Bag Man The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

Well, maybe what might be even more apt, another book that you wrote, Bag Man, correct me if I'm wrong, is the Spiro Agnew, there was a deal offered him that may or may not potentially be a precedent for what could shape the possible conclusion of any sort of Trump sentencing.

She'll be talking to Lovett a little bit later.

She is the host of the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC and co author of the new book, Bag Man, the wild crimes audacious cover up and spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House. A new book out December 8th.

I want to start by just I want to talk about the book. I want to talk about what it means for this moment. But I just want to start by asking you how you're doing because, you know, you spoke on your show in a way that was so much more personal than we'd ever heard you speak before about COVID and how it had impacted your family.

I loved the bagman podcast. It was one of my favorite podcasts, one of the great docuseries podcast, I loved it. And I learned a lot about it. And you know, and I was shocked by just how corrupt Spiro Agnew was, and just how much how many parallels there are to this moment.

The movie we know is based on her other book and podcast Bagman about a 1970s political bribery scandal is going to be directed by Ben Stiller she is going to serve as executive producer so that's the movie project

The movie we know is based on her other book and podcast Bagman about a 1970s political bribery scandal is going to be directed by Ben Stiller she is going to serve as executive producer

The movie we know is based on her other book and podcast Bagman about a 1970s political bribery scandal is going to be directed by Ben Stiller she is going to serve as executive producer

Can you talk about what's happening with that?

Yeah. Which is much more political than what you've done before.

Yeah, I mean, I was really taken with that podcast and I didn't really know the story about Agnew and how he had to resign and the assistant US attorneys who were really responsible for making that happen.

And so I listened to the podcast, I was really moving and I thought, oh wow, this is a story I'd love to try to tell as a movie.

So I reached out to Rachel and Mike Yarovitz and it's been a couple of years, but now we're finally about to make the movie. We're about to start shooting the movie.

It's called Bag Manned, the wild crimes, audacious cover-up and spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House.

It's a fascinating story and one that until now has been overshadowed by the scandals of Agnew's boss Richard Nixon.

Bag Man, the wild crimes audacious cover-up and spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House.

The story of Spiro Agnew and his corruption kind of got overshadowed by the corruption of that other guy, Richard Nixon.

I'm on the back of the book and as I told you before we started recording, I don't think there is any other book in the Library of Congress that has on the cover and the back the names Rachel Maddow, Preet Bharara and Ben Stiller.