it was harry reid. he fought for the things he cared about, and though he doesn't always prevail, he always kept fighting. and in the true tradition i have , i have the same lines from "the boxer" that hillary read. i will read them again because they are so apropos. in the clearing stands a boxer, a fighter by his trade. he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down, but the fighter still remains. harry is the third longest-serving senate leader and as we all know, the higher you go, the more fiercely the winds blow. you can easily lose your way and get blown off course and beaten down. your fighting spirit can flag. what keeps people going is there heir internal gyroscope, their sense of right and wrong. no one has a better internal gyroscope than harry reid. while he carried the scars of the battle and hard-won victories and setbacks, he was always guided and that's why having talked to him i know he has very few regrets. watching him, working by his side, it taught me how to be a senato

of course, harry reid unique in washington for another reason, harry reid doesn't like listening to other people compliment him or saying -- ing is praise. many of us have found that harry has left us alone on a phonecall because he has figured out the business of the call is over and we just want to say nice things about him. harry? when i learned, when his shall -- departure was imminent i said , we need to have a beautiful dinner in your honor inviting all of your friends from all over the country. he said forget that i'd rather , spend the money feeding the poor and giving it to the university and that is how he is. [applause] rep. pelosi: it is really a miracle that we have persuaded him to sit through all of us saying how wonderful he is. harry, in case you are tempted to walk out from all of this praise, we have asked the sergeant at arms to bar the door. [laughter] rep. pelosi: it has been my privilege to work side-by-side with harry reid for more than a decade. to observe harry is to observe a master at work. his commitment to his values and his respect also for his colleagues. h

paul: harry reid. i understand it, senator schumer went to harry reid and said i want this spate -- space. i helped create this. i want more authority to do things. that guy will ask anybody for money at any time, day or night. he will connect from buffalo to washington. he works really hard for democrats. that is a big part for why he was rewarded. paul: and he was taken things that he had done, lessons he learned in new york, and teaching other senators his technique. cover one of his sunday press offices in new york? every sunday, he would do this press conference because he knew that all the local reporters aren't really doing much on a sunday afternoon. and he would get headlines away. his role early on in that leadership was, like, i'm going to teach these guys. >> so he takes on this role and continues to be the chair in 2008. talk about the revolving rivalries. what does the landscape look like in the leadership than? point, dick durbin is number two behind harry reid. reid is alsot becoming cl

thank you for sharing harry reid with the country. we are all in your debt. [ applause ]. [ applause ]. >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you all. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. this is not exactly the speech at the capitol i hoped to be giving after the election. but after a few weeks of taking selfies in the woods i thought it would be a good idea to come out and i am very grateful to harry for inviting me to be part of this celebration. as we celebrate a great leader and a great senator and, yes, a great american i want to pause for a moment and mark the passing of one of our great americans as well. senator john glenn the, a friend to many of us, a genuine american hero, passed away today. i know the tributes will be flowing. i'm sure the congressional record will be filled with pages of appreciation and recognition of this extraordinary american's life. it is fitting we are here in the kennedy caucus room which has seen so much history. harry got his start in politics organizing for jfk. even then he he knew ho

and then she met harry reid. harry believed her. harry said she reminded him of the people that he had grown up with, real people who had nothing but hard work as their life. like many of the cases harry decided to take, his colleagues said what are you doing wasting your time on this case? spend your time on worthwhile cases. but every step of the way despite the ridicule, harry decided to stand up for this cocktail waitress. harry was determined to keep at it and to make sure that she had a strong voice in court while ultimate -- court. well, ultimately joyce won her case and harry reid ended up with a victory that he still counted many years later as one of his great successes as a lawyer. he also made sure that that store that had brought the charges against her had to follow the law in the future so he didn't just help joy. he helped a lot of other people as well. for harry this is what law was all about as a lawyer and what it was all about as a senator, making life better for people and families across the united states. he's

i mean, harry reid was asked about rex tillerson and harry reid's assessment when it comes to confirmation, he might have a problem finding the 50 votes to get confirmed. >> he could. we've seen grumblings right from mccain from senator graham. lindsey graham of south carolina. >> marco rubio. >> marco rubio of florida. obviously, that's three. only have 52. that would, if the three voted against tillerson and every democrat voted against, obviously, scuttles the nomination. a long way to go from here to there. mitch mcconnell pointed out, there will are confirmation hearings, the information discussed and then we'll see. >> watched closely. david chalian, thanks for being with us. >> thanks. >>> breaking news. china responding to the president-elect claims he will use the one china policy as a bargaining chip. details ahead. heumatoid arthrit, and you're talking to your doctor about your medication... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me go further. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps

