Harry Reid now calls Romney a 'very fine human being' after false 2012 claim he didn't pay taxes

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid heaped praise on Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, in a recent podcast, raising questions about the former Senate Democratic leader's suggestion during the 2012 presidential campaign that the latter didn't pay his taxes.

"I asked my friend of many, many years, Gov. [Mike] Leavitt of Utah who had been head of Health and Human Services, to arrange a meeting with me and Mitt Romney after the election," Reid said in a "Mormon Land" podcast published last week. "And we had a meeting at his home in Salt Lake where Mitt and I talked about probably how we had done things wrong about each other and our wives were there and we had a very nice meeting -- kind of a make-up session. So, I admire Mitt Romney. I think he's a very very fine human being."