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- He was brash. Politically incorrect. An “outsider” political candidate who rose to the White House, out of nowhere, with a reputation as a “counter-puncher.” But Vice President Spiro Agnew was also something else… an active criminal whose secrets were about to be exposed. What happens when a “counter-puncher” in the White House suddenly sees his political future directly threatened by investigators inside his own Justice Department?
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Bag Man Podcast - Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Just shows if you don't learn from history you're destined to repeat it
Some people have learned from history and are TRYING to repeat it without getting caught. You know, the ones who think they are smarter than everyone else and can get away with it. lol
It just goes to show that Republicans are still corrupt hypocrites.
The TrumpRegime is very much like Nixon with donald himself as Agnew. It’s just about signing stuff, putting his ‘mark’ on something, anything, everything.
He doesn’t much care what.
The Republican Party has found their ‘enough digits to hold a pen’ guy.
The Republican Party has their ‘enough digits to hold a pen’.
WoW 🤯 This has never been more important..
Since Nixon, I've often wondered what the effect of Ford's pardon has been on American political history. How might the history of the presidency evolved if Nixon was sent to jail and if his principal cronies had spent even more time in jail? Imagine presidential history without Iran-Contra, the PNAC, or perhaps the Republican party as revived by Reagan? I'm certain that we certainly wouldn't be dealing with Trump today. In fact, i confess that I felt a degree of astonishment--not that Republican voters we so willing to forgive but how willing they were feverently wishing to forget the transgressions of the political machine that purportedly represented their interests. Watergate wasn't just about Nixon. Watergate implicated dozens of high ranking Republicans, and with his pardon, Ford implicated himself. Yet, 6 years later not just Republicans but a great majority of Americans almost gleefully allowed themselves to be covered with Reagan fairy dust (and in a truly despicable but entirely predictable fashion, Republicans cheated to win the 1980 race--demonstrating that this group of cretins had learned that the most important lesson of Watergate was not getting caught. In 1980, I confess, that if Christ himself floated down from heaven to run for president as a Republican, I was so disgusted by past GOP actions I would have voted for anyone but a Republican. Unfortunately, it would appear that Americans have the government that they deserve
Will Bunch had a book about Reagan mythmaking and mentioned that the main reason why Republicans fought Iran/Contra so hard wasn't that they thought that Reagan didn't do it, but that they "didn't want two two-term Republican Presidents in a row to go down for corruption." Their love of power has been damaging our country for decades.
Well said! Not too many people remember that Ronald Reagan and John Wayne (big conservative heroes) turned in many. of their fellow actors, screen writers, producers and directors over to the McCarthy House UnAmerican Activities hearings, without any valid proof, out of vindictiveness and the desire to climb to the top of the Hollywood elite No.surprise that most of these people accused, were Jewish.. Although none of these allegations were proven true, it destroyed so many lives. Gerald Ford was a weak, inept person and totally unsuited to the role of president.
In one interview, Trump said "I'm like Nixon, only I won't leave." He is certainly trying to live up to that.
I was 19 when I voted for Nixon/ Agnew and I knew nothing. I'm 65 now and I'm still learning but feel wiser. To all my younger sisters and brothers who are going to vote for their first President/ VP come 2020, you're lucky for the Internet so you can do alot more research in your choice. Have fun at it and good luck!
Am older than you are, loathed and despised both Nixon and Agnew without any internet access.
And the angry people is swarming the comment field. What's so wrong with a history lesson?
Excellent writing on this, everyone involved. Rachel's storytelling of political history is top-notch.
What an amazing story. Fits the present situation to a T. Only the name has changed.
"To a T." LOL The name changed to match the initial T! How sadly but perfectly fitting!
God Bless You Rachel Maddow. You are a pleasure to listen to and watch on TV. A breath of fresh air.
Stay on it Rachel - You're one of the few journalists who thoroughly researches your work. Love it :-)
Yes and the Russian trolls can't comprehend the truth.
