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What This Week's Outpouring For John McCain Says About America

A military honor guard carries the casket of the late Sen. John McCain into the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 31, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/AFP/Getty Images)
A military honor guard carries the casket of the late Sen. John McCain into the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 31, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/AFP/Getty Images)

The emotional outpouring for John McCain this week has been extraordinary: his daughter Meghan sobbing, his widow Cindy kissing his flag-draped casket, Joe Biden’s eulogy. On Friday, the longtime Arizona senator and former prisoner of war lies in state in Washington inside the Capitol rotunda.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer), professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and a CNN political analyst, about what this moment means for the country.

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