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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Is connected to, that feel very explicable, ver straightforward now as well. how do you feel about th overall strength of this case? i would call it medium high not completely high. a prosecutor would like more precedent, you d like more precedent on the books you mean, more cases like this than have been previously run? more cases like this i thin would be generally awful but donald trump, we should al remember, it is fairly unprecedented. these type of schemes are no habitually pursued so, that is what it is the other point that i think i great about the news, we lov learning new things. we know a lot more tonight tha we knew last night now we know, based on this theory the case, why we didn t charge a conspiracy. because while a conspiracy sounds big and bad, as our veterans there just explain, our prosecutors, raises th number of things you have to prove. and now we may know why mr pomerantz and others who are under the previous da leadership there, under vance,
Of course, if you actually did it, that s gonna be very goo proof that you had the inten to do it but it s not actuall necessary. and in this case, ther actually is reason to thin that, for instance, the trum organization and donald trum himself might have wanted to deduct the, quote, legal fee as expenses. so, that would be tax fraud, but there is a reason to think he did not do that because i became the president and there were a lot of things that we re not done at tha point, as was shown in the trump organization trial tha fall, were basically the accountants turn to him said you know, what we re going t be under a lot more scrutiny so, the stuff that we ve bee doing, let s just offer now. all right, i feel like we talked early on about how th falsified documents part o this is something that you can put on tv. one full screen image, even se other false documents, kno that they re all very false, it s easy to understand. getting that explanation fro catherine and andrew makes m f