as a program that has been tied , thehemes that harry reid departing harry reid, was involved in, as well as a number of republicans as well. take -- peopleme can take a look at all of your work at your website. we pulled an excerpt from peter hiel, but you said this was the most important speech of the 2016 election. [video clip] >> i do not agree with everything donald trump has said or done, and i do not think millions of other people have either. nobody think his comments about women were set up very they were crew -- were acceptable. they were clearly unacceptable. but i do not think voters pull a lever to endorse candidates' flaws. it is not a lack of judgment that leads americans to vote for trump. we are voting for trump because we judge the leadership of our country to have failed. this judgment has been hard to accept for some of the country's most fortunate, socially prominent people. it certainly has been hard to accept for silicon valley. many people there have learned to keep quiet if they dissent from the coastal old. louder voices have sent a message that they do not

bill: did they or did harry reid create that? mr. kane: harry reid. ms. steinhauer: as i understand it, senator schumer went to harry reid and said i want this space. i helped create this. i need more power and i need more authority to do things. you say ruthless with respected you will go to schenectady in the evening, buffalo in the morning, and back to washington. really works hard, the democrats. >> he was taking some of the things he had done, things you have learned up in new york, teaching other senators his technique. he knew all the local reporters were not doing much on a sunday afternoon and he would get headlines that way. his role early on in that leadership job was, i'm going to teach these guys. he continues on, the fcc chair for 2008. tell me about the evolving leadership rivalries with people such as senator durbin at this time what does the landscape look like and the leadership he, then? >> at that point -- dick durbin's number two behind harry reid. also becoming very close to schumer and carving out these new roles and new power. then

what is harry reid's main legacy? >> i think he's the most consequential democratic senator since lbj. he pushed through a very ambitious social agenda. he was ruthless in the use of political power, but unlike lbj, his league see is going to be -- most of what he did was unpopular and he made procedural changes in the senate that will make it easier to get rid of everything he passed, especially in the first years of the obama administration. >> james, the nominees in particular, he blew the filibuster away. >> except for supreme court justices. >> that's going to make it easier for donald trump to get all his nominees through. >> right. ironically the result of what schumer did in 2013 is make life miserable for the next four years -- >> you mean what reid did. >> what reid did, in 2014, to make life miserable for chuck schumer the incoming minority leader for the next four years. the minority leader of the senate used to be one of the most pourful positions in washington when the president was of the other party be

this was a tribute to harry reid. she talked about fighting for our democracy and then she said there is one in particular i want to single out. she said that is the malicious threat of fake news. she says it's now clear that so-called fake news can have consequences that are real and that lives are at risk. obviously she was talking about. she made mention of many reports of russian propaganda making their way into some of our media during this campaign, potentially. also stories that spread virally that were untrue, the one that led to the shoofgt. certainly there is a little bit of a political side to that. she was target which ended just a month tag that was a little touching, but she started with a little speechwriters in modern political times might want to contact on that. she started by saying that was a way to get back into it. what part does hillary clinton want to play going forward, especially when donald trump is inaugerated next month? >> she's also made a couple unintentional public appearances walking

no one has a better internal gyroscope then harry reid. while he carried the scars of the battle and hard-won victories and setbacks, he was always guided and that's why having talked to him i know he has very few regrets. watching him working by his side taught me how to be a senator and a leader. he taught me that our senate caucus is a family. how we all look out for each other's back. he taught me to stay true to myself and despite the obvious differences, we are both from these remarkably refining places. and harry reid goes by the same credo that i do. i am from brooklyn. sometimes it helps me and sometimes it hurts me but i would be less of an individual if i tried not to be from brooklyn. the same exact thing could be said about harry and searchlight , nevada. writing about his hometown, he much attention is paid in the public life to the important collection of attributes that we call character. he wrote somewhat less attention is devoted to the consideration of where the character is born. character and values come from places yo

