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
And then the intent to commi or conceal another crime so a, as andrew said, it doesn t say that you intend to defraud and you committed in other crime. so, as andrew was right, the new york state election law, the federal campaign law that s, if that was all it was based on, then it really makes it a really difficult case but the tax fraud and the am false statements, that makes it, i m not going to say a roc solid case, but you ca understand why this case was presented and why the da s office believes they have proo beyond a reasonable doubt. and if the jury can believe, okay, forget the new york stat election law but tax fraud and those fals statements by ami. and on the tax fraud issue, again, what they said today wa michael cohen paid storm daniels $130,000 he got payback way more than that because he put a bunch of other stuff on it. but when the reasons they lost