woman: i'm going to support harry reid. woman 2: senator paul laxalt will be retiring at the end of this term. laxalt: i've done my political bit, and that's it for me. [lively tune playing] reid: i've never taken my good fortune for granted. there's one other thing i've never taken for granted, and that's you. [rousing music pys] tom brokaw: there were enough votes to bring about a fundamental shift of power in washington. in nevada, congressman harry reid was a giant killer, winning the senate seat of president reagan's close friend, paul laxalt, now retired. christensen: it's election night, harry reid has won the senate seat. big celebration, lots of reporters around, microphones getting stuck in his face. one reporter asks him, "what's the most important thing you're going to work on?" reid: i said, "water." now, frankly, at that time, i didn't know what i was talking about. man: from a staff perspective, one of the things i really appreciated about him is his sort of decisiveness. he would make a decision, and then you

christensen: and harry reid ran for that new open seat and won. and that was the beginning of his long congressional career. reid: i will continue to be nsistent... conservation, you know, is not a democratic issue. to be independent... tv announcer: independent like nevada. reid: and to work hard for r state. this is gridlock in spades. and i'll always do what i think is right for nevada. christensen: when he won that congressional seat in 1982, nevada was still seen by many as a wasteland. [wind howling] tv narrator: the nevada desert, some of the most desolate acres to be found anywhere in the united states. chisholm: e federal government's role in nevada has been one of using it, quite frankly, as a colony. goes back to the mining history, where the mines generated all the wealth for san francisco, but also were important to the union cause. it goes to the cold war, when it was the testing ground and proving ground for the atomic weapons. at the height of the cold r, the u.s. government was testing atomic weapons above ground, underground, just

jillian: and want to play the sound bite from former-- from harry reid. >> i think the commission willhould just kind of leave it alone. you have to be very careful in saying we need to expand the supreme court. jillian: what does that say to you? >> well, harry reid is a longtime washington hand , he's far to the left to me, but moderately, you know he's a liberal and you have these liberals in the democratic party versus extremists in the democratic party and extremist want to upend the supreme court by attacking its independence, by politicizing it, by adding the lord knows how many individuals to the court to get the case outcomes they desire and so with joe biden is trying to do is walk this fine line between the harry reid's of this party and the extremists, so he has a commission in place that probably will satisfy neither side, but the pressure is extreme from the left to blow up the supreme court and he's playing with fire by even discussing or allowing the commission to go forward i would upend our constitutional structure, supreme court is supposed to be objective and apply

would say there had been steady escalation over many years of each side taking the next step the harry reid step prior to mitch mcconnell was eliminating the filibuster with respect to lower court judges. >> when faced with constant obstructionism which mitch mcconnell created, for any majority leader to say my job is to make sure this president is a one term president, it was outrageous. i don't think harry reid even had a choice. >> since you brought it supreme court justices, justice stephen breyer's leaders years old, he's the oldest justice on the court by a decade. with democrats senate majority hanging in the balance, should justice breyer retire before the 2022 midterm elections in case republicans were to regain control of the senate? >> know i think the supreme court justices should stay as long as they like. they are appointed for their lifetime, that is what we gave them and if justice breyer continues to want to serve and has every ability to serve, he should keep serving. i never thought ruth bader ginsburg should step down either. that she was one of those million jurists we

joining me now is former democratic senate majority leader harry reid. r coming to "the sunday show." >> my pleasure. >> so, what do you make of senator manchin and his stance to the filibuster. there's no way, he wrote in my paper, "the washington post," there's no way he wants to change or even modify the filibuster. is that a tenable position? >> i've stated, and i believe that it's not a question if, it's a question when the filibuster goes away. the country cannot operate when it takes 60% of the vote to get everything done. and so i know joe means well. he's looking at a time that doesn't exist anymore when there was bipartisanship. but you heard senator mcconnell this past few days saying that he's going to do nothing. you know, that's legislation for the democrats. >> so leader reid, since you mentioned the current senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, we have some sound that i've been dying to get your reaction to. have a listen to what he had to say on march 16th. >> so let me say this very clearly for all 99 of my colleagues. nobody serving i

