good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
has committed crimes but he di what roy - the notorious lawyer from th mccarthy area taught him, neve acknowledge any wrongdoing always accuse law enforcemen of being corrupt and dishonest and press on he s been very successful at i until. now i think that whole game is at an end. let s talk about, that yo say he s committed crimes. you ve written about this. but in fact in our justice system, unless you are charged and convicted of committing a, crime donald trump will tell you he hasn t committed any. in fact, he still says h hasn t and as of this moment under the way our law works he has never been commit convicte of committing a crime. well he - let me back, up until you ar convicted your presumed to b innocent that is actually correct that doesn t mean that you didn t commit crimes it means law enforcement didn charge you and, remember the vast majorit of crimes in this country ar
his own public comments hi grievances speeches that he giving at mar-a-lago - the one he gave after he was indicted, he acknowledge committing crimes. i mean, in the manhattan cray he does not deny the facts h just says that s not a crime right in the stolen nationa security documents he says, had a right to take them so the issues that are gonna face donald are not, did you commit these facts it is, where they crimes did you have criminal intent one of the interesting part about this is that money doe by certain degrees o protection when donald trump feels th heat coming he replaces hi lawyers. he s got this new guy handling this particular, one i m sure don t know what they cost per, hour about the lots and lots o money. that does work in his favor. yes, absolutely he gets all the defense that h can afford it was interesting that his ne lawyer, the hope gets paid
because donald has a lon history of sniffing his lawyer including rudy giuliani. he told the small group that was outside the courthouse tha no one but donald trump woul be charged with the crimes tha alvin bragg has brought. well, gee, i think there was a guy named michael cohen wh went to prison for the sam crimes you have made an interestin point, white collar crime, it often thought about as a victimless, not the same a street crime which is violent. there are estimates out ther from business insiders, lowball estimates of white collar crimes. places damages at 300 billio dollars annually compared to the 16 billion dollars tha street crime costs you ve actually suggested that law enforcement should redirec efforts away from non violen crime into white collar crime. why? well, the white collar crim in america causes vastly mor damage than street crime, we