The rancher's sons had harsh words for Reid. Reid: Ranch standoff 'not over'

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid weighed in on the tensions in his state between rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management, saying, “It’s not over.”

“Well, it’s not over,” Reid told NBC’s Nevada affiliate KRNV on Monday. “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.”


Bundy gained headlines over the weekend after the BLM rounded up his cattle on federal land, citing unpaid grazing fees. The situation intensified after protesters supporting Bundy — some of whom were reportedly armed — faced off against the BLM. However, on Saturday, the BLM returned Bundy’s cattle “due to escalating tension,” according to The Associated Press.

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Following Reid’s comments, Bundy repeated his criticism of bureaucracy on Fox News’s “Hannity.”

“I don’t have a response for Harry Reid, but I have a response for every county sheriff across the United States,” Bundy said on Monday. “Disarm the federal bureaucrats.”

Bundy’s sons had harsher words for the Nevada Democrat.

“Well, if he doesn’t have enough moral fiber in his bones at all to see what happened, that we the people got together and made something right, then I don’t think there’s any hope for him and he needs to be kicked out of office,” Aman Bundy said. “Even if he is a Senate majority leader. It doesn’t matter.”

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Cliven Bundy’s other son, Ryan, added, “We don’t fear Harry Reid. The people are here to say, ‘We will have our freedom.’”