FLASHBACK: Harry Reid: 2006 Debt Ceiling Vote "Was A Political Maneuver"

On April 14, 2011, Harry Reid appeared on ABC's "Top Line" with Jonathan Karl and Amy Walter, Reid said those comments were a mistake.

"I shouldn't have done that. I'm kinda embarrassed I did. It was a political maneuver by we Democrats. The Republicans were in power -- there were more of them," Reid said. "The president voted when he was in the Senate the same way. I heard him apologize for it. We all should take a look at how we handle these issues, but that doesn't take into consideration the numerous times, the numerous times I voted to raise the debt ceiling. The one time I tried to make a political issue of it, I wish I hadn't."