good morning, it saturday apri 1st. i am ali velshi, this week marked another inflection poin from the state of th democracy. donald, trump the rookie politician who somehow made it into the white house with zero political experience, only t be disgraced as the firs president to be impeached twic while in office. it is now the first current or former president to be criminally indicted in u.s history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud, that s classified a misdemeanors and the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge stemming from the manhatta district attorney, alvin bragg s investigation of the former presidents role in th hush money payments made to th former adult film actress, stormy daniels with whom he allegedly had a affair, donald trump denie that there wasn t a fair and any interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday, daniel sa
next year, this is what we wil be doing but remember, this month, tw big cases are going to trial now, we cited the e. jea carroll case guess what that s a rape case it s not a case about e. jea carroll, it s a case about rape. and then trashing the woma after rape and that is not helpful. if you want to pick a jury dow the road, it s not helpful tha you ve been accused of rape. so, that affects the jury pool in this case, because they r both in manhattan. and of course, there will be s much national press, no matter where it is. the other case that s going to trial this month is th dominion suit. now, the president is not party in the dominion suit, bu fundamentally, the dominio suit says that president los the election and it was all bs okay, that doesn t help him at all. so, those two cases are this month. and then we have all the other cases that he brought up all i can say about the othe cases is, come on in, th waters warm, you know? where in the pool. let s get going.
calling the investigatio politically motivated, attacking the prosecutor alvin bragg and throwing aroun allegations of electio interference politically, it s a messag that is working for him. but no trump has bee fundraising off the news of hi indictment and his campaig says it received more than $ million at new donations in th first 24 hours after the new and the indictment broke i m joined by paul butler, a former federal prosecutor an in msnbc legal analyst paula, good morning to you thank you for being with us. what do you make of everything that is happened since i kno you ve been covering this an you ve been on tv with us th last few days. but where we are, now we now know what donald trump s comin to manhattan, we know how this is going to proceed and we kno about the relentless attack by donald trump and republica supporters about the legal system and on alvin brag himself? so ali, this is not a political prosecution but it i a policy based prosecution brad matter of equal