on the program today, jake, he was so much fun. i had the honor of working for president bush and senator mccain, i love them both but their operations were so different. working with george bush was like working in the royal british navy, working with john mccain was like working with the pirates of caribbean. mark mckinon, doug brinkley, thanks for being here this morning. we appreciate it. thanks, jake. how senator mccain wanted his country to remember him. his own words during one of his final interviews, that s next. now t-mobile has unlimited for the rest of us. unlimited for you. for them. for all. get unlimited for as low at 30 bucks per line for four lines at t-mobile. we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you tech: at safelite autoglass, to get your windshield fixed. with safelite, you can see exactly when we ll be there. saving you time for what you love most. kids: whoa! kids vo: safelite repair, safelite replace
moment. so that was a moment that i was like, wow, this is a different type of a different type of man. mark, what do you want president trump to do this week? obviously there was a lot of bad blood between him and mccain, we don t have to go into all of it right now. what would you advise president trump to do in terms of what he says about senator mccain. the president has expressed his condolences today, also asked that flags be flown at half mass. it s an opportunity to celebrate his amazing life and self-sacrifice for america. i think it s important to recognize that the president has surrounded himself with a lot of people who were very close to senator mccain. the vice president talks glowingly of his first trip to baghdad was with senator mccain, john kelly, close to mccain for a long time. mccain celebrated jim mattis as secretary of defense. when we reached out to mike pompeo he was traveling with john mccain to that nato conference at nova scotia. there are a lot of pe
his disdain of tyranny and he ceaseless on that but did it with an incredible sense of humor. the late tom wolf who wrote the famous book the right stuff about the mercury astronauts was looking, what is that quality of the right stuff in a certain particular military person going to space back in the early 60s. the right stuff is john mccain. he had it all, duty, honor, country, the patriotism, his idealism and belief in the love of this country and that theodore roosevelt sense of the great american outdoors. senator mccain s love of the grand canyon and hiking and where he passed in sedona, that beautiful part of the country, that landscape was part of him. too, he always was a man of the west. and, mark, when you signed up to help john mccain run for president in 2007-2008 there was
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what we know is the president failed to lead. he failed to do what he said he would do. joining me, mark mckinon, former advisor to president george w. bush. george w. bush took on the immigration issue and tried and did not succeed. as did other presidents and other senators. now we ve got a case where both sides are accusing each other of failure of leadership. yeah, that s the difference between george w. bush and our current nominee in the republican party. george w. bush embraced the issue of immigration and tried very proactively over a number of years to get something done. it was clear by his tone, clear by his rhetoric, this was something he recognized as part of the american dream. now it s being portrayed as part of the american nightmare. mitt romney said it was model legislation in arizona. what the courts have said they would point out to you when he said that in the debate, he clarified that he meant the