duncan agnew es un geofísico en el instituto de oceanografía scripps en uc.lo ha estado haciendo, deben remover ese segundo al que le llaman leap second. la última vez que 1 fue añadido fue en el 2016, pero ahora, por primera vez discuten la idea de remover un segundo nobody knows but we really don't want to try. aún se desconoce el impacto que esto podría tener. actualmente la tierra y el reloj atómico están sincronía, pero las investigaciones de agnew sugieren que el centro de la tierra ha estado acelerando, algo que podría afectar esa sincronización. that as only fifty nine seconds in. y aunque un segundo para algunos no parezca gran cosa, para el mundo tecnológico es mucho tiempo ya que podría impactar múltiples industrias. the electric power system, the financial markets all kinds of things now, massive amounts of internet commerce all depend on very precise time. cuando hay un leap second planificado, la norma es que una notificación debe ser emitida 6 meses antes de que ocurra. y quizás no lo tomemos así como que muy serio. cuando escuchamos es un segu

and so agnew was enough of an unknown that he really didn't add to the ticket. he also wasn't seen to really subtract from it either, you know, lodge added. but lodge also subtracted and the of the top of the ticket so i think that's probably why nixon won for agnew another another reason i would say to is agnew was a major booster of rockefeller. and rockefeller kept threatening to come back in the race. agnew was on kind of that moderate to liberal, really even more like liberal side. but was tough on crime because he was he was from baltimore. baltimore was one of the cities after the king assassination that had a lot of unrest and so agnew was kind of a liberal republican who was tough on crime and looting and arson and unrest and. that's what nixon he was sort of the whole package. he just was still kind of a political unknown. but again, that wasn't bad in the in the eyes of nixon. so that was the republican side of the aisle. and then you get into the fall campaign. what's going on on the democratic side, the convention in chicago, which is largely oversh

lord agnew , the to 10.3 billion. lord agnew, the former anti—fraud minister, resigned in 2022.he treasury's lacklustre approach to finding and dealing with fraud. despite the story dominating headlines , action dominating headlines, action should always be taken to regain taxpayers money and ensure exploitation cannot happen again. i'm very pleased to be joined by my predecessor, former anti—fraud minister lord agnew. thank you very much for coming in. the extraordinary thing was, and i was very lucky to inherit from you because you'd done all the groundwork on this , how much the groundwork on this, how much resistance there was in whitehall to working out how much fraud had taken place. >> yeah. i've never got to the bottom of that. is the most bottom of that. it is the most extraordinary conundrum because the of money colossal the sums of money are colossal and it go straight into and it could go straight into tax cuts for people . about £6 tax cuts for people. about £6 billion is a penny off income tax. and this admission just just come out over easter is 10 billion. so it

agnew was right in there. the fact there was an accountable process.most people is not viewed as a problem. a bug. it is viewed as at least if it is bad enough, there are guardrails here. take a look at what we prepared you. >> i categorically and flatly deny the assertion made by the prosecutors with regard to their contention of bribery and extortion on my part. >> what is your reaction to the resignation? >> i think it is a sad thing. >> it makes me glad. should have been done a long time ago. >> i think they throwed him to the wolves. >> simply wonderful. nixon should be next to resign. >> history's lessons. before trump, i this i you could argue they were somewhat more bipartisan. and people looked at that as a high point. we heard from trump friendly justice kavanaugh this week. actually, maybe that stuff is the problem. and the only good thing was pardoning nixon. what is going on with the lesson of history? >> that told later presidents like donald trump, you can do whatever you want. and probably the worse that will happen to you is like nixon

agnew was right in there.countable process by most people is not viewed as a problem. it's viewed as at least if there -- it is bad enough, there are guardrails here. >> flatly deny the assertion that has been made by the prosecutors with regard to their contention of bribery and extortion on my part. >> what is your reaction to the resignation? >> i think it's a sad thing. >> it makes me glad. it should've been done a long time ago. >> simply wonderful. i think nixon should be the next president. >> history's lessons. before trump i think you could argue they were somewhat more bipartisan and people looked at that as a high point. we heard from trump-friendly justice kavanaugh this week actually maybe that stuff was the problem, and the only good thing was pardoning nixon. what is going on with the lessons of history? >> pardoning nixon in my view was a terrible mistake because that told later presidents like donald trump, you can do whatever you want and probably the worst is going to happen to you is like n

agnew was a pariah and nonperson for the rest of his life. richard nixon came close to this.ut of office in august of 1974. copped a pardon from gerald ford so he wouldn't have to go on criminal trial which he expected to lose. he thought he would go to jail. for the rest of nixon's life he never went to a political convention. wasn't a nonperson, but was written out of the family. donald trump is going on criminal trial. we don't know whether he'll be declared guilty or not guilty. as you said, we can't say that often enough until there's a verdict. that having been said, you know, with this thunder cloud over his head, he's asking americans to re-elect him. that's the big departure from history. >> i have about 45 seconds. can you say what matters more to history, that this is happening or the outcome is what registers whether it's important or not? >> even if he's declared not guilty and this will be in the first sentence or two of what's written about donald trump in history books in the future. if he is declared guilty, we know based on what he said he's going to say the

. >> reporter: that's duncan agnew, who runs a study at -- oceanography. his study says we may actually have to subtract the so-called leap second from our atomic clocks because of the slowing planet. a move that would be painful for satellites, computers, not to mention financial and energy systems that rely on precise timing. >> we've never had a leap second, but it's part of that synchronizing computers. if we can add a second, but nobody is prepared to do what is necessary when you have to have a -2nd. >> now we should say the biggest concern when it comes to melting ice is not a potential leap second. >> land ice, when it melts, contributes directly to see rebel -- sea level rise. >> reporter: but even aside -- the slowing planet is getting attention. >> is definitely an interesting one. i don't think anybody will notice personally effects of that. >> reporter: putting more eyes and concern on a climate crisis. scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> scott, thank you. >>> let's take you a live look outside. that's not the bay area. that is palisades, taho

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oval office payment, i remember years and years ago, the fact that they were cash payments to spiro agnewou know, cut a deal because of that. >> just the oval office. >> there is something, i think, just impactful about the imagery that most people have. andrea and i are very fortunate to have covered the white house in different administrations. you go into the oval office. there is a moment of history that overwhelms you, but -- and i'm sure you've experienced this too, it's one of the questions i get most, what was it like working there. what was it like being in that room. and so i wonder, catherine christian, when you hear that, is that something that a juror, most people don't have that experience of working in the white house or having access to the oval office are like that happened there? >> yes, you think of it as a solemn place. it's where business of the country is happening. foreign policy is happening. and then here is the president of the united states, you know, reimbursing his lawyer to cover up, you know, the affair and to falsify his business records. so that also plays