he writes he once told democratic senator harry reid to go f himself at a business meeting. don young got so angry with boehner over the criticism of earmarks, young held a ten-inch knife to boehner's throat just off the house floor. young told politico the account is mostly true. boehner shows a particular detestation for texas senator ted cruz, who he already spoke divisively about. >> lucifer in the flesh. i get along with almost anybody but i have never worked with a most miserable son of a -- 346 in the book discussing the rise of the tea party while he was speaker and younger republicans who were less interested in cutting deals with democrats, boehner writes, there's nothing more dangerous than a reckless a-hole who thinks he's smarter than everybody else. ladies and gentlemen, please senator ted cruz. >> what he detested about senator cruz was this dramatic, histrionic style that wasn't about legislating but about scoring points in the media and eventually that is what led boehner to move away. >> reporter: we reached out to senator ted cruz's office for a response t

former senate majority leader harry reid, i think some people might be surprised to hear you say that because you were definitely a fighter when you were in the senate and liked to take it to the other side. but it sounds like you're urging caution moving forward in that regard. >> let me say one thing. the filibuster is on its way out. it's not a question if. it's a question when. you cannot have a democracy that makes 60% of the vote. and so it's only a question of time until a filibuster goes away. >> all right, senator reid, we'll see if that happens. thanks so much. we appreciate that. and come back and join us any time. we appreciate it. >> more than 20% of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated but an alarming rise in cases especially in michigan is warning all of us that we're not out of the woods yet. we'll tell you what you need to know and how to stay safe. and yoyoyore live nn newsroom. that's coming up next. ♪ when i was younger ♪ you need a financial plan that fits the way you want to live in retirement. a plan that can help grow and protect your money. now or in the fu

and as you -- you had a great interview with harry reid yesterday. he said john boehner calls it like it is. he doesn't hold any punches and says exactly what's on his behind. john boehner is in some degrees rightful the current face of the republican party is not emblematic of the republican party of years old. but that is just what we are seeing in terms of tone and tenor. i truly believe the heart and soul of the republican party is the way it was back in the ron reagan era. it is about limited government. it is about free-market capitalism, strong on immigration, religion, pro-life, second amendment. that's what we need to get back to, focus more on the policy and get away from the personalities. because the brash abrasive personal that we had over the last five years cost us the house, the senate -- and the white house. so if we can focus more on the poll sees the and get back to the ronald reagan era, that is a winning formula moving forward. >> yeah, and april, i spoke to harry reid, as alice just mentioned. here's what he told me about the re

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. >> what happened was harry reid did away with the filibuster for judicial appointments.that, it happened at the end of the obama administration. the result of that was it gave mitch mcconnell and president trump more authority and flexibility to move judges and justices. and what we've seen is more and more judges getting confirmed more quickly as a result of that move by harry reid. now that the filibuster is gone for judges and justices they want to pack the supreme court. they want four justices to make sure they have a majority. if they were expanding by two they may still not get the votes they want. they have chosen the number four. the result of that would be in the future if republicans get the house and senate and white house, republicans would then expand it. you will see a never-ending expansion of the supreme court unless this constitutional amendment is passed. >> harris: are you concerned that we go from less supreme court to the u.s. mundane court and just becomes about politics? >> what really concerns me is the last branch of the federal government that

. >>> plus, former senate majority leader harry reid is on the show live talking about the filibusteright. we'll talk about all sides of the debate and we'll also be talking about so-called vaccine passports. that's just a sample of what we've got coming up on "the sunday show," ali. >> how did that become a thing? i'm fascinated that we've spent more than a year talking about these somewhat annoying pieces of paper you put over your mouth or pieces of cloth. i can manage wearing a mask if it will keep people well. how did vaccine passports become a cultural issue? >> you know, ali, i wish i knew. we're talking about safeguarding the health care of everyone, the health and safety of everyone, and somehow it's become a flash point. >> amazing. jonathan, i'm looking forward to watching the show. jonathan capehart, the sunday show gets started at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> overnight democratic state legislators in maryland enacted sweeping police reform after overriding not one or two, but three vetoes by the state's republican governor. i'll talk to the mayor of baltimore about it, next. >

