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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Right. i think if anything there is a tendency to underestimate ho much information we got. i would love that if i wer practicing on this case, day to sift through it all we got over 60 pages, if you just count the transcript from the proceed today, which i m not read, and the semi speakin indictment what comes through most and wh this was a terrible day fo donald trump is that there was a lot of expectation that this was going to be abou essentially payments to on woman and that is going to fee like sex, lies and videotape in fact, it looks more lik tabloid watergate. and i think what comes through here will be really importan that - too close to all that innard of it, you remember mr. pecker we know about mr. cohen, w have interviewed each of them. this was bigger than that, according to the da, the defendant has writes, th defendant s da saying.
Prove his guilt by under reasonable doubt so it was very important at th include that statement of facts because you have the ring fo felony counts and they are jus the elements in the dates. but it isn t really give you the meat of the case and the statement of facts looking at the relationship between the indictment statements, the rubble statement of the distric attorney where you explain wha is going on, with pressley fro the district attorney s office as well, laying it out i layman s terms and then that statement affect the kathryn ascribing, they all sort o told a story in a slightly different way. do you think, as ally audience here, and ices hosts trying to understand it, that we are getting right? i think we are getting it right. i think if anything there is a tendency to underestimate ho much information we got. i would love that if i wer practicing on this case, day to sift through it all we got over 60 pages, if you just count the transcript from the proceed today, whi