Harry Reid: “I think I have protected the Senator in that regard. I want to get the amendment laid down and the second-degree…”

Never in the history of the country, never in the history of the country have we produced more for a president and somebody that’s led his party than we’ve done together.

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.