@@colecurtis3546 calling all your opponents Russian trolls doesn't make them Russian trolls lol. Just shows how stupid you demonrats are
@@joshuas.686 Or how ignorant people who place their blind loyalty to a fraudulent elitist conman over the working class like yourself are. Keep letting your elite globalist (Trump's admitted to being a globalist-Breitbart Apr. 28 2017 article by Penny Star) love blind you from the truth about trump and show your ignorance to the world while you keep financing the corporate welfare out of your paycheck that trump doles out to his fellow elitist buddies on the backs of the working class.
@@yourenotforgotten5639 so what? The world's a shithole and if Trump wants to get involved in it, fine.
@@DaveSchultzXXL Then go somewhere else Dave! Your all over Rachel Maddow's TH-cam videos. Obsessed much? BTW, you sound a little....crazy!!
Wow!!!! What a Parrallel to him.
Okay, we gotta go listen to "Episode 2, of Rachel Maddow Presents Bag man Podcast." 🏃♂️🏃♀️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♀️
I'm Canadian, I was born in 1963. My Dad has always been very up on what's going on in the US. He was a pilot on Canada's only aircraft carrier, Bonaventure, Bonnie to her friends, and had spent a good two years in Pensacola Florida flying subkillers. So he knew a lot of Americans, worked with a lot of American Navy people. He has always been very interested in American history, my love of history comes from him.
So when the movie "All The President's Men" cam out he hauled my brother and I out to see it. I was probably 14 and my (much smarter) brother would have been 13. I at this point devoured westerns, fantasy, scifi, British mystery...to say I was an avid reader was like saying the Atlantic was a bit damp. But I read NOTHING about the current political situation, I barely knew anything about Canadian politics, never mind American politics.
We knew something HUGE had happened, something OTHER. So my brother and I went along to the movie, willing to sit through it. And I discovered that even though it had no spaceships, dragons, sorcerers, swords, impossible quests or British detectives, it was still amazing!!! It was about PEOPLE, people who had been dumped on from a great height by the powerful. It was about the hard, grinding slog that journalists have to go through every day, just on the off chance that a little rumor might turn into a monster story. Later I found my Dad's copy of the book. A HUGE book, with NO hedge witches, no warriors, no dragons, no urchin boys who are really the long lost heirs to magical kingdoms, no cowboys, no horses, no detectives!
And I picked up this monstrous tome, and got stuck in. My little unused brain went gaga over it, because I knew that what was happening was criminal!!!! The people who were in charge of making sure that the US of A was an honest, law abiding democracy, the very people in charge of protecting the Constitution and the Declaration, had become criminals. I was APPALLED!! It mattered to me intensely. I was 14/15, just waking up to the fact that all the things that I had just ASSUMED to be true were solidly true...but now I realized that there were people in this world who were utterly corrupt and arrogant about it.
It's happening again, in MUCH larger scale, with much more at stake.
It is indeed. "to say I was an avid reader was like saying the Atlantic was a bit damp." You had me with that line. My parents inflicted the 'curse' of reading on all four of us kids, and I certainly passed it on to my own daughter. When I die it will likely be because the bookshelves above my bed collapse on me. ;-) I'm also a historian, and have long ago learned the lesson that what has actually happened historically is far weirder than fiction. What the actual historical characters did (and are still doing) are things that no fiction writer would ever try to get away with. As my late Mother put it, what's been happening these last few years is like Tom Clancy and Hunter Thompson co-wrote a novel while on acid......
All the President's Men was a great movie, indeed although it's a pity that nowadays with many hit movies being fictional with plenty of CGI effects there aren't many that focus on key historical events that are enjoyable. I can only think of two movies that fit that category; "All the President's Men" and "The Post" both are set in the late 60s-early 70s "All the President's Men" focusing on Watergate and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein trying to get the best obtainable version of the truth about Watergate and "The Post" focusing on the Washington Post's dilemma on wether to publish "The Pentagon Papers" or not.
