Harry Reid: “This bill is something that the country needs. And the Senate needs to do this. I hope that we can figure out a way to…”

Get rid of the filibuster. It’s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis’ funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It’s very bad.

But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.

Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.

He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.