WATCH: Two former Watergate prosecutors explain what you need to know about Manafort violating plea deal

Two former Watergate prosecutors broke down the dynamics of all of Monday's breaking news on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Donald Trump during an appearance on MSNBC's "All In" with Chris Hayes.

Jill Wine-Banks and Nick Ackerman both served as assistant special Watergate prosecutors on the team whose investigation into President Richard Nixon led him to be the only United States president to resign from office.

"I do think that there's something going on about a pardon," Wine-Banks noted.

"What [Paul] Manafort is doing, he thinks he can somehow beat this, that he's smarter than everyone else, but he's going away to jail for life," Ackerman explained. "That's it."

"I learned from both of you, Nixon was dangling pardons all over the place back in the day," Hayes noted. "And it was part of the obstruction case."

"It was," Wine-Banks noted.

"It's true," Ackerman agreed. "And it's happening here."

"I said 18 months ago that there was a case for obstruction and I believe it's only gotten stronger with each passing day," Wine-Banks added.

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