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>> i have to tell you, chris, up until very, very recently, and i mean just the last month or so, maybe, harry reid was as plugged in as he was when he was a just senator, or as much as he could be. indeed, during the couple dozen zoom interviews i did with him for the book, senators and former senators called harry reid and he would let me listen in to the conversations. i, of course, asked him about that frustration, but one thing he never did was speak ill of his former colleagues and how they were handling things. i think there are people who believe that harry reid would have been a diffe...

To isolate. norm ornstein, angus king invoked you in the last hour talking about what needs to be done in the senate, but i want to first of all in terms of the 60-vote threshold, which i want to get to in a moment, but i want to begin with david's reporting on joe manchin. you've seen all of these party switches, and you've seen that momentum over decades now, an it's been basically a one-way street except for jim jeffards from a northern state. it remains something of a political miracle that joe manchin can be elected in the state of west virginia with the word democrat beside his name and ...

Manchin has been. and it is reminiscent of the first time a senator switched parties at a time when each party had 50 senators, vermont's republican senator gym jeffords switched to the democratic party after years of whispered encouragement from his democratic neighbors. and the moment, the instant senator jeffards switched party, control of the senate switched from republicans to democrats. there had never been a more dramatic moment in the senate. most of the party switching, though, in the senate in our lifetimes, almost all of it, has been democrats switching to the republican party. that...