harry reid started his career as a fighter, literally, a boxer. he is going out in much the same way, not on the candidate who didn't bother to visit wisconsin nor on the campaign that failed to get its voters to the polls. he's pointing to fingers of blame, one at the kremlin, the other at the j. edgar hoover fbi building. here's what he told our own cnn political reporter. >> the dnc was hacked, everybody knew that. we knew weikileaks was coming ot drip by drip. they wouldn't do this all at once because they were coordinating with the trump foegs and the russians. >> are you saying the russians were trying to steer this election to donald trump? >> my opinion is yes. we got no basis in fact from the fbi. they ignored it. now we're hearing you guys reported it from the intelligence agencies. >> do you think that trump is an illegitimate president because of the russian involvement? >> no. i've never said that. of course, i wish someone else had won even though hillary is going to get about 3 million more votes than he did. we have a system, elect

[video clip] nancy pelosi: i worked fo with harry reid for more than a decade. to observe harry is to observe a master at work. his commitment to his values and his respect also, for his colleagues. harry had many occasion to evaluate the leadership and courage of our colleagues. in all of my years, more than 10 working with harry, he always spoke in the most glowing, respectful and understandingly about all of the senators. and republican senators, as well. very respectful with everyone's point of view. the constituents that were represented never, never anything but the finest word. guest: [laughter] umm, that is fake news right there. alert ofhat any half the beltway swamp, harry reid has conducted himself in a manner that might most politely be called brass knuckles and certainly, the victims of his rhetoric and his actions over .he years can attest to that i think this says as much about nancy pelosi as it does about harry reid, and this very stubborn and amazing and surreal attempt to rewrite the history in front of our noses. tom cotton, the senator from

where are the other harry reids? >> i found myself flinching when he said next year, next year we're going to come back to washington and have some investigations. next year, it's only 2 1/2 weeks away, but there's not the urgency, i'm not hearing the urgency on the part of democratic leaders to get to the bottom of this and to state the alarm that i believe a lot of them share. if you read "the washington post" story closely, there were republicans who wanted some kind of bipartisan statement to be made. i don't -- they don't identify who they were. but there were people who wanted that. so i'm a little bit like barack obama in that i want to believe the best in people and i'm still trying, i'm still hoping there are republicans who say this could have been us, the shoe could have been on the other foot. >> they have our e-mails. they have rnc emails right now. >> it hasn't even been 24 hours, but chuck schumer has known about this for a long time. these briefings were going on. you and i e-mailed back and forth las

[video clip] nancy pelosi: i worked fo with harry reid for more than a decade. to observe harry is to observe a master at work. his commitment to his values and his respect also, for his colleagues. harry had many occasion to evaluate the leadership and courage of our colleagues. in all of my years, more than 10 working with harry, he always spoke in the most glowing, respectful and understandingly about all of the senators. and republican senators, as well. very respectful with everyone's point of view. the constituents that were represented never, never anything but the finest word. guest: [laughter] umm, that is fake news right there. alert ofhat any half the beltway swamp, harry reid has conducted himself in a manner that might most politely be called brass knuckles and certainly, the victims of his rhetoric and his actions over .he years can attest to that i think this says as much about nancy pelosi as it does about harry reid, and this very stubborn and amazing and surreal attempt to rewrite the history in front of our noses. tom cotton, the senator from

harry reid is right about that. they need to build it now and that requires having a message to give to voters that has been wholly absent. >> you think of those who have taken hard stagss. mayors like reid in atlanta and governors in colorado. there are names out there. >> all right. a quick break. when we return, a bit of a rough patch. this is "hardball." >>> well, donald trump today gave himself a high five on some positive economic news. he wrote on twitter, a u.s. consumer confidence index for december surged nearly four points to 113.7, the highest level in more than 15 years. thanks, donald. it was on donald trump's twitter. but according to gallup, there's a partisan reason for the rise in economic confidence. it comes mostly from republicans who are more positive since trump's victory in the election. gallup's poll shows that democrats took a negative look during president obama's two terms in office. during president obama's two terms in office. democrats took a negative look >>> all right. we're back wit

