harry reid. i want to bring in our chief correspondent and state of the union dana bash. former advisers to four presidents, david bergen. bureau chief for usa today suisan page to talk about what we are seeing today. dana, you know harry reid so well, covered him so many years. he may have been famous for the soft-spoken delivery and he was soft-spoken. but he was at one time an amateur boxer. he once said i wasn't the fastest or strongest but could take a purge. how did that carry over to his political career? >> it entirely carried over to his political career. and i'm glad that you chose that quote, because so many of us in the immediate hours and days after senator reid passed away late last month, we talked about the fact that he could throw a punch. but he really could take a punch. and that was such a hallmark of