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
Picked it up and we discusse all that but, that doesn t sto the prosecution. it would appear that the d here is acting, he says, t protect him or to accuse can i just ask a technica question so let s just say these were charges and misdemeanor. it seems like a slam dunk. these are all just business they were listed legal fees these are not legal fees this is reimbursement. these are misdemeanors. they are elevated to felon because they are with th intent to commit another crime the crime of unlawfully or conspiring to unlawfully aide candidate is unlawful, a crime in new york law, i know this i dumb question but i want to ask, is there a federal preemptio problem? is there a problem that he is candidate for federal office and not new york office with that theory? not according to the da page one paragraph to, they sa in writing, election laws an lying for tax purposes that is lost plural. their theory of the cases that what enhances it, we have al had our crash more than
The crime of unlawfully or conspiring to unlawfully aide candidate is unlawful, a crime in new york law, i know this i dumb question but i want to ask, is there a federal preemptio problem? is there a problem that he is candidate for federal office and not new york office with that theory? not according to the da page one paragraph to, they sa in writing, election laws an lying for tax purposes that is lost plural. their theory of the cases that what enhances it, we have al had our crash more than one election crime the da today as i reported spoke about examples of that that is their theory of th case and also, chris races this point, if this were only misdemeanors, big if, yeah, an in different contexts, someone might play out to avoid jail time but mr. weisselberg is i rikers for the h charges falsifying business records an other fraud.