respect for both of them. and joe leibieberman's relationp with john mccain was something to witness in the sen

former president george w bush described him as a patriot of the highest order. the celebrated american playwright and screenwriter neil simon has died at the age of 91. he wrote comedy classics such as the odd couple, the sunshine boys and barefoot in the park. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent, and the author and journalist yasmin alibhai—brown. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. pope francis begging forforgiveness during his historic visit to ireland is on the front of the i.

as you say, george w. bush, dick cheney, bob dole, dan quayle. very different in their styles. they all, of course, are comfortable speaking in public. if you're comfortable speaking in public, you can read a speech that's decently written that follows the basic elements, one of the main ones which is the sentences need to be short. it's like writing an essay. it's the spoken word, and so it's a little bit different, and in some ways significantly different from other types of writing. you've got to read it aloud, for example, if you've written it because you have to be careful when things don't rhyme or you have a literation that's not intended or any other structural distractions that would hit the ear differently from how you would expect it. but the main point of variation among the people that i've written speeches for is how they get into a speech, how they start it, what that first page is like, how they bond with the audience and how they get comfortable. president bush liked to do extensive acknowledgements, so extensive that we wouldn't even write these things. they w

w. bush. professor, i'm wondering what you make of this which is just the latest example of the president criticizing a well-known african american person on intelligence. >> well, i think we need to keep the focus where it belongs because it's clear that president trump doesn't focus on what he ought to. the focus is on first gloria marie james, a mother, a magnificent black woman raise as magnificent son and becomes one of the greatest athletes in the history of modern times who then use his greatness to serve others. 230 very precious students of

when george w. bush became president, the first few months before 9/11 of george w. bush's presidency, mccain was voting with the democrats on things. he voted against bush on the tax cuts. there was talk he might switch to the democratic party. same thing against barack obama in 2008. and yet still that feels different and it does feel like bygone era compared to today. >> we can go back, i can't imagine how far you can go back. 1800, 1968, campaigns will probably always and always have been, but john mccain i think would say very fully is that honestly that america's best days are ahead of it buzz he does not believe that civility is gone. i think heidi is right. this is a message to the president of the united states and in so far as he can accept this message from john mccain, that's good. that's an example of it. i'm sure he doesn't like to be slighted. he likes to speak out. we're able to absorb this message from john mccain from beyond the grave. and i think it is having a resident effect. at least in this environment. in the environment we're in now in cable

and nearly knocked off the party establishment favorite george w. bush. in the 2008 campaign, mccain wanted to pick democratic senator joe lieberman as his running mate. >> governor sarah palin -- >> reporter: but instead picked alaska governor sarah palin. that decision to woo the party's die hards foreshadowed the ascendancy of president donald trump and the seemingly irresistible pull of the republican party fringe, which he memorably resisted in the final day, of his 2008 campaign. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he's not -- he's an arab. he is not? no? >> no, ma'am. no, ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen, that i just happened to have disagreements with -- >> reporter: senator mccain was married twice and had seven children. during his final months, a steady stream of friends visited him at his favorite spot on his deck in sedona, arizona, where he loved to grill. norah. >> nice to see him there in his favorite spot. one of his other favorite spots was on the campaign trail. john where you and i spent many a miles out there wit

however, george w bush and barack obama, who both defeated mccain in his presidential bids, have been asked to give eulogies. in death, as in life, he works across the aisle to make a point. there aren't any politicians quite like him left in the senate. as he liked to say himself, he really was a maverick. commanderjohn mccain.

it was a very modest policy that george w. bush instigated. he helped with air lift in bringing troops from out in the field back to combat the russians. he was not very tough on sanctions. i think john mccain would have had a much more robust u.s. policy. stam with ukraine. you remember john mccain was really pushing for arming the ukrainians with lethal aid for a long time. president obama did not want to do that. president trump ultimately did start sending lethal aid to the ukraini ukrainians. i think john mccain would have done it earlier. you have to wonder whether putin might have invaded crimea if you had a president mccain who was tough on russia. >> we know how much he loved this country and its freedoms and all it represented. he wanted to give that in some way to people who were less fortunate in countries where life wasn't so good. how do you think he shaped u.s. intervention on a humanitarian level? >> john mccain was really dogged in his pursuit of human rights. if there was anybody that was being oppressed by their leaders, any

