after he left the white hous before they charged him. spiro agnew, as i said, wa about two minutes out of the white house before they charge him. but here s the thing when they charged agnew, which was the last time we wen through anything like this as country when they charged nixon s vice president for his filthy lucre at the white house white house desk, his alleged crime 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 a 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, even though he maintaine that he was sure he wa innocent and this was all frame up job and all a witch hunt and a hoax and all th rest of it, prosecutors made i
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, even though he maintaine that he was sure he wa innocent and this was all frame-up job and all a witch hunt and a hoax and all th rest of it, prosecutors made i a condition of the deal they offered him that he would give up elective office and i exchange they would drop almos everything in that indictment. and he signed up for it. he resigned. two minutes later he was in th courtroom pleading and so, yes, there is no eligibility requirement for th
for the trial to involve felon charges, there has to be a second intent to intend to commit another crime the charges are pretty boring. i don t know any trial wit michael cohen as a witness i going to be all that boring. the charges are fairly pared down there s not a lot for the da s office to have to prove. they have to prove there was a business record, it was false. and that there was a secondary intention to commit some other crime. they don t have to prove another crime was committed, o even attempted, just that ther was an intent to do that to be clear, we don t kno the exact charges are. there s reporting about th number of charges, som reporting on the associate press about there being at least one felony charge, among that but again, we don t know, we will know for sure when we see the indictment unsealed. exactly in the absence of tha specific information, what d you think we should expect, if it is something along the line people are proposing, or supposing, that is
possible authorities could fin a way to give him privat entrance into the court. it s also typical fo defendants brought up on felon charges to be handcuffed upo their arrival to this court. it s possible that exception would be made for the former president, but we don t know finally, donald trump will b brought before a judge for his formal arraignment the judge will ask him to offe his plea i whether he s guilty or not guilty trumps lawyers have already said he intends to vigorously fight th charges, so we assume that means pleaded not guilty after that trump will be given a date for when he is next required to appear in court, and then presumably he will be free to go given the nature of the charges that we ar expecting here and we re guessing he ll be required t post bail. i say the charges we are expecting because we haven t actually seen the charges yet. normal procedure would bsealed e arraignment. however, abc s jonathan gaet tonight reports operations are
wealthy nation disproportionately affecting women of color particularl black women, and this year abortion is now illegal in 1 states, and highly restricte in over half the country some people are being forced t carry pregnancies they do no want, while others are being tonight lifesaving medical treatment because physicians are scared to face felon charges for administering this medical procedure, even if the fetus is non viable, even if carrying the baby post life of the mother at risk women and doctors been force to speak in code because i some places in this country, doctors are afraid to lose their license or be charged if they even give advice abou abortion related care. and now that abortion is harde to get in clinics and medica facilities, women in america are increasingly turning t medication abortion, which can be done safely at home but now the nation s secon largest pharmacy walgreens has announced that it will not distribute abortion medication in 20 states, including at