the west coast, 3 am in the, east i m ali velshi you re watching msnbc s indictment of donald trump, in just a few, hours americans will be waking up to this front page for th new york times, the head lin reads quote, the first e president to face criminal charges. trump indictment going acros the top manner on thursday, an unprecedente move and grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president donald trump, part o manhattan district attorne alvin bragg s investigatio into a hush money payment, mad to the adult film star storm daniels back in 2016 as of right, now we do not kno what specific crime or crime the vice president s bee charged with, but we shoul know more on tuesday, when i going to one of trump s lawyers, he s expected to be arraigned. and we do know that alvin bragg, i ve been focusing on a felony charge of falsifying busines records which carries a maximu prison sentence of four year we will forget the possibl prison sentence, here s what w can come e
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ask not what your country ca do for you mr. gorbachev teared down this wall states criminal indictment of former president of the united states good evening and thank you for being with us here tonight i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york along with lawrence o donnel and joy reid, and nicole wallace, and chris hayes we are going to be joined by more of our closest colleagues over the course of this evenin tonight, as part of the specia coverage we know that you have ever choice in the world tonight as to where to get your news abou this historic event. that makes us all the more grateful that you are here together with us tonight. so, here is how it works just got the transcripts we know exactly how it went. the clerk. calendar number one, indictmen 71543 of 2023, people of the state of new york versus donal j trump. appearances. prosecutor, christophe conwright for the people, your honor. and judge, with me are kathryn mccaw, matthew cullen julio, steve
i want them now. hannity and tonight album brags while crowning t political show trial is almost over. the closing arguments are in the bookris arguments, and soon 12 jurors selected from one of the most anti trump districts in theanti entire country. they will decide the fate of donaltr d trump pending appeal. now, today, the prosecution asked jurors to throw caution to the wind, convict the former president of a crimer that they were never able to explain, let alone prove it. le tn in fact, bragg wants the y to hand down 34 felony convictionyut 3s. based on what we have been h saying from the beginning. the l theory surroundingding a a misdemeanor document labeling allegation well past l the statute of limitationsab upcharge to a felony because of this mysterious election lawr violation that was never charged or prosecuteio d evere in a anywhere in america. and this entire convolutedme ca relies on one witness, a convicted liarconvic, admitted liar, disbarred lawyer by th
made that the district attorne bag has a better prosecution o the facts then the feds do because he alone has the business records crime that is not a federal crime. that is not something that the would be able to bring in th southern district. so, it is tricky if michael cohen was a full an open, total disclosure cooperator in the southern district - still decided not to go forward, i don t get to, but i do understand why we are where we are now with bragg can we also make the note that this office, this da office, prosecute this - all the time there s one sense in which the goose news about this is thi is a mundane business record crime that is not uncommon and it is not uncommon from this prosecutor so, his most recent victor against trump llc s make up the trum corporation was about business