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
The alleged tax purpos restructuring of these payments, is again, as described b prosecutors, one of th attempted crimes tha prosecutors need to be able to point to so all of this all, o this, can be charged as felony instead of just as misdemeanor. one last point here. just not this up from the arraignment today here is how the lead prosecuto laid it up to the judge to kic off the arraignment toda basically, after trump pled no guilty he says this the defendant, donald j trump, falsified new york busines records in order to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermin the integrity of the 201 presidential election and othe violations of election laws. beginning in about august 2016 the defendant agreed wit others to carry out an o lawful plan to identify an suppress negative informatio that could have undermined his candidacy for president. as part of that plan, a lawyer deployed by the trum organization made a comfort 130,000 dollar payment at th defendants direction the purpose of th
Stormy daniels reimbursement payments to michael cohen to look like something other than reimbursement payments, so the could deceive and therefor cheat the tax man while also committing this other crime. and the deceit of the tax man, the alleged tax purpos restructuring of these payments, is again, as described b prosecutors, one of th attempted crimes tha prosecutors need to be able to point to so all of this all, o this, can be charged as felony instead of just as misdemeanor. one last point here. just not this up from the arraignment today here is how the lead prosecuto laid it up to the judge to kic off the arraignment toda basically, after trump pled no guilty he says this the defendant, donald j trump, falsified new york busines records in order to conceal an