but this is harry reid doing what harry reid does. i think a lot of people think, because you mentioned that he's outgoing, that he's willing to say anything. but harry reid has never had a sel self-editing mechanism. and he's clearly very upset, even though he's leaving, even though hillary clinton lost, that he was unable to take over the u.s. senate for the democrats, even though he managed to hold his own seat. so he's out there with his blunder bus, as he usually is, firing in all directions, and believe me, he's going to keep doing it up until january 3rd and probably even in retirement. >> what do you think it's about? he talked about not being -- not getting anywhere on his good looks or anything. that was a funny line. self-deprecation always works. but he also talked about how good works should get results. well, we all know, the hardest working people don't always make it. he thinks somehow that good work should have brought results. where, you know, that's life. do you think he can make a case in a hearing or a senate comm

at 9:40, attend the portrait unveiling of outgoing senate minority leader harry reid. speech errors -- speakers include hillary clinton, joe biden, and charles schumer. we will hear from representative charles wrangle of new york. at to: 10:00 p.m. from the shakespeare theater on capitol hill, we take you to the romeo and juliet wrongful death walk trial where samuel ito serves as presiding judge. a look at the career of vice president-elect mike pence and his new role as vice president. watch on c-span and c-span.org, and listen on this -- on the free c-span radio app. >> "washington journal" is next. ,e will take your phone calls and a look at the life and career of vice president elect mike pence. obama issued 78 pardons, and commuted the sentences of 153 prisoners this week. will get some perspective from attorney samuel morrison who specializes in presidential pardons. then a conversation with professor kathryn cramer about the 2016 campaign and the role of rural voters. her new book is "the politics of ♪ host: good morning. president-elect am calling on the u.s

joe, what is harry reid's main legacy? >> i think he is the most consequential democratic senator since lbj. he pushed through a very ambitious social agenda. unlike lbj his legacy will be essence. he made procedure rule changes that will make it easier to get rid of everything he passed in the first years of the obama administration. >> and the nominees in p particular -- >> and for supreme court justices. >> it will make it easier for donald trump to get his through. >> yes. ironically is to make it measurerable for the next four years. >> what reid did is to make life miserable for chuck shummer. the minority leader when the president was with the other party. the senate has a great deal of power to obstruct. reid set precedent by which republicans could take more of it away. it would make it a lot harder for shumer to block president trump's agenda. >> let's talk about yuca mountain. reid and obama, mr. president, i'll represent you and i will block everything and try to get as little as possible that you have to veto

i want to thank harry reid, in articular, for the great job for us.has done majority leader harry reid sounds really good to us and years, it's two going to sound great to the harry and ople when we can do.ow what let's just say, our challenge begun.lly just the american public has rejected bush and es of george they're waiting to see what we can do. and we are going to show them we will never lose sight of them in of making their lives better and creating a better america for the average person and for all americans. i want to thank harry, dick, their support or promise my o colleague, all new yorkers and all americans, i will continue i can to maked as this country even a better place. jennifer steinhauer from the "new york times," there he's to caucus vice chair in addition to being head of the campaign committee. hat does the vice chair do, what does the role bring to chuck schumer? basically about bringing he caucus together and getting agenda together, making people get in the same page, giving to vote portunities against bill when is they need to, getting people together when he

. >>> retiring senate democratic leader harry reid says donald trump is not as bad as i thought he was going to be quote-unquote. but the senator and other democrats are calling trump's cabinet picks scary. some are even warning the one pick may even pose an extension threat to the planet. >>> malarkey. that's how vice president biden described donald trump's prom iss to middle class voters. hillary clinton lost largely because those voters with whom biden identifies did not go her way. my interview with the vice president, and where he thinks it all went wrong for democrats. >>> godspeed, john glenn. america's astronaut, he flew up, was the first american astronaut to orbit the earth and later the oldest person to venture into space. a senator, a one-time presidential candidate. rest in peace. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. the president-elect's road show recommences. donald trump heading to des moines, iowa for another stop on his thank you tour. popping into another state that he brought back into the red column after president obama won it twi

he and harry reid are pretty close. reid used to call him on the campaign trail when bernie sanders was running against hillary clinton in the primary. hillary clinton herself getting up and joking a little bit. she said, you know, this isn't the speech i wanted to come into the capitol to make, but i thought i should reemerge from taking selfies in the woods. she really was facing a room of people who quite frankly had been counting on her not just to take the white house, but to help democrats in particular bring back the senate. there's been a lot of second-guessing, a lot of inward looking, a lot of frustration and no small amount of blame from a lot of the people that she faced today, although they did all stand up together and give her a standing ovation. still, somewhat of a difficult moment. she and senator kaine, who, of course, was her running mate. they walked out of the room together. they were standing next to each other, kind of talking back and forth. kind of an interesting thing to see play out, as they

