The man known as the maverick of the senate. Flags flying at halfstaff at the white house and capitol hill. President trump sending his condolences on twitter saying, my deepest sympathies and respect go out to the families of john mccain. Our hearts and prayers are with you. We have team Fox News Channel coverage of all of this. Mike emanuel is live on capitol hill where john mccain spent so many years. We begin with William Lajeunesse in phoenix. Reporter the long goodbye has begun not just in arizona. But here and around the world. Also some joined the motorcade yesterday on its way to the funeral home last night. At some point we expect john will lie in state at the state capitol. Among the hundreds of tweets from the political colleagues, there are two memorable ones. One from wife cindy, saying my heart is broken. I am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. This from his daughter megyn. Love him or hate him, friend or enemy. With john mcc
Three cases now pending at the Supreme Court that involve donald trump completely separate from this impeachment that have to do with house and grand jury subpoenas for his tax records and other financial papers. In the brief for the government in nixon versus the u. S. , there were two names on that brief. Right arguing for the government. The first name was ken starr let me cut you off. I want to listen to the Senate Majority leader. Mr. President suggest the well call the role. Mr. Alexander, ms. Baldwin. Present. Mr. Buraso. Present. Mr. Bennett. Mrs. Blackburn. Present. Mr. Blumenthal. Lets go back, im sorry to interrupt. This significant case that went all the way to the Supreme Court on whether or not there could be a constitutional challenge to the senates behavior in an impeachment trial, chief Justice Rehnquist led a court that ruled 90 against the challenge to the manner in which the senate conducted the trial. The two names on the brief for the government solicitor general
Polling numbers on president what ive just heard about the article 2. So youve got the g. A. O. Trump within the republican solemnity of this. Its so rare to see all of these weighing in on both articles of party. Impeachment, which is striking. They are sky high. The second thing is the and so for the majority of these senators in the same place trajectory here. I mean, we have the g. A. O. Pulling in the same direction, even if just for a moment, and report today, the parnas senators it is deciding that they are truly taking a risk watching everyone come up and interview yesterday, the sign that log book. I was focused on one senator who documents from parnas the day that they would be able to before. Continue as senators if they all this is really damning. May be probably the only person weve had witnesses come forward in that body take say i know stand up, accept the facts and better than Claire Mccaskill in the past. The trajectory, every piece of stand up to this president who ne