it s not even the only pending case involving trump in th state of new york. at some point this coming week donald trump is expected t travel back to new york from florida to be deposed in relation to a civil lawsui filed by the new york attorney general, letitia james last september, james filed 250 million dollar lawsuit against trump, his three eldes children, and the trum organization, accusing them of fraudulent business practices. in an earlier deposition for james s investigation last summer, trump refused to answe most questions, pleading the fifth more than 400 times. then, on april 25th of thi year, just 16 days from now, a trial is scheduled to begin in one of the two civil lawsuit that been filed against trum by the author and columnist, e jean carroll a few years ago, carol published a book in which sh accused the former president o raping her in the dressing roo of a luxury manhatta department store in the mi 1990s. trump denied careles accusations, saying they
agenda that ignores what americans want an agenda that is proving to lose at the polls. and i m generally not one to represent and culture on the show this struck me, even she i trying to get the gop to rei in their attacks on abortion rights after democrats won in wisconsin this week, she tweeted the demand for ant abortion legislation just caus republicans another herschel race pro-lifers, we won abortion is not constitutional right anymore stop pushing strict limits o abortions, or they will be n republicans left and quote. joined now by april ryan, whit house correspondent washington bureau chief, one of our newes msnbc contributors, but an old friend of mine in the show she is the author of black women will save the world, a anthem also with me, jennifer reuben, in opinion writer from the washington post, msnbc contributor, how women sav democracy from donald trump. good to see you guys, it i nice to have you with us thank you and for those who recognize, happy resurrection sund
least in abrams and i will pay catherine, thank you for being with us. happy to be here. happy easter thank you, and you. i m trying to put some meat on the bones of all of the things that are happening with donald trump. everybody watched hi indictment, his arrest, hi arraignment in new york. and then the next hearing in that case isn t december a some point what happens with that case an everything else i describe between now and the next tim donald trump is scheduled to b in court you re right, he is swirlin in legal issues around him civil and criminal on the manhattan case, the nex date is december 4th but in between that, there might be litigation, in fact there will be litigation i know the arrangements, the prosecutors said that they wanted to protect order, under new york state law, the defens is entitled to almos everything that s in the prosecutors file that is the law. this prosecutor said, you know what there is some sense but have materials that we don t trus the fo
but no one was with him in a room to give contemporaneous evidence about the phone cal between donald trump and mik pence was. so, there might be something very interesting it might be, you know assuming that he tells the truth, i ll be very telling. i m sure he knows that peopl were saying outside the capital, hang mike pence. he ll be asked, how did yo feel about that? did you hear that they wer doing that so, it ll be very compelling testimony. is there any, would joc smith and all be concerned about finding willis and georgia, going ahead with he case they relate to each other, they re both schemes t overturn the election, they re slightly different things that they re both investigating now, i can say, as a former prosecutor, when you found out that your defendant was bein prosecuted someplace else, you were just like, okay you know and maybe we have common evidence, and then you cal each other and see if a cour order will allow you to shar your evidence and vice versa you r
that said, these charges tha donald trump faces, you were i the manhattan da s office, alvin bragg called it the brea and butter of what tha particular division does it s a standard white colla crime that if you re investigating a company an engaging in criminal activity, they re falsifying busines records, and it s a crime. and as mr. bragg said, you cannot normalize crimina conduct. what s interesting about thi indictment, all 34 charges occurred while mr. trump was president. so, the alleged scheme happene right before the election. the check stubs, the invoices, michael cohen visited him, allegedly, in the oval office, to talk about his repaymen schedule many of his crimes, don t thin people realize, actually kur while he was in the oval offic in the white house all right, let s talk about the other cases. in the case of jack smith, for instance, he s just won some victories this week in getting