@Sandra Nelson
Three years has gone by since you wrote this comment, but I'm only listening to Bag Man now and thus only reading your wonderful comment. Not only are you an avid reader, but you are a very good writer.
Thank you for sharing. I'm enjoying hearing about Agnew again as I was a teenager at the time and not paying close attention to Agnew's antics. Afterall, growing up in the 60s and 70s gave us a huge amount of political turmoil to digest lol! I know I didn't like Nixon or Agnew and my father was a firm Democrat and union man, and he managed to pass on those ideals even if I wasn't paying very close attention. I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your comment which apparently inspired me to do some sharing myself lol.
I hope all is well with you and wish you a lovely evening Sandra!
Rachel & her Team are the open window of fresh air countering the putrid environment that billows from the Trump White House.
WOW !!! That WAS the way it was then !!!
But here we are now, Nov.13, 2022, and with the election over and Blue Wave having blown in and drowning the red tide, that same Trhump is now facing criminal indictment for some 10 smoking guns he's been caught carrying, and this very minute refusing to comply with a Federal subpoena, leave alone the likely ensuing arrests he will be enduring right at his door !!! In any event, Trhump's done for, politically !!!
This is our sister here , respect and love for maddow .
Who to thank for this treat?! THANK YOU. Interesting!!!
You are fabulous Rachel. We receive solely quality reporting from you and your team. Keep it up.
@sir robert really??!! You sure you wanna go there? Ha! You wish they had great reporting like this on Fox!!
Nice work. Congrats on the Peabody nomination!
this is the kind of professional commentary we need much more of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is really well-done. The writers, editors and Rachel -- you hit it out of the park. Again!
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Rachel Maddow is a great story teller and a wonderful narrator. Looking forward to the remaining 6 episodes. Fascinating!
Thanks for uploading MSNBC. Are these the full podcasts of each episode?
After listening to the whole series, I'm putting my final comment here at the beginning: this series of podcasts is so well researched, well written, informative and easy to listen to that a single word can encompass its substance. Captivating!
Buy the book. Hardback available since Dec 2020
Paperback coming Sept 2023.
I believe that Rachel Maddow is absolutely brilliant! 💖
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, like Walter Cronkite in his time, she is the most trusted journalist of these times. She does the work, the research, and makes it interesting and informative. Well done Rachel!
Thanks so much Rachel Maddow for your brilliance in making something that may have been quite boring...so very interesting! Well done, great series!
🦆 The Democrats and their Media lied to us About: - Iraq Afghanistan- Syria- Libya Weapons of Mass Destruction Vietnam- Iran-North Korea-Venezuela Guatemala-Honduras- Haiti- Cuba+ Panama-Nicaragua- But they’re telling the truth about Ukraine.
The Democrats lied about Trump being a Russian asset.
They don't teach that one in school!
Let's hope you can soon repeat this series with a new focus.
...and the closing music is awesome!!! You are the best, Rachel!
Riveting! Thank you, Rachael. Can't wait until you do the trump saga. Blessings.
When I first saw this- I saved it for a later date when I had time to really listen and absorb the information. Wow. History is scary and awesome.
Rachel , I am glad there is finally as up to date as far as I am on repuglikkklan crime . I am 78 years old about a week ago and I was really upset in 1967 when I voted for a repuglikkklan governor because the jerk claimed he was going to lower taxes . I was furious because they not only didn't lower taxes but actually raised them ... we still call him " nickel nunn . I would challenge you to find ANYTHING that repuglikkklans have ever done in their jurisdiction that has been legal . Ever since that day I have had every repuglikkklan under scrutiny ,
I remember those days. In a lot of ways, it was scarier than today. Thanks to intrepid journalists we got the stories. And excellent analysis.
It was scarier. I think it was the backdrop of Vietnam.
