Harry Reid: “I am disappointed my colleague's amendment is not going to be part of this, but maybe we can work on that at a…”

I have to win 50 plus one.

The country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.

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.

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.