The people of new york versus donald j. Trump. I should be in florida now. I should be in a lot of different places campaigning, and im sitting here. For the first time in history, prosecutors lay out a criminal case against a former american president to a jury. This case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 president ial election. Tonight the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense. And the first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting a lot more of david Rachel Maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. We got a real road map today as to how this case is going to go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old and tired and mad. Tonight Rachel Maddow, joy reid, chris hayes, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, jen sake, stef knew rhule, katie pham, and nbc legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins now. Thank you for joining us tonight for this special Primetime Recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u. S. President
david that s who we are talking about. he will describe catch and kill which began in august of 2015 in a meeting with trump and michael cohen and was their effort to pay people who had dirt on donald trump for their stories and they assumed the stories would run in the national enquirer and the national enquirer would skill kill those stories on behalf of the then candidate, trump. at that meeting you will hear about tomorrow in all likelihood, and 2015, we are going to hear that, basically, trump wanted david to be his eyes and ears on any stories about him and . and not once but twice, by
no, i don t think that will be the theme of this trial. a lot of this will be about documents establishing that he engaged in a coverup of a retainer agreement that he claimed falsely to have with michael cohen who worked for him for many years. so, this is going to be a case, actually, much more like a conventional business records case which is what the charges are and there will be some salacious tennis, especially early on, possibly as early as tomorrow. that is because it is expected it has not been confirmed, but it is expected that the former chair of american media which owned the national enquirer will be on the stand testifying against trump. david yes.
he was directly involved in three hush money deals. so, he will also he s never spoken publicly about this. he will also be very important. he may be first. we will see. very good to talk with you. thank you so much. cary lakes says her supporters may have to strap on a clock for the next six months. what prompted her to say that, you will hear her words in my they could be dangerous straight ahead. number one, because it s effective. does not require a prescription. and i ve been taking it quite a while myself and i know it works. and i love it when the customers come back in and tell me, david, that really works so good for me. makes my day. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. some migraine attacks catch you off guard,
and talk about their interactions with trump but nothing is a slamdunk. you have 12 jurors. trump does have arguments. he is a little bit removed from the actual records that are alleged to been falsified. connecting into that, he could claim you didn t know about it. whether he gets one juror to buy that i have a mistrial, that s possible. yes. let s see. david michael cohen, maybe stormy daniels. who do you think would be the most effective witness for the prosecution? well, i think michael cohen is going to be the most important one. he was trump s fixer. he was right next to him. he pleaded guilty to federal charges for this hush money deal and another ones. he obviously has credibility issues because of that. he also is the one who s going to be able to tell the story. david is hugely important because he knew trump going back to the 1990s.