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Harry Reid

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first: 2019-10-14
most recent: 2019-10-14
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“President Obama always still jokes about that. I hung up on him. But here's the way it is. I'm not much for small talk. Conversation was over. We had done our business. There's no need to talk anymore. So I would just say.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. That's all I want is people to remember that He had a great marriage, and that was a good example for others. I hope that's the case because I've had a love affair. With this little woman for a long, long time.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David, I really honestly here's how I hope I'd be remembered. I have five children, and I'm 19 grandchildren. I want those children, grandchildren, understand what a love affair I've had with my little wife. She is a most wonderful human being. I'm sure there have been marriages as happy as ours, but none happier. I'm still in love with my wife after having been married 60 years as I was when we were teenagers when we met.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One reason last time I ran, I said it was publicly after I'd already now said I was going to run. I said if the, here's what I said, the bastards left me alone, I probably wouldn't have run again, but they thought I couldn't win.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of it, David was my nose, my nose. I had a great nose for fighting. There's very little bone in my nose. So I have been hit in the face so many times. I have never, ever had a bloody nose”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you know, in the last Or four years I've come out with tremendous medical advances that I have the good fortune of being part of now. And, you know, my cancer is not in remission, but I'm still doing okay. And the future doesn't look so bad right now.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, one of my friends wrote a very long column for The New York Times. And in effect, he said Reed's dead. And I think I said at the time, you know, I'm Mark Twain, you know, the rumors my death are exaggerated.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They didn't do it even today. Even today, I used to get tea party stuff on my phone 6, 7, 8, 10 times a day. So I unsubscribed. But even though I've unsubscribed, I cut back, but they're still out doing it Stuff all the time Tea”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unlucky enough to walk into. A little bit of everything. It was a little bit of it all. The economy had been really bad. Activists were out stirring up as much trouble as they could. They thought it was the right thing to do. And it was just a time was perfect for the Tea Party. They came in. They were against everything and they did pretty well.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love the stories of Barack Obama. His grandmother, and he's on the United States. And they're from Hawaii. And his grandmother is driving in America, okay? Well, she can't see the signs. So young Barack Obama is up on the passenger side, and he would read the signs for his grandmother. How's that first story?”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He overcame a lot from the time he was a boy. Hawaii raised his white grandmother to the time he was a. Became a known as an intellectual genius at Harvard. Did it on his own?”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“His credit Barack Obama never ever said a word publicly or privately about the race issue. He went out of his way to never bring that up.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course, he had help, but if you're president of the United States, you don't get anything done unless you have a President that's not standing in the way”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I don't hesitate to say on this show, I don't care who's listening, and this is something I don't throw around very often, but I love Barack Obama. I really do. Man-to-man, I love Barack Obama. I think he's done so much that in my estimation is. Been done by someone that no one else could do what he did. He did it alone.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Key for me stood for everything that's good about America. I have been in government my whole life. I never came across anyone that changed the country and the world as much as”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I believe the Senate is going to become more like Council representatives in the near future. It's not a question if it's a question when it's going to become more like House of Representatives. And that will allow us to get more things done because the filibuster will be meaningless at that time.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Barack Obama The first to use the Presidential directives more than any other president in recent history or more than any other president where he would do an executive order for this because he couldn't get the Republicans to help us get something done in the Senate. So I think we're going to see a lot more of that. I think that a lot of times when they talk about they're going to go there and get this done in the first 100 days that it's not going to work, it's not that easy, especially with the dysfunctional Senate we now have. But as I said earlier in this interview, and I'll repeat it here for your viewers.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of the Senate National legislature is a very awkward body. It's really hard to get a lot of big things done because it just takes all the air out of the tires. And it was all we could do to get the healthcare bill done. We could not have stuck in there immigration reform. We couldn't have stuck in cap and trade. We just couldn't do it. It's not like the House of Representatives. Nancy could get things whipping out over there because it's so easy to do if you have the majority. You can't do that in the Senate. It's a slow process.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David, and we only could get the healthcare bill done the way we did it. Now, there were people who said get it to hell Finance committee, they're just driving everybody crazy, endless hearings. But we had to get that done. Kind of let the air out of the tires so no one could say we were rushed it and we didn't we let the finance committee have all the time they needed so and there were a couple of heroes we had during the time I was leader and one of them was Chris Dodd Chris Dodd and I were not very close he was Ted Kennedy's best friend and when Kennedy died Chris was stuck not only with the banking committee, but he also was stuck with the Yeah, help committee. They go for Kennedy. So he was a stalwart. He did so much to help us get the healthcare bill passed. He was on a finance committee. He did so much too.