undemocratic than putting your political opponent in prison. the american people voted to put trump in power. then they voted to take that power away. and that s how things work in america. now that trump is running again a filthy d.a. rah sass sinating your right to vote. what s the crime? the indictment says under new york state law is a felony to falsify business records. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct coldcock an asian lady not serious. push into the subway not serious. make a error in a general ledger serious conduct. the thousands of businesses that put things in the wrong ledger don t they have to worry? no, why. because their owners aren t running for president. how is trump going to get a fair trial in new york? how can you going to pick a jury in how many jurors have no opinion on donald trump? who the is jury foreman rachel maddow. bragg doesn t understand this case he can t explain it. he says trump broke election law he did not put the
going to make comments on this later this evening. we don t know what form, whether he will answer questions, make a speech a combination of it. he s going to speak, a judge did not issue a gag order on any of this but advised him to watch his social media use. ahead of hearing from alvin bragg, and that could happen any minute, i do want to go to bryan llenas right now with what went down in there. again, courtesy, jake gibson as well in the courtroom to find out exactly what transpired. bryan? neil, yeah, we begin on the indictment. what we now know before d.a. alvin bragg speaks is that these are 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in new york. in the indictment, the first line reads, the defendant donald trump repeatedly and fraud leaptedly falsified new york business records to conceal criminal conduct that had damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. those are the counts that it goes on and on at this point. we
maddow and joy and myself. the whole gang will be back at 8:00 for special coverage, our whole primetime lineup of colleagues much more tonight starting at 8:00, but right now it s time to sit down with another bucket of popcorn or whatever you re having because it s time for the beat. hi, nicolle will see you at 8:00 p.m right now we re reporting on arraignment of former president donald trump stepped into court, took his seat to make his first appearance as a defendant in a criminal case. this is what that moment looked like this is here the photo right before the arraignment officially began and the news photographers then left the room a standard practice that trump s lawye lawyers asked to maintain today. meaning these are the photos donald trump did not want to world to see trump appeared at times somewhat sullen flanked by his expanded legal team he went on to plead not guilty today. he was watched over, as you can see here, by court officers, who are there not to p
in case i rudely interrupt any of the great minds assembled to talk with us, in a matter of minutes, alvin bragg is expected to address this newly unveiled indictment, indicting donald j. trump. this is thfirst time we ve heard from him since trump turned himself in this afternoon. while we wait, a lot is happening at this moment, including developments in the last few minutes we now have our hands on the actual indictment. it s a doozy it s just been unsealed. people are still going through it, processing it, and it s been made public. you can read along with us if you want to. importantly it includes 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election we understand, thank to our nbc news colleagues, there s a courtroom with trump himself, in his own voice, pleaded not guilty today the former president is on his way to laguardia airport, he s going to fly for mar-a-lago, blah, blah, blah purchasers shared a number of examples of o
The arguments in this criminal trial of donald trump, the firstever for a first president. Michael cohen was on the stand. We saw the team both rest. And we saw the Defense Witnesses stumble. New ba grueling three days. The defense has called their first witness. After yesterdays fireworks. Tossed and his testimony was almost stricken from the record. The defense has rested its case after calling two witnesses. Donald trump did not testify in his own defense. That is how it went down. Michael cohens cross was not all smooth sailing. He was saying that he himself stole from the organization. Prosecutors got their turn with cohen on redirect where they basically said, were you too busy . And he said, he was not. The point was that it mattered and he got the confirmation and the prosecutors are going to continue to turn the jury. To look about wire we are hearing from you. Not because he is a model citizen, because he was the person that was picked to be involved in all this stuff. He is