Memorial honors trailblazing senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She was a lioness’

Kamala Harris and mayor London Breed make remarks in a private service as mourners pay their respects at San Francisco's city hall

At a memorial for Dianne Feinstein on Thursday, Joe Biden praised the late senator as a dear friend and a woman of deep integrity who fought to protect what was important to the US: freedom, civil liberties, security and the constitution.

She was always tough, prepared, rigorous, compassionate. She always served the people of California and our nation for the right reasons," Biden said in recorded video remarks played at the memorial outside San Francisco city hall.