Black students, i am going to represent state power and defy that that s what desantis is trying to do. fortunately yeah. i m sorry, go ahead, joy. no, you, please i was going to say, just to echo what you have said, this is an historic night, and i think as a result of what s happened, desantis is going to be a side show, but the important thing is that tomorrow, i think in terms of american history, we will be waking up in a different country. before tonight, presidents in this country were kings. they did all sorts of things richard nixon as president probably obstructed justice, did all sorts of other things for which certain of his entourage was sent to jail, but nixon was the unindicted coconspirator so called because the justice department in my view wrongly ruled that a sitting president cannot be indicted once nixon quit, the special
For the same facts and essentially the same crime, assuming this is the payment of hush money in violation of campaign finance laws and the covering up of those records illegally under new york law same facts, but remember who indicted michael cohen it was donald trump s justice department it wasn t a local democrat that ran for prosecutor it was bill barr who indicted michael cohen on these facts and i think it s so important to keep pointing that ut. if this is a made-up deal, then donald trump s own justice department ignored it and went ahead and put the man we re looking at right now in prison the other thing i think is important to point out is sure hope that donald trump is not given the opportunity that he seeks to be in handcuffs bragg s job is so hard right now, and that is he needs to
Back, and possible obstruction and possibly drawing his lawyers into obstruction, and obviously, everything related to january 6th. so let s talk about some of the questions that that might bring up among folks who are looking at this being the first case to drop and we don t know that any other case will drop, i should say that as well we don t know if donald trump will face more on this case, if you could start with the question of the age of the case whether this case, because it is not new, this is something that happened, you know, years ago. and he was never prosecuted for it by the federal officials who prosecuted michael cohen what does that say to you, that this is a state prosecution based on the same facts as the federal prosecution, but he was never pursued for that, what do you make of the fact that he theoretically might be pursued for the now? yeah, it seems, joy, that donald trump s misconduct is a distraction from donald trump s
Q■and weü$■dedñr■ that the couny could not go through anothert■o■ nixon experience, where you are inx■ danger of a president being impeached and possibly sent to prison. so, we just agreeqamong ourselves that this would never go that far. this is what i mean by, we are waking up in a different country tomorrow. i■that must never happen again. the president has to be bound by the same laws as the rest of us. t■and if you do not like what we saw from donald trump, in the lastt■t■ seven 9 ■rs, that s the only way it sr i■ indeed,j■ a man. and you are younger than springtime, michael beschloss, and full of such gr#!2■ information. thank you, thank you. q■we always love havingqyou on, michael beschloss, asokfá alway. let s bring backx■ barbara mcquade and charles coleman. joining me now are jason johnson, professor of politics and journalism at morgan state university, and hugo lowell, political investigations reporter for the guardian. hugo, what have
Happening. you really laid that out, and that s the intangible part of all this josh, thank you very much. i am ari melber. as we follow the indictment of donald trump, huge breaking news msnbc has got you covered with joy reid continuing our coverage now. aware, we have major historic breaking news tonight. for the first time in our country s history, a former united states president is facing criminal charges. the manhattan grand jury has voted to indict donald trump for his role in the hush money payment to adult film star stormy daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. again, this is the first time in history that this has happened in the united states two sources familiar with the situation told nbc news that trump s attorneys have been