senate colleagues were waiting on the floor of the senate for him to come and vote on the skinny repeal of healthcare. course, he famously went in and had issues with the bill and did not tell anybody leadership that he was going to go out and give a thumbs down and he did and i asked him about it the next day and i said, senator mccain, did you have any concerns about that vote and what it might do and he said, of course, you always have concerns about a big vote so he is somebody who always was very thoughtful with everything he did and he s going to be missed by everybody who walked the halls of capitol hill. john: peter, thank you. the tributes to the late senator are already beginning on the road that leads to his ranch in arizona. cornell, arizona to be specific. a couple of neighbors step by to pay their respects here is some of that moment.
always be especially grateful for his leadership in our successful efforts to normalize relations with vietnam, our thoughts and prayers are with his wife cindy, mother roberta, and his children and his entire family. peter joins us final thoughts from washington. john, a lot of the tributes that are pouring in about senator mccain are that he was a maverick but that does not mean he was deciding wellin advance that i would go the democrats on this issue republicans on this issue but he put a ton of thought into every single vote and a great example would be last july. we were outside his office until well past midnight while his
expect most of the focus will not be allegedly the business. it will be under mccain and what happens next honoring him and some people will start to talk about the political considerations. people were reluctant and it was a taboo subject to talk about what happens with john mccain next. arizona will require the governor to appoint someone of the same political party and this is important from the political calculus because it was 51-49 in favor of the republicans with mccain being there. they barely could lose about. that s why the vote that mike emanuel talked about was so important. they cannot lose john mccain s vote on healthcare. that person will be appointed through 2020. mccain was just reelected in 2016 in his term does not expire until 2022 but the way arizona state law functions whoever is appointed by arizona governor would serve until 2020 and that person would run a special election to fill the unexpired portion, final two years in
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week or so we ve been hearing there will be services in multiple places and that s a big deal. the last person to lay in the state was [inaudible], democratic editor from hawaii who died in december 2012. we will have that make their money here for people to violence and they bring up what they call cloth for a big wooden platform which they use for president lincoln s role and position the casket right in the middle of the capitol rotunda. there are formal ceremonies typically in the public can file by. there is an honor guard the keeps watch over the body 247. there have not a lot of people besides president lane in state in the capital but that is something in a very public thing that people can come to and get in line and pay your specs to senator mccain. we expect that sometime in the next few days. the senate will come back at 4:00 o clock on monday afternoon and a lot of senators don t get back in october before votes and there will be both at 5:30 but