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
ago, you cautioned us to broaden the lens and look at this not so narrowly as usual, you were right you re always right. thank you for being part of our coverage and injecting the weeds that we hadn t spent much time in much more breaking news analysis still ahead for us we ll talk with one of the reporters who dove into that story that brought us to this moment and this very indictment, the enquirer catch and kill squeem don t go anywhere. we ll be right back.
that s what is alleged to have happened here and other players have said that s what they were doing. when you saw in today s indictment that the scheme is very much described as the frame of the felony counts, does that surprise you what did that bring back to you in terms of understanding the story and how it works in terms of catching and killing the stories. w on one hand, i m not surprised because trump, in the other case with the people that were investigated in relation to these cases, he was individual one. so he was always in the mix of this we knew about meetings with trump and david pecker to talk about being as the documents are called, eyes and ears for trump to make sure the stories they
conspiracy, but that s not charged. but you ve got both the scheme, you ve got stormy daniels, you ve got the doorman who was trying to sell a story i think now it s gotten much broader. you have to i know there s been a lot of debate about the charges and we ve been talking about it for weeks this is very cinematic when you look at it it is a conspiracy alleged before a presidential election to sway an election. this is more important how we can look at the rule of law and how it should be brought i know we re talking about falsification of business records. when we lift it up, it s incredible it s to your first point about who he is at his core is a big, giant lie, his wealth his business accumen, his
terms of helping trump keep something quiet, to help him in an election. that is still something of great value, i would think, for this case, depending on how prosecutors make that linkage. hey, jim. i want to go back and think about this in a broader way, and talk a little bit about just exactly what it meant, and we re going to relitigate the 2016 election, these ghosts are coming out of the closet the story about the doorman and the doorman s secret, a story that was written about in 2018 now it s back here in the middle of this statement of facts you know, the one thing that i have learned is usually if there is a story about a presidential candidate that s dirty in some way, the national enquirer is first on it and usually is