campaigned on the fact that he would get president trump. i m going to get him the defendant repeatedl made false statements on the new york business records. the moment we ve been waiting for, this is the indictment we now have - 34 fall statements made comer up other crimes. trump in his own voic pleaded not guilty today he s frustrated, he is upset, but i will tell you what, he i motivated. this fake case was brough only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election america first meanwhile demonstrators clash outside the courthouse marjorie taylor greene wa also there but it promptly bailed after her insults flirt drowned out. president trump is joinin some of the most incredibl people in history bein arrested today she needs to take her - back to washington nelson mandela served tim in prison. jesus was arrested do your job marjorie taylor greene, you do not need the ne york city talking about that nonsense if this man s name was no donald j tru
americans have that front of mind when they make thei decisions. and i would argue tha democrats need to rethin everything they understood about politics in the 1990s, guns, and abortion are the issues that are probably the two most powerful electora issues ifou believe that, loo att happed in the 2020 midter, one abortioni stil believe,nd me, i election factoin t d if loo tennessee thxt aion l issues that s going to do it for thortif msnbc specia coverage on th his night. i wantthany reid for the very long day, and nicol wallace for the super, super long day, and alex wagner an 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. the legal spectacle never seen before in america. president trump a former commander-in-chief now a criminal defendant alvin bragg of new york campaigned on the fact that he would get president trump. i m going to get him the de
by a ally. those seem rock-solid, because the campaign finance stuff, al of their issues about whethe it is a federal, there are issues there, if it state, there are issues there but on ami false busines records and tax, take a stat tax offenses, you have to prov that that was the intent, bu it is not the same kind of legal challenges so what i see when i look at this is it is gonna be ver hard to not miss out as motion to dismiss. meaning, the prosecution wil get its day in court, whethe they prove it, that remains to be seen. that is for the jury decide. they are rightly held to a ver high standard. the fact that there are payments potentially to tw others, but besides stormy daniels, does that set the pat that this was organized? something bigger than on person absolutely. there s a set out as a scheme, and the reason that it is scheme is, the idea here is wh should you care? you should care because this i not technical violations the whole idea here is keeping information from
not technical violations the whole idea here is keeping information from the public in an election, and this is all about the means, of all thes different crimes, and it is no just the payments to storm daniels according to the chargers that is the whole thing if he committed these crimes these are the crimes that were directly related to hi becoming president of th united states. charles, i want you to watch listen excuse me, to thi exchange between donald trum and his then lawyer fixe michael cohen about one of these payments listen to this i need to open up a company for the transfer of all that info regarding our friend, david, you know, so that - i m going to do that right away i ve actually come up and i ve spoken to allen weisselber about how to set the whole thing up with funding, yes, an it s all the stuff
but let s talk about the republican defenses. the one thing they haven t talked about at all are the merits. you know, the first defense was i didn t do it. the second defense was mick mulvaney, so what if i did. and the third defense is that the hearings are rigged and a sham process and that it s boring. but not a single defense has been offered on the merits of what the president asked for in that favor. so i think that s an indication of how weak that is. the president has a well earned reputation for telling fibs. some would say lies. and now we re seeing a lot of defense of all of those things the president said. i saw the president today making some noises, i think flatly disingenuous about how he would testify before the hearings. i don t really credit that at all. i think rightly. but it did reminding me of thi exchange that you had with congressman jordan about who