mcdougal in both of those instances prosecutor alvin bragg sai today that the book keepin around those payments, the payment of the door man, the payment to karen mcdougal, resulted in false business statements being made on the books of the parent compan that owns the national enquirer now, that ends up bein important to all of ou understanding here into th eventual fate of donald trum because that factor ends u being important to the crimes, the alleged crimes, bein charged against trump as felonies the contention from prosecutor today, which we did not know was coming in this exact way the contention from prosecutor today is that this overall scheme was a violation of ne york election law, because new york election law makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. and what prosecutors said toda is that part of the unlawful means alleged here is that thi company paid all these people with weirx storie about donald trump and the recorded it in their busines records like they were buyin post-it notes or something they are saying that was a crime, that is why this was an overall criminal scheme unde new york law, that is why thes false business records tha trump oversaw and insisted upo can be charged as felonies that is why at least theoretically he should be facing jail time but, back to the scheme. first, we have the payoff to keep the dormant quiet then we have the tape payoff t keep karen mcdougal quiet, prosecutors say that there was -- keep quiet that of course, was stormy daniels, america sweetheart. as product secures laid out by this point in the scheme, th