as you say, george w. bush, dick cheney, bob dole, dan quayle very different in their styles. they all of course are comfortable speaking in public and if you're comfortable speaking in public you can read a speech that's decently written that follows the basic elements which -- one of the main ones of which is the sentences need to be short, it's not like writing an essay. it's the spoken word, and so it's a little bit different. and in some ways significantly different from other types of writing. you have to read it allowed for example if you've written it because you have to be careful that things don't rhyme. or you have illiteration that is not intended or hit the ear. the main importance is how they get into a speech. how they start it. how that first page is like, how they bond with the audience and how they get comfortable. president bush liked to do extensive acknowledging. so extensive we would not write these things. they would be gathered up and entirely accurate. and it would be the mayor, governor, the congressman, the eighth grade band. >> clinton too we just h

george bush -- george w. bush gave her the medal of freedom. barack obama had her sing at his inauguration. i mean, she's just a universal icon, but she was always a friend of poor folks and people who were seeking justice. when angela davis, probably the most controversial woman of her moment, was arrested, ultimately cleared, aretha franklin said, i will bail her out and was willing to put up a quarter million dollars to bail her out. people were shocked by that. but she said, listen, she's a friend of black women, she's a black leader, and that became a part of the legacy as well. >> van, you just mentioned george w. bush. we have some sound. this is the impact she had. when you cover politics, you're around a lot of celebrities and politicians. watching the face of the president of the united states, for example, whether it's george w. bush or barack obama, we have both. you understand when they understand they're in a special place because they're around famous people all the time. they're around celebrities all the time. they're themselve

hw bush and george w. bush. mark is commentator for abc news. good morning america, and this week. and, finally, our third panelist is stewart mc-lauren, he's president of the white house historical association. his 30-plus year in washington has been in senior roles, georgetown university, red cross and motion picture association. he also worked with the reynold reagan presidential foundation to conceptualize, plan, and execute the ronald reagan centennial celebration in 2011. please join in welcoming today's panel, anita, mcgriebride, mark updegrove and stewart. >> thank you very much. and i'd also like to recognize the wife of our other board member barrett that couldn't be here today. wonderful board members. and these men and women give extraordinarily guidance and governance to our organization. founded by miss kennedy 1961 nonpartisan partner to the white house and we are honored to be conceiver this site summit this he can would. today we'll talk about presidential legacy and commemoration. and let

bush, a man who i disagreed with many of george w. bush's policies, with his spending, george w. bush quietly and publicly told republicans in no uncertain terms in running in 2000 and one of the major focuses of my major focuses will be to reawaken the republican party to the importance to reaching out to those who may not be just like us. to sphispanics, especially, the largest growing demographic group in america. we have to put this soft bigotry -- >> white supremacy. >> -- we call it which is looking more and more like white supremacy these days. and george w. bush in his re-election bid got, what, 43, 44% of the hispanic vote because he did what guy benson said conservatives today need to do. make their views accessible and relevant. >> and you look at just as recently as john mccain who manages to -- remember, he says when a questioner probably the kind of questioner thatter laura was talking about who is not happy with the way the country is changing. he says he's, you know, obama is a muslim and mccain shuts quite courageously shuts the woman down in 2008. 2012, governor

two former presidents, obama and george w. bush are expected to deliver eulogies. mccain was 81 years old when he lost his battle with cancer on saturday. here's more on his life and reaction to his death. >> reporter: arizona layed flowers and flags outside the funeral home as the political world mourned. >> it's tough. i'm going to miss him. >> republican jeff flake is from arizona. >> i have admired him my entire life and it's tough to imagine a senate without him. it's tough to imagine politics without john mccain. >> mccain ran for president twice, served in congress for 36 years, and spent 5.5 years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. this week he'll get a hero's send off lying in state at both the arizona and u.s. capitol buildings eulogized at memorial services by former vice president joe biden and former president's obama and george w. bush. democratic leader chuck schumer proposed renaming the russell senate office building where mccain worked after him. >> and i would like decades from now little children to ask their parents, who was john mccain. >> in a

