MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show September 26, 2019 01:03:00
To a grand jury the very next day, and they were expecting that grand jury to indict the vice president. and, boy, did vice president agnew not want to be indicted. he did not want a criminal case against himself. that's why he was asking for the impeachment instead. he thought maybe that would derail this pending prosecution. he hoped the justice department would see that as a sort of constitutionally preferable and more simple alternative. maybe that would stop this criminal investigation, this pending criminal indictment, this expected criminal trial of him. it was a desperate gambit by spi...