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Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer appeared on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Tuesday night for a lengthy interview about the current financial crisis and the bank bailouts, as well as his reasons for stepping down from office amidst the escort scandal and any he regrets he may have.
Spitzer had some pointed criticism for the way the Obama administration has been handling the bank bailouts. When Spitzer was attorney general of New York, he prosecuted AIG and other Wall Street banks, and Maddow asked him if he saw a connection between those prosecutions and what led to the current crisis…
In part two of the interview, Spitzer discussed why he resigned the governorship when the escort scandal erupted (it was what was right for the state and his family), as well as answering Maddow’s blunt question: “Do you believe prostitution should be legal?” Spitzer’s first answer was “No, these are not victimless crimes,” but then he demurred, saying “perhaps I’m not the right person to pass judgment at this time.” It should be noted that while prostitution is illegal, no charges were ever filed against Spitzer.
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