w. bush rally at a john mccain rally at a bernie sanders well it started with donald trump and he egged it on we remember he actually said you punch him out op pay your legal fees i wish i could go down there i remember the day when he just punched people in the face he stirred up this violence and he is still doing that you just cannot blame it on anybody else other than well first all the people in the rally go along with him but donald trump who is egging egging them on so let's keep the focus on third point as you know i don't know how these people voted before is a lot of reporters i know don't even vote because i don't think they should i think they're wrong the question is not how they vote the question is what they write and what they produce on the air and i think you've got to say it is wrong if they call out donald trump for not telling the truth well that's the that's the way the game is played that's their duty to do so that doesn't mean they hate donald trump it just means

among the eulogists, george w. bush. his spokesman confirming to abc the former president is honored to have been asked to speak. according to "the new york times," former president barack obama will also be there. but on this emotional day, perhaps the most poignant statement came from mccain's fellow arizonan, senator jeff flake. >> it's tough. i'm going to miss him. >> yeah. >> i have admired him, like i said, my entire life. and it's tough to imagine the senate without him. it's tough to imagine politics without john mccain. but we need to go on. >> you can see the impact senator mccain had on his colleagues. and terry, two former presidents speaking at the funeral, two people he fought so hard against in two presidential campaigns. it tells you a lot about his character. >> reporter: it does. and it tells you a lot that joe biden will also be speaking at the funeral. showing that john mccain always moved forward. there were a lot of things that knocked him down. his experiences as a p.o.w. could have broken some peo

he said when george w. bush said he could see in putin's soul, mccain said he saw kgb. russian state television announcing the news without any tribute. they called mccain an inplack ab inplackable person. >> i can hear john cackling. he not only loved that he had called putin out and that line about seeing in his eyes and the letters kgb, he cackled delightedly about it ever afterwards. john welcomed this. he always felt as max said, he felt so deeply associated with the cause of people working for freedom. >> max, there has been some level of criticism for his approach to foreign policy, how hawkish he could be. he seemed to jokingly talk about a military action with iran. he suggested that u.s. troops may have to stay in iraq for 100 years or so. how will history judge his hawkish tendencies? >> there's no question that senator mccain did not get everything right. i didn't get everything right. nobody gets everything right. he was very -- as always, he was very big about owning up to his mistakes and learning from them. for example, just in the last year or so he tal

going back to the 2000 campaign against george w bush for president, it was one of the times when he had a lapse, when he did not stand on principle, during the primary in south carolina when there was a big controversy over the state house flying the confederate flag, john mccain called it, as he saw it, a symbol of racism and intolerance. and he basically, his political advisers told him, you know, you can't do this, this is a big mistake. john mccain then amended his position and said he could understand both sides of the flag debate. he thought that was something that hurt him. years later, or put it this way, after the campaign he came back to south carolina and apologise to voters and said, idid carolina and apologise to voters and said, i did not stand on principles, idid not said, i did not stand on principles, i did not stand for the truth. i apologise for that. i just think thatis apologise for that. i just think that is a remarkable anecdote from his career, because how often do you see a politician, after a race has been won, and they lose, to come back and apologise for

dou btless general under george w bush. doubtless donald trump will feature in the paper review at 11.30pm. the home office has apologised tonight to the children of eu nationals who were born in the uk and have lived here all their lives after they were suddenly told they could not renew their passports. more than 1000 have been affected. their parents were told that their children who were born between 2008 and 2014 didn't have the right paper work to prove they could legally live here. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has this exclusive report. 0livier was born in britain eight years ago to polish parents. from the age of three, he had a british passport. but when his father applied to renew that passport injanuary, he was told there was a problem. and for seven months, he's been waiting. the passport still hasn't been renewed. for now at least, he appears to have lost his british citizenship. in letters sent to his father, the problem seems to be that the passport 0ffice made an error and didn't ask for th

he worked closely with george w. bush on iraq and strategy for iraq and with barack obama. after that campaign, i want to play -- this was john mccain at the al smith dinner 2008. so this is right -- not long after that painful campaign. this is what senator mccain had to say about barack obama back then. take a listen. >> >> i don't want it getting out of this room, but my opponent is an impressive fellow in many ways. political opponents can have a little trouble seeing the best in each other but i've had a few glimpses of this man at his best. and i admire his great skill, energy, and determination. it's not for nothing that he has inspired so many folks in his own party and beyond. senator obama talks about making history and he's made quite a bit of it already. there was a time when the mere invitation of an african-american citizen to dine at the white house was taken as an outrage and an insult in many parters. today he's a world away from the cruel and privateful bigotry of that time, and good riddance. i can't wish my opponent luck, but i do wish him well. >> andre