. >> listen to harry reid on cnn. former senate majority and minority leader. here is what he had to say about it. >> the commission is going to come back. at this point a lot of people will come back and say we should just leave it alone. i think it would be inappropriate at this time after that long history we've had in the country of term limits for judges. >> dana: even though somebody like harry reid is saying tap the brakes on this and to your point joe manchin said i'm not going there, stop asking. will that be enough? is it ever going to be enough for the left? >> first of all listening to harry reid is like listening to an arsonist advice on fire control. he started filibustering judges for the first time and got rid of the judicial filibuster for everything but supreme court justice is. he created the mess they're complaining about right now. ask yourself a simple question. if hillary clinton won the 2016 election made the last three supreme court appointments and had -- we had a liberal majority do you think any democrats would think the supreme cour

it works best with the 9 justices over the weekend we haven't heard from for a long time senator harry reid warned against packing the court and told president biden you need to be careful why or even democrats and you could even say they're the real strong of the long term ones showing caution in this. because it goes well the reason why is because when you are on the court itself and i think when justices kind of look around round and realize how important it is it's got to let me also say that anybody who's ever studied the court ever has been shown 11 surprise after another because not only do you want to pack to court but scottie when that justice puts that robot and is there for a life you then sometimes see a new judge you never saw on the lower court is a circuit court already it's history remember well wouldn't wait this was penned by harry blackmun appointed by nixon whizzer white byron white issues it was appointed by by john kennedy who was one of the most conservative justices later and the best the gold standard earl warren appointed by eisenhower and eisenhower said this is t

as speaker, it was my honor to join senate majority leader harry reid to recommend this appointment toeorge bush. alcee was a trusted voice in the intelligence community and vice compare of the intelligence committee. he was a leader in countering terrorism and protecting our nation. his passing is, therefore, a great loss both for america and for the world. congressman alcee hastings was a man of pride and dignity. we know that. he never took no for an answer. that's why we were happy to accommodate his wish that "my way” was sung at this tribute. what music would he want? "my way." let's just review for a moment. "for what is a man, what has he got if not himself that he has not. not to say the things that he truly feels, and not the words of someone who kneels. let the record show i took all the blows, i did it my way." how beautifully it was sung. alcee's electrifying spirit, boundless compassion and great and often devastating wit, wit, sometimes funny, sometimes sharp, will be greatly missed as , will his leadership and friendship by all blessed to have known him, and all of us p

escobar she was just talking about the filibuster i'll be interviewing former senate minority leader harry reidg up. don't miss the powerful new cnn series the people versus the klan, it premieres tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. i always dreamed of having kids of my own. ♪ ♪ now i'm ready for someone to call me mom. at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. >>> the anti-deaf magds league is calling on fox news to fire host tucker carlson for pushing a racist theory that's been a favorite of white supremacists for years. it replacement theory is one that imagines falsely that white people are being intentionally replaced by third world immigrants to, quote, dilute american voters. and while that is a ridiculous lie we're going to play you tucker carlson it was remarks so you can fully understand why they're so toxic. >> i know tat the left and all the little gate keepers on twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term "replacement," if you suggest the democratic party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ball

even though barack obama was president, harry reid was majority leader for most of my time as speaker. we kept the deficit five years in a row. i would have liked to do more, but that is as much as i could get accomplished. what i saw happened over the last four, five years in spending i have to tell you just shocked me. you can't continue to spend money you don't have. you can't do it at home. you can't do it in your business. guess what? your government can't do it either. at some point, we've got to get our arms around the spending side of this. now, raising tax rates doesn't mean you're going to bring in more revenue. you're just giving people a bigger incentive to find ways around the taxes. the spending in my view has been a problem and continues to be the problem. >> so, not to put you on the spot, but what do you cut if you were back in your old job, we have our biggest deficit and debt in our history. where do you start? >> let's excuse for a moment the last year and extra money that was spent for covid-19. these guys were looking about to bottom out. emergency is in spite of

joining us now, adam gentleson, chief of staff to harry reid for five years. author of "kill switch," adam, thank you for joining us on short notice tonight. i know it's like birthday, christmas, and new year's eve rolled up in one for civics dorks. >> very exciting. everybody talking about senate rules, it's like christmas for me. >> i am not as much of a dork as i should be on this stuff. i'm a dork enough that i'm excited by this being a big deal. but will you just tell me if i explained any of that wrong about what this ruling means in practical terms? >> no, i think you got it 100% correct in terms of what it allows democrats to do. one way to think about it, it's like a special bucket that you can put certain kinds of legislation in and pass around the filibuster. democrats tonight learned they had a lot more than two buckets. but this ruling doesn't change the type of legislation that can go into that bucket, and that will present some challenges moving forward. >> and that in oversimplifying but basically accurate terms, they can only pass things using

