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Harry Reid

lines on the record: 94
first: 2019-10-14
most recent: 2019-10-14
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, yes, I did, but it paid no attention. I thought not much different there than any place else. I'm the only senator in the history of the world that learned to swim in a whorehouse swimming pool.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because it was during the time when they had military bases in southern Nevada. On payday, that place would be like Grand Central Station.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the number one industry when I was a boy there was prostitution. At one time there were 13 brothels in searchlight. 13.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And no inside toilet, of course. And I didn't realize until I saw this picture, damn, I didn't remember that was that bad.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David, I never felt poor or I felt, you know, I felt I had a pretty good life. It wasn't until my Dear brother died, and he's quite a bit older than I. And his little daughter, my niece, sent me some pictures. She had gone through some of his belongings and sent me pictures of me in Searchlight. I couldn't believe that's how I was raised. I couldn't believe it. I mean, the house was just made out of railroad ties that had been picked up from the railroad.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's a relative term. She's running forth and she's doing better than people after her, that's for sure. After her, it drops off significantly. I think that she is somebody that is... Be reckoned with. She may go away a little bit, but not very far. She's something. We're going to be dealing with for quite a long time.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think Kamala Harris is a very, very talented woman coming from the huge state of California being elected numerous times by the People, California. And one reason I'm so impressed with her, she came to my home. She didn't dwell on all the conversation with me. My wife was there. Landa was there. And she directed a lot of her inquiries toward my wife. I thought that showed a lot of class. I was extremely impressed by that.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unless something changes, it is, because the other candidates Or if you drop down after Bernie, they're not, numbers are really not very strong. Camel Eris is fourth, but Appears to me that she's. If she doesn't, she should have her eye on vice president. I think she's a very strong candidate to be vice president.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, yes. So I'm not really sold on certain ages means you're not qualified for the job. I think that the races Joe Biden's to lose. We'll see what happens.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that what we've seen around the world with older men and women running governments. Healthcare Medicine is so much different than it was five years ago, certainly 15 years ago. And I'm not really concerned about age. It's, you know, you take President Carter's now 95 years old. Still very active. He filled yesterday and had a bump on his head. And then”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David, you and I have been involved in democratic politics for a long time. And we know that the primary, the Democrats are pulled way to the left, and it used to be that Republicans were pulled far to the right, but now they have nothing other than what Trump wants. But I think that what's going on now is no different than what's happened in years past. Primary, they're always pull to the left. That's what the... Parties do to candidates.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I think you give her some time. I think that she's not in love with that. I think you'll wait and see how that all turns out.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's, let's just wait. For example, Medicare for All, I asked me, how do you feel about that? I said, I think what we need to do first is let's make sure Obamacare is strengthened again. Republicans have done everything they can to hurt it. Let's strengthen it. We almost got the public option the first time. That's as good as Medicare for all anyway.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As Linda Johnson said, he'd rather have them inside in the tent because it's better to have him pissing out than pissing in.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Giving her the job. But they didn't do that. Now, is that still a problem? I think she's overcome a lot of the concern that people had about her. She was in the Senate. I put her on the banking committee. Some people said you shouldn't do that. She's a flamethrower. She never surprised anybody. Never surprised a ranking member, the chairman of the banking committee. She's a team player.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that she proved that what they should have done, they should have given her the job because they didn't give her the job. We had her run for the Senate. Yes.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, she damn sure knew more than they knew, and they were afraid of her. She knew Wall Street. And Wall Street, they were up in arms that she would ruin our country.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but we couldn't get her the job because the Republicans opposed it and frankly a couple of my Democrats opposed her.