he had a romantic view of our nation to his last breath. literally almost the last thing he said to me was, i love you. i have not been cheated. he was not cheated. i don t knjohn mccain was no. his life was a great example of what a lifetime of service means. i think we should all look up to him as a shining example of what an american can be. i want to move on, but before i do, you have been somebody who hasn t been afraid to criticize this president, but what i m hearing from you in this discussion is you re not going to criticize the president for how he responded to the death of john mccain. right now, i m celebrating john mccain s life. okay. i ll ask about something else happening on capitol hill. bruce ohr is appearing before closed doors, this doj official the president has threatened to strip his security clearance. obviously, your security clearance has been stripped. you re a former official. bruce ohr is not.
pentagon right now. a rare briefing for him, with plenty to talk about, including negotiations with north korea falling apart. we are going to bring you the latest, as soon as we get news from the defense secretary coming up. we ll also have former cia director john brennan live with me on set next. plus, in a d.c. courtroom right now, could two for paul manafort and his lawyers, hammering out issues for his next trial, less than three weeks ago. word that the man praised by the president for not flipping actually tried to. we have our team all across the country. the death of john mccain is once again a headline. perhaps not the one he or his family want. for a president who seemed to want nothing to do with john mccain in life or death, it s become about the president. one of john mccain s closest friends, senator lindsey graham, seems to be unbothered by that. watch. how the president feels about senator mccain is his right to feel the way he d like. i know how america feels
watching a bunch of big primaries in three states. arizona, florida, and oklahoma. and how the president is playing into the top races there. in arizona, you have three republicans battling it out to be the party s pick to replace jeff flake in the senate. it s a race that could tell us a lot about the state of the republican party in the trump era and how much it s changed since arizona voters first sent the late john mccain to washington. in florida, a test of the trump endorsement. can it left desantis to victory tonight in the republican primary for governor? lots to cover. let s kick it off with caskasie hunt in scottsdale, arizona, on the road for our midterm coverage. walk through the state of play in arizona. reporter: so, hallie, this is a three-way race, but it is among three republicans. it is really about one person, and that is president trump. you have had, of course, john mccain, now no longer on the public stage, and senator jeff
our identity. it enlarges, on the contrary, your sense of self. our nation has lost a great patriot, and our military has lost one of its most ardent supporters. that s defense secretary james mattis remembering senator john mccain and his legacy just a couple of minutes ago at the pentagon. right after that, he was asked about north korea. mattis making his newest comments since the president suddenly called off secretary of state mike pompeo s trip to north korea last week. bottom line is, there was progress made. the whole world saw the progress when the two leaders sat down. we also knew very clearly, this was going to be a long and challenging effort, to negotiate this away. as you know, that war began in 1950 and has never ended. we re engaged in the process, and we stay with the diplomatically-led process. our job is to support the
if you watch her ads, it is her and president trump talking about how tough she is. have fun in arizona. thank you. joining me on set, michael steele, msnbc political analyst, former rnc chairman, and bill kristol, editor at large at the weekly standard. you have ward, arpaio, and mcsally embracing trump and pushing away mccain s legacy here. an intentionally worded tweet about how political correctness is a cancer. seemi ining ward chose the word there. what does this say? ward ran against mccain and they re long-time enemies in arizona politics. arpaio, too. the big story is mcsally, who was a mccain protege, veteran. mccain was happy to have her come to the house. i think was enthusiastic about her succeeding flake in the senate. she s become sounding more