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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Scheme paid off first with the german strain paid off next fo trump with the nationa enquirer company making anothe payment to keep another stor quiet, - trump in the election. the second instance it was 150,000 dollar payment to this woman, whose name is karen mcdougal in both of those instances prosecutor alvin bragg sai today that the book keepin around those payments, the payment of the door man, the payment to karen mcdougal, resulted in false business statements being made on the books of the parent compan that owns the national enquirer now, that ends up bein important to all of ou understanding here into th eventual fate of donald trum because that factor ends u being important to the crimes, the alleged crimes, bein charged against trump as felonies the contention from prosecutor today, which we did not know was coming in this exact way the contention from prosecutor today is that this overall scheme was a violation of ne york election law, because new
Mid-made yet more fals statements, including fo example, an ami, american medi incorporates, business records one of the three people that they paid to keep quiet was woman named stormy daniels less than two weeks before the presidential election, michael cohen wired $130,000 to stormy daniels s lawyer that payment was the hiding of damaging information from th voting public. the participants scheme wa illegal. the scheme violated new york election law, which makes it a crime to conspire, to promote candidacy via unlawful means the hundred 30,000 dollar wire payment exceeded the federal campaign contribution cap. and the false statements i ami s books violated new yor law. district attorney alvin bragg speaking today explaining the nature of the
Said delay it, delay it, delay it i m not about to lose this election and after i lose this election nobody cares about what stormy daniels says the other thing is why does the federal government immuniz david pack are you donie parker to pu david cohen away why do they amass all this evidence when you see that alvin brag made good use of it. he made all the back before he indicted this case one of the things we re going to talk about with our legal guests when we come back as this question of how to mak these falsified s records, allegedly falsified business records into a felony. what the district attorney alvin bragg laid out today was a number of crimes that he sai were either, were committed in conjunction, essentially, with those records. none of those crimes are being charged. though they re not charging th national inquirer company with falsifying their busines records. they re not charging anybody newly, with federal campaign finance charges. they re not charging anybody w