alvin bragg's new york that doesn't often happen. we have criminals who commit very serious crimes who never actually get charged and never find their way into the courtroom. when they get into one of alvin bragg's courtrooms if they start out with a felony, if it gets down to a misdemeanor that's actually lucky for the public. very often there is not even misdemeanor dispositions. i just think it is like living in an alternative universe listening to these guys if you actually spend time in new york, if you grew up in new york like i did, and you saw the plummeting of crime from the 90s for the 25 years after that, which was accomplished by actual prosecution of cases, and then you have a district attorney who comes in with what he called the day one memo, which basically said there is a new regime in town and what we'll try is non-prosecution. that's what criminals get in new york unless their name is donald trump. >> dana: wanted to ask you about something, trey, which is the amounts of taxpayer dollars that has gone forward in th

alvin bragg declined to bring a separate case, but alvin bragg chose to bring this case.nd i see trump now says of the da quote, he thought it was from what i read and from what i heard, inappropriately handled before he got there. trump is sort of mish mashing several different stories in his head because there was a separate investigation of a separate crime that alvin bragg, when he took office in 2022, declined to charge. but that had to do with with donald trump's finances. this hush money case is a case. look, i disagree with the decision, but alvin bragg made the decision to bring this case. and obviously he and his office, the manhattan da's office, stands behind it. i see trump said, quote, he said i was falsifying business records, falsification of business records. that is the underlying charge here. the hush money payments are at the core of this case. the falsification is the actual crime. >> and artifacts. we're hearing a lot of what he's saying in the halls of the court. after each proceeding or during the breaks. he was always very, very steadfast in his b

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and alvin bragg is a prime example.ess records violation somehow becomes a phantom felony and in the end nobody actually knew what he was convicted of it wasn't a unanimous jury verdict the best we can tell, nobody really knows. a bedrock violation bragg goes after good samaritans like daniel penny or a bodega worker who dared to defend himself when he was attacked. and he goes after a politician for purely political reasons. this is what alvin bragg has brought to new york city. >> brian: so monday, today, the election gets certified. friday, they want him looking like is he a convicted criminal. bottom line is that helped fuel the president's popularity. eventually, of course, he will probably appeal it. said you need the conviction in order to appeal it. so maybe this is a painful part of the process that ultimately would lead to his exoneration. thanks and you write about it on foxnews.com. thanks, gregg. >> my pleasure. >> brian: straight ahead first 100 days banning transgender athletes in women's sports. riley ga

everybody else who looked at the fact pattern took a pass except alvin bragg. resurrect it, put on makeup and call it a felony. what is funny, though, john, the prosecutor is arguing for the death penalty. if what you just read is what they are saying to the judge, that's a death penalty argument. meanwhile you are agreeing he shouldn't even be on probation. those two don't go together. you can't make an argument that you've shown disdain for the system and whatever else he is arguing and oh, by the way, we think the proper punishment for that is nothing. absolutely nothing. it was a colossal waste of time and resources that gained nothing except they helped reelect trump. >> dana: andy, could you talk to us about alvin bragg himself? these decisions that he has made and i don't -- you might not watch this program or our channel. is he aware of how this is being taken across the country? >> he may be aware of it. he is a smart guy, so i would think he is aware of it. however, this goes to a point that we've discussed a number of times. i think it's important to

. >> it does seem vindictive this case is law fair at its worst and more so on the alvin bragg end it have but basically what he's doing is saying conviction will stand but they won't be any punishment at all. again that sort of begs a question why not just a dismiss the canes let us move on and if you look at the immunity decision and the immunity decision basically from the supreme court said donald trump had immunity the entire time. it wasn't that they just created immunity for them in that decision and whole porn was that -- so that donald trump or any president could do their job without the fear of state officials or other officials. interfering with it and we're in a unique phase transition phase know he's not the president now this is a critically important phase where he's putting together his administration. that set to take effect on january 20th, the last thing he needs is to be distracted and disrupted by the sentencing which again isn't going to lead to anything but another point that judge merchan seems to be missing out on is this doesn't end the case because donald t

that is why alvin bragg's case, that is why he got convicted. not on the merits.ost: we will get a response. elizabeth wydra? guest: it is important to remember the serious charges that were brought against the people that attacked the peaceful transfer of power on january 6. we are talking about charges of seditious conspiracy. we are talking about charges of assaulting police officers, law enforcement. so camino, what happened on january 6 was a very serious attack on our democracy and we have seen that reflected in the charges that have been brought and the convictions that have been obtained against other people. people other than donald trump who participated in the events of january 6. host: we will go to john in florence, massachusetts. independents. caller: that is a joke. nobody was charged with insurrection, so you can stop saying that. that is a fools thing to say. why was the election official not allowed to testify about federal elections and how it was not a violation? play that part where john malcolm talks about that. why was trump not charged with

