going to be the who's who of democratic politics, of course, president joe biden, former president barack obama, speaker pelosi, majority leader schumer in the senate, they're going to speak here but perhaps for the late senator, the most important person who's going to be here is his wife, landra, of 62 years. he kept a poem of e.e. cummingss in his desk to always remember her, titled, "i carry your heart out with me." so she was someone who was extremely important in his life. you know, senator reid liked to say that his wife, landra reid, was smarter than him, more athletic than him but really just didn't have the same opportunities simply because she was a woman. and i think that really influenced and motivated him to be such a huge champion for women, whether it was through different policies or whether it was through elevating women in his own office, in the senate, having one of the first women chiefs of staff. >> reporter: another issue is suicide prevention. he spoke about that publicly, and that had a huge impact. of course, his father had died by suicide, something he never tal

>> the thing that's interesting about barack obama was there's no precedent.he wasn't the product of some immediate trauma . there had been a kind of sympathetic move for recompense. he just emerged at a moment when even people who studied race, like political scientists and sociologists and historians nobody was looking at american society and saying we are at a moment where we can anticipate a breakthrough of this magnitude. he just showed up. so because he upended so many expectations, i think there was this idea that there's nothing he couldn't do. there's a picture of him outside the superman museum where he's posing with his hands on hiships . maybe i can do something unprecedented and at the same time there'sthe gravity of everyday politics . and it was to craft a very heavy-handed metaphor here. he was requesting whether or not he could like superman take flight. i think that it is essentially a stalemate there . and making the prerogative of the presidency beingdenied to him , being called a liar in the midst of an address to congress . him being deni

as you said, president biden, first lady jill biden, former president barack obama, vice president kamala harris, speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader chuck schumer and many more are here to pay tribute and honor the legacy of former senator harry reid. this is going to be the a service that will be opened up with remarks from one of his 19 grandchildren. all five of his children also expected to speak, as well as a eulogy from former president barack obama. so certainly harry reid during his three decades in the senate, a fiercely partisan democrat. but here in las vegas, here in nevada, he's remembered simply as someone who brought a lot back to this state. he also had relationships that crossed party lines. he was a very close friend with sheldon adelson, the late casino magnate that was one of the former supporters of former president donald trump. he passed away about a year ago, but there are people attending the service today who worked alongside sheldon adelson because they were friends with harry reid. he's a bit of a throwback. his relationships crossed the aisle and he

barack obama former president barack obama is now delivering a eulogy for harry reid high pressure let'sof all to harry's beloved landra, the reid children and grandchildren, friends and former staff. it's a great honor to be with you today to pay tribute to my friend harry reid. now, to be clear, and as chuck mentioned, in his remarks, i suspect harry himself would not have wanted to sit through this thing. harry did not like being the center of attention. it made him a little awkward. he was uncomfortable when people said too many nice things about him. but as he looks down on us today, harry is going to have to suck it up. because few people have done more for this state and this country than this driven, brilliant, sometimes eirrascibl, deeply good man from searchlight nevada. i first met hair bring in 2005. after i'd been elected to the senate and harry had been elevated to become democratic leader. and i was the sole african american in the senate at the time, a mixed kid with a funny name. and given how different our backgrounds were, i did not know how well harry and i would hit

senator barack obama, a former member of this body. on april 1, 2005, i benefit our newer members who were not here at the time and don't know what we went through to try to stop it when it was being proposed by the side of the aisle. then senator barack obama said, we congratulate the senate today on their action. he said, the american people sent us here to be their voice. they understand that those voices can at times become loud and argumentative. but they also hope that we can disagree without being disagreeable. then senator barack obama on april 1, 2005, went on to say, what they don't expect is for one party, be it republican or democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. i ask my colleagues, what were we just told to do today? he went on to say, the american people want partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows the majority chooses to end the filibuster. if they choose to change the rules and put an

