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Politics Day: Senator John McCain's Legacy

Gage Skidmore
Senator John McCain speaking at the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry's Annual Legislative Luncheon in Phoenix, Arizona.

Today is the first of four days of funeral services for Senator John McCain.

On this edition of politics day on River to River, Ben Kieffer talks with political analysts, Evan Renfro of the University of Northern Iowa and Tim Hagle of the University of Iowa, about the Arizona senator’s legacy.

As a former Air Force intelligence analyst, Renfro also discusses Russia’s planned war games, the largest since the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and the controversy over the revoking of security clearances by the Trump Administration.

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River