like something is going on in the news today, doesn t this remind me of something else? yes, it does, something that might seem unprecedented, like we ve never faced something like this before in the news. it turns out more often than it, it does have an antecedent in history. the very first episode dropped today. it is about something that s very much like january 6th that happened before. i would have more to say about this later on this hour. but chris is right, it s just drop. today we are super excited about it. that s all still to come, it s called rachel maddow presents deja news . all right, so, here s what it said when they finally showed what they had to the public. this was from the u.s. justice department at the time. quote, the following statement is respectfully submitted to the court by the government at the arraignment of the defendant. it constitutes a detailed resuscitation of the facts and evidence developed by the investigation to date. that presentation
These charges against me, or i can plead, content to some jaywalking offense. i m not true sure the justice department, in this context, would go along with that. i hope they would not because that feeds into the rhetoric that the prosecution, that the department of justice is bringing, a weaponization. it is an illegitimate prosecution, just so that donald trump won t run for office again. that s a different situation than agnew, and i don t think the justice department, i hope they would not agree to do that. ron liebman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the district of maryland, a member of the team that prosecuted spiro agnew, a man with a place in history. ron, it s really good to have you here tonight. thank you so much for talking to us about this. thanks, rachel. pleasure to be here. we ll be right back. stay with us. with us oo expensive so i brought it here. you know with priceline you could actually take that trip for less than all this.
Will surrender at a federal court in miami, and be processed on criminal charges. msnbc will have live coverage throughout the day, and special primetime coverage with rachel maddow, joy reid, me, and the rest of our primetime colleagues, to break down what happens in court, and where the case goes from here. you are not going to want to miss this. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. i m very happy to have you here. as chris mentioned, we do have a new podcast that just launched its first episode today. it s called rachel maddow presents deja news, the whole idea of the podcast is déjà vu,
That is meant to sort of peaked peoples fears, and make people think like this is the time to act. are you seeing any evidence that those things are more influential then your average man on the street, trump supporters saying the same kind of extremist stuff? ters not everywhere you show p tomorrow is going to be in that world of qanon, and all this stuff. some people just support trump, just the way it is. but there are people who think overtime that there is, effectively, at kabul taking over the world, and somebody needs to stop it. and when you read the posts of people who commit terror attacks, that s what happens. they just say i couldn t take it anymore. couldn t do nothing. and it only takes one guy. predicting that, rachel, is inherently impossible, and it s one of those things, that it should keep you up at night. it s one of those things where if we could predict it, we would love to. right now, no one is just gonna say it before we do it. ben collins, nbc senior
Donald trump s contender. he is not an elected office. he may become the republican nominee that he is, that he will, he may or may not get elected. at the time of the election, if he is the republican nominee, even if he is elected, he could be tried for this espionage case. he could well have other indictments, against him. it could be even possible that he would be convicted and sentenced to jail, when you ve had this specter. and here s where the similarity is, rachel, you have the specter of president trump running the white house while doing time in the big house. that would be terrible. however, it s not watergate. we are not in a constitutional crisis. the fact that trump would become president if there is a fair election and he is elected, i know for mr. trump, it s only