alvin bragg passed on.rime that was directed and dictated by a corrupt political system and administration. what did he talk about? he talked about the fires in california where many people are suffering. you think the judge at the end he so thank you. and he was stoic. that is the man who will lead this country, fix this judicial system, and led every judicial department and to what america used to know america was and i cannot wait. i know the american people can't wait that was clear on november fifth. >> sean: the statute of limitations in this case have ran out and alvin bragg came up with this novel legal theory and we had a legal entity a put together by a lawyer labeled as an nda. so i have a hard time understanding how this became on a local state-level what it would be a federal issue. wouldn't that fall under the supremacy clause? >> first of all you are trying to do something called mental gymnastics and the reason you can't understand it is because it is unthinkable. it is not found in any law

alvin bragg elected. marchand elected. these people are elected by the people. and they took their jobs in public service and used them for political ends. instead of using all of their time to throw the bad people in new york, which there are plenty of them on the streets in jail. that's the real, lasting impact of this. the abuse of the system for political purposes. when new york city is descending into a hellhole right now. >> well, call me the former prosecutor here. on this point, i don't know that i can bridge the gap immediately, as my two colleagues have to suggest that the pure motivation was a political result. i understand political process. i mean, prosecutorial discretion leaves many people wanting more information as to the why they choose some cases and not others. but politically, as we mentioned, i mean, there are a lot of democrats who wanted some sort of consequence, truth be told, and they're not getting it here. should democrats even approach this politically, given the concerns raised by scott and others? >> well, there are 34 convictions

ridicule in the case of alvin bragg, they brought it anyway. i think it's poetic justice that it is only the state of new york that has ever held this man accountable for anything he's ever done. crimes, civil issues. only new york has ever hold him accountable. so i will slightly disagree. i rarely disagree with david cay johnston, but i will disagree on that. i do think he should have gone to jail though for what he did. i do agree 100% on that. kathryn christian, george conway, katie phang, david cay johnston thank you, my friends. and coming up, the latest on the devastating wildfires in california. i will talk to two members of congress whose districts are impacted about the disastrous and dangerous information that misinformation, i should say that's spreading and how some republicans are already politicizing this tragedy. politicizing this tragedy. surprise, surprise when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't know who i would be. but here i am... ...being me. keep being you... ...and ask your healthcare provider about the number one presc

alvin bragg's case former u.s. prosecutors, lawyers, legal pros say will easily get overturned on appeal due to multiple constitutional violations. coming up next, attorney horace cooper will react to the details and break it down. also, tonight, this story. >> i'm not just maga. liz: we're digging into this news coming in. speaker johnson did keep the speaker gavel today. now democrats are turning to attacking elon musk. elon musk is going to try to cut literally trillions of your tax dollars they're wasting on over spending. we've got news the tens of billions democrats demanded for more irs audits to audit you to pay for all that spending is on the chopping block plus this story. >> you know -- >> i'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize pressure. >> after i sign the act into law -- liz: okay we've got media watchdogs hammering the media and biden's white house team for covering up biden's cognitive decline. we've got the details. it's happening right as biden is trying to undermine trump in a new big way. yo

alvin bragg had a job to do. jack smith has had a job to do. that is a different conversation because of how the federal government goes about and their rules with respect to prosecuting, sitting, sitting presidents. but alvin bragg did what he was supposed to do, and he got a conviction for millions of americans. jose, the idea of being saddled with a felony conviction can be a huge and tremendous obstacle, not only because of the penalties that are imposed, but just the label itself. it is very jarring to see and to feel and to watch someone when we've been saying literally for years, decades, even that no man is above the law in the united states of america, because that's how our system works. to watch someone essentially walk out of court a free man with the same label that will prohibit some other people from finding housing, from getting jobs, traveling, being able to travel and live a from being able to vote, even though and he will have his right to vote taken away in florida from being able to live a normal life. and so for me, i am t

