President about federal judges. He said you should feel free to mention what i said about these attacks being disheartening and demoralizing. Coming up well hear more from senator blumenthal about what the Supreme Court nominee toll him. And blasted. Just a day after recordsetting warm weather, new england gets socked with a winter storm set to dump up to a foot of snow in some parts. As quickly as they move the snow more shows up. The snow continues to fall, the wind whipping flurries around and its expected to get heavier over the next couple of hours. Good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell had washington today as the president s controversial choice for attorney general is now the nations top Law Enforcement officer. We have a crime problem. I wish the blip i wish the rise that we are seeing in crime in America Today were some sort of aberration or a blip. This is a dangerous, permanent trend that places the health and safety of the American People at risk. Even after the president
A politician. And thats because politicians, people elected to Public Office, by definition, they have one very special thing that they can use as a get out of jail free card. They have a thing that other people dont have that they can trade to prosecutors to keep themselves out of jail when they get caught for serious crimes. The thing that Public Office holders can offer that nobody else can offer is they can offer to resign, and that will be a significant offer to most prosecutors. I mean, if you drive a bus for a living or if you sell lawn mowers, if you get caught doing something really illegal and you get charged with a serious crime, prosecutors are going to assume youre going to lose your job because theyre going to convict you and lock you up in jail. That will just be a little externally at this to your case. But if you hold political office, even if you are potentially on the hook for very, very serious crimes, its pretty much accepted practice its in the u. S. Attorneys man
To resign. And that will be a significant offer to most prosecutors. I mean, if you drive a bus for a living or if you sell lawnmowers, if you get caught doing something really illegal and you get charged with a serious crime, prosecutors are just going to assume that youre going to lose your job because theyre going to convict you and lock you up in jail that will just be a little externality to your case. But if you hold political office, even if you are potentially on the hook for very, very serious crimes, its pretty much accepted practice. Its in the u. S. Attorneys manual that prosecutors may very well be persuaded to make the charges against you go away, to make your potential jail sentence go away, if you just agree that you will resign your Public Office. It happens all the time. Thats what happened to the mayor of nashville, tennessee, just a few weeks ago. Plea deal. She plead guilty to a felony, but she got no jail time. She got unsupervised probation. How did she get such
I know nothing about your gout status and i dont think youre that old. I am as of this point goutless, and god bless you. And not in prison. And so thats a happy day, right . Not miserable. Not lonely. Right. And i dont even want to talk about the altarboy thing. Its weird. I was an atlar boy, and it was weird. Completely on the record, completely happy and positive experience. You have to say that now if you say you used to be an alter boy. You just have to. Growing up as a catholic kid in california, i was so mad that i couldnt be an alter boy. It wasnt like a gender justice thing. The alter boys got to handle the wine. I thought i was going to be potential good bartender material. These kids 7 years old and handling the wine. Rachel, given that the statute of limitations has passed, i can tell you, i can confess to you that i saw alter boys mishandle the wine once or twice. It happened. Save that for our weekend show. Okay. When we can swear. Were going to save that one. Thank you,
And not in prison. And so thats a happy day, right . Not miserable. Not lonely. Right. And i dont even want to talk about the altar boy thing. Its weird. I was an altar boy, and it was weird. Completely on the record, completely happy and positive experience. You have to say that now if you say you used to be an altar boy. You just have to. Growing up as a catholic kid in california, i was so mad that i couldnt be an altar boy. It wasnt like a gender justice thing. The altar boys got to handle the wine. I thought i was going to be potential good bartender material. These kids 7 years old and handling the wine. Rachel, given that the statute of limitations has passed, i can tell you, i can confess to you that i saw altar boy mishandle the wine once or twice. It happened. Save that for our weekend show. Okay. When we can swear. Were going to save that one. Thank you, rachel. Governor John Hickenlooper in his first msnbc interview since announcing his candidacy for president on monday. He