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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Intend to lie. the fact that sometimes thos laws don t reach the governing tax authority may not bail him out or be all that sympathetic a sounding argument to a new york jury. right, in this case, th intent to essentially make false representations to tax authorities was apparently annotated and a handwritte notation by the trum organization cfo, written on a bank statement that they have. well, and - and you taking notes in a criminal conspiracy? sorry. that s how we do it in trum world. two things, one thing andrew weissmann said in the earlie our, which is we may not wan to suggest that the broade investigation into the trump organization is over first of all, the da has suggested is not over. second of all, the timing on this is curious, right december could it be their buying themselves enough time to ge the rest of the case, th broader case against trump o get in line? allen weisselberg, who i really the linchpin to all o this, get out of rikers tw
Trump or capital trump, yo know how trump org is. we went rogue. well, that s not a thing the wanted to do they didn t do a conspiracy. they didn t do a ton of trum org. and other prosecutors are minus, there is this great phrase, highlighted it in the moment w got this news today, tax purposes and you mentioned it earlier rachel, there s a lot of evidence all around donald trump that they habitually intend to lie. the fact that sometimes thos laws don t reach the governing tax authority may not bail him out or be all that sympathetic a sounding argument to a new york jury. right, in this case, th intent to essentially make false representations to tax authorities was apparently annotated and a handwritte notation by the trum organization cfo, written on a bank statement that they have. well, and - and you taking notes in a criminal conspiracy? sorry. that s how we do it in trum world. two things, one thing andrew weissmann said in the earlie our, which is we may not wan to sug