the day that agnew came to the house? >> i certainly do. >> could you tell us about that. >> i thought he was one of the most handsome men i ever met. tall, stately. the impression i saw katie couric on the plane i was taking. she's not as tall as i thought. well, he came to the office, we were all sitting there, and he was very dignified, very stately, and it was sort of my first time of meeting sort of a -- such a high-ranking member of the government. that was -- it was just -- it was a visual impression i had that day. separate from what we were going to do. in terms of interviewing, the process, but that was my first impression as i remember back all these years. >> do you remember -- again it was a long time ago -- do you remember some of the challenges that congressman rodino faced regarding the agnew process? >> we faced challenges -- he faced challenges, from day one. remember, he -- he came to the chairmanship after a 50-year reign of manny seller, who was in those days one of the most important people in the ci

richard nixon's vice president agnew was charged with accepting bribes and falsifying federal income tax returns. he pleaded no contest to tax evasion and stepped down as vice president. >> vice president spiro agnew resigned today first man holding his high office to do so under fire. he pleaded no contest in effect guilty to income tax evasion. the court placed him on probation for three years and imposed a maximum fine of $10,000. >> bill: agnew's charges that he accepted bribes stems from his time as governor of what state? the answer is correct, b, maryland. easy one to break kilmeade in. >> we're even. >> bill: off to a good start here. question number two in the corrupt politician edition. former governor robb blagojevich sank his career when he was recorded trying to sell president obama's u.s. senate seat. the disgraced governor was sentenced to 14 years in prison. after his sentencing was announced he recited this quote to the press. >> if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostures just the same. >> which famous poet did the governor just quote? w

the 64-year-old singer plans on record agnew album with aerosmith -- recording a new album with aerosmith. >>> the balanceel between direct tv and viacom nabbed a cash -- nabbed another casualty. viacom and direct tv has been fighting over reluctance to pay the fees to carry 26 channels. satellite provider dropped all 26 viacom channels tuesday night and that included comedy central nick loadan and m-tv but -- nickelodeon and mtv but they can watch them online. one of the spots viacom took them off the website. >>> he taped himself going nearly 200 miles an hour on a busy canadian highway. >> coming this morning, the charges a 25-year-old now faces as police there are trying to track him down. >> running back ray rice wants all teens to come see him tonight. i am linda so. where you can meet him and the message he is trying to send. >> if you are using 95, this morning, it's going to take 15 minutes from the beltway to downtown baltimore. and speeds will remain high using the jfx into the city. no delays from the beltway down towards fayette street and here's a live look at 695 in overlea

very, very intense from sort of summer starting with the fact that the president -- vice president agnew ranked through the fall into the binter. we had to deal with these constant stories of his board of coffin nexts to organized crime. >> how did you become convinced that the white house was behind it? >> it's sort of logic. they knew where it was coming from. there's nothing you can do about it. you just had to stand up and say this is who he is. you had to put your palms up. >> one of the other decisions that the chairman had to make was whether to call witnesses to be interrogated or interviewed. nine people were interviewed. do you remember how that came about? >> they had to call these people. i was a committee issue. >> where were you when you found out president nixon was going to resign? >> i was sitting in my office. we got a call. it could have been from saint claire. we got a call from someone that the president was on television. trying to remember. it was around 9:00. we were in shock. i remember just sitting there that night. we didn't know what to say. nobody said anythi

bronze he got in sunday's relay finishing down the two hundred metres freestyle that was won by francis agnew gani favorite ryan lochte to his fourth well there was better news for russia's handball and basketball teams the women in those events both keeping one hundred percent records at these games with two wins from two incidentally the russian prime minister dmitri. added of kissing every member of the handball team after their victory over great britain russia's men know in the artistic you know six didn't do you say well they didn't pick up a medal in the team final however the women do have a chance to shine in that event and choose day with more is richard on monday wasn't the best of afternoons for russia's male gymnasts but failed to get on the podium in the team event however on tuesday her tension turns to russia's women's gymnastics team as well try and fight it out for a medal well there's a lot of expectations on them and rightly so they managed to qualify in second place for the team final which will take place on tuesday and a couple of names which are well worth looking out

