Rachel Maddow

Born essentially off the edge of civilization, he rose to become one of the most important Democratic Party politicians and power brokers ever in the history of this country.

And the new book about him is written by the man who knew him better than any other, the dean of Nevada political reporters, John Ralston.

The book is called The Game Changer, How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight.

It comes out on January 20th.

I got to say, John, absolutely perfect timing on this.

And congratulations on the achievement.

I'm sorry that Harry got you fired.

And I'm glad he helped you get the book done.

All right, John Ralston.

Thanks.

I'll see you soon, my friend.

All right.

Thank you.

If you pull out this race and Democrats broadly pull out this race and Democrats maintain control and you're still majority leader, undoubtedly there are going to be more Republicans in the Senate in the next Congress than there are now.

If 60 votes has been the problem in terms of getting important legislation passed, what's the strategy for getting stuff passed with even fewer Democrats than you have now?

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military deployed on the streets of America.

Whole communities targeted for removal.

And when accountability finally came knocking, the burn order to cover it all up.

Really happy to have you here.