can you remember spiro agnew? tom: i remember him. i do not know why he was picked as vice presidential candidate. he cheated money for groceries. he had small potato corruption color his time. small potato corruption. michael brown, the councilman we talked about a moment ago, a few thousand dollars here and there while his income was $130,000 as a councilman. he sold himself so cheap. if you are going to cheat -- brian: he actually took cash money when he was vice president. tom: it was an entitlement thing that he could take it. brian: what do you think about the fact that he pled no contest and did not have to go to jail, and went on to make millions. tom: he was out of public office. it was like ron machen investigating the former mayor gray. even eric holder, the attorney general. he wrote a letter for all of the u.s. attorneys. if the people who represent us are corrupt, then we have to get them out of office. sometimes, -- he left office. he went on to make a successful life afterwards. he was shamed and ridiculed. brian: sinc

brian: can you remember spiro agnew?om: i did not read -- covert national politics, but i don't remember why he was picked for the vice president's candidate. he cheated money for groceries, he got all kinds of things. small potato corruption. this is what gets me. i was telling someone before we came on, small potato corruption. michael brown, the councilman we talked about a moment ago. a few thousand dollars he there. as income was $130,000 is councilmember. ios tell politicians, look, if you're going to cheat make sure you make a lot of money and had it before we cheat you. your force if you go to jail for just a little bit of money. brian: in sporadic news case, he took cash money when he was president. tom: there was an entitlement thing where he thought he could just take it and no one would be watching. brian: what you think about the fact he pled no contest, went on to make millions. public was out of office. like ron mentioned, who was the investigator of the former mayor, he said, even in holder -- it even eri

>> i will the late spiro agnew on one time, and the show went right through the floor to the center ofhe earth from boredom. and the idea that it's an x-ray camera scares some politicians. the hell it is. i have sat next to the biggest phonies in the world and the camera did not detect it. >> who was the single biggest phony? >> let's see. it's such a difficult choice. one was the segregationist governor lester maddox who said i had called all the people in georgia bigots and threatened to walk off. i said if i called anyone a bigot who is not a bigot i apologize, and he walked off. he was a pretty lively guest. some just put you into the ground. >> let's look at the calendar for the next two weeks of "late night." martin o'malley on seth meyers. hillary clinton on fallon. bernie sanders on colbert. supreme court justice stephen breyer,al following week, trump with colbert, ted cruz on with colbert. let me read you something justice briar said to national justice. he said, quote, he has a serious news show. he is more interested in news. it's not a comedy show in particular. what do yo

so did vice president spiro agnew, whose personal qualities included a lack of tact. [laughter] agnew said he objected to, quote, all the pussy footing. nixon resented the implication that he was not being tough enough. the pussy footing remark provoked nixon to go for an all-out attack with american ground forces. the joint chiefs of staff never drew up a formal plan for the cambodian operation. there wasn't any time. the next day, the next morning at 7:20 nixon, still sleepless, summoned kissinger, admiral tom moore of the joint chiefs of staff and cia director helms to the white house. in a fury, the president said that secretary of state rogers and ec tear of state -- secretary of state laird were sabotaging plans for the invasion. haldeman noted in his diary, the president is thinking too rashly without thinking through the consequences. kissinger called helms to ask what he thought of nixon's decision. cia director helms replied, it seemed to me that if he was prepared for the fallout, it's the thing to do. he obviously was. is it worth it? kissinger asked. helm

marvin mandel, who succeeded spiro agnew as governor in 1969, was 95 years old. horror film aficionados mourned the loss of wes craven today. the writer/director died sunday, of brain cancer. in 1984, craven's "nightmare on elm street," and its villain freddy krueger, carved a new path for the genre. he scored again with "scream" in 1996, setting off another wave of sequels. in 2010, craven spoke to abc's "nightline" about the changes he wrought, especially in depicting heroines. >> neve campbell in the first scream says, "why should i be interested in a horror film? they are always about some big breasted girl with no brain, no acting talent who runs upstairs instead of out the front door." so its that awareness, it's that sort of intelligence that is informed throughout these films. >> ifill: craven was 76 years old. still to come on the newshour: the week ahead in politics with amy walter and tamara keith. a trash epidemic triggers protests in lebanon. and much more. >> ifill: over the weekend, republican and democratic presidential candidates were out campaig