Madcow:
"you have to wonder if the justice department is considering whether there is some political solution to this criminal problem; whether part of the issue here is not just that Trump has "committed crimes," but that Trump has "committed crimes" and plans on being back in the White House, do they consider as part of a potential plea, offer something that would prescribe him... proscribe him from from running for office again? I don't know..."
O'Donnell then mansplains to Madcow:
"I would imagine if anything like that happened that it would have to come from the defense side of the negotiation, that the that the Trump team would would say
"oh by the way, and with this we will also, you know, drop out of the uh the race for president," otherwise it would put the justice department in this position that Donald Trump claims they're in...."