did alvin bragg get what he wanted at all? >> i think that he did. this is enormously popular with his base. this was a thrill kill and this was the thrill. and ultimately this court imposed no punishment at all but did give trump's critics what they wanted. that is to label him as a convicted felon. sentencing by sound bite. it will be repeated like a mantra in the media. the first convicted felon to take the oath. even though this case may not last. the verdict against trump has a very good chance of being overturned. the verdict against the new york legal system will be far more lasting. it allowed itself to be weaponizeed. it allowed itself to be the product of lawfare. and that is going to leave the much more lasting mark than i think this verdict on trump. >> harris: i knew this was a thing. when i traveled to georgia for that all-women town hall, kerri, there were people using the word lawfare in conversations i was having with voters. it was resonating this wham exactly what that was. it wasn't just one of those hashtags. they said they knew

alvin bragg reportedly was on the radar screen to do this.state, a state, new york state books and records, parking ticket the misdemeanors, bookkeeping misdemeanors, and ramped them up into federal felonies where the state has no jurisdiction over federal campaign finance law, and they never proved that any of this in any way changed anyone's vote. >> they -- no. the reporting would have occurred after the election. the alleged federal violation is not a federal violation as i just explained. the state had no jurisdiction to prosecute a federal violation even if they did have a violation. hillary clinton, i will remind you, had a similar infraction at the same time. she had a civil penalty instead. yes. i mean, there are at least five or six ways in which this case will be reversed. it was a gross abuse. it should be reversed. it should have never been brought in the first place. elizabeth: yeah. a lot of unconstitutional violations, constitutional violations -- >> serious ones. elizabeth yeah. i mean, the fec, as you point out, and the doj

alvin bragg did propose a few options the judge rejected here.n element of finality. it doesn'tjust pause the case, it allows for finality. so trump can pursue any appeals he may have, what he has not already pursued, but it allows the conviction to stand. it achieves both of those things at the same time and it preserves the jury verdict, thatjudge merchan went on and on in his decision. it's a well reasoned decision about the importance of preserving that decision, preserving the jury's decision here. you know, it really underscores the importance of the jury process. because there had been another option floated, that was the case made by district attorney alan bragg, the sentencing could be postponed, suppose to 2029, when donald trump is out of the white house. why do you think the judge is leaning the other way? alvin bragg did propose a few options the judge rejected here. what this does is it allows for an element of finality. it doesn'tjust pause the case, it allows for finality. so trump can pursue any appeals he may have, what he has n

in this case, okay, and we talked about this yesterday as far as alvin bragg and his priorities. jamaar banks is the gentlemen's name i shouldn't calm him a gentlemen is a thug's name he stabbed two people on the subway. january 1st and then again on january 2nd. guess how many time this is guy has been arrested in new york city? 87 times. and not just for stealing a toothbrush from a cvs but assault major crimes yet alvin bragg put him out there and his priorities are way out of whack nicole. >> we've seen that i was thinking this was a quieter "newsweek" after the disaster that's been this last week. but i guess not. >> alicia as far as donald trump, this is just the democrats basically saying look, this is the first convicted felon that serves as president it is a nice headline but i don't think many people -- regular folks that voted in this election really care about that all that much because we don't have an idea in this case what he actually did wrong from a, you know, breaking the law stand point. >> we all remember that actually is each case came forward and each charge

here, alvin bragg, and the way it was tried. a lot of areas in which it could be appealed. is there any way to fast track that appeal before the president is inaugurated or are we just going to have to live with this? >> well, the great irony in all of this is that i don't think anyone did more to help elect donald trump president of the united states. david: good point. >> than alvin bragg and tish james, in both cases you had two rogue prosecutors who decided that when they were running for office that they were going to go after donald trump. they said it. they ran on it. and then, in fact, did it. and in both cases, the charges make no sense. in the case of alvin bragg, he took what would have amounted to at worst a violation of the fc fec and turned it from a federal case to a state case, from a misdemeanor to a felony in that alone it should have been thrown out on the merits itself. david: congressman, i'm sorry to interrupt, but we've had so much breaking news. we only have a chance for one more question because of the carter funeral, et cetera. very quickly, yester

you're allowed to criticize alvin bragg, not members of his team. attacked alvin bragg for, just as you said, he's trying to. he was just trying to get me to lose the election. and then, you know, he sounds like a broken record. it's this whole, like, i was treated so unfairly. i'm a professional victim. and then. and then he looked kind of on the screen like he looked bored at times. like he wasn't engaged. this is your own sentencing. and then he's just kind of rambling about people he didn't identify about, you know, things he's heard and people, you know, things he's read. but like, not really identifying what it is. and then he starts praising the conservative legal pundits on fox. he's virtually heard of nobody who thought the thought that the case should have been brought. clearly, he doesn't watch a lot of msnbc. and it's just, you know, it was kind of this rambling, unhinged thing. and he he reminded me of the crazy defendant that you see at a sentencing, who's, you know, who's going to go to jail, not the person who's going to be the next

