to all the team mccain people his staff, friends, family john couldn t have been this successful without them. she deserved to sit there. you had rick davis and mark salder there. i said the reason he came back so many times doing all the things that john did was because he had a hell of a political team around him. his number one cheerleader politically was cindy mccain. people don t appreciate how much support cindy gave him and help politically but in sickness for the last year she was totally devoted to this man. meghan mccain posted a photo. she called you, quote, my uncles forever. certainly that s how she feels about you. i want you with the viewers to listen to how meghan mccain remembered her father yesterday at the national cathedral. we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness. the real thing, not cheap rhetoric. for men who will never come near the sacrifice, he gave so willingly. nor the opportunistic
nature of his life she s called on to make a very public global statement appearance. very hard. but she did it. she did it magnificently. she did it the way her dad would want her to do it. you know what? she was direct the way john was. sometimes those around you are even more direct than you would be in a given situation. good point. god bless her. i was at the funeral yesterday. when i saw ivanka trump and jared kushner, i was surprised. i didn t know they were on the invite list. turns out senator graham, you were behind that? no. nobody that was at the funeral didn t get invited by the family. i met with ivanka about a trip we are planning in africa earlier in the week. ivanka said nice things about senator mccain after his passing. it was not unnoticed by the family. if you wanted to invite everybody that loved john mccain
obama to eulogize him. amid moments of humor. from trouble making plebe. praise for mccain s core beliefs. at various points throughout his long career, john confronted policies and practices that he believed were unworthy of his country. to the face of those in authority, john mccain would insist we are better than this. america is better than this. reporter: but the personal tributes came with a sharp ka treek of today s tribal politics. trafficking and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. it s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in facts is born of fear. john called on us to be bigger
a military flyover honoring the late senator john mccain. the jets in the missing man formation, a salute to a fallen pilot. mccain was buried today at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis. the senator s family and inner circle of close friends kbaer g gathering there tend of five days of public mourning and celebration of mccain s life. his final resting place has sentmental value. it is next to one of the academy classmates. admiral chuck larsson. mccain and larsson made a pact 20 years ago to be buried next to each other. yesterday eulogies deliveredly mccain s daughter megan as well as presidents obama and george w. bush spoke to mccain s aspiration to stand for something higher, honor, integrity, a moral clarity and yet the moment was made all the more extraordinary by the glaring absence of the current president who was not invited.
tribute and bid farewell to john mccain, an american patriot and politician. at the washington national cathedral, a tablo of history, assembly to say good buy to a war hero and veteran republican senator. mccain s daughter meghan over come with emotion throughout the week spoke passionately about her brother with a poignant message. 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 appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege. inside the cathedral, it was the first of preferenseveral re of president trump. john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. reporter: the funeral unfolded as a parting lesson in