this in the future, i will hav to take a closer look. gag order, very hard especially for first amendment reasons. but you could be held in contempt of court. another smaller list today, they asked for him to not have to attend th hearing. the judge said no you. have to come and again if you don t come in new york they issue a benc warrant and people with guns from and repeating come ge you. that is what he had to be ther today. if you pretended that he s making this big trip but thi is all under compelled supervision of the court so i do think trump will continue to test this. georgia, there is an open case took out ten, so it is a littl different. but in new york if he goes too far, i sure his lawyers have warned him this. there are proceedings. you could be held in prison fo the day or longer. much more of our specia coverage of the ill rest and remit of former presiden today. alex wagner will join us whe we return. stay with us
what i will say is that believe for a couple of months, th investigation, in my view, it not concluded. the conduct, in particular that is the basis for th charges today. since that time we have ha more evidence made available t the office, an opportunity t be with additional witnesses so as i said earlier, i have been doing this for 24 years i don t bring cases prior to a thorough, rigorous investigation. now having done so, the case has been brought i do not bring cases prio to a thorough and rigorous investigation. but now having done so, th kiss has been dropped brought. i want to bring into our conversation our colleague cor malphurs, host of the beach, a msnbc chief legal correspondent, also with list throughout th night tonight, andrew weissmann,
sentencing hush money scheme to the two women, dorman guy isn t in there, but the two women mcdougal and america sweetheart, as you coined it there, th facts are not in dispute so when you see the lawyers, tacopino and the guy meant t sort of class at the legal team, you could just blur their face and replace them with cohen in 2016, with ruby during mueller with whoever defended amid impeachment one or impeachment to it is the same - in this case, the facts were established by his own executives and government. southern district of new york. the law is complicated. it is more complicated because it is not happening in the southern district of new york. that is the big sort of, the big hole in the middle of this whole thing, is that a guy wen into s t and wine pleaded with the facts that are here. and he did time for them there is a guy - - exactly. who is doing it. there is a person in division who shows up - but donald trump is a president, we know from jeffrey berman account,
this really still a tenuous case, isn t this a problem because this a legal issue in this case than a factual issue this is actually where i was impressed in terms of what was charged here because there s so many different ways in which the d.a. has laid out how he can get to a felony. he suggested in his oral remarks that one way is the federal campaign laws. another way is the state campaign laws. a third way is he talked about ami is showing false statements and this was in furtherance of those false statements and a fourth way was tax charges, exactly what you said laid out in, rachel, in terms of the scheme to have michael cohen commit tax fraud, which by the way is exactly the kind of thing that was alleged in the trump organization of the weisselberg case that just resulted in convictions in november. so those give the d.a. a lot of room
on this network on sunday, tha that could be a reason that yo didn t see the distric attorney really pushing for faster date. because it was quite some time and by the same token, you didn t see donald trump, if he was innocent, saying, i want a immediate trial. i have been on a case like that 20 years ago that old i was in a case with arthu anderson, where were, when w showed up the first day, are there anderson said, we want a speedy trial with a matter of speaking couple months, we were on cour on trial because they wanted to clear their name at that case so on the one hand, you didn t have donald trump saying you know what, i am innocent in th sense that i want to prove i to the public. on the other hand, it wa assigned to me that the da was not pushing for a faster trial meant they may have somethin else up their sleeve catherine, when you are looking at these discussions