someone who used to be president and currently running to be president again, is caught up in so many allegations of misconduct, of crimes. and so everything changes now. i mentioned this once earlier tonight. we will remember march 30th. it will be marked in the history books. the future is unwritten, whether it s marked at the beginning of a trial that sends someone to prison or the beginning of a process that cleared his name. we can t tell you that and anyone that tries to p prejudge that might be getting ahead of the process but is the end of a period where donald trump was not legally held to account. and today, in the rest of donald trump s life are different, as he learns, perhaps for the first time in his life, what it is to be completely out of control, to have to react to a government and propecsecutorial system whe his antics do not matter what matters is what a judge says, what a jury of his peers says not what he says or posts. so we re going forward on this tog
Bragg just left the scene here, did not comment to reporters, joy. thanks, gabe gutierrez. if you see or hear anything, wave your hands and we ll come back to you. let me bring back charles coleman jr., ari melber, claire mccaskill as well as barbara mcquade. charles, i want to ask you about that, that last point. this now is putting alvin bragg in the history books this is a state prosecutor he s the manhattan d.a h he s now the first to go, if anyone else will go, they ll be after him. he s faced unprecedented threats. threats from donald trump. trump has used words like death and destruction and essentially promised mayhem or said there would be mayhem or could be. what do you make of the fact that this has now happened and the kind of atmosphere that this proceeding will take place under? well, joy, this is a day that so many have waited for the
Bought ads against them, walking the same building they were arraigned in and be arraigned some time next week. i think if that s not ironic and in my case i agree with youssef salaam, you will reap what you sow. indeed, and that one-word statement was quite a statement. there also is a long history, two quick ironies, rev donald trump long wanted to be on the front of the new york times. and he had a special obsession with the new york times. and to your point about all of the carmic elements here, it was the new york times that initially broke this story so he made it onto the front of the new york times. he wanted to be an historic figure he is now truly an historic figure, having been president, having been impeached twice and now having been the first president to be indicted there also is some irony, rev, that donald trump always counted on sort of having the d.a., the manhattan d.a. specifically in his pocket in a way, of being
Prosecutor said, well, perhaps now it s time to indict him. he s a former president, and for a month, he seemed in jeopardy gerald ford, the new president after a month, as you well know, said we re going to pardon mr. nixon. and in 1995, i actually talked to gerald ford and said, why didn t you at least wait until nixon went through the process and was at least fingerprinted so you could show someone who steals a can of hairspray in a store that there s equal justice in this country? and what ford said was, i don t think the american people have the stomach for a former president being indicted and going through a trial and going to jail. i didn t want the country to be distracted he also said that i had heard that mr. nixon s health was bad, there were even rumors he was so depressed he might take his own life, so it was punishment enough for nixon to have to accept a pardon. my view would be, and i feel
Labor and had to answer the difficult questions. and this is no exception. it s also no exception and no surprise that whate■ we have sen from donald trump and it s camp and others like him is doubling down on thexd■rhetoric that has seeped in white nationalism, so that they dox■ not believe that people like fani willis, nor alvin bragg, it should beqin positions to have a say so over1 things that affect them. ande1 so they are going tow■ atk theml■ vehemently. they are going tofá attack them includesl■ words like monsters,/ which is dehumanizing,t■ it s toq■ separate them fromt(■his o3 humanity. j■ñ■ and so everything that is takinge■ place h%jds a very american. and this is a new chapter in terms of what we have seen. but the elements that are involved, in terms of people u■(áqaving the courage, and affordingñi■to do what is right, even though they have been marginalized and come fromq■ marginalized places this is a veryi■ american story1 in t