under the leadership of president barack obama and vice president joe biden.n he retired and we would no longer be speaking constantly on the phone, he came to my office -- this was when he announced his retirement -- he said, nancy, i have something for you to remember me by. i thought it might be a handwritten note or special photo. instead, he unveiled a massive bald eagle, stuffed with the wings still capable of fluttering in the breeze. shocked, i said, harry, did you go hunting and kill an endangered species? he said, no. he died flying into a power line, and i called him sparky. whether symbolic of his patriotism with the bald eagle, his environmentalism or his dry sense of humor and dry it was, it is one of the finest and most curious gifts i've ever received. and a subject of great question in the speaker's office. today, this majestic bird has flown from the senate leader's office over to the speaker's office, appropriately and with his permission, now called harry. for his great legislative achievements, his most enduring public legacy will be that

barack obama was fabulous. and so, listening to the speeches, i was sitting here nodding my head in agreement with everything that was being said. and just grateful to have known him. he's graced us all and was a real contributor to our country. >> alaina, talk to us about the relationship former president barack obama had with harry reid. and i say that because of that story that obama told about sitting around at a dinner table with reid in which there wasn't necessarily a lot of talking going on from harry reid, and then to suddenly get a kiss from him and say he was so proud of the work that they had done together with that administration, and of course, the former president talking about the rescue plan, saying it would not have gotten done if it were not for then senate majority leader harry reid. talking about the affordable care act, it would not have gotten done if it weren't for then senate majority leader harry reid. talk to us about that. >> absolutely. well, what i heard in the speech was a man eul

you know, barack, i was not a great athlete. i was not big and strong like some of the guys i was up against. i had two things going for me. i could punch and i never gave up. that is about right. that same dogged determination marked harry reid's political career, lost his first senate rates by just 600 votes. six month later, he ran for mayor of this town and lost in a landslide. but harry did not give up. he got himself a seat in the house, the senate, and finally became senate majority leader, and let's face it, he enjoyed every minute of proving doubters wrong again and again and again. sometimes the people who motivate us the most, harry would later say, are the ones who believe in us the least. though yes -- so yes, being tough, being a fighter was one of harry's singular characteristics. apparently, once a staffer handed him some draft remarks in which he was supposed to refer to himself as a former boxer, and harry crossed out the word former. he was 70 years old at the time. but there were other aspects to harry's char

president biden and former president barack obama are some of the politicians there in nevada to paythe age of 82 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, and despite being born into abject poverty in a small town, he went on to become one of the most powerful politicians in nevada history. let's bring in jeff zeleny. we see that president biden is already there. what's expected at this service today? >> reporter: well, fredricka, the service is just getting under way right now. as you said, president biden, first lady jill biden, former president barack obama, vice president kamala harris, speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader chuck schumer and many more are here to pay tribute and honor the legacy of former senator harry reid. this is going to be the a service that will be opened up with remarks from one of his 19 grandchildren. all five of his children also expected to speak, as well as a eulogy from former president barack obama. so certainly harry reid during his three decades in the senate, a fiercely partisan democrat. but here in las vegas, here in nevada, he's remembere

it was barack obama and the parameters of hope. and you know, i talked about how he and his political rhetoric constantly ly criticized cynicism. anytime that people disagreed , thinking they were skeptical, cynicism that. you couldn't call people racist but youcould call them cynical. that was an accessible political language . in that piece i wrote the problem is not cynicism but the extent to which cynicism proved accurate . the most cynical interpretation of that moment would be that there's going to be a gigantic racial backlash as aconsequence of him existing .and that proved to be right. so i think the obama defied every kind of cynical expectation of race in america? yes. did obama confirmevery cynical expectation of race in america ? yes. that's what it became so public to understand what he meant. >> you see some disappointment with his post-presidency, his lack of presence on the political scene e. you share that or do you think it's depending on one person too much ? >> i think it's mnot depending on one person too much

and really the first thing of the new yorker barack obama. and the parameters of hope. in that political rhetoric constantly criticized cynicism and anytime anybody disagreed if they were skeptical you cannot call people racist but you could call than senegal. and then to prove accurate. and then with a consequence of an existing and that proved to be right. and then to defy that cynical expectation of race in america, yes. yes. that's why became so complicated. >> he sees some disappointment on the political scene. >> isat that depending on one person too much quick. >> it's not a matter of depending on one personec too much but during the trump years. >> and then you don't know what will happen in 2024. but speaking of the trump yearss. >> i'm right now about the piece end of the politics and republican party right now and nobody knows better how this is working in the ways. and after that long legacy of that construction and maybe the way in terms of obama and trump to fit both of them. and a mask of what american history and being an american is all about with the p

