Fsu were discussing the fact or the notion that they had compromising information about the president that was causing trump to act in certain ways. that was essentially blackmail. and it is something that we had not heard before. the entire dossier is one big description of a conspiracy between the campaign and russia that hinges on this idea that russia had kompromat on the president but having christopher steele tell bruce ohr that is something they said, that makes it more stark. at the start of the day, the news was that the the memorial for the late senator john mccain, with a lot of people in the country watching that, a lot of people in d.c. watching that. but the president managed to get the tweets out. we ll talk about all of them. one of which was about a very questionable report claiming that there were no fisa hearings before granting the fbi authority to surveil carter page, a member of the trump campaign. we have to point out that no
2016 presidential campaign and we start with you sher michael, you have several republicans asked about this and ways to honor john mccain and in this one specifically, so here are some of the responses. so far david purdue called it troubling and tim scott is open for discussions and richard shelby who defended richard russell saying he was awell respected senator. and so why the resistance and the republicans hesitating to replace a legacy with john mccain. look, i would go back to the statute s argument and people think that is a weird parallel, but a lot of republican voters at the base was really concerned particularly with republicans speaking too much as it relates to taking down the statues because they perceive it as a change of the culture, as trying to change history. i think the same argument would be applied to changing a russell building to the mccain building, despite the segregation has
Petty. trafficking and bomb bast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. john called on us to be bigger than that he called on us to be better than that. president trump has been publicly feuding with mccain for the last few years and was not invited to the funeral. tomorrow mccain will be laid to rest in a private ceremony at the u.s. naval academy cemetery in annapolis, maryland. efforts to rename the russell senate office has stalled after members of his own party refused to back the bipartisan idea. the building is named for a segregationist democrat richard russell. joining me to talk about it michael singleton and former hud deputy chief of state and adrian lie from the hillary clinton
Samson. and still to come, remembering john mccain, mourners gather at the national cathedral in washington to remember the late senator s life. meghan mccain delivering a heart felt eulogy and emotional message to the president. age tot ooh, heaven is a place on earth uhp. i didn t believe it. again. ooh, baby, do you know what that s worth? i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ooh i m not hearing the confidence.
Passed and as an african-american it would be against but for many republican voters they would more than likely demand the senators not change the name because the premise is in doing so you re attempting to alter history and we cannot do that and learn from it and move on. so republicans are extremely cautious with wanting to jump on the band wagon and some won t say he say i won t support this in the republican states. as senator john mccain s the 2008 campaign manager rick davis read from the parting letter on monday and john mccain took a shot at the president. let s get a reminder and listen again. we weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with trifle rivalries that have sewn resentment and hatred and violence in all of the corners of the globe. we weaken it when we hide behind