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
justice clarence thomas where he writes, quote, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this court s substantive due process precedents, including griswold, lawrence, and obergefell. he is talking about reconsidering decisions on gay rights and the right to contraception. joining me now inside the growing protests, nbc s julia ainsley. josh letterman is at the white house where the president just spoke and barbara mcquaid former u.s. attorney and msnbc analyst. julia, i ve watched the crowd grow bigger by the minute. what is it like there and what is the mood? what are people telling you? reporter: well, here, chris, if you saw that, what we got from the leak just a few weeks ago would take any steam or pressure off this situation when the final decision came you would be wrong. i was there that day. it is even more fraught today. we re seeing a lot of intense emotions. some women are crying. people who had an abortion and some people who feel directly, personally viol
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!