i was hired by vice president agnew. i had just graduated from law school at the university of wisconsin. i put all my stuff in a trailer and hooked it up to the back of my ten-year-old station wagon and i drove to washington. and i got a job with the vice president of the wrooiunited st in an office, it later became the old executive office building. now it's the eisenhower building. it's the building next to the white house that used to be the war department. and it's a beautiful building. so i got this office and i decorated it and hung my pictures and all that. and this was 1970. and about a week or so later, the vice president wandered into my office and he looked around. he said, dave, you've done a great -- this is really nice. i said, thank you, sir. and he said, you know who had this office when hubert humphrey was vice president? and i said, no, sir, i don't. he said, it's funny, neither does anyone else. and then he said, two things are going to happen to you in the next few weeks. he said, the first thing you

. >>> anne arundel county is get agnew police chief that will start today.y tul ver is the police -- tolliver is the new police of chief. he held the same position in the late 1990s. he was the superintendent of state police from 92 to 95. he is take over for james tier the former anne arundel county police chief who retires tomorrow. he faced criticism the way he handled allegation against john leopold and decision to retire is after the police union and county council voted no confidence in him. >>> today is the last day for baltimore city police commissioner fred bealefeld who left an impact on charm city going after criminals determined to catch the bad guys with guns. according to city leaders, bealefeld wants to spend more time with his family and will officially retire coming up tomorrow. >>> everyone heads to ocean city for a good time on the boardwalk and the beach and the restaurants. it's hard not to enjoy yourself. but this morning, we have a warning for you. and sherrie johnson is is here with more and specifically, what are police saying for th

. >> hadn't jenner worked for spiro agnew? >> i forgot that if that was true. >> did you play any role of shaping information? the big books that were handed to the committee? >> again, not the article i watergate conspiracy, but, yeah, i may have had a role in some of the other stuff? >> the question i have for you, since you were working on the legal side, did you come to the understanding that this procedure was like a grand jury? there was some question as to whether mr. st. clair could be there and cross-examine. >> right. >> and that would be part of -- and then i guess the issue was in a grand jury the defendant's counsel is not there. >> most grand juries. some states by statute permitted defense counsel. >> is this one of the sort of discussions that you -- >> yeah, there were a lot of arguments about whether the standard here was probable cause. what's that, 4 out of 9? was it preponderance which is 5 out of 9. reasonable doubt? >> just to help the people watching and me, too, you mean five out of the nine jurors, ri

now the election for the 200- seat parliament will be given the task of form agnew government is key to a mild stone after a civil war that ended qaddafi's four decade rule. >>> now "good morning maryland." >> the soaring temperatures have taken a deadly toll a look at the heat related dells on air and online. >> just in time for another round of thunderstorms this morning, bge says it has restored power to everyone affected by the severe storms in ten days ago. >> it's really happening. two of three fire companies slated for closure will shut down today. i am linda so. why one will stay open at least for now. >> those stories and much more coming up on this monday morning and it's july 9th. good morning maryland. >> thanks for joining us. lauren is back from vacation. looking all taned and beach -- tanned and beach loving. we will get a check on traffic in a moment but everybody wants to know about the weather because it was a brutally hot weekend. >> as we go to you, this is what a lot of people woke up to. 6,000 customers are still in the dark. more storms rolling through. we saw

the vice president with spiro agnew. there was ever a reason -- every reason to believe after nixon that spiro agnew would be the republican nominee. there is a great book, i think it is called "a heartbeat away" about the discovery that iran agnew was a crook and about getting him out of the presidency, which led nixon to pick gerald ford. nixon then resigned. ford becomes president. ford then makes to the huge mistakes. he treats the reagan with contempt -- which just makes reagan irritated -- and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice-presidential nominee. had ford picked ronald reagan to be the vice-presidential nominee, history would have been totally different. reagan probably would not have ended up running for president. he would have been on a ticket and the ford that either would have when they were lost, and if it had one ford would have served as president. the guy who tells the story beautifully is one of the leading analyst of american polling. he always says that he learned about campaigns being real b