barack said we have loving families. wives who are smarter and better looking than we were and harry and i both liked to talk a lot. i'm just testing whether you're asleep yet. but whether you served with harry for decades or were new to america just a few days ago, you wanted harry in your corner. his toughness was nevada. his story was unmistakably american. his remarkable journey has been told so many, by so many because it has been traveled by so few. desert called home, miles to hitchhike to school. family tragedies endured. the cancer he and landra fought. the country he shaped. he was proof that there's nothing ordinary about america. ordinary americans can do anything given half a chance. we the people. pretty damn extraordinary. america's an idea. an idea that anybody given a shot can reach their potential. harry was extraordinary though. he and i grew up on different sides of the country. we came from the same place where certain values ran deep. first, loyalty. faith, resolve, service, your word. pounded into

pelosi, chuck schumer, barack obama, harry reed, all pulled it together.we're in the same position. there's still a deal to be had there. may not be what they want, but there's still a possibility that if you give joe manchin what he wants on build back better, that's a possibility, maybe filibuster reform, reaching out to romney and collins to allow voting rights to come to vote. i think it is necessity we get something done. doing nothing is impossible, something we can't allow. >> gene, i will read from what i quote with maureen dowd, he fans eed himself another master of the senate. unfortunately he was thinking about the senate of '84. and writes chuck schumer is such a pushover, backed down from promise of voting rights showdown by mlk day because winter weather threatened. gene? >> well, look, i hope democrats use this week as kind of an exorcism, right, to get all of this sort of evil aura off of them because this isn't bleak. bleak was 2017. that was bleak. that felt bleak for democrats. democrats have control of the white house and of the house o

with barack obama and the parameters of help. and with that rhetoric constantly criticized criticism anytime anybody disagreed you cannot call people racist but you could call them cynical and that is accessible political language but that which it proves accurate and the most cynical interpretation at that moment is if there is a gigantic racial backslash and that proved to be right and then to defy every cynical expectation of race in america? yes. and that's how it became so complicated. >> you see some disappointment. do you share that are think that's depending on one person too much quick. >> because during the trump years and we can speak of those years in retrospect now. >> some are still living in them and you don't know what happens 2024. but speaking of the trump years now i don't know what i was going to say. [laughter] and trying to describe the trump phenomenon and with that aspect of his politics and the republican party. nobody knows better than floridians. donald trump is part of a long legacy it is on and on. i

just you know, i can't that's barack obama. oh wait, let me finish this stuff, but joe budden never supported legalization the marijuana barack obama smoke marijuana, he knows he knows that there's no like that. he knows there's no reason why shouldn't change medical marijuana and and recreational marijuana you going so many different places. it's regulated more. so now that it is why is marijuana, why is marijuana federally still scheduled the same as heroin and cooking? exactly. why didn't president obama do something? i don't disagree with that's about what happened with the prohibition with alcohol. let's go back there. so asking i don't i literally do not disagree with you. i mean time we are repeating the same mistakes all you have to do and this is gonna probably get me in trouble with this audience. but all you have to do is look at stephen breyer making the same mistakes that ruth great again his birthday. all right, why didn't ginsburg resign when barack obama was president? i totally agree. so so here we are so i don

the former us president, barack obama, has led tributes 16 people are now known to have died after anese media system and other people were rescued, some of whom are being treated in hospital. one is reported to be in critical condition. the building, housed a canteen, was reduced to rubble by the blast, thought to have been caused by a gas leak. the former us president, barack obama, has led tributes to the actor sir sidney poitier who's died at the age of 94. mr obama said the star had "opened doors for a generation of actors". sidney poitier made his name in a series of ground—breaking films which challenged racial stereotypes. he was the first black man to win an oscar for best actor, and his success paved the way for generations of other black artists. our correspondent, lizo mazimba looks back on the life, of a hollywood icon. # in the heat of the night... sidney poitier�*s virgil tibbs, a man of authority... i'm a police officer. ..intelligence and a steely determination never to back down — the kind of qualities that defined poitier on screen and off. he made his cinema debut

you let him loose on the microphone he is no bill clinton or barack obama. he will cause more problems than solve them by talking more. like kamala harris's biggest failure. i need to get out of the office more but it make things worse, not better. >> harris: crazy about the microphone. a song, not really. the president came into office with a 200-page plan to shut down the coronavirus. jason, we talked about this. it's the reason why a lot of people voted for him even though those who maybe weren't as yoked to his policies otherwise. the "washington post" is going through it now page by page and here are a few of the points where the president struggled or failed to deliver. let's turn to page 59. predictable and robust federal purchasing of coronavirus tests. well, we know how that is going. it's still going. page 81. support schools and implementing covid-19 screening testing. flip to 103, insure patient safety in nursing homes by boosting staffing and vaccinations. we'll hear what the president has to say about his pandemic response later today. i imagin

