it. and you know what, she didn t she was direct with the way john was. joining me now retired rear admiral john kirby. you and senator mccain both have strong ties to the navy. he wrote your son a moving letter, one i know you both will never forget. how are you remembering the life of john mccain? i think i m trying to remember him the same way most of america is right now, fred, as a man of honor and dignity, and great character, who put his country first and knew what the cost of that was an he knew in a personal way that certainly i could never know and so many of us, even many veterans could never know what he went through in the vietnam war. he was honest. he was candid. he was forthright. he could be brutal. but he was always, always it seemed to me to be putting the country s needs first before his own and often the country s needs first before his own party. you know, mccain being
man flyover which is reserved for those in aviation and he was a combat pilot. that missing man formation is it just gets the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up when you see that one aircraft take off and advance in altitude and head to the heavens and let the other three keep going. it s a again, part of who we are in the navy about saying good-bye. it is powerful. it offers a certain finality but at the same time there is a peace that comes with that. all right. retired rear admiral john kirby, thank you so much. thank you. the task of appointing someone to fill john mccain s senate seat. everyone knows his shoes will never be filled but how about the u.s. senate seat. that process is just beginning. arizona governor doug doucy will be in charge and the stakes are high with confirmation hearings getting under way this week for u.s. supreme court domeny brett
minister, he s going at the country, making false statements with regard to trade, but when you talk about political here s what s happening which is increasing the pressure on him which caused the tweets over the weekend unfortunately during the funeral service for senator mccain. gop senate finance orrin hatch tweets out the importance of canada. the u.s. chamber talks about the importance of having canada here. and today, you now have labor unions with the afl-cio head coming out saying you need canada in here. so when do you see labor unions and business come together? they come together when u.s. jobs will be impacted and the u.s. economy will be impacted and the president is taking this further saying well if you don t go along with me i m going to start ripping up nafta or taxing autos and auto parts which would be harmful to american jobs. and this can t be, you know, singular endorsement of any new potential deal, any new deal
who would be acceptable to everyone and to all of the competing interests. but it s tough. and the governor has told his aides, his advisors, not to talk about this until mccarriin is l to rest. . there s not a lot of information that has been leaking out the last few days in part because the governor wants it to be all about mccain and to save the speculation for the next few days. after this labor day weekend, all things could change significantly. eric bradner, thank you so much. thank you. in the meantime also after this holiday weekend, something big gets under way in washington. the confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh, the supreme court nominee and that begins on tuesday. the white house says it is holding back more than 100,000 pages, in fact, of documents related to his time as a lawyer in george w. bush s
and i think it is coming together in a way that probably exceeded his expectations including the outpouring of emotion. it s most significantly out of respect for john mccain and he intended for us to, quite honestly, come pair and contrast this moment, come pair and contrast senator mccain with the man who is not at any of these funeral services or memorial services, president trump. and i think he would get a sort of grim satisfaction from knowing that one last time he is really showing up this president, that he disdained and the feeling was i guess mutual to some extent. it really is interesting, sir michael. we saw the vice president there, donald trump s vice president, mike pence, offering figures about john mccain as a