prosecute harry reid for telling a lie? >> yes. >> you can't prosecute, but i think part of the problem is technological, as ed suggests. when people get their news on the internet, especially on their phones, they're just reading the headlines. there's no long-form story that they're gonna click into, and you're not gonna read a long story on your phone. >> but that's part of the problem. they don't have time, or don't choose to have time. >> the demise of traditional print media, like newspapers, is, i think, tragic. and i commend larry's efforts to create alternatives that people can actually access through technology. but it's not the same as being able to explore a story in detail, to get to the details, and make your own judgments based on the details in the story, whether this is a credible story or not. >> historically, the role of the journalist is to arbitrate between competing sets of facts. and i think as an industry, journalism ought to rethink it's philosophical underpinnings. 'cause the notion of objectivity

this is a long-planned event honoring harry reid who, of course, is leaving the senate after 34 years here and there are a variety of dignitaries, other democrats who will be here to unveil the portrait of him that will hang here. this is the russell senate office building, a little ways off from the capitol. so we're going to hear some remarks from hillary clinton. it's really her first political appearance since that emotional concession speech that she gave, and quite frankly, probably a little bit of a difficult situation for her here. of course, many democrats were expecting perhaps she would help them win back the senate and they would be in an entirely different position right now with potentially a democrat in the white house, and of course, maybe control here. and everybody felt, you know, very let down, and harry reid in an interview blamed james comey for that, for those losses, but at the same time there's also a little bit of reflection going on about, okay, everything has happened this way, and now we have to kind of move forward and deal with it. the reality being, of c

harry reid secretly admires what mitch mcconnell can. second thing, democratic senators are refusing to meet with trump nominees in the senate. >> is there going to be a poll buster or is it going? >> well, harry reid said it's going pretty soon. >> thank you. when we return, let me finish with american hero john glenn. i got some things to say i know about him. you're watching "hardt ball", the place for politics. >>> the guy that gets married young to the girl next door, stays married for life, spending the evening with his wife but somehow managing not to get distracted from the basics. for john glenn who died today, that was the deal. he once said he didn't have a fire alarm religion, he said his prayers on a regular basis, not when the panic hit. his heart beat stayed pretty much the same as his space capsule roared back into the at moose fear. his heat shield was the only thing that kept him from being burned alive. if february 1962, he went into space and around the earth, the first american to do it. boy, did he make his country

the house republicans have run headlong into harry reid. harry reid actually took to the floor of the senate and said that our modest down payment on fiscal discipline was reckless, irresponsible, mean-spirited. he even defended federal funding for the cowboy poetry institute in nevada. is, they just do not get it. they do not understand the party is over for liberals in washington dc. the american people are demanding that we change the physical direction of our national government but i have to tell you, i learned a long time ago things do not change here in washington dc until they have to. we have to say to harry reid and liberals in the senate, this far and no farther. we have to borrow a line from another harry and say the debt stops here. if liberals in the senate would rather play political games and shut down the government instead of making a small down payment on fiscal discipline i say, shut it down. nobody wants the government shutdown, but if we do not take a stand we will shut down the future for our children and grandchildre

harry reid is blaming james comey. adam schiff says the obama administration had this information for months and neglected to be more aggressive. this is a story that went on during the election. the story about the russians trying to intervene in the election was out there. there were also stories about whether there was any connection between the trump campaign and this intervention. many democrats are frustrated to learn about this. so close to the electoral college meeting. this all remained buried. >> they have come out and said this is the work of a few people in the cia that were upset with the outcome of the election, saying it was a way to delegitimize trump's win. do you agree? >> look, i don't think we know. the sources that i saw are anonymous sources. having said that, i don't have a hard time believing that russia actually did try to intervene. i have sort of always thought that. they don't like hillary clinton. donald trump has been much more friendly rhetorically toward putin. we know some of the dnc st

