Lindsey Graham reveals last words John McCain spoke to him

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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Sen. Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamPallbearers, speakers announced for McCain's DC memorial service and Capitol ceremony Trump battles a sense of inertia in Afghanistan Flake says Senate does not want Trump to fire Sessions MORE (R-S.C.), a longtime friend of the late Sen. John McCainJohn Sidney McCainVietnam veteran gives Cindy McCain his war medallion Senate chaplain thanks God for 'gift' of McCain Senate drapes McCain's desk in black cloth MORE (R-Ariz.), on Tuesday revealed the last words McCain said to him before he died on Saturday.

"He had a romantic view of our nation until his last breath," Graham said on NBC's "Today" show. "Literally almost the last thing he said to me was, 'I love you. I have not been cheated.'"

"He was not cheated," Graham added.

“This man was the conscience of the Senate... Literally almost the last thing he said to me was ‘I love you. I have not been cheated.’” @LindseyGrahamSC on McCain pic.twitter.com/4PaqgaH0Pv

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Graham answered questions about what McCain thought about the South Carolina senator's continued defense of President TrumpDonald John TrumpWeird Al joins Hollywood Walk of Fame: 'Please don't pickaxe my star' Vietnam veteran gives Cindy McCain his war medallion GOP senator warns Trump: Anyone who trash-talks McCain 'deserves a whipping' MORE. McCain and Trump had a combative relationship dating back to 2015.

"I don’t have the luxury of pretending like Donald Trump’s not president," Graham said. "I do want to help him, I want to be a bridge where I can."

"Senator McCain never got mad at you about that?" NBC's Savannah Guthrie asked Graham.

"Oh, no," he replied. "It wouldn’t have mattered. I’d have done it anyway. I’m too much like him."

"The bottom line is, John has shown that it’s not about you," Graham added. "Country first means that, even if it’s inconvenient for you and it makes you uncomfortable, you do it anyway. Country first hurts, but it’s the right way to go."

McCain died on Saturday after more than a yearlong battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

"This man was the conscience of the Senate," Graham said. "He was at times the conscience of the nation. And if I had to pick one person in this great land to explain to someone from a different planet -- 'Who are these Americans?' -- it would be John McCain, with an assist from [McCain's former chief of staff] Mark Salter."

Graham will read a tribute to McCain at his Washington, D.C., memorial service on Saturday.

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