Wasnt just showing up for court. Numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominic fox and Qanon Activist who live streamed the storming of the capitol, a jared wise, a former fbi agent charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. This is all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now, there were no Courtroom Cameras today, but thanks to courtroom sketch artist bill hennessy, we know what it looks like when a former president of the United States appeared in court to be formally and federally charged for trying to subvert american democracy. There were more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other january 6th cases, judges who showed up today in plain clothes as spectators for trumps arraignment. The judge presiding over the arraignment was a New York State judge inasmuch he read the c
new york state no matter who you are. the defendant held documents in his hand we cannot and will not normalize serious misconduct for nine straight months the defendantant repeatedly made false statements he also called others to make false statements we have a history in the manhattan d.a. s office of vigorously enforcing white collar crime that s manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg defending his prosecution of donald trump. we ll take you through the historic indictment and what s next in the case in just a moment meanwhile, the former president s allies in congress are rushing to his defense house speaker kevin mccarthy posting a warning for the d. a. and also ahead, a significant win for progressives in wisconsin that will flip the majority of that state s supreme court for the first time in over a decade good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. donald trump, the first pre
says will quote, end a painful chapter. the new details on the tentative but huge civil settlement between doj and victims of the 2017 sutherland springs church mass shooting. why intelligence officials are keeping a close eye on russia and china right now after trump s indictment what they re trying to stop from happening. and republican house speaker kevin mccarthy threatens alvin bragg with action on the hill. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments i want to go first to nbc s ali vitali who has been following the threats from house republicans against bragg. we heard what donald trump had to say last night with alvin bragg, now speaker mccarthy is jumping in what s his angle. reporter: look, for mccarthy, it s more of what we have seen from him even before the trump indictment became official, we watched mccarthy mobilize here on the hill three powerful committee chairman from oversight, judiciary, and administration, all asking alvin bragg
this very moment in american history. but as the old adage goes every crisis is merchandising opportunity and the former president is not the only one to recognize this. former vice president mike pence who s likely a star witness in this case has new indictment swag for sale. his campaign is selling t-shirts that reads too honest is a reference to the allegations trump berated pence for his lawfulness in and around january 6th complaining pence was too honest. protect the constitution but also make it a crew neck. he s calling on the doj to tell the truth about trump s prosecution. is this a politicized persecution through prosecution? i certainly believe it is.
than what we typically hear at a trump rally, which is very much what this was in every other aspect he was much more subdued, much more humorless than we typically see him at these events and very much focused on-airing his grievances, airing the frustration that seemed to have been pent-up over the last several days here. now, all of the while we have seen his campaign sending out e-mails asking for donations, selling indictment swag. he s clearly trying to capitalize on this moment politically. and, look, as i talk to republicans when it comes to operative and when it comes to voters all across the board folks are frustrated, jonathan of course those who are in support of former president trump are frustrated for the obvious reasons. but even those who are in the aechbt trump camp who want to see the republican party move on from this, they re also frustrated because they do feel like this is going to help him