he didn t give up. he kept fighting and he told the staff you have to compromise but you can t quit. compromise but don t quit. so important to continue to repeating that and to continue to learn more about senator john mccain. paul hickman, appreciate you taking the time to join us today. thank you. thanks, erica, appreciate it. it s no secret how the president feels a s about his attorney general. just how much longer can jeff sessions hold on to the support he has on capitol hill? and we are moments away from the opening bell. the dow set to drop. investors will be watching for signs of progress in a new nafta deal between the united states, canada, and mexico ahead of this friday deadline.
before he was senator and presidential candidate john mccain he was lieutenant commander john mccain in the u.s. navy who served his country as a fighter pilot. during the vietnam war his plane was shot down and he was captured at a p.o.w. despite suffering debilitating injuries mccain continued his service as the navy senate liaison and served for 23 years before retiring in 1981 as a captain. the naval air force is honoring mccain tweeting a man who served his country until his last days, a true patriot, an american hero. rest in peace john sydney mccain iii. cnn analyst is joining us now. good to have you with us. what does john mccain mean to you and others who are serving on behalf of our country? good evening. what i would say is he had a special connection with those in
about it is he took that same concept of honor to his family and really brought that to the senate. so when you traveled with him, yeah, you would have fancy dinners with ambassadors and heads of state, but he would also always make sure that the group, including the staff, would be together almost every night so we could spend time together and talk about what happened. so even though he spent his life traveling all over the world, he always believed that there was no place like home and for him that was his ranch in arizona and that was not only because of the beauty around him, the oasis that it was, it was also because that was the oasis where he spent time with his family. senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, thank you so much and spending your time with us this morning and reflecting on the loss of your friend. our deepest cons dens to you. thank you, jake. i want to go to former senator kelly ayotte republican of new hampshire. thanks for coming on. thank you, j
sedona, i remember i mean, everything was so magic about that campaign and i m very grateful for having the opportunity. remember, i m the guy that stood fifth from the bottom of his class at the naval academy. how do you want the american people to remember you? he served his country. and not always right. made a lot of mistakes. made a lot of errors. but served his country and i hope we could add honorably. i think that we can say honorably. our last interview with senator john mccain almost one year ago at this very table. my panel is here with me. congressman, you are a democrat, you are in the house, as opposed to senator mccain, republican in the senate, but this seems like a loss that all of congress will feel. i think it s a loss our whole country will feel. i was in college when senator mccain was first elected, but even for people who didn t know him personally or maybe work with him directly, he was an
admit error mccain was all too aware of his and was the first to raise them and yet there was always with the senator standing there defiant the reality of his past, of what he did as a prisoner of war. as david foster wallace wrote in his april 2000 rolling stone magazine profile of mccain, quote, the fact is john mccain is the hero of only kind vietnam has to offer. a hero not because of what he did but because of what he suffered voluntarily for a code. this gives him the moral authority both to utter lines about causes beyond self interest and to expect us even in this age of spin and lawyerly cunning to believe he means them. mccain spent a lifetime aspiring to show as he meant it as we say good-bye to senator mccain this week some of us feel that we ve lost other than just a man. he tried to encourage us all to