and another loss for the trump movement sweeping across the state. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning a jammed back morning joe starts now. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. he knew there was no case. it was a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud. everybody said this is not really an indictment, there s nothing here. these are felony crimes in new york city state. my lawyers said there s nothing here. the defendant repeatedly made false statements. they re not not saying what you did. he always caused others to make false statements. charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. everyone stands equal before the law. donald trump and manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, held two very different news conferences following yester
get connected on the day of your move with the xfinity app. can i sleep over at your new place? can katie sleep over tonight? sure, honey! this generation is so dramatic! move with xfinity. katy tur. and this hour we re going to be exploring the political and the practical consequences of thursday s momentous decision. we ll dig deeper into how donald trump s sentencing will play out when he s back in that new york city courthouse 41 days from now . it is just a handful of days before the republican national convention, but we re going to start right there on the political side, on the ledger with the republican party seeming to relish what would have once been the unthinkable, backing a convicted felon as their presidential nominee. that decision won t officially come until the rnc convention mid-july. again, just days after donald trump s sentencing, but it seems all but assured based on the party s near total embrace of the former president since his guilty verdict cam
indictment came out i thought about two pop cultural moments one where s the beef as far as the felony goes. and the second was well, the second one was see i forgot what it was. because the 80s it blurred oh, big. the scene in big, i don t get it what s different from what we ve been hearing all along and the wall street journal editorial page said for this to be a felony bragg needs a second crime. what is it bragg said i m not sure what the second crime are, i don t have to tell you what the second crime is i talked to a lot of lawyers yesterday, none of them republicans, none of them trump supporters, and all of them saying this is a little thin what were your thoughts? i disagree in the following sense. they don t have to specify this early in the case which of the three possible theories of
if it s a mara misdemeanor, it just a misdemeanor but the fact of the matter there s no dispute he committed a violation of law. is there a statute of limitations, though, if it s a misdemeanor. i thought he had to bump it up to a felony to get around the statute of limitations issue yes, there is an issue with the statute of limitations at the same time, though, he s still going to be able to have the opportunity to prove that it is a felony. and there are you know, he has these theories that could bump it up and i m not sure why, at this point, people are worried about whether or not the charges were severe enough to justify an indictment this is a man who does not deserve any breaks on any laws in any ways.
that we know that wisconsin is a great example. another moment where republicans who tethered themselves to trump have taken a loss in a key battleground state but new york is the opening act. there are other cases coming, georgia in a matter of weeks and special counsel jack smith who trump suggests that s not his real name, a new talking point he s using an alias. he has the documents and january 6th. this is all on the horizon that can t be good for trump or republicans. it s only going to get worse. the walls are closing in on this man. and if you think maybe this wasn t a felony that was charged yesterday, there were no felonies charged yesterday we have felonies coming. we ve seen the news about what smith is investigating that his own people that trump s own people have basically documented how trump may have looked at these