The Importance of Youth in the Justice Department

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Tim Bagman: We were three assistant US attorneys with a case that grew from looking into bribery for zoning for land in Maryland to the vice president of the United States. "We, none of us, I think really thought about our age at all," he says. The heroes of the case are those two guys who had a great deal at stake and they took the right path, writes Bagman.

In 1973, in the throes of the Watergate scandal, three young federal prosecutors uncovered a separate criminal scheme being run inside the White House — the sitting vice president, Spiro Agnew, was taking envelopes stuffed with cash in exchange for official acts as an elected official. If Nixon left office, Agnew would be the next President. And so, what would happen if the President was charged with a federal crime? Worse yet, what if he was convicted? Now that Donald Trump has been charged with 37 federal crimes – as he runs again for president — Rachel Maddow and Bag Man executive producer Mike Yarvitz talk with the three Spiro Agnew prosecutors who have the only experience in our nation’s history with a situation like this.