some cabinet selections are, as harry reid said, quite conservative. in many cases, these are people that have close tic to or supported by mike pence, the vice president-elect from indiana, who, of course, has a very good and deep understanding and comes out of the conservative movement. the movement that, quite frankly, would agitate democrats. i think the discussions about infrastructure in particular, some other things where they might be able to work together, even simply, you know, the focus on working people if that is actually, you know, executed in policy decisions. it's a focus democrats have had for a long time. so, in many ways, things are still pretty scrambled as donald trump's administration kind of sorts its way out. there is still optimism among democrats they can work through all of this. >> so, not exactly ringing endorsements, kasie. what do you think we'll hear from hillary clinton because she's going to be on the hill later today. a rare appearance for her since the election. >> reporter: i have to say the holiday spirit is in ful

i'm going to agree with harry reid. look, comey mishandled the whole hillary clinton thing from the beginning. i think the fact that nobody -- brooke, you and i knew during the campaign that russia was involved. the fact that it wasn't looked into or that the fbi didn't really aggressively go after -- >> what about president obama -- congressman walsh, what about president obama, you know, because we know he's called for this massive review, even going back to the '08 presidential election. and i realize from his perspective, you know, you can say, listen, he didn't want to look involved and play politics ahead of this elections, but do you think he should have been more public about concern, from the administration? >> yes. if he knew that russia was interfering or meddling or hacking in our election, that is information that the voters should have had. and the republicans, when they met in september or october, brooke, the republicans should have agreed to that as well. >> congressman joe walsh, we went through a lot

a fired up harry reid i just talked to a few minutes ago. >> reporter: if trump had won the race, if russia did not get involved? >> all i know is that russia helped a lot. those wikileaks comes out, drip, drip, drip, hurt her, and comey helped trump significantly. a week before the election, he came out and, with this, oh, he found more e-mails. and as a result of that, we lost senate seats and i think we lost the presidency. >> reporter: do you think comey single-handedly swayed the election and kept control of the senate for the republicans? >> i won't say single-handedly. had he not written that letter a week or so before the election, she would have won. we would have pickle up at least two more senate seats. >> reporter: are you okay with the president skipping briefings, only getting briefed twice a week? >> it's concerning to me. they spend 80 hours a week getting ready to brief the president. 80 hours a week before that information is so sensitive. i don't get one every day but one every couple of weeks that's very concerning, and i think it's unbelievable that he said, well

harry reid secretly admires what mitch mcconnell can. second thing, democratic senators are refusing to meet with trump nominees in the senate. >> is there going to be a poll buster or is it going? >> well, harry reid said it's going pretty soon. >> thank you. when we return, let me finish with american hero john glenn. i got some things to say i know about him. you're watching "hardt ball", the place for politics. happy anniversary dinner, darlin' can this much love be cleaned by a little bit of dawn ultra? oh yeah one bottle has the grease cleaning power of two bottles of this bargain brand. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. will your business be ready when growth presents itself? american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. find out how american express cards and services it's your tv, take it with you. with directv and at&t, stream live tv anywhere, da

she'll be in the capitol to honor senate minority leader harry reid. he's retiring and there are some other big names coming to see the unveiling of his official portrait today. >>> four hours north at trump tower donald trump once again expanding his white house team. this time it's pro wrestling maven linda mcmahon picked for small business administrator. >>> and a senior military official says the number of isis fighters who have been killed over the last two years is now more than double what they originally thought. let's start out though at trump tower this afternoon. my colleague kristin welker is out there for us. it seems like every day we come on the air, we're talking about a new member of trump's white house team. >> reporter: well, that's right. and at this hour, kate, we are eyeing andy puzder. he's the front-runner for labor secretary. he's someone who is the ceo of the parent company of carl's, jr. and hardee's. he's also someone who is very against regulation, someone who is opposed to increasing the minimum wage, and he raised a lot o

reid? senator mcconnell: it will be very interesting to see. democrats are in a feisty mood these days. mr. goodman: will they use the filibuster on a regular basis? sen. mcconnell: they will make it difficult. i objected to changing the rules of the senate with a simple majority. it lowered the threshold for confirmations, to 51. all of these cabinet appointments they are complaining about are going to get confirmed as a direct result of what they did three years ago. i told them at the time that when the shoe was on the other foot may be sooner than you think. mr. goodman: do you plan an or a second or third printing of "the long game," something that will talk about the statehouse and this republican victory? sen. mcconnell: that is another big thing that happened in 2016, my memoir came out. we are still doing book parties across kentucky. maybe there will be another version at some point. mr. goodman: what are you most thankful for this holiday season? sen. mcconnell: this great countr

