you? that s why i m purn pushing to hold them accountable. joe biden s ruining our country. a state senator who turned a district from red to blue and is now running for attorney general knows they face headwinds. we re still in the middle of a pandemic, right? so what people do is respond to how they re feeling. they re always going to blame the president for that. but look, we have got a million lives here. we first met her a year ago, she urged people to give biden time. just be patient. everything doesn t happen overnight. folks know that. now adds this. patients are frustrated. we d like to get the relief we need so we can start operating how we used to. jeff zellny, cnn, atlanta.
on what jeff was just saying, you know, barack obama did say reid was not much of a sc schmoozer, wasn t a regular on the d.c. circuit, but he got things done. we don t have as much of that in washington these days, do we? i think some americans who watch politics closely would be surprised by this outpouring of affection for harry reid because he was not a good outside politician. it was, he was a terrible outside politician. couldn t give a big speech to save his life. in 2010, i went out, he had what was thought to be a serious challenge from sharon angle for senate re-election bid. he participated in a debate. he was terrible. he was not glib. but he was a master of as an inside politician. he was a master at getting legislation done. figuring out how to build a
and god bless my friend, harry. great american. god protect our troops. and that is president biden wrapping up his remarks honoring the late senator harry reid there in las vegas following former president, barack obama. i want to bring in jeff zellny to talk about this. cnn s senior political analyst, david gergen and susan page. very moving remarks there. jeff, at one point, president biden said of harry reid, it was all search light, not spotlight. i think that sums it up pretty well. he certainly did sum it up through some powerful and poignant remarks. joe biden worked alongside harry reid for a long time before
developing now, president biden and first lady jill biden just wrapped up a visit to a u.s. coast guard station, visiting service members in nantucket where they re spending their thanksgiving. the first couple thanking those coasties for their service. jeff zellny is life with the first family in nantucket. jeff, this is a family tradition. going back decades, but they skipped it last year and now they re back. alex, it is a family tradition for the bidens, but this is the first time that joe biden has been on nantucket as commander in chief and we are just seeing those images coming in right now from a visit that the president and first lady had to u.s. coast guard brant station. it s based here on nantucket island just off the coast of massachusetts. and the president had a virtual conversation with members of the military. all six branches. army, navy, air force, marines, space force, as well as the coast guards. he talked to service members
month. what else do we know? we did learn that late last evening in a bit of an unusual thanksgiving eve letter. his physician said there was a precancerous lesion that was removed, routine and regular. similar to one removed in 2008. so he said it s routine surveillance there. the next one coming in seven to ten years, so certainly does not seem to be anything for the president to worry about. but always a bit unusual when the white house releases a statement like this on the eve of a holiday. a beautiful place to spend thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving to you, jeff, and the rest of the cnn team up there. and to you. a federal crackdown on bad behavior in the skies. attorney general merrick garland issued a memo directing federal prosecutors to prioritize cases involving violence on flights. this move coming amid a sharp increase, a wave, really, of assaults against airline workers. it also comes as the country