Ep. 103 - Sen. Harry Reid

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Harry Reid, the Senate Minority Leader, sits down with David to talk about the changes he’s seen in Washington during his 34 years there, what he views as the greatest professional joy of his life, and how Democrats should approach a Donald Trump presidency. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:18.1	This week marks a milestone in American history and the history of the United States Senate
0:23.2	as Harry Reid takes his leave from the Senate after three decades, the last decade of which
0:30.9	he spent as a democratic leader.
0:34.0	A few days before his farewell address to the Senate, I met with Senator Reid behind
0:40.4	the Senate chambers to reflect on his life and career.
0:44.4	Senator Reid, it's an honor to be here.
0:53.8	You have an amazing story, really an amazing story, sort of a quintessentially American
0:59.5	story.
1:00.5	And if you don't mind, I'd like to just talk about that for a little bit of that research
1:04.8	light and your early years and that incredible journey that got you to where we are today.
1:15.4	So, tell me about that.
1:17.9	First of all, talk a little bit about the search light and what that was like.
1:22.0	Well, for many, many years, I was kind of embarrassed, I don't know if shames are right word, but
1:29.7	never talked about search light.
1:31.5	As always from Nevada, from Las Vegas.
1:35.0	And one of the moving experiences of my life, I went to University of Nevada, Reno, where
1:40.0	they had a foundation dinner and the speaker was Alex Haley.
1:43.8	One time ago, he had the guy that brought the roots.
1:45.8	Oh, there are fruits.
1:46.8	Yeah, they got the guy on the road roots.
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