." >> we're going to miss harry reid, aren't we? just a little bit. >> i criticism of other democrats he said we as public servants would be better off not worrying about everyone liking us because it's easy to to be around here and get re-elected and re-elect and not take stands on much of anything. some congressional democrats appear ready to fight the trump administration. castro of texas tweeted monday calling trump the shadeiest and most corrupt guy to take the federal office who will have no checks and balances and maxine waters questioned chuck sh schumer's strategy of working with the president where they can. >> that's been a problem in my party. when we're in power, we're nice. we bend over backwards to work with people. trump stepped on everybody. he has no respect for his own colleagues let alone those on the opposite side of the aisle. those people that voted for him ought to be really concerned about the fact that he's back pedalled on some of the promises that he made. i have no intention of pretending everything is a

>> on friday night beginning at 8:00, fair well speeches and tributes to several outgoing senators, harry reid, barbara boxer this week on c-span. >> c-span is talking with ncoming members of congress. >> representative-elect espaillat, tell us your background. >> i'm a former new york senator and represent the 13th congressional district. and today is the birthday of the late and great paw ell junior who represented this district. i'm happy to be representing is district and very diverse district and first dominican republic member. i look forward. >> why is that important. because that's what you do to get nor dominican republic cans to get elected. a verybody aspires to have reflection across the city, state and nation. everybody wants a government they can identify with. folks from their own background and very american to have a diverse government and that's the strength of our government. >> what about your work at the state level in political office? how do you think that will help you? >> i bring the tools being in the minority in the senate to come to washington and get some thin

senator harry reid is stepping down after three decades in the u.s. senate. he has written a piece inside the "new york times." this day it should be to the outgoing democratic leader and we covered it from the kennedy caucus room and among the speakers, former senator and secretary of state, hillary clinton who also talked about the passing of john glenn. >> as we celebrate a great leader and great senator and american, i want to pause for a ofent and mark the passing one of our great americans as well. senator john glenn, a friend to many of us and a genuine american hero passed away today. i know the tributes will be flowing. i am sure the congressional record will be filled with pages of appreciation and recognition of this extraordinary americans life. host: hillary clinton and her appearance and washington, dc, yesterday to pay tribute to harry reid but also pay tribute to john glenn served in the senate from 1974 to 1975 until he retired in 1998. this tweet from sandy. from greenwood, colorado, tony. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was born in

later, harry reid was asked, do you regret that? he said, absolutely not, romney didn't win, did he? fast forward to when mr. reid was -- >> so it's okay to lie. >> apparently if that -- >> if it helps you win. so this was the quote in "the huffington post" from harry reid. mitt romney is somebody i had respect for. i have none anymore. this is a man who came out big time against trump. oh, the things he said about trump. well, that's great, that's wonderful. either he wasn't telling the truth or he's a person with no character. after having said that, i go to do homage to do this guy he said awful things about. i don't think that shows much character. coming from the guy who lied about the taxes. >> so he lied about mitt romney, but he had respect for mitt romney until mitt romney started talking to donald trump about the secretary of state job. >> so romney responded strongly. he says, as for mr. reid, i lost respect for him when he repeatedly lied about my taxes and later admitted to it cheerily. good riddance, mr. reid. the sena

if harry reid wants a fight, let's give it to him. [applause] vp-elect pence: democrats in the senate may think they have the advantage, but let me assure you, it only seems that way. a minority in the senate plus the american people equals in majority. [applause] vp-elect pence: and know this, know this, men and women. whenever you take a stand for freedom, future generations, for traditional values you do not fight alone. he who stills the waters, he who cleared the ice on the delaware will make a way for america, for he is not done with america yet. let's go take a fight. -- let's go pick a fight. [applause] >> one of the more high-profile controversies that mike pence had to deal with as governor was a law that was passed and he signed that critics said made it easier for businesses and individuals to discriminate against people based on their gender. we are by tony cook of the indianapolis star. tell us what that law did and how did the governor react to the criticism? >> the law essentially tipped the balance in favor of religio

