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
ask not what your country ca do for you mr. gorbachev teared down this wall states criminal indictment of former 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 chris hayes we are going to be joined by more of our closest colleagues over the course of this evenin tonight, as part of the specia coverage we know that you have ever choice in the world tonight as to where to get your news abou this historic event. that makes us all the more grateful that you are here together with us tonight. so, here is how it works just got the transcripts we know exactly how it went. the clerk. calendar number one, indictmen 71543 of 2023, people of the state of new york versus donal j trump. appearances. prosecutor, christophe conwright for the people, your honor. and judge, with me are kathryn mccaw, matthew cullen julio, steve
Law that it would be muc fuzzier, it would be muc harder to explain, we will b spending three or four segment trying to walk people throug what the connection was to mak his fellow many, it is brunt alvin bragg leads on lean, on it that is one of the things he i looking to move to felony. one thing that is very clea is that if you file a business record for an expense in new york, new york is a very tough state to run a business. if you file a record sayin that this payment was meant fo a, and instead you took that money and went to disney world with that money, they will com for you. i mean, i am with you, rachel, in the sense that this is so straightforward. they created a shell company used that money to pay mcdougal then donald trump reimburses nine of those checks that came from his own funds the trucks are there you put them on screen these facts are not that squishy to me. this seems like straightforward business
They created a shell company used that money to pay mcdougal then donald trump reimburses nine of those checks that came from his own funds the trucks are there you put them on screen these facts are not that squishy to me. this seems like straightforward business records fraud case it is just that it is a felony because it was furthered o this other crime, which feel like it is campaign fraud. the facts are there but the law question - that question is a big one. they are going to contest on that, obviously. act interject again lawrence o donnell apparentl has a job the of to go to. 10:00 show tonight after thi is over. i can t ever tell it again you must. no, but the video might still be - you might see this video somewhere on the worldwide web of the guy yelling to me about that thing that is simply, i just couldn t come up with a thing to say about it. what a time to be alive i america. what a time to be alive.