>> george w. bush said nothing like what donald trump says. in fact, the number of -- >> he was still called a nazi. yet they still called -- >> who called him a nazi? but scott, scott, let's give you the point. let's say people did call george w. bush a nazi. >> they did, that's true. >> who did it? was it a sitting president's son or daughter or family member? >> no. >> it was some of the most wealthy financiers of the democratic party. george soros did it, keith ellison did it. compared 9/11 to the reich -- >> i think you're missing the point. we're talking about how presidents talk and presidents behave. donald trump is totally unlike barack obama or george w. bush in that regard. >> all right. i have to go. thanks for watching. our coverage continues. control of heartburn. prilosee so you don't have to stash antacids here... here... or, here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. your mornings were made for better things than psoriatic arthritis. as you and your rheumatologist consider treatm

w. bush had be asked to deliver eulogies. joining me now, douglas brinkley and former adviser to senator john mccain. let me start with you. you worked closely with mccain and senior media adviser for much of his run for president in 2008. there's a moment you recently wrote about in the daily beast when he turned to you, he bent over and you realized he needed help to comb his hair. tell us about that. >> thanks, jake. first of all, my hats off to senator mccain and the mccain family. there were so many powerful moments it was, you know, such an honor to spend any time around senator mccain, but one of the first times i was out with him was when his campaign had kind of collapsed and there were a few of us that stuck around as volunteers and i think it was up in new hampshire. i was doing every role, i was press guy, travel aide, what have you. when i went to go with him, whoever was with him before me gave me a black bag and i didn't really understand what that was for and i looked in

i'll even say george h. w. bush. george h. w. bush would have cut donald trump up into a thousand pieces on the debate stage ten seconds in. barack obama that would have been an ugly election as well. you could look -- everybody is acting like donald trump is this unicorn and he's this remarkable political figure who is just going to win presidential elections. he's not. he lost by 3 million votes. he lost to, again, i will say one of the least effective politicians on the national stage in recent memory. and there is -- there is no 2020 re-election. there's just not. and that may be why donald trump is playing for his hard core third because he knows he's not going to face re-election. i'm the only person in the world speculating this right now other than people that are close to donald trump and just don't think he's going to put up with the possibility of getting walloped in 2020? but, you know, i could be totally wrong. but, again, it is just complete speculation. >> barack obama, george h. w. bush, bill clinton all in peak f

to former president george w. bush. he secured the nomination in 2008 but lost the election to barack obama. senator john mccain dead at the age of 81. here is a look back at his life. >> he was born in 1936 at a naval air station in the panama canal zone. his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. the family moved often between bases on the mainland and abroad. he grad tbraitd the naval academy in 1958. as war broke out in street a number he volunteered for duty. he flew attack planes and escaped serious injury when a rocket struck his plane. explosion and fires killed 134 people. >> i felt this tremendous blow to my airplane and saw the fire coming out. i probably reacted more quickly than the planes near me. the planes near me didn't survive. reporter: in 1967 his plane was shot down in a bombing mission over hanoi. he was captured and moved to the hanoi hilton prison. >> fractured arms, broken knee, left arm was out of the socket. he had not been fed. and basically he was starving to death. reporter: his ca

w. bush. but in 2008, he secured his party's nomination to face democratic candidate barack obama. despite the hard-fought campaign, mccain's principles were on display when he famously defended his opponent at a campaign rally. >> he's an arab. he is not? >> no ma'am. >> no? >> no ma'am. no ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. that's what this campaign is all about. he's not. thank you. >> in his final memoir, the restless wave, mccain mourned the loss of civility in today's politics. >> before i leave, i'd like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations. i'd like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. >> despite his storied military career, mccain never considered himself a hero. but for many in a grateful nation, he was the definition. >> john mccain and everybody like him is an american hero. >> here