justice samuel alito - and no one else there s no other birthdays o that day [laughter thank, you my friend thank you and thank you at-home for joining us this. our i m happy to have you here i know it is weird to have m here on a thursday, like i was last night, and now and friday as i am tonight. i know that is unusual but your usual host at thi hour, the great alex wagner, i off on a family vacation thi week great week to choose, alex wagner and because she is a way, yo are stuck with me. i apologize, alex wagner we ll be back next week. but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. - believe you and i have all received copies of the statement that i read to the court, in open court as i said in that statement, the reason that i have changed my decision to fight thi matter is because i now believ it would be against th national interest and have a brutalizing effect on my family, that s had a long two-year struggle concerning this matte
tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagner s of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex we ll be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. gentlemen, i believe you ve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is because i do not believe it would be against the nationa interest and we have a brutalizing effect of my famil and is gone a through two-year struggle concerning this matter. you also may be aware that wha i said in open court, that i categorically and flatly den the assertions that were mad by the private prosecutors wit regard to their contentions of bribery and extortion on m part i will have nothing more to sa at this point. i will make an address to th nation within a few days and so the cri
they re going to do here they don t have to do that here it is unusual, though, in my these false business records counts withou an overarching, you know usually, felony. usually, some type of larcen scheme, or scheme to defraud or some sort of conspiracy the business record counts are sort of part of those larger counts so, we will all have to see, w are all speculating what doe that second crime, you know, a election type crime? is it something else we won t know until th indictment is unsealed let me ask you about on other aspect of this i was struck, the new york times has a justic correspondent named charli savage who is smart, and see around corners a lot of times. i ve followed his work for a long time. one of the things that h contended and got expert advic from, got expert advice on today in the times, the idea that, even though this is th
felonies among a larger number of charges that aren t felonies what would you expect in terms of the kind of timeline for trial like this to spool out so, i had quite a number of these trials, the da s offic brings these counts all th time what i tend to see, i don know if we will see it in this case, there will be some overarching, either conspiracy count, or a scheme to defrau count, and the individual fals business record counts would b part and parcel of those large counts i don t know if that is what they re going to do here they don t have to do that here it is unusual, though, in my experience, to see these false business records counts withou an overarching, you know usually, felony. usually, some type of larcen scheme, or scheme to defraud or some sort of conspiracy the business record counts are sort of part of those larger