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Loss and gratitude are immense. i got to know harry when i came to the senate in 1999. we couldn't have been more different. there was me, a brash jewish kid out of brooklyn, and there was harry, a soft spoken mormon from searchlight. we were a match made in heaven. i quickly learned that even though harry talked softly, what he said carried the force of thunder. he was honest. he was direct. and he was original. i love the story back in 2012. during the democratic national convention in charlotte, harry summoned me to his hotel room late one night. i rushed over and saw landra in the room, bu...

And god bless my friend, harry. great american. god protect our troops. >> and that is president biden wrapping up his remarks honoring the late senator harry reid there in las vegas following former president, barack obama. i want to bring in jeff zellny to talk about this. cnn's senior political analyst, david gergen and susan page. very moving remarks there. jeff, at one point, president biden said of harry reid, it was all search light, not spotlight. i think that sums it up pretty well. >> he certainly did sum it up through some powerful and poignant remarks. joe biden worked alongside ha...

Control and keep his 60 democrats together in order to pass the affordable care act which is signature legislation for not only president obama but senator reid as well. we'll also hear a lot about how -- as you mentioned, he went from humble beginnings to the most powerful senator. he grew up in searchlight, a small mining town where he had no running water as a kid. he had to hitchhike to high school because there was no high school in his town. he had to go to henderson, nevada 40 miles away. this will be a very emotional tribute today for someone that many of these people in this room knew...

Conserved lake tahoe. how he always championed native americans and tribal communities. so much more. none of it was easy. or particularly popular when he was doing it. tell you about harry, he never gave up. he never gave up. he never gave up on anybody who cared about him. like every great leader, he led the democratic caucus just not by speaking, but by listening. by hearing all points of view. finding a common ground. harry cared so much about his fellow americans and so little about what anybody thought of him. it was all search light, no spotlight. always appreciate private

In a lot of ways. and one of the reasons he rose to leader is he loved the institution. he would sit on the senate floor for hours just observing the way it worked. what made members tick. you know, that's really why this quiet man from search light, nevada, a tiny desert town in the middle of nowhere, really, came to rise. the other thing -- >> adam, i'm losing your audio. adam, i'll see if we can get a better audio connection with you, because i want your thoughts on this. the deputy, one of the senior advisers to senator reid. jose, i can't even think of one of the many times i went to see ...