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
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
year ago that will do it for me on this in - i see you again tomorrow at pm and next saturday noo eastern, my friend yasmi vossoughian is waiting here to take it away hey, everybody. good to see you. good afternoon i am yasmin vossoughian fo you. just 48 hours away from hi arraignment, and a big new announcement from donald trump in the past few hours. plans for a big speech following his court hearin tuesday. this as a kennedy is tightenin around the manhattan - authorities prepare fo protests and democrats and republican debating what this means for the country. it s a very sad time fo america. i feel like other people deserve salad for our countr to have to go through this it s one thing when you hav a cancel culture, it s another when you have a cancel crimina justice system and the trump - remaining fiercely loyal brogdon have a chance, he s using politics as a weapon it is all made up. we will have more of th good liars talking to trum supporters ahead
Records and tax records, e cetera, so this is something that would happen to anyone. you want to talk about thi what happened this would happen to anyone as the bread and brother of a white collar crimes. i would say though, we keep coming, you end up coming back to this philosophical bedroc of what the law is what is the law? what is equal justice under law? this is the betting story of the entire trump era i think when you read this indictment, right, i think either - is defensive it is a bubble case. it is not a slam dunk, i don t think. they are going to have - it feel so much more soli to me today than it did before i saw this indictment, though. i mean, again on, the facts but on the - it is tricky you need to be able to prov that there were deliberately falsified business records falsified with intent fo corrupt purposes, and that the were falsified in order to conceal or facilitate whit collar crime today we got the recitation of the crime and the i didn t expec
They are going to have - it feel so much more soli to me today than it did before i saw this indictment, though. i mean, again on, the facts but on the - it is tricky you need to be able to prov that there were deliberately falsified business records falsified with intent fo corrupt purposes, and that the were falsified in order to conceal or facilitate whit collar crime today we got the recitation of the crime and the i didn t expect that much. i thought that with all th critique that this was such bubble issue in terms of the law that it would be muc fuzzier, it would be muc harder to explain, we will b spending three or four segment trying to walk people throug what the connection was to mak his fellow many, it is brunt alvin bragg leads on lean, on it that is one of the things he i looking to move to felony. one thing that is very clea is that if you file a business record for an expense in new york, new york is a very tough state to run a business. if you file a re