unprecedented now, for the first time in american history, a former president convicted for his criminal behavior while still serving as presumptive republican nominee for president. donald trump calls the verdict rigged and himself, quote, a political prisoner. newsbreak, he is not in prison. maga outrage, trump allies including the house speaker and several potential vice presidential candidates are blasting the verdict and unleashing dangerous rhetoric against the justice system and our democracy itself. but no one is above the law. president biden warns the attacks are reckless and irresponsible while trying to keep his campaign focused on issues important to voters. we will talk about it all, the prosecution and the politics with congresswoman maxine waters of california and politics nation host, the reverend al sharpton. nbc analysts and prosecutor. i m jonathan kay part, this is the saturday show. historic victory for american justice, accountability and the rule of la
unprecedented moment. for the first time in american history, a former president has been convicted for his criminal behavior while still serving as the presumptive republican nominee for president. donald trump calls the verdict rigged and himself, quote, a political prisoner. news break. he s not in prison. maga outrage. trump s allies including the house speaker and several potential republican vice presidential candidates are blasting the verdict and unleashing dangerous rhetoric against the justice system and our democracy itself. but, no one is above the law. president biden warns these attacks are reckless and irresponsible while trying to keep his campaign focus on issues important to voters. we ll talk about it all. the prosecution, and the politics. with congresswoman maxine waters of california and the reverend al sharpton. plus, michelle goldburg and tim miller. i m jonathan capehart an this is the saturday show. and, an historic victory for american justice,
in georgia and a black judge in washington that will sit on the federal cases had it not been for dr. king and jesse jackson, and maxine waters. i m proud we are in the system and will make it work. that is why, i had the central park five on my show saying, it did not work for me, let s make it work for everybody fairly. we can go down to the court in march, go in front of the gaggle of microphones because that is what they wanted, to say it was us forcing it. we let a jury hear the evidence , as congressman waters said, stormy stood up, the song, call it stormy monday but tuesday is just as bad. congresswoman waters, your name invoked several times, we will give you the last word, what do you think? let me say that when i tweeted about trump talking
striking to me. because had it not been for the civil voting rights movement, we would not be talking about reform. you would not have a black manhattan da that prosecuted this. and we wouldn t have had a black woman da in georgia. and a black judge in washington that will sit on the federal cases. had it not been for dr. king and jesse jackson. and maxine waters. so i m proud that we are in the system. and we will make it work. and that is why i just had one of the central park five on my show. saying that it didn t work for me. now let s make it work for everybody fairly. that s why we didn t go down to the court march. we didn t go down and go in front of the gaggle of mics. because that s what they wanted. to say it was us that was forcing it. we let a jury hear the evidence. as congresswoman waters said, stormy stood up. call it stormy monday, but fuse