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Negative positive, they thought she had TB, never even went to the doctor. It was a false positive one now, but I can't imagine how she must have worried about it. I did as a little boy. So healthcare was something we had to get done. And it was one of the landmark pieces of legislation in the history of this country. Matches Social Security, it matches Medicare, it matches Medicaid. It is an important piece of legislation and it did so much to help so many people. And even though the Republicans have done everything they can to damage the basic bill itself, it's still there, the framework of it, and we need to improve that and we can do that. It was, in my opinion, other than his stellar working foreign policy, Barack Obama's legislative success, nothing more important than what he did on healthcare.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But also I had to endure Barack Obama because this good man told me I would call and say, I can't get the health care bill done. And he would say, it's more important my re-election. We've got to get it done. People tried to get this done since Harry Truman. And I think we can get it done, this Obama speaking. So I felt a tremendous pressure to get it done. And having been raised the way that I was with no health care, my mother had no teeth. We didn't go to doctors. My mother had a search light, a TB wagon came through, take x-rays. Hers, she had a...”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm sure he is, but it's fairly misleading because. We have Thousands of troops stationed in Korea and Japan. They've been there for 40, 50 years or more. It's because it helps stabilize that part of the world. And I think that we have to be very careful of this knee-jerk reaction. I'm fairly confident that we're going to have American troops in that part of the world for a long time to come. They may not be combat troops necessarily, but we're going to have to have some of our people there on the ground.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As well. Thank goodness. I'm happy to hear that because the Kurds have been our allies. The Kurds have been people we depend on. They're the only good fighters in Iraq. Shias and the Sunnis are not good fighters. The Kurds are. And to pull a rug out from under them is just not right.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And just re engineered. We have migration headed into Europe by the millions because of that war. And even though the governments in that period of time were all Dictators, at least they were stable dictators. And the country that part of the world was fairly stable, but now it's not, it's terrible.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The war in Iraq is the worst foreign policy blender in the history of the country. And I feel the biggest mistake I made legislatively was voting for that. I voted for that, but within week or 10 days at the most, I realized I'd been misled. General Powell, my friend, he misled me. I'm sure he didn't do it on purpose, but you know what? There's no question that I realized quickly that I was wrong. And I became a tremendous opponent of the war and people that posed up more than I did after that, but I don't know who it would have been. I was really opposed to it. I think that what that war did, destabilizable as that part of the world, and now it's re-damaged Europe. No one knows how many Iraqis have been killed, but hundreds of thousands, millions displaced. The whole Middle East is in a state of turmoil.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The one thing I do. Americans should understand how the Senate used to be. You know, we had Democrat senators who were always deal makers. We had Republican senators who were deal makers, and that's not a bad word. Legislation ought to compromise. And once that spirit of compromise is gone, it makes legislation extremely difficult to pass.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Meaning that The collegiality that existed won't exist anymore. It's going to be just like the house, just like the house. And it'll work out great if the leader of the Senate has a president of the same party, but it's not going to work out so well if that's not the case, but that's what you have to deal with”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the Senate's been damaged significantly, and it's not going to be put back together very quickly. In the foreseeable future, we've got a Senate that's going to become more like the House of Representatives than it was the old Senate.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't really eat and I don't go back and lament what I did or didn't do. I did what I did. I was always the kind of guy that... After I took a test in college, my friends stand around and talk about that test. Did you do this? Did you do that? Not me. Test's over with. I'm through. I don't go back and say I could have been nicer. I could have been meaner. I could have done. I just did at the time what I thought was the right thing. And that's one thing about me, David. No one ever had to guess how I stood on an issue. I was always very, very candid about how I felt.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think that he was afraid to take a stand for fear he would be seen as a partisan, and he wound up hurting everybody. It was a really a bad move. And every time I see him and his self-righteous manner talking about people should do the right thing, he should have done the right thing.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think call me a. Elected Trump. I think that he's a Republican. He didn't want to seem that he was partisan. And he was so unfair that right before crunch time in the election, he came out and talked about some of Hillary's emails, which really ruined her getting elected president. So he's the cause of her not winning, in my opinion.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, he did. He said he thought the elections were not federal government should stay out of them. It should be a state function. And we got a letter, but it was so weak it was just, it was meaningless, the letter that we finally got out.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jay Johnson came to visit with us. He had the FBI with him, and he proceeded to tell the leaders of the House and the Senate, Democrats and Republicans, that the Russians were missing with their election, and that he thought every governor should reach out to him for help to make sure the elections are protected. And I wanted a letter Me and McCon And at the time, whoever the Republican, yeah. And Mitch wouldn't sign the letter.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The damage has been done, and I said that's a dark stage in the history of our country. I hope he's right. I hope he wouldn't do something like that again.