>> joe biden worked for barack obama, therefore g.o.p. the association of barack obama. that is ridiculous and racist. let me see why g.o.p. in america does not like joe biden? we allow 13 american soldiers to be killed in afghanistan. played a race card called critical race theory. he basically has destroyed private schools and public schools. he has shut down the country but these mandates pier of the g.o.p. in america dislikes joe biden because he is bought and paid for by aoc and the extreme left. joy reid hates anyone who is black, white, brown, or yellow who does not adopt extreme socialist, progressive agenda. she hates me because i dislike joe biden for all the things that i articulate. joe biden is not good for america. >> sean: let me ask you, jesse watters, leo did forget 40 year high inflation and a $1.50 more a gallon and everything costing more, your thoughts. >> yeah come as republicans, we actually didn't mind joe biden when he was barack obama's vp. he was kind of funny, he wasn't threatening, good, old joe sticking his f

president, barack, i have to tell you every time i hear a dial tone i think of. think i'm kidding. i'm not. he would want us to be here, we are here for you family. eulogies are for the living. true love story, still talking aboutto your first date years later. harry never tired of telling the time to kids how to push start his car making your way down the road, wife smiles on your face. my recollection is he called and told me the story, one of those moments that turn a life to stay with you until the last breath. what a life you turned together until his lastnt breath. mama josh, all the grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hearing you talk about today, clear, my dad used to have an expression, say your blood of his blood, bone of his bone, you are the product of harry sandra reed, what a gift, a gift god gave you. what a gift it was and is. president obama, vice president harris, second gentleman, governor, thank you in the state and iris, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, senator rosen and representatives, the titus, members of congress, democrat republican disting

what people like vladimir putin see that kind of weakness from american president, they saw from barackrtunately, what they have seen from joe biden over the last year. then they get more aggressive, they take more risks, that will threaten the united states and our safety and prosperity, which depends on international is a stability and security. >> speaking of joe biden, i want to ask you, about the signal that joe biden sent throughout his short presidency. i'm not saying joe biden is evil. but i'm saying, what he has done has been a disaster. so when you have the evil regimes, that have territorial ambitions and they are building up their military because of the united states, is this not the weakest president in modern times, who is provoking our enemies and by provoking i mean, they see opportunity? afternoon all that is what evil people look for, that is what i want to address when we come back. we'll be right back. >> woman: what's my safelite story? >> vo: my car is more than four wheels. it's my after-work decompression zone. so when my windshield broke... >> woman: what?! >>

there will be just a string of dignitaries, as you said, president biden, former president barack obamaa harris and so many more. speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader chuck schumer, on and on, here in las vegas to celebrate the life and legacy of harry reid who pass aid way nearly two weeks ago at the age of 82. the legacy and life will be celebrated here at the smith performing arts center in downtown las vegas. a city that really transformed throughout the lifetime of harry reid. of course, his hard scrabble upbringing from search light, nevada, you know, really taking him to the highest ranks of power in the u.s. nate will also be celebrated here today, but really everything that he did and accomplished throughout his three decades and after leaving office is so palpable. when we were flying into what is now the harry reid international airport, was renamed just last month before he passed away, certainly one of the many things named in his honor, but it is no coincidence that barack obama, he will be here, i'm told, flying in from hawaii where he has been spending some time

