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justice samuel alito - >> and no one else there's no other birthdays o that day >> [laughter thank, you my friend >> thank you >> and thank you at-home for joining us this. our i'm happy to have you here i know it is weird to have m here on a thursday, like i was last night, and now and friday as i am tonight. i know that is unusual but your usual host at thi hour, the great alex wagner, i off on a family vacation thi week great week to choose, alex wagner and because she is a way, yo are stuck with me. i apologize, alex wagner we'll be back next week. but tonight, because you are st...

tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagner's 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 we'll be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. >> gentlemen, i believe you've 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 because i do not believe it would be against the nationa interest and we have a brutalizing effect of ...

I am out now, let me escape most of these charges. and yes, you heard spiro agnew there at the top sno proclaiming his innocence. yes, i know i just pled. yes, i know. but i insist i did not commi these crimes i think that sort of thing i to be expected that's got to be seen as par for the course, particularly with politicians like agnew an trump. the history of that moment wit agnew also shows that hi supporters were enraged. and they were really wound u about him being charged. his supporters in congress i his own party said that this would be the end of the rule o law, that with what they d...

Job to do. and we just stopped listenin to that. a prosecutor job is to bring a case that's what we did the one thing that distinguishes, to a degree, th agnew case, and how it was resolved, and one of course wa this fear of going to jail substantial as it was. but the other was, this is the middle of watergate. and richard nixon was not goin to remain president much longer that was very, very clear. and if richard nixon - when richard nixon left and we agnew still vice president, he would then become vice president, he would be cloaked with the immunity that the government policy bestows upon...

Substantial as it was. but the other was, this is the middle of watergate. and richard nixon was not goin to remain president much longer that was very, very clear. and if richard nixon - when richard nixon left if agnew still vice president, he would then become vice president, he would be cloaked with the immunity that the government policy bestows upon presidents, he would have cloud overhanging him for th remainder of his term. that was his big chip. and he bargained that chip awa to avoid jail. that's what happened it was very contentious. myself, barney, and timmy, w argued at length wit...