. >>> and this quick programming note, former senate majority leader harry reid joins cnn's jim acosta later on today for a one-on-one interview. you can watch that right here on cnn at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> hello again, everyone, thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with new warnings from the cdc as cases of the coronavirus are on the rise and michigan is seeing the worst of it. the governor calling on the white house to provide her state with more vaccines to help stop the spread there. michigan leads the nation in cases with a positivity rate now of 18%. and there are new keshs this morning -- this afternoon, rather, about the johnson & johnson vaccine. the cdc saying it's aware of adverse side effects now being reported in four states -- dizziness, rapid breathing and sweating the most common complaints and now some johnson & johnson are being put on hold. despite that, cdc is not recommending the health department stop administering any lot of the covid-19 vaccine, saying it's performed vaccine lot analysis and has not found any reason for concern. >>>

but democrat want to bypass that, and harry reid, former senator majority leader, said you will neveron process, they counting on people not knowing what a filibuster is, how it works, they will get lost in the weeds, let's do this, if we could make washington d.c. a state, get puerto rico to be a state we'll get two more senors, and change the way -- senators, change the way that elections are run, you are right about ballot harvesting, then we could win more elections and republicans will not be able to keep up and we can can run the table for decade, and by the way let's change the supreme court to fix it, and make sure they pass laws that activist judges can rule will be constitutional. steve: could they do all what we've been talking about, hr 1, state hood for dc and puerto rico, and changing filibuster rules? and the supreme court. >> do they all require a vote, a vote in congress. can any be done unilaterallily biden. >> i don't think so. the filibuster is the line in the sand, there is a process, reconciliation, a budget matter and taxes, once a year they can go through with

it in david spunt's earlier package, ruth bader ginsburg in 2019, stephen breyer at harvard and harry reidis a bad idea, joe biden not only 1983 but 2005 characterizes as a power grab, democrats have not been in favor of this until donald trump has one threes conservative supreme court justices and suddenly we need to have not court packing when democrats are calling judicial reform, that is what they're pushing. ultimately this just gives biden and allows him to kick the issue down the road about six months and it allows him to buy time so he doesn't have to deal with this because it's a thorn in his side politically. eric: you know what the progressive say the look at the fact they say the republican presidents who were not elected by the majority of americans and represented a minority of red states, they are getting the supreme court picks through and as you said mitch mcconnell blocked eric garland and they say the rush through amy coney barrett and now the progressive say it's our chance, we should have abolished just like fdr did when the supreme court knocked on the supreme court l

he has survived polio and harry reid, and the harshest political attacks imaginable, but he is scared other trump in the party, he will not cross the florida man with the 32% approval rating. here was mcconnell today just hours after that takedown by trump. >> he said if he got the nomination, you stand by him. do you still stand by that today? >> all support the nominated republican party. i protect it will be a robust combination -- for the party. >> remaining with, us jason johnson and bill crystal. bill, first question goes to you. i've asked you before, take another whack at explaining to me what is it about trump's impact, the effect he has on, forgive, me grown men and women? >> they think they can triangulating, keeping good with the trumpists and not offend them but also the republicans in the house and senate. it's very close to the house, a political kind of -- what really strikes me. you talked about this before, liz cheney went along with trump for four years. used to be pretty close to us and we drifted apart over this, she supported him and voted against impeachment. sh

while obviously barack obama was president and harry reid was majority leader for most of that time,household that way or business that way and your government can't run that way either. >> bret: i'm curious, you write in the book and page 61, "i don't think ronald reagan would recognize the republican party today and he sure as couldn't get elected in it. as a matter of fact, he would be the most left-wing candidate in the g.o.p. these days by a mile." how do you describe to a trump odor clearly in 2016, he expanded the base for republicans. so saying that, how do you explain the trump phenomenon over 2016 and 2020? somebody that you voted for in 2020. >> ronald reagan raise taxes, ronald reagan was actually pro-abortion. if you look through his records, he was the most pragmatic republican that we've ever elected. but he was a great communicator and frankly he's the reason i became a republican. i'm far more conservative than he is or that he was but what donald trump did was to take a lot of disaffected voters, some republicans, some independence and frankly a lot of democrats. th

harry reid was the majority leader in the senate. they were never going to go there. shut is government down. i kept telling members, this makes no sense. but in the book, there's a favorite boehner-ism in there and that is a leader without followers is just a man taking a walk. next thing i know, my troops are going to my right, and as the leader i've got no choice but to jump out in front of them to be their leader. but it was one of the do you remember things i've ever seen. anyway, ted cruz was the mastermind behind this plan. so he's really the only person in the book i really take to task, and i take him to task. >> stephen: why do you think that you were going for a walk? why do you think your own party jumped so far in a crazy direction? i'm not saying it's necessarily your responsibility, but it's certainly while you were a member dr. member of the leadership of your own party. do you see a -- an inflection point within the party where they started to go so crazy right? >> well, listen, we were just at the beginning of -- we had the internet, but all the soci

