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tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagners of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex well be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. >> gentlemen, i believe youve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is becau...

Office, the member of th special counsels team in th justice department i washington, these othe prosecutors who are contending with potential charges against trump and the vfenom he is bringing to bear against them. how did you guys bear up how did you guys stay what was -- and stay focused >> first of all, it would be presumptuous of me to be teaching all these prosecutors how to suck eggs they know how to do it part of it was youth, suppose. but part of it was reall believing in our job our j...

Himself, and if he was convicted he should be sentenced to imprisonment. elliott richardson, in the context of watergate, older an wiser than the three of us realized that it was very very important as a policy decision to get agnew away from succession, a heartbeat away from the presidency. thats what brought that cas to a close in addition to agnew knowing that we had built a solid case against him. it was airtight. and he knew, if he went to trial, he was going to b convicted and he was going...

At the white house desk, his alleged crimes - they offered a spiro agnew ple deal in this case, rather than face the dozens of felon charges that had been stacke against, and agnew agreed to the deal and the deal was he woul resign from office and the they would drop almost the whole indictment he was worried about facin trial. he was worried about the numbe of charges he was facing he was worried about the strength of the evidence against him. he was worried he might have t go to prison so, eve...

Maryland 1972 to 1979. -- he was a member of the fearles young team that prosecuted house president spiro agnew an i met him during the productio of my podcast. ron, nice to see you thank you for being here >> im happy to be here, rache maddow >> ron, let me just ask you, i i got any of that wrong or i im putting any of the emphasi in the wrong place in terms of how you think about both wha you went through and any potential parallels here >> no, youve got it right it was a very tense time for t...

Found the documents, who flipped the witnesses, who got the testimony, who presented i all to the grand jury, who secured the indictment on th felony charges to the vice president, they just put their heads down and they followed the law. they did not get scared. or at least if they did ge scare, they did not get scared off by the intimidation tactic that were absolutely brought t bear against them by members o the vice presidents party, who tried to derail th investigation. by the threats and t...

Charges. but who knows? its under seal. we will know when it get unsealed and theres no reason to speculate about it before the. and its coming soon enough. and while we have had lots and lots of experience indicting crooked politicians of various kinds in this country, literally thousands of politicians have been indicted in this country since our birt as a country - we have not done it very muc for politicians who have bee at the white house level but we did do it 50 years ago. young prosecuto...