they were doing a big swing and big stuff. and mr. pomeranz said that on mbs nbc. he didn t have the day here. what we might call a winnable moderate style case. it doesn t throw the entire kitchen sink of what trump might have done in new york. it doesn t even deeply pull in the indicted trump organization, which some lawyers would be tempted to try, but with the cfo weisselberg not testifying against him and the defense witness to say you know how trump org is, we went rogue, that s not really a thing they wanted to do they didn t do it on conspiracy, and they did it s great i highlighted the moment we got this news today, tax purposes, right? and you mentioned it earlier, rachel, there s a lot of evidence all around donald trump
so even if there s an attack on one or two of them particularly the state crimes of tax fraud and the ami false statement charge seem very solid it seems very hard to imagine a motion to dismiss that s going to knock out all of that and reduce all the charges to misdemeanors and it doesn t mean when you describe, andrew, the district attorney as having laid out a lot of different paths by which he can get to a felony, sometimes like when you see that in a movie script or something you think, oh, they ve given you a whole bunch of different options because they don t have one good strong one, but in this case you re saying that s not a sign of weakness but strength because even if one gets knocked out they ve still got other means. obviously if you have a really weak one you don t want to do that and have it sort of taint the other ones if you have four really good options, lay them all out. the defense is entitled to make motions, and you never know what
americans trust in our elections. we hear that tonight it s now an effort to undercut americans trust in the justice system. when he talked about the district attorney of manhattan, district attorney alvin bragg, tonight he said, quote, the criminal is the district attorney, he should resign talking about the judge overseeing this case he said, quote, this is where we are right now. this is the same play book we ve seen over the course of the eight years. and every single one of the individuals sent to investigate him, sent to prosecute him, or judges overseen various cases he s gone to this idea and concept there s a witch hunt here but he also took on fani willis, the fulton county district attorney, suggesting he s doing whatever she can to indict him called letitia jamess a racist, jack smith, called him a lunatic. for donald trump the words he says from these stages they do