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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
broke that story and expert guidance on what that means. first, let s remember how we got here. today in washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. at 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see why. in screen shots taken from officer body cams on january 6th, this guy is seen swinging t pole at a police officer so hard it snaps in two on the officer s riot shield. so then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first pole the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped in two, that was capitol police sergeant, ganel. he gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the januarye 6th investigation last year. and today he testified at that rioter s sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental injuries from the attack that forced him to leave t
regardless of whether it was true, in order to keep his mouth shot ahead of th election interestingly, prosecutors the go out of their way later in the statement to tell the cour that the company eventually di investigate the story, and decided that it wasn t, in fact, true i feel like reading it, it was nice of them to put that i their, in terms of donal trump s reputation but that doesn t change th fact that it is part of this alleged scheme to catch an kill a negative stories abou trump ahead of the election. the company did in fact pa this guy off to keep him quiet, so as to hel trump s chances in the election prosecutors also said toda that the company, the national enquirer company, also a boo that payment to the door man i their financial records, i such a way that was false an illegal. that ends up being important i just a moment. according to prosecutors though, the scheme, the catc and kill scheme, hatched between the guy whose name i embarrassed to say and donal trump and
weeks later, in august 2015, according to prosecutors, he met trump tower with michael cohen, his lawyer, and the embarrassingly named david pecker, ahead of a company tha owns the national inquirer s supermarket tally. because i met years old, i can t say packer without laughing, so have to come up with your weird euphemisms - sentence structure to avoi saying it it is an objectively funn name it s an amazing part of the story. i apologize i should be bigger than this i just turned 50 and i can t hear sentence without the word packer in it without - any way. after this meeting, the national enquirer guy, a we will call him, agreed t help with trump s campaign saying that he would act as th eyes and ears for the campaign and kill scheme, hatched between the guy whose name i embarrassed to say and donal trump and michael cohen, thi scheme paid off first with the