and as equals, in pushing through the legislation from president obama that they wanted to push through, the healthcare, all of that good stuff that they re talking about, but also the other things, and changing his positions as was just said. that is someone that people see as a partisan. you talk to democrats, and they see him as someone who was a team player and someone who folks talk about the times in which folks reached across the aisle in those days, but harry reid was someone who definitely fought for his team, and that was something that was really important for him, and i think when you look at how his legacy, that is a strong part of his legacy, making sure that democrats, when he came in as leader in 2005, fighting with the bush administration in that first year was a large part of that, so fighting for his team was really important to him, and doing that with nancy pelosi was really important for his legacy. yeah. yeah. 100%.
act through but with other signature pieces of legislation, his work on dodd-frank, his work on ending don t ask, don t tell and so many other policies that have really become central to the list of accomplishments that elected democrats claim over the last several decades. and we know that they had a personal friendship too. president biden has described reid as a dear friend, and i want to read a little bit to you of what biden said when harry reid died. president biden saying, at that time, in a statement, that harry reid and i grew up on different sides of the country, but we came from the same place where certain values run deep. loyalty, faith, resolve, service. president biden going on to say that for harry, it wasn t about power for power s sake. it was about the power to do right for the people. so, that s the kind of theme, i think, you re going to hear from president biden as he pays a final tribute to both a colleague and a friend. okay. josh, thank you so much. and for
dodd-frank wall street reform, the end of don t ask, don t tell, and they also oversaw the elena kagan and justice sotomayor confirmed to the supreme court. so, it is a really substantial and substantial record that the three of them have and certainly barack obama and joe biden, then as vice president, and harry reid as the senate majority leader at the time all saw over. so extraordinary to think that harry reid it s like he had a crystal ball or he was clairvoyant or something to look and see this freshman senator from illinois, really, the odds were against him, but harry reid saw the promise of barack obama and helped shepherd that. interesting. thank you for that. let s move to you, elena, because when reid announced his retirement, that happened back in 2015, he said, quote, the records will be written about the eight years of obama and reid. publicly, then president obama spoke about trying to reach across the aisle, but what was the relationship behind the
stormed the capitol on january 6th and put their lives in danger. and so it s hard to see how congress comes back from that, right, that extreme lack of trust, because partisanship is one thing, fighting for your team, being as shrewd as you possibly can, but when you don t even trust that the other side sees you as human, wants to also protect you, those kinds of things, it s hard to see congress come back from that, so it does feel like harry reid and folks like him are at the end of an era and this darker era that we re currently in, in american politics, depending on how long it is, is going to be defining for the country, i think, over the next few years. yeah, yeah. as we look, everybody, at the left of your screen, you re looking at the last of the five children of senator harry reid. you see rory reid there, and again, the three other sons and daughter of harry reid have had really remarkable insights and very emotional stuff. we ve been getting word about that. but we wanted
i want this in my house. (host) wondering if the aerotrainer is tough? (engine revving) we welcome you all back to our coverage of the memorial for the late senate majority leader harry reid as we give you a look right now at his only daughter, one of five children, lana reid