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
Off until after the election maybe you don t have to pa because it doesn t matter. that is what so that, i don t know if we knew that before but largely, the facts are not to the question here the facts are established. there are the receipts so the facts are not really in dispute. everything in terms of the defense is going to be a big set of questions about law about federal preemption about the sort of, doing it as a conspiracy to further anothe crime, they don t charge conspiracy but basically doing this for the purposes of committing another crime the unlawful help. and the big thing that i jus thought of, watching him sit there, sullen in angry at th defense table, is, this is a guy who has acted lawlessly hi whole life, recklessly, with regards to the law he is one of the most notoriou litigants in the country, at
This for the purposes of committing another crime the unlawful help. and the big thing that i jus thought of, watching him sit there, sullen in angry at th defense table, is, this is a guy who has acted lawlessly hi whole life, recklessly, with regards to the law he is one of the most notoriou litigants in the country, at suing and being sued, who ha never crossed the line fro civil to criminal law. and there is something sort of profound about tha distinction. i was thinking about thi social media meme about, wha is something that is class when wrecked folks do it and - stay drinking. you re at the country club, oh you, are sitting on the stoo drinking a 40. if you rob someone of thei iphone, you are in criminal la and.