Senator john mccain. It will head for a funeral home tomorrow and the senator will lie in state at the u. S. Capitol, just the 31st person to do that. Joining me now, president ial historian, Douglas Brinkley and retired general mark herling, doug, this is a week long week for senator john mccain the likes we havent seen. You dont see this for anyone other than a u. S. President , perhaps Robert Kennedy, the one exception to that. Maybe not sense Robert Kennedy have we seen this outpouring of emotion for u. S. Senator. I think thats exactly right. The fact Senator Mccain will be lying in state in the rotunda of the u. S. Capitol building one of only 31 others to have had that honor. We do it for president s or Supreme Court justices. The country has fallen in love
with john mccain this week. We always loved him and admired him. The more were learning about his lifelong career in politics and Military Service the more were kind of nostalgic and longing for the virtues that he had. They
He made a recommendation, highly respected. very good guy, smart guy, republicans and democrats like him. made a good recommendation. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to in fact when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. so now more than a year later, the president says lester holt fudged the tape. there s of course no evidence of any fudging. repeat, no fudging for the part that is potentially damning, the president is on camera in the middle of a sentence. no cut-aways, no edits. add to that the fact that an extended version of the interview has been on the nbc news website since may 11th, 2017. but for this president and for some of his followers, evidence just doesn t matter. all that matters is what the president says no matter how many times he lies, contradicts himself, or simply makes things up. it all seems to be part of his
In fact when i decided to do it i said to myself, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. now, more than a year later the president says lester holt fudged the tape. of course no evidence of any fudging. no fudging. for the part that is damning president is in the middle of a sentence. no cut a way no edit. an extended version of the interview has been on the web site since may 11, 2017. for the president and followers evidence just doesn t matter. all that matters is what the president says. no matter how many times he lies. contradicts himself or makes things up. it seems to be part of the pattern of trying to dis credit words that aren t good for him. even if they came out of his own mouth. he s doing it now. and the access hollywood tape. he apologized for using locker