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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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
Posters. and you can see the headline there at the top, catch an kill scheme to influence the 2016 election. and as it shows in very simple terms, the allegation from the prosecutors here is that thi catch and kill scheme wa hatched in august 2015 at meeting at trump tower you will remember that trump announced his candidacy fo president in june 2015, a fe weeks later, in august 2015, according to prosecutors, he met trump tower with michael cohen, his lawyer, and the embarrassingly named david pecker, ahead of a company tha owns the national inquirer s supermarket tally. because i met years old, i can t say packer without laughing, so have to come up with your weird euphemisms - sentence structure to avoi saying it it is an objectively funn name it s an amazing part of the story. i apologize i should be bigger than this i just turned 50 and i can t hear sentence without the word
Weeks later, in august 2015, according to prosecutors, he met trump tower with michael cohen, his lawyer, and the embarrassingly named david pecker, ahead of a company tha owns the national inquirer s supermarket tally. because i met years old, i can t say packer without laughing, so have to come up with your weird euphemisms - sentence structure to avoi saying it it is an objectively funn name it s an amazing part of the story. i apologize i should be bigger than this i just turned 50 and i can t hear sentence without the word packer in it without - any way. after this meeting, the national enquirer guy, a we will call him, agreed t help with trump s campaign saying that he would act as th eyes and ears for the campaign and kill scheme, hatched between the guy whose name i embarrassed to say and donal trump and michael cohen, thi scheme paid off first with the