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>> all right. >> his disciplinary hearing for a night full of harassing correctional staff. it more memorable than most we've ever covered. >> you'll just hack it off? >> i admit that. >> yeah. i've let that escalate. i escalated that. >> reid was serving an 11-year sentence. he had stabbed a friend during an argument, and the man died. but reid's personal demon had made him no stranger to prison. >> how long have you been in prison? >> most of my life. >> why? what was your life like out there before prison? >> just spun out of control through alcohol, you know. >> jimmy reid was probably one...

And then he got to a vote and he said thumbs down. and our country would have saved a trillion dollars and we would have had great health care. so he campaigned. he told us hours before that he was going to repeal and replace. and then for some reason, i think i understand the reason, he ended up going thumbs up. frankly, had we known that, we would have gotten the vote. because we could have gotten somebody else. so i think that's disgraceful. plus, there are other things. i was never a fan of john mccain and i never will be. >> you don't have to be a fan to respect their memory or just recog...

Teleprompter in formal setting. not what he's good at, he's good riffing more. i think that moment surprised them a little bit. didn't expect it. >> weren't supposed to do that. >> he actually to his credit for someone who sometimes his asides are disastrous politically, he was fine. congratulations. he was as good as he can be in a setting like that where he's not naturally comfortable and taken aback by people seizing what he thought would be the moment, seizing it from him. probably first time i've said this about donald trump, relatively gracious in that moment. >> i thought he was very gr...

What did you think of that? >> well, i mean, bush 41 really is from another era. and he didn't like to have the word legacy even used around him, because it -- >> talk about that. because you interviewed him to this point. >> well, i was working on a book about vice presidents. and i had asked about his greatest accomplishment during his eight years as vice president under ronald reagan. and he just really didn't answer the question at all. he said history will judge. and i'm sure that doug isn't surprised by this. he does not -- he deflects, and he kind of went into an anecdote about ronald r...

Pedigree and that the character of the man was humble, self-effacing and a preu kwrot serving his country in so many roles. >> harris: judy? >> i was struck by the outpouring of affection for the man. i believe it was because we were mourning not just the death of a man, but the end of an era that he represented. of decency, of kindness, in political terms bipartisanship. there was so much that george bush accomplished because he was willing not to take the credit and be humble. >> harris: what strikes me today as we cover this and, of course, this time yesterday we were watching former kansas...