i wrote about the spiro agnew story. now i am telling you, they are trying it in the state of georgia where republicans are trying to get prosecutor fani willis ousted somehow to remove her as prosecutor as she brings former president trump to trial on felony racketeering charges. anyway, i've been working on this for a long time. the book comes out tomorrow. i am really proud of it. so if you read it, i hope you like it. this story gives me a lot of hope and ideas about how the stand up to what we are up against today. anyway. there's tons going on rate now. lots of news to get to. we've got richard engel joining us live. stay with us. us live. stay with us are you still struggling with your bra? it's time for you to try knix. makers of the world's comfiest wireless bras. for revolutionary support without underwires, and sizes up to a g-cup, find your new favorite bra today at knix.com the power goes out and we still have wifi anto do our homework.up, and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no

republicans also were in a previous book i wrote about, spiro agnew prosecution, back man. now, i'm telling you, as a de facto expert on the subject, never meant to be, but here i am. now, i'm telling you, they are trying it in the state of georgia. what republicans are trying to get prosecutor fani willis ousted somehow to remove her as prosecutors as she brings former president trump to trial on felony racketeering charges. anyway, i've been working on this for a long time. the book comes out tomorrow. i'm saying i'm really proud of it, actually. so if you read it, i hope you like it. i hope you get something out of it. the story gives me a lot of hope. it gives me a lot of ideas about how to stand up to what we are up against today. anyway -- but they're stuns going on right now. there's lots of news still to get to tonight. we've got richard engel joining us live in just a moment. stay with us. with us only unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans come with the ucard — one simple member card that opens doors for what matters. how 'bout using it at the pharmacy? yes — y

bribery, extortion, vice president spiro agnew was literally taking envelopes stuffed with cash and shoving them into a drawer in his office while he was service ever serving as vice president. part of why i describe these editors as brave, the nixon white house and the nixon era republican party brought all sorts of inappropriate pressure to bear against those prosecutors to try to force them to drop that case against nixon's vice president. the u.s. attorney who was overseeing the prosecutors, republican nixon-appointed u.s. attorney george bell, his brother was a republican u.s. senator. his father had been a republican u.s. senator. george beall was put in office as a u.s. attorney by rich nixon. nevertheless, emerges as the total hero here. he's the one who resisted intense pressure put on him by the nixon white house and the nixon era republican party to drop that case. and george beall protected his line prosecutors. protected them from that pressure. destroyed his own career in the process. but he allowed those line prosecutors to bring that case and it forced a sitting vice preside

in fact, he was on the verge of retiring when nixon's vice president spiro agnew had resigned because of a scandal unrelated to watergate, per se. so nixon was looking for someone. the republican party is looking for someone whose honesty, devotion to the national interest, cannot be questioned. and, probably part of this, but part of the appeal is he does not have obvious ambitions to be the next president of the united states because it would be a awkward to bring someone on board if you're richard nixon -- by the way, spiro agnew was forced out at a time when watergate is becoming uncovered. it takes a long time between the arrest of the burglars in june of '72 to the summer of '73. nixon finally resigned in the summer of 1974. so it is this slow-moving scandal and the last thing nixon needs and the last perception they want to convey is they brought on this guy to help push him out. so gerald ford took the job. it is an honor but he certainly did not expect it to mean anything and it lead to anything. he thought this would be a nice sort of send off. i will do this and retire in 1

his vice president, spiro agnew, a very corrupt man, is about to have to be resigning to and void inan a year later, would drive him out of office. there is one item. there is a piece of paper, a record kept by a secretary of state, henry kissinger, that shows that during some point in this crisis i think it was the tenth or 11th of october, the british prime minister wanted to talk to nixon, and kissinger said to his aid, tell the prime minister, nixon can't talk. he's loaded. which meant that he is drunk. and nixon was a human being. and he was someone with great shortcomings in that way as well. >> nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. as always, michael, thank you. >> thank you. >> next, as air strikes hit gaza, why this conflict is so complex and so -- stay with us. stay with us ♪ tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time. ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish. ♪ before my doctor and i chose breztri for my cop

and in fact, he was on the verge of retiring when nixon lost, lost when nixon's vice president, spiro agnew, had to resign because of a scandal actually unrelated, to watergate per se. but it got swept up into the whole thing. and so nixon is looking someone, the republican party, looking for someone who's, honesty, devotion to the national cannot be questioned and probably part of this, but also a part of the appeal is. and who doesn't have obvious ambition is to be the next president of the united states, because it would be awkward to bring somebody on board. if you're richard nixon. because, by the way, so agnew is forced out at a time when watergate is becoming uncovered. it takes a long time between the the arrest of the burglars in june of 72 to the summer of 73, when the senate watergate hearings take place, and nixon finally resigns in the summer of 1974. so it's a slow moving scandal. and the last thing nixon needs and the last that he wants to convey is that he's brought on board. this guy is going to help push him out. and so gerald ford took the job. it's it's an honor. but he

you go back to an internship with spiro agnew. how is this different from 1967 and 1973? amb.ering from an acute lack of leadership. by a lot of people who forget that they were sent here not to represent themselves but to represent the country. you remember back in the british parliament in world war ii when the labour leader got up and said he was there to speak for the labor leader who was not around. a conservative mp said speaker england. we need people in washington speaking for americans. sadly, they are not. tom: to look back to the 2020 vision, how did we get here within the administration you served and recently, the trump administration? do we have these people and difficult events because we were off the watch one in three and five years ago? amb. bolton: i think we have failed to see what is happening in the middle east coherently for close to 20 years now. i think at the rid of it, the principal threat to peace and security today and for some years back has been iran. in the current circumstance they are the ones who armed and trained and equipped and financed ha