Harry Reid: “I try to be a very patient man. I know my friend, whom I complimented publicly on the floor, didn't mean what he said…”

“I try to be a very patient man. I know my friend, whom I complimented publicly on the floor, didn't mean what he said this morning about me. I am sure if that were brought to his attention, he would ask that to be taken from the Record because it is in violation of the rules; basically, that I was clueless. I am sure he did not mean that, but that is what he said. And people said it is a violation of rule XIX. I say first to my friend from Alabama, he said that. Was it something he did not really mean, that I was clueless? Because that is an insult. I would ask my friend, did you really mean that I was clueless?”