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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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
To make these payments, they set up shell companies and the 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 case, the nature of this 3
That just resulted i convictions in november. so, those give the da a lot of room so even if there is a attack on one or two of them particularly the state crime of tax fraud and the ami false statement charge, seem ver solid. it seems very hard to imagine motion to dismiss that s going to knock out all of that and reduce all of the charges to misdemeanors and it doesn t mean tha when you describe, andrew, the district attorney as havin laid out a lot of differen paths by which he can get to a felony, sometimes, like, whe you see that in a movie script or something, you think, oh, they knew a whole bunch of different options, because the don t have one good strong one but in this case, you re sayin that s not a sign of weakness, that s a sign of strength of the case because even if one of the gets knocked out, there s stil other viable means yeah, absolutely, what would charge, and i m sure catherine when she charged obviously if you have a really weak one, you don t want t have it