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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ask not what your country ca do for you mr. gorbachev teared down this wall states criminal indictment of former 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, and chris hayes we are going to be joined by more of our closest colleagues over the course of this evenin tonight, as part of the specia coverage we know that you have ever choice in the world tonight as to where to get your news abou this historic event. that makes us all the more grateful that you are here together with us tonight. so, here is how it works just got the transcripts we know exactly how it went. the clerk. calendar number one, indictmen 71543 of 2023, people of the state of new york versus donal j trump. appearances. prosecutor, christophe conwright for the people, your honor. and judge, with me are kathryn mccaw, matthew cullen julio, steve
stand. been there all day. nearing the end of just his first day of testimony. michael cohen revealing what it was like to work for donald trump and made sure the boss looked good in the public eye. work that trump would praise him for when he did that. cohen testified that it would make him feel, quote, like i was on top of the world. cohen was a guard dog protecting his boss at all costs. trump s former pit bull today corroborated all of the interactions this jury has heard about over the past few weeks. that includes the all-important meeting at trump tower in 2015. that s the one with david pecker of the national enquirer and donald trump where the catch-and-kill scheme was originally hatched. michael cohen testified to conversations about keeping the story of donald trump s affair with playboy model karen mcdougal quiet. he testified to how he arranged with pecker the $150,000 payment mcdougal to bury the story. the jury then heard the only conversation cohen had wit
have a good show. thank you, nicole. welcome, everyone, to a two-hour edition of the beat tonight as we go through a big day in court. i m ari melber, we have our special coverage, and we begin right now with the prosecutor s star witness taking the stand. you may have heard about it, you may have readied for it, we are now here. the former trump lawyer michael cohen testifying about the work he did for trump, saying under oath this was the dirty work of a, kwot, fixer. and recounting today and the jury hearing it from his mouth for the first time, the road to the payments at the center of this physicalny case against defendant trump. big day in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. the star witness takes the stand against donald j. trump. form fixer michael cohen now the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. cohen on the stand. an extraordinary showdown today in court. the man at the center of the hush money payments scandal is testi