this is a case that alvin bragg did not want to bring.ght it was -- from what i read and from what i hear inappropriately handled before he got there. part of the records that we're talking about -- they're saying, i just noticed, where he said i was falsifying business records. well, the falsification of business records as they say was calling a legal expense in the books where everybody could see them a legal expense. in other words, legal fee or legal expense were put down by accountants. they weren't put down by me. and for this, i got indicted. it's been a political witch-hunt it. was done to damage my reputation so i would lose the election, and obviously that didn't work. and the people of our country got to see this firsthand because they watched it in the courtroom. they get to see this firsthand and then they voteed and i won. it's been a weaponization of government. they call it lawfare. never happened to any -- except like this. but never happened in our country before. and i would just like to explain that i was treated very

. >> is that is that in spite of enormous adversity, a credit to alvin bragg, a credit to judge merchan the prosecution, to the jurors, to the witnesses that this happened and to all of the lawyers, the defense lawyers and the prosecutors on that, on the case. and a credit to the supreme court last night, at least five of the justices saying he's going to be treated like everyone else, which is that, you know what? it's this is not alice in wonderland. everyone, you go through the trial, you get sentenced, and then you appeal, not in the other order. >> so that's all the good news. >> the bad news is, is when prosecutors steinglass said the defendant, the once and future president that what that signals about this country, what it signals to the rest of the world in terms of who we are, in terms of the rule of law in this country. the sentence was obviously not the sentence that donald trump deserved, but for winning the election. right. many people are looking at this thinking it's not really justice by putting this off, by having it sentenced. now he got away with it and he you know,

and the only justice has been done by the state of new york, by alvin bragg and judge marshand and that jury. they are heroic. they are the only people to have ever held this man accountable for anything he has done in country in aversion to the law. joining me on the phone is andrew weissmann, msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. i will let you register whether you agree with our ousurprise, d if you could, andrew, because to me this decision by the supreme court, this very surprising decision is also an indictment in many ways on the justice department, which has so clearly failed to hold donald trump accountable even for an attempted coup. but it is new york. it is the stalwart pursuit of justice by alvin bragg and the commitment of this judge to follow through and to have had case come to finality that has brought us here. your thoughts? >> well, there is no question that you can't say enough good things about alvin bragg and about the state court judge here who did the right thing and kept their head down and wanted to make sure that the rule of law applied regardless

alvin bragg and juan merchant for unwittingly helping him win reelection. but the real loser in all of this is the new york legal system. it is now in tatters. >> all right. we appreciate you both. thank you, greg jarrett. thank you professor. we appreciate it. when we come back, as historic wildfires are ravaging the great state of california, governor ron desantis calling out the media for failing to hold governor gavin newsom accountable. wait till you hear what he had to say as we continue. >> i'm matt morgan and morgan and morgan. >> your car steering wheel could be a ticking time bomb. at least 24 people have died and many more injured because their airbags fired shrapnel at them. upon inflating, tens of millions of cars have been recalled, including models made by honda, acura, ford, toyota, nissan and many others. if you've been in a crash involving a deployed airbag, please contact us today. you could be owed money for medical bills and other damages. morgan and morgan for the people. >> hi, grandma. i played baseball today. oh that's great. >> wha

and it's not just jack smith, it's also alvin bragg. they overshot, and the public made a decision on election day that perhaps donald trump was not near the threat that continued democratic governance was. some of that's on jack smith, some of that's on alvin bragg for biting off more than they could chew, for moving too slowly, for not getting a conviction that would stand up with public scrutiny. so i view this today as mainly a pr report by jack smith. there's not going to be a competing report from the defense in this case. that's not how this works. so this is and there's not much new that the american public is going to be surprised by here. >> i just on the the the worst possible thing that jack smith had was fani willis, alvin bragg and all of the state prosecutors because the strongest potential cases against donald trump were the ones jack smith was bringing, particularly the one in florida where. >> but even there, he overshot. >> well, but even but again, look at this. look at the conspiracy statute and tell me he overshot

many of us will be facing whatever i've seen alvin bragg and them have to do., he teaches sunday school. he has to bring this detail to church with him. we're going to have to go through the rough time. but in the end, i have to believe that right's going to overpower wrong, and donald trump will be donald trump, which will be his destruction. he is self destructive. he cannot help it. and i think that that is what we're going to see. i don't think that we should get out of character and behave like him, stoop to his level at all. we should maintain, as judge marchant did today, a dignity that people will seek when they see how low he can go. >> well, i was going to say the other thing, though, i think that we should be looking for and i think is real, is when the rule of law will be used. he's not going to come to new york, he's going to go to florida. and when other things happened, a lot of it will be in the shadows. and i think that that should concern us all. i think we have to look for the weak spots, and that's where they're going to go exactly. >> again

