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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These are felony crimes in new york state, no matter who yo are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. why did donald trump repeatedl make these false statements? the evidence will show that he did so to cover up crime relating to the 2016 election. donald trump, executives of th publishing company, amiri mr. cohen and others agreed in 2015 to a catch and kill scheme. that is, a scheme to buy and suppress negative informatio to help mr. trump s chance o winning the election as part of this scheme, donald trump and others made thre payments to people who claim t have negative information abou mr. trump. to make these payments, they set up shell companies and the
You know and he had ami whose job was t fix this they agreed, these three entities agreed, don t worry all of the dirt in your bed, w will fix it. so when the dorman comes forward, give him 30 grand, fi it when the first woman karen mcdougal comes, no problem, we will fix it. then the third one comes along stormy daniels, we will fix it but then at some point the criminal justice system steppe in and said hey, michael cohen what was this long - oh you didn t tell the truth, t the bank felony and the feds came in and the next michael cohen then, at the last bit of thi filing today, in the narrative they talked about th intimidation campaign to get cohen to not talk. they talk about the fact tha cohen was told to just be smart, stick with us, we are good don t waver. you have friends in hig places you have friends in hig places but he ends up going dow anyway ami, second part of the plan they admit to the feds, this
Maloney a trump and barren trump were gonna be alive afte the election, right. but it just lays out in very plain english this whole defense that has been floate by your lawyers. can i just also say there are two things by th michael cohen stormy daniels case that have always bother m about it that never just mad sense to me. one was why did michael cohe get reimbursed $420,000 for 130,000 dollar payment i never understood that before today. first of all, they doubled it. they thought he would be in th 50% tax bracket. they were going to listed as i it was income. and then second of all, they odom another 50 grand fo something else, and there something else got 1000 dollar bonus 50, 60,000 dollar bonus so i m like, okay, that s how you got four and $20, 000, that s tax fraud, that s adorable so, that s one but also, why did it tak michael cohen so long to mak the payment to stormy daniels? why is the delayed why was his lawyer threatening them why did they get to 12 day before