searing experience. he had his good days and bad days, and he had a temper. he would have petty fights. i have seen mitch mcconnell. people talk about how he and president trump didn t see eye to eye. he and mitch mcconnell didn t get along. john mccain had a stormy temper. he was a tough guy. navy guy. he was at the bottom of his class at annapolis. judge jeanine: i think he specifically said i m number five from the bottom. but i also think he said he had a lot of demerits, too. it sounds like he was a partyer. ed: he talked about being in florida as a navy pilot getting
through for sharing your thoughts with us on the passing of senator john mccain. joining me now is ed henry. ed, we have been talking, it s interesting. we all know senator mccain was a fighter pilot. graduate of the navy academy. did 23 bombing missions. price never war, author, politician, and certainly a maverick. his own man. and he just found out he was a cook, lofd to cook. loved to cook. i covered him in the service and the senate. his far it and grandfather, they were navy four star admirals. his grandfather was on board the
u.s.s. missouri when the gentleman these surrendered. when the japanese surrendered. i remember the senator in a quiet corridor. i asked are you going to retire? he said both his grandfather and father when they retired from the navy, they died very shortly thereafter. he said they no longer had a calling. he said i m not going to be like that. i ll go out fighting. he was covering hillary clinton in the 2016 campaign. john mccain was on the flight. he said what are you doing? i said i am covering hillary. he was saying all these candidates are running around.
history as a fighter pilot. and all of the other components of his career that she was a part of. she is one knowledgeable woman. ed: tough cookie herself. she had to be to put up with john mccain as he would be the first to say all of these years. he would talk about his temper in the senate hallway. he says i get so fired up as he would start throwing those fists down. mitch mcconnell did not want the limits on contributions mccain goth gone. mitch mcconnell thought you should not have any limits. just full transparency. so they had their policy battles. remember in the 2008 campaign when he was struggling against barack obama and the economy was in a free-fall, i was covering
is interesting, the vietnamese would say because of your grandfather and father, because we are fighting you. ed: they took it as a propaganda coup. john mccain saw through that. any one of us in a situation like that, who knows what we would do. he had his arms broken. he was punished and tortured. judge jeanine: dislocated. and i understand he suffered for the rest of his life with the inability to move. ed: there were times i saw him in the senate russell building and right before he went on one of his staffers would say, hey, senator, come here. he couldn t reach his arm over his head to comb his own hair. those are daily reminders of the scars of war.