last room was a bedroom. that s where he killed himself. reporter: he fought his way out of poverty as a boxer. as a politician, he was never afraid to punch below the belt. he even took on the mob as a young politician in las vegas. a wide variety of adjectives have been written about you. some good, some bad. reporter: some good, some bad. let me read a few. scrappy, tough, blunt, canny behind the scenes mastermind, ruthless. all those fair? well, that s what people think and that s what they think, they re entitled to their opinion. reporter: as senate democratic leader, reid was a polarizing figure. republicans argued a lot of congressional gridlock stemmed from his hardball tactics. but he revelled in playing the political bad guy, calling then president george w. bush a loser and a liar, well before politicians used those l words. i don t really care. i don t want to be somebody i m not.
a wide variety of adjectives have been written about you. some good, some bad. some good, some bad. let me read a few. scrappy, tough, blunt, canny, behind the scenes mastermind, ruthless. all those fair? that s what people think. and if that s what they think, they re entitled to their opinion. reporter: as senate democratic leader, reid was a polarizing figure. republicans argued a lot of congressional gridlock stemmed from his hardball tactics. but he reveled in playing the political bad guy, calling then-president george w. bush a loser and a liar well before politicians used those l words. i don t really care. i don t want to be somebody i m not. reporter: during the trump presidency, however, reid changed his tune about bush. in hindsight, i wish every day for a george bush again. i think that he and i had our differences, but no one ever questioned his patriotism. there s no question in my mind
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you have been trying to con krall how the debt limit is covered. simply put, what has the media got wrong in this story? the main one is what you laid out and clearly in the introduction. there s something happening that s not normal and not a threat, it s not the normal politicalization or disagreement we might have over immigration policy or dealing with china. it s an outright threat to the country, an extreme example of some countries saying we re going to dump anthrax in the water supply unless you do x, y or z. that is a threat. this is not a public health threat. it s a threat that can real economic implications. but the intent of the media is present all of these things in the ways we re familiar with as a standoff, as a negotiation, a chess game, who is going to blink, who is canny, et cetera, et cetera? so i think there was a time until the recent agreement to hold us off for two months until the press would say this isn t normal, this isn t negotiations,
smaller cages. ah, okay. so he is showing us here the isolation cell. i don t know if you can put your camera up right here, the isolation cell. the writing on the wall tells us two prisoners crammed in here. . and this net, i can t figure out what it is for unless it is to put on somebody to restrain them lying on the floor. what is clear here, individual trauma, collective anger and, from what we ve been told, an unpaid score to settle with america. and i ve just talked to very senior taliban official, brother of interior minister a canny with a $10 million bounty on his head, he was held in that jail.