Episode 2: Crawling In

Bag Man

MSNBC

History, News, Rachel Maddow

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

With the Watergate scandal gripping the nation, and President Richard Nixon on the verge of going down, a small team of federal prosecutors in Baltimore discover a bombshell that will rock a nation already on the edge. The Vice President of the United States— right at the height of Watergate—has been conducting a secret bribery and extortion operation… from inside the White House itself. And only they know it.

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0:00.0	Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew were officially sworn into office for a second term on January
0:09.9	20, 1973.
0:12.6	And welcome to the 47th inaugural of an American president.
0:17.3	David Brinkley and I here to cover that.
0:19.6	Something the United States has been doing since 1789.
0:23.2	The festivities that day were a celebration of what had just been a political annihilation.
0:28.5	Nixon got 520 electoral votes that year.
0:31.8	George McGovern got 17.
0:35.3	The Nixon Agnew ticket won every state in the country except Massachusetts.
0:40.2	Newly re-elected vice president Agnew celebrated that night with his wife Judy at a party
0:45.7	that was thrown in their honor at the Smithsonian.
0:48.2	This time I know more or less what to expect.
0:50.3	What do you expect?
0:51.3	I would do what I expect.
0:52.3	You expect to have fun.
0:53.3	I'd be more relaxed this time.
1:07.6	In Baltimore, Maryland, just days before that inauguration, a team of three young federal
1:16.6	prosecutors were preparing to unleash a blizzard of federal subpoenas with no one.
1:23.2	And we put together a team of IRS agents and we had all 50 subpoenas served on a Monday
1:29.9	morning.
1:31.0	That's Tim Baker, one of the federal prosecutors who worked up these subpoenas out of the
1:35.1	U.S. Attorney's office in Maryland.
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