because you had the senate conservatives fund from the right, harry reid from the left. and and it was a pretty big brawl but you start right out by an ad that called you republican opponent, now the governor of kentucky, bailout -- >> guest: will, you and i witnessed the results in 2010 and 2012 -- >> host: i was glad all the attention was on you. >> guest: the senate conservatives fund and its allies had basically cost us five races in 2010 and 2012. by nominating people who couldn't win. so with the beginning of 2014, i said, not only in my race and other raised we're not going to let that happen. and what i did, we got the most electable people nominated. basically took them on, because if you're dealing with a group of people who think compromise is a dirty word and always want to make a point but never want to make a difference, the only thing to do if you want to win the election is to beat them, and so we won every primary, including my own, and i was -- as you indicate, my primary opponent was a credible guy. the next year he was elected governor of kentucky, bu

. >>> hillary clinton will be on capitol hill for harry reid. she is scheduled to make her first public remarks after losing the election. >>> sophia vergara has a case with her ex, essentially her embryos are suing her. could the suit actually happen? that's later on "today." vehicles is out. the institute for highway safety found 82 models earned the top safety pick. can you guess which ones led that list? toyota led with nine winners, while honda and its acura division had five top safety pittsburgh award. check out the full list. i used to feel good about them. >> they are safe, toyota and lexus. they are manufactured by the same place, that makes sense. >>> tear, can the market sustain such highs? cnbc nancy hungerford is here. good morning. >> reporter: just when you think the market is out of steam, we see the dow jones hitting the 12th record since the election. many investors say they see reason for stocks to go even further. one reason there is a seasonal factor. stocks tend to go higher into there. i will say stock futures are playing

jennifer: i think a better relationship than harry reid. harry reid and mitch mcconnell had a relationship that deteriorated significantly in recent years. in some sense, the relationship with mitch mcconnell and senator schumer was the cause of a lot of it. i think that there is a sense that they both want that relationship to be there, and they will try to make it work. host: in the absence of harry reid, how do you see that relationship looking like with mitch mcconnell? paul: first of all the , relationship between reid and schumer reached an epic level. they really became each other's yin and yang. i don't know how chuck schumer will function in the senate without harry reid. that is just going to be an odd thing. he is so used to having reid there for sort of a more intuitive feel in decision-making. how does he get along with mcconnell? i think it will depend. it will depend on how partisan mcconnell is going to try to go with some of the legislation. it will depend -- a real big early flashpoint will be the supreme court nominee. we

a new you say in your book that you're friends with harry reid. but then he say his a jekyll and hyde personality and when he hears that he says you're classless and then like donald trump you think women are dogs and pigs. not in your book you say he may be the worst majority leader. so the senate is a place of relationships, what about this relationship between the democratic and republican leader. are you friends or not? >> guest: i've been very public about a couple things about erie number one, i didn't like he shut the senate down and prevented people from voting. i didn't like the way he ran the senate. i think his public rhetoric is frequently very inappropriate. >> like what? >> guest: the example you just mentioned a few weeks before were taping this he took all of donald trump's most outrageous comments and attributed them to me. well i don't do that to him. i don't don't think there's an equivalence here, but nevertheless to a lot of people it looks like refuting all the time, were not viewed in all the, we have to talk on a daily basi

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democrat leader harry reid honored by his peers, mitch mcconnell spoke about mister reid and harry reid himself talking about his career. later, vice president joe biden and hillary clinton will unveil a portrait of harry reid. we will bring it to you. record green arrows all over the place, the trump rally roles on, down 19,000568 as we speak. it is a trump rally. what is this about a trump inauguration parade down fifth avenue in new york city? ashley: mister trump talking with mark burnett, the king of reality tv behind such shows as the apprentice. the voice and so on. and what can we do forhe inauguration, the suggestion of a parade, at the end donald trump was jumping into a helicopter and ride to washington dc for the inauguration. all the confetti flying. stuart: michael moore is calli for protesters to disrupt the inauguration. >> predicted a trump victory month prior. tweeting to 3 million followers basically yes disrupt the inauguration proceeding january 21st. disrupt j 20. they wanted to block traffic, paralyze washington dc and protest at us embassies and other places worl