the vice president with spiro agnew. there was ever a reason -- every reason to believe after nixon that spiro agnew would be the republican nominee. there is a great book, i think it is called "a heartbeat away" about the discovery that iran agnew was a crook and about getting him out of the presidency, which led nixon to pick gerald ford. nixon then resigned. ford becomes president. ford then makes to the huge mistakes. he treats the reagan with contempt -- which just makes reagan irritated -- and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice-presidential nominee. had ford picked ronald reagan to be the vice-presidential nominee, history would have been totally different. reagan probably would not have ended up running for president. he would have been on a ticket and the ford that either would have when they were lost, and if it had one ford would have served as president. the guy who tells the story beautifully is one of the leading analyst of american polling. he always says that he learned about campaigns being real b

he was eventually arrested for blocking the entrance to the restaurant and create agnew -- creating a new new sawns. we spoke to a french food magazine reporter who told us that all the publicity around hour the liver is produced is affecting the image of foie gras producers in france. abc-7 news. >> alan: federal maritime officials approved a new plan to keep whales in and around from crashing into ships. concern is with the west shipping lane that ends near the farallon island. the plan is to extendes three miles farther into the ocean. since 2010 half a whales have been killed by huge cargo ships and the new plan will include better ways to track whale locations, including a whale spotting and reporting program. >> hopefully with that type of a strategy, we can actually base some of the practices on where we know the whales are at that time as opposed to traditionally based on seasonal averages of where the whales might be. >> it's a win-win recommendation. the shipping company, they don't want to hit whales. environmental groups want to save the wales, and the sanctuary, our job i

he was eventually arrested for blocking the entrance to the restaurant and create agnew -- creating a new new sawns. we spoke to a french food magazine reporter who told us that all the publicity around hour the liver is produced is affecting the image of foie gras producers in france. abc-7 news. >> alan: federal maritime officials approved a new plan to keep whales in and around from crashing into ships. concern is with the west shipping lane that ends near the farallon island. the plan is to extendes three miles farther into the ocean. since 2010 half a whales have been killed by huge cargo ships and the new plan will include better ways to track whale locations, including a whale spotting and reporting program. >> hopefully with that type of a strategy, we can actually base some of the practices on where we know the whales are at that time as opposed to traditionally based on seasonal averages of where the whales might be. >> it's a win-win recommendation. the shipping company, they don't want to hit whales. environmental groups want to save the wales,e and the sanctuary, our job

the vice president with spiro agnew. there was ever a reason -- every reason to believe after nixon that spiro agnew would be the republican nominee. there is a great book, i think it is called "a heartbeat away" about the discovery that iran agnew was a crook and about getting him out of the presidency, which led nixon to pick gerald ford. nixon then resigned. ford becomes president. ford then makes to the huge mistakes. he treats the reagan with contempt -- which just makes reagan irritated -- and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice-presidential nominee. had ford picked ronald reagan to be the vice-presidential nominee, history would have been totally different. reagan probably would not have ended up running for president. he would have been on a ticket and the ford that either would have when they were lost, and if it had one ford would have served as president. the guy who tells the story beautifully is one of the leading analyst of american polling. he always says that he learned about campaigns being real b

the vice president was spiro agnew. he was a conservative. there's every reason to believe that the end of four years that agnew would be the republican nominee. i suspected reagan thought agnew would become the nominee. there is a great book on the discovery that agnew was a crook, and getting him out of the vice-presidency, which nixon been picked gerald ford. nixon then resigns, for becomes president, for it then makes to huge mistakes. he treats break-in with contempt, which makes reagan irritated, and he picks nelson rockefeller to be the vice- presidential nominee. add four picked reagan, history would -- had ford picked reagan, history would have been different. ford would then have served as president, and i am suggesting, if you look at a guy who tells the story beautifully one of the leading analysts of american pulling. -- polling. he said he learns about campaigns being real because he was convinced learn -- to leave his job and work for kennedy when kennedy was 30 points ahead. the week after he left, kennedy gave an interview in

