The Great American: The late Arizona Sen. John McCain was remembered and eulogized at the National Cathedral yesterday before he was buried at the US Naval Academy. President Donald Trump, who was not invited to speak or even attend, went to one of his golf courses and played a round.

McCain’s daughter Meghan was the first of several speakers who talked about the greatness of her father through a thinly-veiled message to the current occupant of the White House.

Meghan McCain: “The America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold. she’s resourceful, confident, secure. She meets her responsibilities. She speaks quietly because she’s strong. America does not boast because she has no need to. The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.”

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: “Like most people of my age I feel a longing for what is lost and cannot be restored. If the happy and casual beauty of youth prove ephemeral, something better can endure and endure until our last moment on Earth and that is the moment in our lives when we sacrifice for something greater than ourselves. Heroes inspire us by the matter of factness of their sacrifice and the elevation of the root vision.”

President George W. Bush: “If we are ever tempted to forget who we are, to grow weary of our cause, John’s voice will always come as a whisper over our shoulder: We are better than this. America is better than this.”

President Barack Obama: “John cared about the institutions of self -government, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, rule of law. Separation of powers. Even the arcane rules and procedures of the senate. He knew that in a nation as big and boisterous and diverse as ours, those institutions, those rules, those norms are what bind us together. Give shape and order to our common life. Even when we disagree. Especially when we disagree.”

Document Dump: The White House, citing executive privilege, announced that it is shielding 100,000 pages of records from Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s time as a lawyer in the George W. Bush administration. Senators who have to vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court won’t be able to see them.

Confirmation hearings for Kavanaugh begin Tuesday. Under Republican control, the game in Supreme Court nominations these days is to argue that the candidate is supremely qualified while making it appear that he never previously had a controversial thought or opinion in his life.

Minority leader Chuck Schumer said via Twitter, “We’re witnessing a Friday night document massacre. President Trump’s decision to step in at the last moment and hide 100k pages of Judge Kavanaugh’s records from the American public is not only unprecedented in the history of SCOTUS noms, it has all the makings of a cover up.”

Oh, Canada: President Trump yesterday threatened to proceed with a new North American Free Trade Agreement that does not include Canada. US and Canadian negotiators worked through the week and are expected to get back to it on Wednesday.

Congressional leaders have said they won’t sign on to a deal that does not include Canada. But Trump tweeted yesterday, “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off…”

Enjoy Your Flight: United Airlines raised the price for checking your bag from $25 to $30  for flights in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The second checked bag will now cost $40, up from $35.United said in a statement the change will allow the airline to “continue investing in the overall customer experience in today’s marketplace.”

That means the seats are going to get even smaller.

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