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
Imminently, that was more than two weeks ago, he told his supporters that they shoul respond by protesting. he said quote, protest, take our nation back. they are killing our nation. we must save america protest, protest, protest! he s made those calls fo protest repeatedly about a week ago, he issue this dark warning. he said quote, potential death and destruction would occur if he were indicted he said would be quote catastrophic for our country he said quote, our country i being destroyed, as they tel us to be peaceful! republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene joine the former presidents calls fo a protest, announcing quote, protesting is a constitutional right and i am going to ne york on tuesday to protest we will not live in fear
Think for instance the trump organization and donald trump himself might have wanted to deduct the, quote, legal fees as expenses, right, and so that would be tax fraud but there s a reason to think he didn t do that because he became the president, and there was a lot of things that weren t done at that point as was shown in the trump organization trial where basically the accountants turned to them and said you know what we re going to be under a lot more scrutiny so the stuff we ve been doing, let s just stop for now i feel we talked early on about how the falsified documents, part of this is something you could put on tv and full screen image and see the taulsified documents and know they re false that s easy to understand. getting that explanation from catherine and andrew, makes me feel like the other parts of this, why is this a felony, what are the other crimes it s connected to, that feels very explicable, very straightforward