MSNBC Morning Joe December 29, 2021 11:12:00
Reid quietly but firmly behind the scenes and you're right, jonathan, people don't realize, there's always these stories of hardship in politics and overcoming hardship. i don't think people realize to the extent that harry reid overcame hardship. his house didn't even have plumbing growing up. his father was a miner, an alcoholic who died when he was young and as you said, his mother had to feed her children. she had to take in laundry from neighboring brothels. this is someone who really grew up knowing what it meant to fight for a family. he was a boxer as a young man and a very good boxer,...