WOWZER!!! SLAMMIN'!! This is well worth giving up seeing you nightly! You were RIGHT to make this decision. THIS material is exceedingly relevant, timely, expository and NECESSARY right NOW!! Oh, THANK YOU RACHEL!!
The backstory and undertones of the Trump chronicles reminded me of 2 movies of intrigue. The Big Clock with Ray Milland and E.G. Robinson and No Way Out with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. Rachel's Bag Man just gave me deja vu.
Very cool and well done. Great music theme choice throughout.
Riveting presentation on our darkest history. Can't wait to hear the trump story. Thank you, Rachael and company.
This is very nearly the trump story with different names.
@@shawnresor5565 Exactly what I thought! Change a few names and you have the present day story
Wonderful exposition, can't wait to hear more! Really eye opening, I gotta add...
It beggars belief that people feel justified in throwing their staff and country under the bus to protect themselves. Even more when you consider some people actually like that kind of behaviour.
Thanks for sharing. This does fit what's going on today. But today the stakes are much higher and seems more dangerous.
The Whole "Bag Man" Podcast is worthy of a Pulitzer and/or Peabody. One of the best Podcasts of all time! Congratulations Rachel, what an investigative and historical work of Art - A Magnificent body of Journalism.
Apparently got nominated for a Peabody
I just found out about these podcasts after listening to her recent podcasts, "Ultra". All excellent. I was a very young teenager during this time and didn't pay much attention to politics, but I do remember that even I thought Nixon and Agnew were horrible even though my parents were avid Republicans. Her podcasts really make you wonder how long the Republican Party has been so corrupt!
Congrats!! Good work!
Really loved these videos! Awesome job Rachel!!
In 1973, I was in Saigon. I worked at CICV, Combined Intelligence Command Vietnam. Occasionally I found myself over at the airport, Tan Son Nhut. One day while walking pretty much near nothing on an empty "street" in the airport landscape, a limo approached. I knew who was in the back seat. Spiro. I knew because it had been announced he was dropping in. Now there I am, like something out of Hitchcocks' North By Northwest, nothing else around on this road, and here comes this single limo. I turned, facing it's right side, and there was Spiro in the back. I saluted. I made him salute me. I was a mere Spec 4. Off he and his driver went. I kept walking, rather amused and satisfied.
I wonder who was the “roger stone” of its time to Agnews. I wonder if the real roger stone and fred trump/family had anything to do with it.
Somebody's wife.
Roger Stone has a full size tattoo covering his back of Nixon's face.
Stone was a young man in the gop/republigoon party. He was there .
Yes!! Kudos for you MSNBC i wanted to check this podcast but i dont have a iphone and dont want to search through and download stupid apps to listen...awesome!
Great stuff, thanks, many of the younger listeners will not of heard of Spiro. Does mad VP Pence listen to this ? Great job by the Maryland prosecutors and journalists.
Awesome awesome awesome!
I just finished listening to the entire series of Bagman, in one sitting. Absolutely mesmerizing!. And proves that trump does not have an original bone in his body, he is just Agnew 2.0 Thank you so much for the amazing research done for this.
A lot of hard work bled for this; honed by incredible talent that makes it all flow with apparent effortless ease. The emotions and scars of those that take down the giants are often lost to time; it was a beautiful Herculean labor for them to be given voice and remembrance here. Should predicate a staple/standard for all Government/History classes. Outstanding work. Masterfully well done; both by the 'now' and the 'then' of this circular, rootless, forever, brave endeavor, of a reality that ever lingers, and never truly fades away. History teaches us that the 'good guys' seldom win; but fight to the last, to persevere in the need, for the ones who come after. Who pick from their corpses; the few spoils won. And fight on.
Just wish that we could have watched you produce this epoch story, Rachel! It would have had that much more PUNCH! You Go Girl!
