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That evidence when it came to the vice president in 1972, 1973, is they prepared a 40-count indictment against vice president agnew and they let the nixon-/agnew white house that they had done that, that they had prepared that indictment. agnew and his lawyers argued publicly that agnew couldn't be indicted while he was in office, but nevertheless they then entered into secret negotiations with the justice department, that agnew would agree to leave office, he would agree to resign as vice president in exchange for pleading to just one of the counts that they were preparing to charge him with....

Felonies since he's been serving as president, if clear evidence of that is made public tomorrow, i mean, the justice department has to be prepared tonight for how they're going to react or not to the public airing of that evidence. they're also presumably preparing for the possibility that this evidence may generate a formal criminal referral from congress concerning the president's alleged crimes. they may refer this matter for prosecution to the justice department. now, in terms of whether or not the president can be indicted and can be prosecuted for a crime, the somewhat shaky justice dep...

Starting to look like we're getting into the kind of territory where the agnew precedent becomes very relevant. where the issue of the president's potential indictability, potential prosecutability are maybe treated as separate matters. maybe the president can't be prosecuted now under justice department policy, but maybe that's a separate issue from whether or not the president can be indicted. and if the president can't be indicted, is the president allowed to essentially negotiate with prosecutors over his own fate? as it balances against those potential criminal charges. if that is the par...

Is correct, and if michael cohen is in fact about to hand over to an investigating congressional committee tomorrow evidence related to the president committing financial crimes, felonies while in office, we are now getting to point where that agnew precedent sort of crashes in to the current history we are living through with this current sitting president. so we're going to have the lead "wall street journal" reporter on that story coming up here live in just a moment. i will say, though, because of everything that's being reported in advance of michael cohen's open testimony tomorrow, becau...