. >> you might have to ask barack obama -- who the worst vice president of all time was.er] >> where you were going you didn't tee up to me either. ultimately never thought joe should run in the first place joe runs and he's caught in basement he looks at the field declared i will pick a woman. right, so he has to find somebody and here's kamala harris who couldn't get past the california primary. she checked another block as first black female and so ultimately she was a -- a prop for his campaign to get into the white house they give her the border, which she's failed at which we just talked about give her voting supposed to be overlooking voting rights. in america which only means -- make that valid box absolutely wide open first foreign trip was an absolute joke she undermine covid vaccine before they even took office by saying she wouldn't take it because it came from donald trump. she was also supposed to be in charge of promoting that. now you have bills stuck in the senate only utility she serves the progressives is as a 51st vote but because she never had any cre

this is just the rules that elected barack obama twice? >> one of the things we want to get back to, those rules that elected barack obama, so looking at things prior to 2013, prior to shelby county, you know, between 1965 and 2013, no one on the right or left necessarily said that voting was unfair. i mean, we had some instances, of course, in 2000. >> laura: there is always cheating. >> but people largely were saying that it was fair. and, you know, we want to get back to that before it was stripped down. of course, when you're calling it jim crow 2.0 you're referring to the fact that the voting rights act is being stripped down naked. so we're trying to get back to that that's what's in the john lewis voting rights act. the freedom to vote act. >> laura: the "washington post" is reporting that a group of democratic senators are planning to release legislation that will basically render state legislatures meaningless, if they plan to trump proof the 2024 election. they are really worried about trump. guys, good to see you. you might have

former president barack obama will deliver the eulogy for harry reid, the family confirmed wednesday. other speakers will include president joe biden, nancy pelosi, and chuck schumer. reid family members are also expected to speak as well as elder russell ballard, president of the quorum of 12 apostles of the jesus christ of latter-day saints. two of reid's former artists will perform as well. harry reid is lying in state in the rotunda of the u.s. capitol on wednesday. coverage of the saturday funeral will begin at 2:00 p.m. on our homepage at c-span.org and on our app. highlights of the funeral will air on c-span at 8:00 p.m. on saturday night. if you want to see it, you can turn to c-span or go to our app, c-span now, to see the funeral for former senate majority leader harry reid. let's go back to our phone lines and let's talk to donna, who is calling from orlando, florida, on the democrat line. donna, good morning. caller: good morning read thank -- good morning, and thank you for c-span. my concern on my mind this morning is the disinformation problem that we have in this count

the democratic administrations of barack obama and bill clinton both have studies conducted by the cdcm a health perspective on firearm safety. i want to correct one thing -- the number of suicides by firearm is very, very low compared to all the methods used for suicide. as an instructor, one of the things we cover in detail is the security of guns, the responsibility of the. many states have instituted laws that if guns are not secured properly and misused, the owner of that gun is now criminally liable. with good training, we can emphasize the security of firearms, the sponsor billy that goes with it. peter: i guess that is a fair point, isn't it? that suicide is suicide and if someone wants to take their own life, they will do it. it may take a longer time to do it, they may do it in a slightly more messy way, a less surgical way, if you will, but if someone wants to top themselves, they do not necessarily have to use a gun to do it, but do you get the sense where you are that the nra is resisting this, despite what the industry is saying? the industry is now saying, look, we are g

there was barack obama, who affected larry, ah, overthrew the elected government in ukraine in 2014, and allowed it to be replaced with her, an anti russian aggressive regime that came as a result of her own a bomb as people is vice president biden. her one of a senior, our secretaries victorian you on the all part of actually a conspiracy which i think it was nuance. the price for god was $5000000.00. we got the right. we got the government ukraine church that has brought later you worst. you can ride up to the border of russia. imagine the reverse. imagine the russian's, ah, rather a russian presence. ride on to the canadian border with the united states or the mexican border. is there is that it's the refusal to understand, to reverse it. to put our souls in the position of a country that last i don't think it was 20 or 1000000 people in the 2nd world war, the history, whoever's in charge, and in russia, that's been my experience of being in russia and in the soviet union. that history is like a preference it to it. it inflows home influences almost everything. history has no pres

[president barack obama impersonation] barack obama: we're entering an era in whi our enemies can makeanyone is saying anything at any point in time. like, president trump is a total and complete d--. ♪♪♪ [jeremy fernandez impersonation] jeremy fernandez: hello, welcome to "foreign correspondent." i'm jeremy fernandez. well, it took a global pandemic to force us all indoors and to increasingly rely on video screens to connect our lives. but is seeing still believing?