History repeating itself. great Podcast
i remember the nattering nabobs of negativism, which, i think, was written for him by pat buchanan.
Try not to laugh. I am being absolutely honest. I had heard of Spiro Agnew, but I thought it was a type of fungus. I know, I feel really dumb now. I'm catching up.
Bag Man is an excellent podcast that I much enjoyed.
Just an amazing podcast...really impressed. So glad you decided to go into this field Rachael!! Good high level stuff.
Incredible accomplishment in journalism. Thank you.
Thanks for this! Very relevant to present day events.
Lol..well must admit was a little taken aback by some of the "views" posted by some folks. But...guess if you're obviously instinctively, if not acknowledging it, aware you're in constant defence mode against the plain black & white of REAL facts...well, lol..keep on fighting those windmills in your mind. For the rest of us, much appreciation Rachel for your diligent, extremely relevant and detailed delving into this political historical tale. As the wise saying goes; those whom do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Kudos on an excellent job👍🏼
I freaking love your work. Thank you for teaching.
This is absolutely the best podcast ever produced. I want more. Rachael Maddow is a national treasure.
This is a great great story/history lesson. As always Rachel is a great teacher. So amazing it took me this long to heat about this podcast. This is Where Trumps ideas come from.
Agnew is a boring subject... man was useless.
Safire wrote for him...
Agnew avoided jail... Safire wrote his crap...
You make me happy. Thanks Rachel. You're a champion of contextual thought. You are very Loved. And YAY! Bag Man!
Can't wait to get home from work to listen to part 2. Great job!
Love your work, Rachel!!!! This is terrific!!!
A little piece of history repeating..
This is a great podcast. If you like it you need to listen to her new podcast Ultra
I've listened to this entire podcast series about five times and absolutely love it. Rachel and Mike did a fantastic job. I had no idea what the real scoop was with Agnew as I was a kid at the time he was in office This puts a who new light on 1970s politics and the fact that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
🦆 Censorship Loving MSNBC and their veiwers say Democrat Joe Biden and family and his Democrat 'cronies' are 'protected species'. Don't push back too much by exposing their lies or you will end being Censored. 🦆 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s covert propaganda program to manipulate the mainstream media and the American people through the use of numerous assets who. RFK Jr. brought it up during an interview with Lex Fridman who was completely clueless. It’s funny how Alex Jones keeps getting proved correct, more and more. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story. It’s time to stop defunding the police and to start defunding the CIA, DOJ and FBI. Are you President Trump. It should be his first act when he’s re-elected in 2024.
I’m late but I made it!!!! I love Rachael
Just listening to this podcast for the first time. Holy Cow! Eerily familiar. Too familiar!!! Can't wait to listen to all these podcasts.
Listening to this 2 years later is so stunning and not that stunning at the same time, history is repeating itself again.
Nixon didn't even know Agnew....let me guess?? They had the Birthday 🎂 # 9 Is that why slicky, tricky Dicky pick him as running mate?? No! No!! No!!! It takes a Crook to know a Crook!!
I never realized how long a week could be... until I began listening to the podcast and now I can't hardly stand to wait a full week to hear each new episode. Rachel's storytelling is top notch.
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So glad you’re back Rachel! Missed you so much
Rachel always gives us a history lesson that helps us understand what is happening today. Thank you Rachel!!! This is riveting.
I would have loved to seen video. But I still love Rachel.
I look forward to more of this! Rachel you are absolutely amazing. Thank you.
I especially love Rachel’s lies … her lies are the epitome of what a garden variety leftist is all about.
@@bidenwearsdiapers4026 especially since leftist like Amber Andrews makes claims they are conservatives when in reality their commies….what a liar.
Omg another Q! Witch hunt! Lies! If it wasn't for journalists this country would be Russia #2! Love our free press! The only thing keeping us from authoritarians
😍😍😍 I'm actually dying after 0:17 because Rachel just started speaking... marry me Rachel!!!
