christensen: then mike o'callaghan appointed him to the gaming commission... reid: regular meeting of the nevada gaming commission is called to order. christensen: where he played a central role in rooting out the mob from the gambling industry. man: the chairman called me a liar. you can dish it out, but you can't take it, can you, harry? christensen: then, in 1982, with nevada's booming population, the state got a second congressional district. reid: we need to get people who appear in the halls of congress who speak for the consumer. 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 consistent... conservation, you know, is not a democratic issue. to be independent... tv announcer: independent like nevada. reid: and to work hard for our 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

. >> there was a sense that the bar rosenstein, o'callaghan, chain of command over the mueller probeism dismissively as obstruction of justice as a criminal bucket dave's comment is that's where a lot of the heat is how do you think this justice department looks at trump's efforts to obstruct efforts to regain possession of national security documents >> i don't now i think if -- this is another thing here where we're trying to predict, how does merrick garland view the world when he doesn't really say much. if merrick garland is a person as an institutionalist trying to reset the norms, the only thing i can take away from that is that if a special counsel said they wanted to bring charges in something, he probably would go along with that, sort of following the norms of, okay, well, i appointed this special counsel to do an investigation they're an independent investigator who has found this thing, you know, would merrick garland override that. at the same time merrick garland will be in a position where he has to decide whether to charge the likely republican nominee against the pr