Remembering two Titans from two very different worlds this morning. Football legend John Madden

and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a power player both Nevada and national politics.

They both passed away yesterday. The question is, how are they being remembered today?

Plus, the U.S. breaks a record for daily COVID cases, even as the CDC sharply cuts its

estimate of Omicron cases here in the United States. The question is, what does the latest research

show? And new reporting on the investigation into the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

The question is, why is the White House now deferring its request for

hundreds of records from the Trump administration? It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early. I'm John Lemire on this Wednesday, December 29th.

We'll start with the news. Longtime Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has died. His wife of 62 years

announced in a statement last night that he passed away peacefully while surrounded by friends

following a courageous four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Combative but soft-spoken,

Reid was elected to the Senate in 1987 after serving two terms in the House of Representatives.

He held the role of Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015 and was a pivotal figure on Capitol

Hill during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

President Biden, who worked with Reid for two decades in the Senate and eight years while

vice president, paid tribute to a great American and a dear friend. In a statement, he wrote in part

this. If Harry said he would do something, he did it. If he gave you his word, you could bank on it.

That's how he got things done for the good of the country for decades.

Biden also listed a number of Reed's accomplishments,

including helping pass the Affordable Care Act

and economic recovery legislation in the wake of the Great Recession.

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