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Told her, I want to put her on my debt commission. Said, I think you would do a good job. So she said, Well, let me think about it. She said, I'll take it. And she was immediately confirmed as the chair of that board. And did such a good job, she was good, so good that we did the Doddfrank Wall Street Reform Bill and she came up with the idea to have a consumer affairs department. And we thought that that would be a good spot for the president, thought it would be a good place. President Obama wanted to put her there.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I called her, and she said she was doing a party for some of her students at her home. I called her. You know, I don't have a very loud voice. She couldn't hear me very well. She said, who's this? Is it Harry Reid? I'm a majority leader of the Senate. Oh, she said. I said, I want you to come visit me in Washington. So she came down, brought her daughter with her. I think her daughter's name was Amelia.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they were bestsellers, and he didn't have somebody write the book. He wrote it. I talked to him five days ago. How's your book coming? He said, I said, boy, I made a mistake. I shouldn't have written those other books myself because I'm writing this. I have to write this one on my own. Nobody helps him. So I had a sense that Barack Obama, it was a time for someone as articulate as he, someone who could really command an audience. I just felt it was a time for Barack Obama and I was...”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Being conceited, he'd given a speech on the Senate floor and went into a quorum call. I walked over and looked down at him. He was sitting at his desk and I was standing. And I said, Senator, that was really a good speech. He looked up at me so seriously. He said, yes, I have a gift. Now I know that sounds. Oh, who as hells you think he is? But think about that. This man had a gift of communication. He has that. Before he came to the San he wrote a couple books on subject. Who cares? He wrote a book about his growing up at a dad from Kenya.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I said, Who could that be? He said his name was Barack Obama. I said, What are you talking about? Barack Obama, what kind of a name is that? That's exactly what he said to him. Well, we all know now what kind of a name it was. Abner McFill was right. I was wrong. But I still, when he came to the Senate, I watched Now I wrote a book and I mentioned this in my book. And I say this about Barack Obama, but understand his response to me was not done in a form of being a braggart.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Barack Obama. I can remember the first time I ever heard his name. I was in the House Gym. I was a retired member. I was in the Senate, but I went to the House Gym for many years. Abner Mikva, who had been chief of staff for Clinton and judge, he's from Chicago.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very well here in Nevada. We're the third state in the primary succession. So I think she's doing well. Bernie is third, but after Bernie, it's to drop off pretty significantly.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Joe Biden's race to lose. We all know that Elizabeth Warren is, I mean, she's doing well. She's taking tens of thousands of selfie pictures with people every time she gets a chance at Burns, 75, 80,000 of them now I understand it. So she's doing very well.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Joe Biden has a lot of strong suits. But one of the things that Joe Biden has admired for is his life story. He's had a lot of, a lot of difficult times in his life. And I think for now someone to pick on his remaining son, that he basically helped raise after the boy's mother was killed Bowen, Hunter's mother. I just think they're gone too far. I don't think that anyone's going to accept the fact that Joe Biden's son is some kind of person that's going to drag down Joe Biden. I don't think so. It might not make Hunter look very good, but I don't think it's going to hurt Joe Biden.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't, there's not going to be a civil war. We have our institutions are too strong for Donald Trump to ruin them. We have an independent military for sure. He may be the commander-in-chief, but there's not a chance in hell that the people of the Pentagon are going to be involved in anything like that.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and I'm not saying that I believe there would be a conviction in the Senate. But Nancy has a different role to play. She is the one that does the impeaching. The Senate does the conviction or no conviction acquitt I think her job in her mind is this is something that I believe is impeachable and I have a constitutional obligation to do something about it.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but I mean, it wasn't as if he was bringing her the Lincoln room. It was just a very, very, it was an issue dealing with impeachment that people felt was not strong enough to bring an impeachment proceeding with what is alleged against Trump. It's clearly a crime, what he's done. And I think there's a tremendous difference between the episode he had with Monica Lewinsky and this. So I don't agree that it would wind up helping the Republicans.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David, I've heard that argument, and I don't agree with it. And here's why. The reason that Bill Clinton didn't get hurt in the impeachment is because it was on such a weak ground. He had a sex relationship, supposedly, with a girl in the White House. And it was not a...”