what were your experiences with him as the co-senator, junior senator from arizona. i was just referred to as the other senator from arizona. anyone who served with mccain was the other senator which i came to enjoy. i ll give you one experience early on when i was in the house of representatives i angered a lot of people at home because of opposition to earmarks and pork barrel spending. john mccain approached me on a plane flying back to arizona and stuck his finger in my chest and he said don t back down. you are in the right, they will come around. and i always appreciated that. he just stood as an independent voice. and i think the country has been
what were your experiences with him as the co-senator, junior senator from arizona. i was just referred to as the other senator from arizona. anyone who served with mccain was the other senator which i came to enjoy. i ll give you one experience early on when i was in the house of representatives i angered a lot of people at home because of opposition to earmarks and pork barrel spending. john mccain approached me on a plane flying back to arizona and stuck his finger in my chest and he said don t back down. you are in the right, they will come around. and i always appreciated that. he just stood as an independent voice. and i think the country has been
country when i was a prisoner in someone else s. reporter: when mccain remarried in 1980, wife cindy s home state of arizona became his political base. elected to congress and six terms in the u.s. senate where he became known as the maverick. mccain often angered conservatives over issues like immigration, railed against washington s penchant for pork barrel spending and challenged his own party s president, george w. bush to change strategy in the iraq war. early on i came out and said this could be not only a long struggle but a losing one unless we change the strategy. reporter: mccain s presidential ambition boarded his straighttalk straight talk express twice winning the new hampshire primary but having to wait another eight years to become the republican candidate for president. i d fight to restore the pride and principles of our
your own district is called pork barrel spending. scott pruitt and tom price went beyond the usual washington pigging out. in terms of their careers, they stuffed themselves to death like suicidal geese trying to fillet themselves. if he won t concede pruitt ser errors in his speech tonight. trump is so obsessed with spin, even if he takes a corrective action, he then refuses to prae preach what he practiced. i guess the laws of trump kick in to assert some balance in the force because here is the only thing you need to know. a possibility more controversial figure is joining this team. former fox news president bill shine. he will become deputy chief of staff for communications. he was accused in several
millionaires and billionaires who argued they would better prioritize the public interest because they re already rich and they would have less temptation to fleece the government. that s an argument, but it hasn t worked out that way. we are witnessing the exact opposite. a cabinet of entitled 1% who appear so out of touch sometimes they don t realize they are risking their jobs when they do these things. now, this kind of greed is likened to pigging out, which is why greedy spending on behalf of your own district is called pork barrel spending. scott pruitt and tom price went beyond the usual washington pigging out. in terms of their careers, they stuffed themselves to death like suicidal geese trying to fillet themselves. if he won t concede pruitt ser errors in his speech tonight.