Transcripts for MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports 20191204 17:37

MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports December 4, 2019 17:37:00

mason -- i'm sorry, by madison, ultimately the framers agreed. and then morris who was referred to earlier, did say we need to adopt the standard. but what was left out was what came afterwards. what morris said is that we need to protect against bribery because we don't want anything like what happened with louie xiv and charles ii. the example he gave of bribery was accepting actually money as the head of state. so what had happened in that example that morris gave, his example of bribery, was that louis xiv, who was a bit of a recidivist when it came to bribes, gave charles ii a huge amount of money as well as other benefits including apparently a french mistress, in exchange for

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