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
Assigned to me that the da was not pushing for a faster trial meant they may have somethin else up their sleeve catherine, when you are looking at these discussions again, you are the expert, you have been there inside thi prosecutor s case, you brought this charges today mr. something that you saw today that you either think we are getting the won way around or that you saw differentl than is generally bein observed nothing wrong but i will be the want to sa that donald trump is innocen until proven guilty. so i ll put that out there these are allegations. i want to go to the statemen of facts that you so clearly said it was like the aha moment the statement of facts, th roadmap that is going to prove mr. trump s intent to defrau and his intent to commit o conceal another crime. so it was very important, when i first heard that they do testing in a fact that the didn t understand, then of course i read them and then that is basically their roadmap. that is what they are saying thi
Made that the district attorne bag has a better prosecution o the facts then the feds do because he alone has the business records crime that is not a federal crime. that is not something that the would be able to bring in th southern district. so, it is tricky if michael cohen was a full an open, total disclosure cooperator in the southern district - still decided not to go forward, i don t get to, but i do understand why we are where we are now with bragg can we also make the note that this office, this da office, prosecute this - all the time there s one sense in which the goose news about this is thi is a mundane business record crime that is not uncommon and it is not uncommon from this prosecutor so, his most recent victor against trump llc s make up the trum corporation was about business