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what I say initially, and I say it right here in your show, anyone that thinks Trump's going to be beaten easily should have another think coming. He is a man who has a stalwart 40% people out there who will vote for him no matter what he does. As Donald Trump said, I could shoot somebody on Times Square. They would still support me. Sad, but probably true. So, number one, I repeat, he is not going to be beaten easily. It's going to take a campaign of wisdom and patience, but he is beatable for sure.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he's pretty well set that up. People want to run against him. They have pretty good case to make, but they have no place to make it because he controls the parties so much that they've eliminated primaries in most every state.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I used to think that Donald Trump was not too smart. I certainly don't believe that anymore. I think he isn't somebody that reads a lot of books, never has. I don't think he's intellectually a powerhouse, but he is basically a very, very smart man. No matter what the subject, any argument he involves himself in, it's on his terms. You're always arguing. Against him. He never, never is willing to debate an issue on terms that aren't his.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's amazing what happened to him when John McCain died. He suddenly was no longer a John McCain Republican. He became a South Carolina, I want to get re-elected Republican. And he is a tote and fetch guy for the president. It is so, I had such admiration for him. I'm so disappointed in what has happened to him. His whole personality has changed since John passed.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he obviously doesn't trust himself because if he did, he would have said something about it. Trump did what Johnson acknowledged, I think he should have gone to the FBI himself.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course, that depends on what evidence is put for It's not that simple. I served as a A juror on the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and it was really interesting how they had the Chief Justice there to determine what can come in and what can't go in. It's a very formal proceeding and a lot depends on how well the managers do. They're presenting that case to the Senate. So yes, I think a decent case can be presented to the Senate, but unless something changes dramatically, the Republicans are afraid that Trump will question them in a primary and they're more afraid of being re-elected than doing the right thing for the country.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here's how that all happened there's no question about it. When he was running for president, I had learned that it became that he didn't pay taxes. That certainly is not true. But I alleged, and that has proven to be the case, that he didn't pay a fair amount of taxes. That's over and over with now after it was over with. I had former sectaria of health and human services Levitt, Mike Levitt, set a meeting for us. We sat down and talked for several hours. He acknowledged that he didn't do some things in my behalf the way probably he should have. And I acknowledge I'd done a lot of things that in hindsight maybe I could have handled a little differently. So we shook hands and went on about our business. I follow him, I keep in touch with him. I think he's really doing a good job as a senator.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the things that I'm disappointed about Washington is what the Senate has become. I'm also tremendously disappointed in what the Republican senators have not become. They have not become the Mark Catfields of the world, the John Chafies, the John Heinz, who are Republican senators who did what they thought was the right thing to do. And we have these Republicans who are afraid to speak out against things that he does that are absolutely wrong and they know they're wrong. The only person we've gotten to say anything is Romney and Sassa said something about Nebraska. Other than that, they don't say anything.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nancy Pelosi is a true patriot. I found her to be someone who really understands the issues and somebody who is courageous enough to carry them forward. She doesn't do anything on the fly. She is prepared and has her troops in order before she does anything.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think Nancy Pelosi, when I was a leader, she was a speaker the first time. I have worked with anyone who is as visionary as she is. And she has absolute control of her caucus. And when you have a body of 435 people, which she deals with, she controls that. And that's what a speaker does. And she has set an example for everybody else.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But when you have not one whistleblower, now there's two, maybe three, who have alleged with their whistleblowing that crime has been committed. And all you have to do is have a basic understanding of what the law in America can't do what he did and go unpunished.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, there's nothing in this administration that surprises me anymore. The answer is no It's not often in the history of the United States that somebody self-impeaches. I mean, he admits national television, what he did was... American policy against American law. You can't go to a foreign government and have them investigate your opponent”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I believe in the Old Testament for a beach that there's time for sowing. Time for harvesting, reaping. That was a time for me. I enjoyed every minute of the Senate, but that's not where I am now. Senate's not my Senate. It's been really damaged significantly.”
2019-10-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 351 – Harry Reid (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source