going to stop that. and so we saw some of that yesterday. putting vice president hair nis charge of that effort to counter republicans on voting rights. and the real question is going to be not the priorities of the biden administration but whether or not he can galvanize all 50 democrats to act. it s pretty clear that on any big issues he s not going to get substantial republican support. so that s why he called out yesterday both joe manchin of west virginia and cinema of the state of arizona who have been the most reluctant democratic members to join his priorities. yeah, he called them out. people are getting so upset with him over voting rights in particular. he said, look, i don t this alone. john, at the same time, the former president telling people close to him that he expects to be reinstated as president this summer. it s all crazy. it s also just another lie. it s another lie capitalizing on support he knows he has from
dana: the state of arizona saying goodbye to john mccain today holding a memorial for the long-time senator at the state capitol. joining me now is a man who spoke at the memorial governor doug ducey. a huge outpouring of support for john mccain from across the nation but in the state you expect tens of thousands to possibly come through to pay their respects today. yeah. we are expecting tens of thousands of people here at the arizona state capitol to honor john mccain s life and pay tribute to someone that is so associated and synonymous with the state of arizona. so today is really about paying our respects to senator mccain, comforting the family, and the thousands and thousands of arizonians that so loved this
controversial execution in arizona has taken a surprising turn. a federal appeals court judge involved in the case says when it comes to the death penalty, it s time to ditch lethal injections and bring backfiring squads. here s abc as pierre thomas. reporter: the state of arizona is investigating why it took so long to execute this inmate, murderer joseph rudolph wood was supposed to die roughly ten minutes after he was given a lethal injection. instead, it turned into 117-minute ordeal. to watch a man laying there, gulping air. reporter: it took so long, 50 minutes in, woods attorney filed a stay with u.s. supreme court in a last-ditch effort to save his life. for it to take two hours for a man to die, i think, is certainly cruel and unusual. reporter: woods case follows botched executions with similar drugs in ohio and oklahoma in
they don t get more serious than a death penalty case. you cannot make mistakes. you must preserve the record. obviously protecting what that jury hears and what that jury does not hear and protecting the jury from anything that appears to be anything circus-like also critical for this judge. you just saw the great seal of the state of arizona. that s the indication when the judge is off the bench, off go the cameras. and that s the moment that family members, et cetera, they know that there is no further broadcast. i want to bring in faith jenkins and jeff brown. reporter: actually go ahead, ted. go ahead. reporter: actually, just a little tidbit i can add to you, the defense also asked for a stay so they could take this to another court. that was denied as well by the judge. they asked for a stay to give them more time, to have this litigated and the judge denied that request as well. okay. good to know. there has been a lot of denying these 11th hour motions and requests f
we move to the next phase. actually, just getting breaking news from o that wh just said is accurate, and there is some movement just since you started your live report. the judge in this case has actually just told everyone to leave the courtroom. i don t know if we have a live picture available. typically had the judge stops proceedings, they ask the live camera to focus straight up on the seal. and it is the seal on the wall. you can read it, it says the great seal of the state of arizona. the reason the focus of the camera right now is on the seal is because, ted, the judge just asked everyone to leave so she can conduct a sealed hearing. we re getting a lot of that in the last five days. quiet, private proceedings and judges chambers. there was ex-parte hearing last week, which only involves one side of the proceeding. that extended to a nonex-parte