stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
there will never be anything like fdr drive named after donald trump and his hometown. here s district attorney alvin bragg s description of donal trump s criminal conduct less than two weeks befor the presidential election, michael cohen wired $130,000 t stormy daniels lawyer. that payment was to hide damaging information from th voting public. the participants scheme wa illegal. the scheme violated new york election law, which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. the 130,000 dollar wire paymen exceeded the federal campaig contribution cap and the false statements i ami s books violated new yor law. that is why mr. trump need
are based on the payoff scheme that michael cohen was a part, of paying off stormy daniels there is nothing else in those counts except that scheme. did you expect any other criminal elements in thi indictment, other than the stormy daniels payoff scheme but no, since michael testified publicly to tens o millions of people, and starte that by saying he did donald trump s dirty deeds, he lied he did a lot of things he ashamed of, he was sorry and didn t expect forgiveness. now for his wife and his family, he was going to tell the truth and the first thing that i discovered the night we gave him what you would note in the congress, lawrence, as a murde board, which is to put a witness through some very toug questions. i asked him, where are the checks that you are written by the trump organization i didn t know the sittin president wrote checks
described as a plot. and i thought these sort o brilliance of the actual charging instrument and th factual statement, and you heard in the clip that you jus played from mr. brag, is tha the scheme is not about sex, it s not about, sort of, hus money payments, the scheme they really take the lens back to have people understand, why do we care why is this something that you care about and says that this is abou election fraud this was keeping information from the public. that is why they did this. and that sort of appears ove and over again as the scheme that s at the heart of this. and then he talks about all th different crimes that ar committed in furtherance o that but i think that s such a very good way of understanding wh the public should care and als ultimately why a jury should care, because they re basicall saying this is information you are entitled to know and if you go back to the time period, this was a time when o course, you know, you had a lo of allegations coming out i
indictment, but it s married t a narrative that is married to a scheme they don t need to charge th conspiracy because of th actual charges anticipate th scheme the da did a terrific job of why the public should carr bout this. the insidious nature of th attack on our electoral proces goes to the heart of why white-collar cases should be brought. these cases deal with instance where public trust is reached, and the other item that i thin of the da talked about, in the statement of facts, it is no just an assault. one of the under lying crime that now defendant trump i accused of committing, o intending to commit, is a ta fraud, which is an assault o the public -