spiro agnew lost his license. as did f. lee bailey, o.j.ttorney for mishandling client money. holder says these claims can only be described as frivolous. the bottom line is the bar screening committee will evaluate the complaint and have a wait and see the tude to see what happens in court before dismissing this or moving forward with a full investigation. megyn: thank you so much. in recent days we have been covering the story of how three californiaove bankruptcy procees because they could not pay their bills. yesterday this broadcast hosted a debate on the pension liability that has spread across cities and towns. today we are learning about more than two dozen cities in particular that could be in trouble in the very near future. peter barnes has that story live from d.c. >> reporter: there are many more struggling communities out there burdened with big expenses and employee pension obligations and possibly facing bankruptcy. one way to spot them is through their bond ratings. take a look at this map we put together. there are four ci

flipped that on its head and we've got to reign this in and do it for the political process by elect agnewernment, a new set of men and women who will recognize restraint on congress' power. megyn: how did it expand congress' power to tax us? chief justice roberts according to his critics redefined taxation in a way we haven't seen before. and in order to find a way to uphold this law. can that now be used by people like you who are in congress against us? to find other ways to tax us, because the court said, oh you can't regulate people's behavior under the commerce clause, people's inactivity. you can't make somebody sitting on their couch do something under the commerce clause. thanks to chief justice roberts, he said you can tax them for not doing it. >> that's now what we face and that's why it puts this question back into the hands of the people when they go to the polls this november. the people have to decide what kind of government they want. we've seen what kind of government we don't want, the people need to go to the polls and say, this is the kind of government we want. we wan

there's nothing wrong with want agnew job and going out and doing other things.w things, go after them, and lock us out of the website and photo sharing application. that's wrong. >> scott, you're suing for $500,000. >> yes. >> you say the site is worth $1 million. >> at least. >> the dog is adorable, the site is fun but that sounds like a big number. how did you get to that? >> the site never made a penny. absolutely right about that. no revenue for the site even though our platform is ready. >> how do you get to $1 million. >> i'll give you one but not others, because i'll use them in the lawsuit. instagram site, a million dollars. let's talk about what that meant per user. 35 million users, facebook paid for that. we had instagram, $750,000 there. $1.5 million. excuse me, one platform. >> we agree this is not instagram or facebook. >> definitely not. i'm just saying there's a value for an audience. >> i have to ask you quick before you go you told the "new york post," this is one of the biggest atrocities that ever happened to a family. a lot of people read th

education in this country, pub ed caution in this country i would submit is no different than buy agnewping. people just want the best bang for their buck. and they know they are not getting it when you send a kid to a supposedly terrific suburban grammar school grade 7 and you're to on parent's night your kid is the smartest kid in the class and two nights later your kid is asking you how much is five plus five. you're not getting the best bank for your buck. >> why? >> myriad reasons. the biggest reason is parenting. parenting. do your homework. you know, put this way. put your video games away. >> agree with that. >> read a book. that's the biggest reason. >> at the end of the day -- >> look it all starts at home. but if they are going school and there's a teacher that's incompetent and been there for 40 years and only reason still there because of a union iç couldn't run a business that way. >> nobody begrudges the notion of reform. but we're not talking about k through 12 but we're talking about pell grants. these are series holes for the american education system. >> but all coll

spiro agnew disbarred for bribery and tax evasion. the north carolina d.a.ment after being found guilty of attorney misconduct. as for holder, basically this complaint will go into the bar association, will go to a screening committee. they generally don't like to get involved with what is perceived as a political dispute. a d.o.j. spokesperson say these are speechless claims that ignore the facts that it was frivolous. the complaint was filed yesterday by a liberal group funded by george soros against chairman issa for disclosing a wiretap affidavit. so this is basically going to go be drawn out, if you will, into investigations. also, we understand, i'll send it back to you, steve, another complaint will be filed with the new york bar where eric holder also has a law license. steve? >> all right, william live in los angeles. thank you very much. meanwhile, straight ahead, bill o'reilly has been reporting for years. what was his very first job? here's a hint. it gave him a brain freeze. and then from health care to the stimulus to repealing don't ask don't