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mitch McCall and I were together a lot in leadership. He was a hill whip when I was the whip. He was a Republican leader when I was a Democratic leader. So I know Mitch McConnell very well, and I'm not going to disparage him here today, but I have been somewhat disappointed. I think what he did with the Spring Court is something that will go down in history as a very dark time in the history of this country, told of a presidential selection for a Supreme Court nomination for a year until there's a change of presidency is not the way the country should run. I think that”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exacerbated it? I've said this. People think Trump created the Republican Congress. That's not true. The Republican Congress created Trump. The Republicans look at the Senate today. They don't do anything there than do judges. They do nothing. You can't vote on an amendment. And that's why I wrote an op-ed for the New York Times saying the filibuster's gone. Am I accepted? It's not a question if it's going to be gone. It's when and it's gone. The Senate, as we've known it, is gone. The Senate is going to become another House of Representatives. That's not the end of the world, you know, instead of having 60 vote threshold. It'll be a 50-vote threshold. That's a democracy. And it's a bicameral legislature, the six-year terms. It's still going to be good. But you understand it's not going to be the way it was.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think he will. He He knows that a lot of what we did was partisan bickering I had a job to do and I did the best I could.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“President Bush is coming to Nevada today. By the time the show runs, he will already have been here. And I've written him a letter Well, Kennedy, to Nevada. I can't go to the event at night time and I don't do too well at night anymore at the present time, maybe in a month or two I'll be going to events at night time. I in this letter said to him, You know, I was the leader, you were president, and we knocked heads. I look back with such nostalgia to those days because I lament the fact that you're not there now And that's really how I feel about it.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From Las Vegas Dealing with a mob. I love that job so much. I kept thinking. Am I going to have to pay somebody? I should be paying somebody. They're paying me to do this. It was just so wonderful.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Coming out of your car. The car wasn't running very well. And she's not much of a mechanic, and that's an understatement. And she lifted up the hood and she could see these wires down there. So she stopped. That fire truck came, fire engines and police came, and I can still see my little boy. He was five years old at the time. Looking out the window and seeing all the police and everything, and I'm sure that had a, I know it had an impact on his life.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who was a mentor of yours? He was your history teacher, your He was the only mentor I really ever had. And he appointed me the State Gaming Commission. And I was chairman of that. And that was a time of very, very difficult time in the history of the state of Nevada. Organized crime came out of the woodwork. We always thought it was here, and it was here big time. And I survived through that.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're on your way up I thought about it, but one reason I work so hard to make sure it wasn't the case is I didn't want those bastards to think they'd buried me at very early, so I just kept plugging along and looking for my opportunities. My friend Michael Kellyan, who had governor...”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Legislat That was a race. And so we're getting ready for run for re-election One of them says to him, why's your own for Lieutenant Governor? I said, Lieutenant Governor Never thought of that before. And before I left there, they had timed out a press release that I was running for Lieutenant Governor. So I went home. I said, Lander, I'm running for Lieutenant Governor. That was it.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Any other elements? And as we look back, If we had known what we were doing, we could have seen this coming. Because he was a terribly withdrawn introvert his whole life. And he had been sick and killed himself.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and he said now I talk to somebody once in a while. I take some medication. I want to live. First time I acknowledge that my dad had committed suicide. Sometimes people A passion or purchase a handgun to do bad things with Is present even as my dad did kill themselves. And that hearing was so important. We have done so little to understand suicide.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I remember that. Now suicide was a Something happens to other people, and that's the way it is with people who have a loved one that commits suicide. Never do you expect it. But I learned a lot about suicide, but it took me quite a while to acknowledge. My dad killed himself. And it wasn't until we had a hearing we were doing a hearing on senior depression. And during that hearing, Mike Wallace testified the famous journalist. He said, you know, I wanted to die for years.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, and I had such a good time with him. And he was so personable, so nice. So left there and went back to my office as I walked in. Joni Shea was the receptionist of my law office. She said, Your mom's on the phone I picked the phone up and she said. Your pop shot himself. And so he was dead at that time, had to go out and was on the bed there, blood all over”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right, he was doing it. That's why we did it in the first place. So he meant well. My dad was never physically abusive to me. But I can remember one of the best days of my life turned out being one of the worst. I had the opportunity to go to Caesar's palace here in Las Vegas. I had the good fortune of being able to come and spend two hours with Mohammed al-Lay. He was in his trunks, had a bathrobe on. He was getting ready to go spar.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my dad was a big, tough guy. Drank way too much. There were times when. It became necessary for my brother and I to intervene. Now one-on-one we couldn't have taken our dad, but both of us could. So we didn't hit him. But we took him down and he was so mad, but he couldn't handle two of us.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, I came over from Searchlight, dressed different than the other kids. My hair wasn't the same. But people were pretty nice to me. I've had a lot of elections, but the most important election in my life, I was a junior in high school. And I was elected junior class treasurer. I know that sounds like nothing to everybody else. But to me, I'd finally been accepted. That was to me the most important election of my life.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source