america s most famou presidential statements. today, wow they are going to arrest me. can t believe this i happening. president trump, will you come speak to us the ex president surrenders he is arrested but. fingerprinted. criminally charged with 34 felonies in a manhattan courthouse. these are felony crimes i new york state no matter who you are. prosecutors say he ran a criminal scheme to conceal damaging information, unlawful activity from american voter before the 2016 election former president trump plead not guilty he is frustrated. he is upset. tonight the substance of the case. the people versus donald trump joy reid, already melbourne, alex wagner stephanie bowl all here for msnbc special coverage of the first ever criminal indictment of a forme 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
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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
Saying that is a considerabl amount of time and it is true that state case are obviously a little bit slower for various reasons tha a typical federal case but tha is still quite some time and there were sort of two point that you could make from that one is that it is definitely a possibility that there will be what is called a superseding charge that is that the financial investigation at the da office, which by all account is still ongoing and was talke about by the a vance, th former da on this network on sunday, tha that could be a reason that yo didn t see the distric attorney really pushing for faster date. because it was quite some time and by the same token, you didn t see donald trump, if he was innocent, saying, i want a immediate trial. i have been on a case like that
Or is anything important tha you think we are missing in terms of understanding th law here and what we learned well, it s going to start b saying i thought we are at the children s table because obviously this is the adults - but, with all due respect, i will say that i didn t think there was anything wrong i actually wanted to maybe focus everybody on an issu that is sort of forward-looking. because one of the things that interesting was the timefram going forward. so we are in april and the next state that th court set is december. the court made a point o saying that is a considerabl amount of time and it is true that state case are obviously a little bit slower for various reasons tha a typical federal case but tha is still quite some time and there were sort of two point that you could make from that one is that it is definitely a