Ok, I will listen seriously, because this is serious business. And Rachel 😍😍😍 is a serious person. And smart. And she looks soo cool. And smart. And did I mention; smart? 😍😍😍 ahhhhh
More Maddow brilliance!
Thanks, Rachel 💯
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put Rachel Maddow on her OWN channel. It is impossible to follow her on TH-cam. She is in a mix of people I don't want to watch on MSNBC. Then there is side channels that have her but there quality is not always best. 😟
Laura if you go to MSNBC "home" on youtube, her videos are all grouped there under the heading "The Rachel Maddow Show" and you can see the playlist of them by themselves!
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
I was just a preteen when Agnew and Nixon came on. I didn't know the story. Knew he'd resigned over some corruption stuff. Thanks for telling the story.
So... he built that house, and was surprised when it fell on him? Any way you take it, this is an impressive mini-doc. (Applause)👌
Oh how well I remember all of this. Agnew referring to the press as “Those nattering nabobs of negativity “. I had a horrible argument with my dad over the meaning of impeachment. This is how our country wound up with a President we didn’t elect to replace another criminal in the White House. Now it seems that we have repeating history in many ways. We never learn. Is it a coincidence that both criminal Presidents were Republicans?
Great podcast. Brought out things I did not know. It was so much worse than we knew it was.
I'm late to the party, but "this is some heavy $#!+" We MUST change the laws for ALL CRIMINAL POLITICIANS, ESPECIALLY THE PRESIDENT/VICE PRESIDENT!!! Totally disgusting that elected officials subvert the law and just walk away! REALLY!!!!!!!
Agnew's voice sounds eerily like that of Mike Pence. The resemblance is uncanny. Pence's pace is more ponderous and his language is less imaginative - but if Pence were to recite one of Agnew's speeches, it would be hard to tell their voices apart. Weird.
Excellent observation!
First time listening to this..Fabulous! Thank you for the historical info! I always enjoy your newscasts as well!
Ive listened to this series of podcasts several times. Very well done!
My father was Richard Nixon's chauffeur..
Bagman : The podcasts are positively very,very excellent!!
To hear the voices of the people that participated was amazing.
And the book was perfectly executed as well!!
WOW!
Trump graduated from Nixon/Agnew University...
No, I don't see it....you only have to compare Agnew's '69 smooth, articulate press attack to Trump's one syllable misspelt tweets. Scalpel v scythe, or rather, Drano. Broad-stroke, ideological brethren maybe (but Trump wouldn't know what that meant). Love you Rach, but little comfort I fear.
Sadly…all Americans should know about Agnew, and him and Nixon should have been indicted and charged.
Think of the damage done when the norm became politicians, if high enough up, are effectively above the law.
Elections can get the out of office, but rule of law means just that…law is paramount.
Great podcast! Well done Rachel
The similarities between Agnew and Trump are illuminating. The entire Republican Party are in cahoots.
Good job Rachel...
Great content and style, Rachel and Mike. It's relevant, factual, and easy to listen to and understand. (The proofreader in me caught a couple of common language missteps. Please let me know if I can ever help with that.)
I wonder what who, if any, the “roger stone” of it’s time to agnews. I wonder if young stone had any role in this.
The cool thing is. We're all going to get to see dumped T dumb D wearing handcuffs on our TV's.
Sooner or later; they ( Republican Party) will have to cut T off & let him fend for himself. He weighs down the party and is a serial liar. The crazy part is, I’d love to join back the Republican Party but not with trump.
@@christopherryan697 I'm a registered Republican
I'd like to see the curtain pulled back on all corrupt presidents and their enablers throughout history. Also, I'd like to see the putrification process of those who start out clean, climbing up the political ladder, and end up just as dirty as the rest. It's a dirty blood sport, politics.
I barely remember any of this. I remember he was in deep s**t but not what for.
Feeling kind Smart today ...🤓😉