new york state no matter who you are. the defendant held documents in his hand we cannot and will not normalize serious misconduct for nine straight months the defendantant repeatedly made false statements he also called others to make false statements we have a history in the manhattan d.a. s office of vigorously enforcing white collar crime that s manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg defending his prosecution of donald trump. we ll take you through the historic indictment and what s next in the case in just a moment meanwhile, the former president s allies in congress are rushing to his defense house speaker kevin mccarthy posting a warning for the d. a. and also ahead, a significant win for progressives in wisconsin that will flip the majority of that state s supreme court for the first time in over a decade good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. donald trump, the first pre
than what we typically hear at a trump rally, which is very much what this was in every other aspect he was much more subdued, much more humorless than we typically see him at these events and very much focused on-airing his grievances, airing the frustration that seemed to have been pent-up over the last several days here. now, all of the while we have seen his campaign sending out e-mails asking for donations, selling indictment swag. he s clearly trying to capitalize on this moment politically. and, look, as i talk to republicans when it comes to operative and when it comes to voters all across the board folks are frustrated, jonathan of course those who are in support of former president trump are frustrated for the obvious reasons. but even those who are in the aechbt trump camp who want to see the republican party move on from this, they re also frustrated because they do feel like this is going to help him
that in georgia, where the fulton county d.a. is moving ahead. the facts in that case are very ugly for trump, and they re on tape and i think the big cankahuna i this is jack smith and what he comes up with in the mar-a-lago documents and january 6th. it could be explosive. it could be huge we re going to have to get used to seeing a former president, essentially in legal custody and legal jeopardy because i think it s going to happen again and again. and an important point there. we should step back and recognize we did witness history yesterday and we might see it again soon in the weeks ahead.
records after prosecutors say he concocted a scheme to suppress negative stories about him in the weeks before the 2016 election if convicted, each charge carries a maximum of four years in prison, but legal experts say it s unlikely trump would serve any prison time. during the arraignment, which lasted for nearly an hour, trump stayed silent except to enter his plea into the record the judge also warned both sides against escalating violent rhetoric following a series of incendiary social media posts by trump targeting those involved in the case. speaking to reporters after the hearing the former president s lawyers down-played those posts. if you want to distort the facts, go right ahead. if he wants to swing a baseball hat at anyone s head that was a picture of him showing off an american made
he d serve any prison time a class b felony in new york generally has a term of one to four years and that s why people think it would be unlikely he would be jailed historic indictment and lots of questions remain. former litigator and msnbc legal analyst lisa ruben thank you so much. still ahead we ll have much more on the reaction and fallout following trump s arraignment plus a few other headlines, big ones liberals win control of wisconsin s supreme court in a closely watched election we ll go over the significance of that as well as the chicago mayor s race and we ve learned lawyers have been able to visit the wall street journal reporter detained in russia what the white house is now saying about the charges against him. those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. [ gasps ] nervous? i fear nothing. you wanna do this? it is on like donkey kong!