campaigned on the fact that he would get president trump. i m going to get him the defendant repeatedl made false statements on the new york business records. the moment we ve been waiting for, this is the indictment we now have - 34 fall statements made comer up other crimes. trump in his own voic pleaded not guilty today he s frustrated, he is upset, but i will tell you what, he i motivated. this fake case was brough only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election america first meanwhile demonstrators clash outside the courthouse marjorie taylor greene wa also there but it promptly bailed after her insults flirt drowned out. president trump is joinin some of the most incredibl people in history bein arrested today she needs to take her - back to washington nelson mandela served tim in prison. jesus was arrested do your job marjorie taylor greene, you do not need the ne york city talking about that nonsense if this man s name was no donald j tru
americans have that front of mind when they make thei decisions. and i would argue tha democrats need to rethin everything they understood about politics in the 1990s, guns, and abortion are the issues that are probably the two most powerful electora issues ifou believe that, loo att happed in the 2020 midter, one abortioni stil believe,nd me, i election factoin t d if loo tennessee thxt aion l issues that s going to do it for thortif msnbc specia coverage on th his night. i wantthany reid for the very long day, and nicol wallace for the super, super long day, and alex wagner an stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. the legal spectacle never seen before in america. president trump a former commander-in-chief now a criminal defendant alvin bragg of new york campaigned on the fact that he would get president trump. i m going to get him the de
by a ally. those seem rock-solid, because the campaign finance stuff, al of their issues about whethe it is a federal, there are issues there, if it state, there are issues there but on ami false busines records and tax, take a stat tax offenses, you have to prov that that was the intent, bu it is not the same kind of legal challenges so what i see when i look at this is it is gonna be ver hard to not miss out as motion to dismiss. meaning, the prosecution wil get its day in court, whethe they prove it, that remains to be seen. that is for the jury decide. they are rightly held to a ver high standard. the fact that there are payments potentially to tw others, but besides stormy daniels, does that set the pat that this was organized? something bigger than on person absolutely. there s a set out as a scheme, and the reason that it is scheme is, the idea here is wh should you care? you should care because this i not technical violations the whole idea here is keeping information from
away i ve actually come up and i ve spoken to allen weisselber about how to set the whole thing up with funding, yes, an it s all the stuff because you never know tha company, you never know. correct, i m all over that and i spoke to allen about it, when it comes to the financing what financing? we ll have to pay something no no no no no. michael cohen who went to jail, allen weisselberg who is sitting in - it is pretty bad. the reason it is so bad is tha one of the defenses that donal trump s attorney seemed to floating around is basically this idea this was not about the election, it was not about potentially influencin election, this was more or les something that they do just as a matter of course when you are talking about wha the recording has on it, i suggests that this wasn organized, very clear plan and blot to achieve a very clear and. that is why this shell company not just one, but two shel companies were set up. so this really helps t buttress what alan bragg ha
counter, that is just before the iowa republica presidential caucuses. with that, let s get smarter with the help of our lead of panel and we need them tonight suzanne craig is here, pulitze prize-winning investigativ reporter for the new yor times. tim o brien, executive edito of bloomberg opinion and autho of trump nation, the art o being the donald andrew weizmann who is bee here all day long, law professor at nyu and former senior member of th mueller probe. and charles joins us, david joining us remotely in the new york times investigative reporter who won a pulitzer for the truth behin donald trump s charitabl donations. andrew, how stronger these charges and if donald trump is found guilty, what are the consequences so on the strength of the charge, the one thing that w don t know is we don t actuall know all of the proof behind it but that, they were surprising to me into ways. one, michael paul cohen an everyone says so, that was the