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happened was a plea deal tha included that person leaving public life forever. that s what happened before. that should inform how we thin about what is happening now. joining us now is ro liebermann, former distric attorney for the district of new york he was a member of the fearles young team that prosecuted house president spiro agnew an i met him during the productio of my podcast. ron, nice to see you thank you for being here i m happy to be here, rache maddow ron, let me just ask you, i i got any of that wrong or i i m putting any of the emphasi in the wrong place in terms of how you think about both wha you went through and potential parallels here no, you ve got it right it was a very tense time for the prosecutors. as you mentioned, mr. agne came after us and came after u personally but we were young and we had a
president spiro agnew withou fear or favor, without being intimidated despite what agnew tried to prevail on them despite the upset of agnew s rabid conservative supporters. and in the plea deal that agne agreed to, he s leaving office his resignation was required b doj as the price of him having his charges massively reduced, to the point where all he ha to do is take some probation and pay a fine and what that means for us today is that part of ou historical inheritance here is that if trump is facing, likely, conviction in a criminal penalty that he does not wan to face, it is not impossibl that he could agree to a ple deal that makes him free and ranting and raving no doubt bu also banned from electiv office there s nothing about the lega process that he is involved in now that intrinsically exclude him from public office or from candidacy from public office i the future but the last time we did thi 50 years ago as a country, wha