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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Christa s question in the last segment, where he said isn t this still a really tenuou case, isn t there a proble because this is a legal issu in this case more than a factual issue. and this is where i wa actually impressed in terms of what was charged there because there s so man different ways in which the da as laid out how he can get to felony he has suggested in his oral remarks that one way is th federal campaign laws. another way is the state campaign laws. a third way is he talked about ami is showing false statements, and this was in furtherance of the state movements. and a fourth wave was ta charges, exactly what you ha laid out, rachel, in terms o the scheme to have michael cohen commit tax fraud which, by the way, is exactl the kind of thing that was alleged in the trump organization weisselberg cas
You don t actually have to commit that crime. so, that s why you would necessarily need to charge it. that s something that alan bragg said also, if one of the crimes tha your thinking could be used as that bump up is a federal, crime and then that is not something you could charge the state court anyway now, this really goes to christa s question in the last segment, where he said isn t this still a really tenuou case, isn t there a proble because this is a legal issu in this case more than a factual issue. and this is where i wa actually impressed in terms of what was charged there because there s so man different ways in which the da as laid out how he can get to felony he has suggested in his oral remarks that one way is th federal campaign laws. another way is the state campaign laws. a third way is he talked about ami is showing false statements, and this was in furtherance of the state movements. and a fourth wave was ta charges, exactly what you ha laid out, rachel, in terms o