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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The first is new york stat election law what makes it a crime to conspire, sort of the candidacy, by unlawful means? i further indicated a number o unlawful means, includin additional false statements, including statements that were planned to be made to ta authorities. i also noted the federal election law kept contribution limits i am not going to go into ou deliberate process on what was brought, the charges that were brought, are the ones that wer brought, the evidence in the law is the basis for those decisions. ahead of the indictment today being brought agains former president donald trump, we had it on pretty good authority, everyone pretty wel surmised that they were goin to be multiple charges related to falsified business records. but we all learned in cras course cable tv law school tha in addition to those charges there needed to be something that made those charges into a felony on their own, terms thos
Deliberate process on what was brought, the charges that were brought, are the ones that wer brought, the evidence in the law is the basis for those decisions. ahead of the indictment today being brought agains former president donald trump, we had it on pretty good authority, everyone pretty wel surmised that they were goin to be multiple charges related to falsified business records. but we all learned in cras course cable tv law school tha in addition to those charges there needed to be something that made those charges into a felony on their own, terms thos things would just be misdemeanors, those things wer not likely there for result in donald trump being indicted. if he was going to be indicted those falsified business records would have to be linke to the attempt to commit o conceal some other crime today, we found out what the other crimes would be. except those crimes are no charged today. we saw alvin bragg just ru through them briefly in hi remarks, answer questions toda