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Able to safely keep our children in school. every jurisdiction is going to have to make these decisions locally. but what i will say is the most important thing we can do is get our children vaccinated. get our teachers vaccinated, get our teenagers vaccinated. and then, to practice all of those layered mitigation strategies that have been proven to work. >> well, the president facing all of this and more, as he makes his way back to the white house after spending saturday in nevada, where he and other top democrats paid tribute to the late senate majority leader harry reid. >> harry cared so ...

He was battling pancreatic cancer. and with some difficulty. but he was -- as dana knows, he was never -- he was always feisty. he did reminisce a little about growing up in search light. he told me when he was growing up he never realized how destitute he and his family were, how many things they didn't have. it was just the way things were. he said it was after his brother died as an adult and his niece was going through pictures and sent him sold photographs that showed shack he grew up. he said it was only then he fully realized how terrible those circumstances had been. and for a person w...

Suicide. his mother does laundry for brothels. and look what he becames. and i want to ask you about what he fought for in the senate, right? he had no healthcare and he was critical in getting obamacare through. talk about his legacy in terms of what he fought for, from where he came from. >> yeah, and there is no doubt that the passage of obamacare is a part of harry reid's legacy, forevermore. there is no doubt about that. he navigated those 60 senators that then turned into 59 senators but got that bill to president obama's desk. and there is no doubt, he talked about it at the time, that ...

Most of all you've been a good friend. as different as we are i think we both saw something of ourselves in each other. a couple of outsiders who had defied the odds and knew how to take a punch and cared about the little guy. and you know what? we made for a pretty good team. i think you and i both covered the obama administration and i think when historians talk about obama's successes, they will include how harry reid was instrumental in so many ways. what do you see as his legacy? >> chris, he is an american original. he grew up from humble origins in tiny search light, nevada and made his...

Trained in high school under future nevada governor michael callahan who became his political mentor. reid worked nights as a capitol police officer to pay his wait through law school at george washington university. and survived an attempted car bombing by the mob during his tenure as chairman of the nevada gaming commission. >> make sure you are going to work as hard as you can at trying to do what you want to do. i believe that's a lesson for everyone. a little boy from search light has been able to be part of a changing state of nevada. i'm grateful i have been part of that change. >> with...