whether or not if you do away with that because you saw harry reid was the one that started to do away with the filibuster with judicial nominations. we saw it continue to erode to the point that it's at right now where you have a legislative filibuster but that's the last straw to go on the camel's back. >> yeah. senator manchin doesn't hide it either. he knows they're coming for that very issue, to try to get him to flip. i think they're probably going to start with the hr-1, s-1, the voting legislation. they're going to push to say this is important, joe. we need your vote on this. at least so far he's holding to not break the filibuster. again, 60 votes. >> martha: go ahead. >> 60 votes to move to a bill. you know, if you start doing that, there's a whole bunch of things that can fall under that, including statehood for puerto rico and washington d.c. a lot of power grabs. >> martha: i guess the one thing that some members of the gop look at and we're going to talk to senator lindsey graham, keep going. keep going down this road. they think it's going to help them in 2022. this pre

boehner writes he once told harry reid to go f himself at a white house meeting.ent where fellow republican congressman don young got so angry with boehner over boehner's criticism of earmarks that young held a ten-inch knife to boehner's throat just off the house floor. young told politico boehner's account is mostly true. in the book excerpts, john boehner shows a particular detestation of texas republican senator ted cruz, who boehner had already spoken derisively about for years. >> lucifer in the flesh. i have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch. >> reporter: in the book, discussing the rise of the tea party while he was speaker and younger republicans who were less interested in cutting deals with democrats, boehner writes, there is nothing more dangerous than a reckless a-hole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. >> what he detested about senator cruz was this dramatic histrionic style that wasn't about legislating but about scoring points in the media and eventually that is what led boehner

boehner writes he once told harry reid to go f himself at a white house meeting. he recalls where congressman don young got so angry with boehner over his criticism of earmarks, he held a ten-inch knife to boehner's throat. young told politico his account is mostly true. john boehner shows a particular detesstation of texas republican senator ted cruz, who boehner had already spoken derisively about for years. >> lucifer in the flesh. i got along with almost everybody. but i've never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life. >> reporter: in the book, discussing the rise of the tea party, and younger republicans less interested in cutting deals, he writes, there's nothing more dangerous than a reckless a-hole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. ladies and gentlemen, meet senator ted cruz. >> what he detested about senator cruz was this dramatic style that wasn't about legislating but scoring points in the media, and eventually that is what led boehner to move away. >> reporter: we reached out to senator ted cruz's office to a response. they re

but he references mitch mcconnell's warning to harry reid several years ago with the nuclear option. it's one thing to want to do it when your party's in control, but in politics the other party can be in control quickly, and now they can use your tactics against you. so be careful. eric: is he becoming, you know, the john mccain, the, you know, independent-spirited member of the nat who is willing to buck his own party, willing to go his own way, call his own shots, add his own tune for, in his view, the good of the nation? >> look, test certainly -- he's certainly trying to play that role. the 50-50 margin in the senate means that he or anyone else, for that matter, can gum up the works whenever he wants. you have to be careful and strategic, but that's his charge right now, and that's why we're all talking about him. eric: all right. yeah, that's the case. doug heye, maybe we won't have have one of those 21-hour overnight things for a while, butwell see. -- but we'll see. arthel: republicans accuse the white house of playing politics with the judiciary after president biden forms

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this whole thing was put into motion by harry reid, and his reduction in passing nominations for appellateourt. that is really where we are now. the whole thing is so clearly in the democrats' favor, i really do not know who they are trying to pull this over on. at the same time, they are talking about reducing the -- getting rid of the filibuster, which is another measurement to moderate congress. they are clearly talking out of both sides of their mouth, and this is really something meant to favor them, so i really do not know who they are fooling with all of this. i think biden's fairly shrewd, talking to his "bipartisan committee," but he will really move forward with this measure regardless, because it is clearly in his majority party's interest. i consider myself a fairly moderate person. i am actually a republican who voted for biden for some hope of bipartisanship, but that is clearly not happening. host: the washington times reporting on that difference between democratic leaders and those supporting expanding the court. pelosi strategically delays court packing. the speaker spoke