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
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. he is saying this is tabloid watergate. everything that you are saying that we were told we knew, i was small, we are nino but this he knew about what? new the links that and the extent of a corporate, secre lying, now federally convicted plot to mislead the american public, to hide things tha which might have affected thei vote, and do so in a manne that is already convicted crime.
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.