In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, departing Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said he had no regrets about lying on the Senate floor that Republican Mitt Romney hadn’t paid his taxes in 12 years, because in the end, “Romney didn’t win.” (VIDEO: CNN Grills State Department Spox: Why Won’t Iran Deal Be Like Failed North Korea Deal?)

Bash noted in the narration that Reid accused Romney “with no evidence” of having not paid any taxes, and also attacked the Koch brothers on the Senate floor. “No, I don’t regret that at all,” Reid responded. “The Koch brothers, no one would help me. They were afraid the Koch brothers would go after them.”

“So no regrets about Mitt Romney, about the Koch brothers?” Bash pushed. “Some people would even call it McCarthyite.”

“Well, they call it whatever they want,” he said with the faintest hint of a smile. “Romney didn’t win, did he?” (VIDEO: Krauthammer: Harry Reid ‘A Disgrace’ To The Senate)

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