trey: york is home to alvin bragg and one other person who did not get the message of november. >> the american people have a right to know president-elect trump cabinet nominees are going to fight for them. americans have to ask what are republicans trying to hide when they don't want their nominees to have background checks and don't want to have full information about them. these nominees have in enormous power. republicans choosing to rush nominees is quickly becoming a pattern. it is hard not to wonder what are the republicans trying to hide about these nominees from the american people. what are they trying to hide, what are they afraid of. trey: i will let you in on a little secret, chuck schumer is not credible for trump nominees regardless. i don't think anyone cares what he thinks about for republican senators, what do they want to hear and know some nominees change position on key issues how do you judge the sincerity of the conversion, how much information is enough the ebb and flow with the nature of the office, joining the south carolina senator tim scott who chairs the s

alvin bragg put them back on the street and this guy actually step two people on the subway this weekng one in the back. biden wants to award a monster like george soros. a metal in the civilian honor that you can get, 14 days until donald trump gets into office. many with common sense in this country that cannot come quickly enough when joe biden is doing the sort of thing on his way out the door. >> i wanted bring this up lionel messi also has the message he skipped the ceremony didn't send anybody to pick it up for him. why would they pick line all messi in the first base? >> is the most popular soccer player in the world but one of the most biggest athletes we've seen since michael jordan, you stop and watch lionel messi a kid who play soccer you probably wouldn't do that when he would before. a lot of celebrities were given the metal as well. bono. i understand because he does a lot of charity work around the world and denzel washington who gives back to the community in a really good person. for semi-understand the symbolism of it all but lionel messi is a great soccer player. b

trump also said in his statement that bragg, alvin bragg, the d.a. nt to bring the case but the judge went forward anyway. merchan works for bragg, doesn't he? >> he doesn't work for bragg. the courts and prosecutors are independent. bragg could always have gone into court and say we want to charges dismissed and he could have said what we call with prejudice so they can never be brought again. courts can't force prosecutors to continue cases that they don't want to bring. i just -- the idea that bragg, who ran on going after trump, who went after trump, did it in a determined way. pulled all kinds of shenanigans in the trial with white house officials testifying. it is implausible to say bragg never wanted to bring the trial and merchan forced him into it. merchan should have gotten rid of this case. the verdict was in may. the supreme court issued its immunity decision for presidents on july 1. it is now as you point out on that calendar early january. merchan has had the last six months to go forward with sentencing and let an appeal go forward bec

alvin bragg says judge merchan was correct planning conviction was not related to trump's official actst, bet that paying off stormy daniels was all a private matter. the prosecutor saying, contrary to the defendants claim, he invoked presidential amenity does not entitle him to automatic stay of further trial proceedings pending appeal." judge merchan has indicated he will sentenced trump to unconditional discharge. that means the president will serve no jail time and allowing trump to attend a hearing on friday virtually if he doesn't want to show up in person. if they appellate court, by the way, ends up siding with trump, the sentencing would not go forward friday. the court, by the way mixed results, as i said, it did not side with trump last april when the court allowed the trial to go forward and start in the first place. not siding with trump's lawyers at that time, john. >> john: a lot of critics believe judge merchan looking for a trophy here and nothing much more than that. eric, thank you, now this. >> despite the fact that we are to are transferring these people to oman to

you know, after we fired joe biden and kamala, we're going to fire kathy alvin bragg, tish j. james. you're fired. as i said, president trump has fought for us. it is now our opportunity to for him and new york. we made history when. we fired nancy pelosi once and for all and flipped those five congressional seats. we need to make history again. so nine days flat, the polls vote for president donald j. trump to save new york and save america. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. all right. they tell me we had a trump rally. i had no anybody. yeah. i tell you, he's in there right now, but i'm ready to do one thing. his mettle, george is making ready for in two days. and we're going to make 45, 47. you you know, there's a lot that we can do and there's a lot of things going on right now. but, you know, when i look out across this audience right now, i see a lot of strong women. i see a lot of big patriots who are here. it's time to get on feet and get ready for the next president of the states. when we understand what is at stake, they make

all of those cases fell aside the alvin bragg case actually happened but a lot of legal experts thinkoverdone. it was politically motivated and never should have been brought. even if trump it not been elected president of the united states they still thought it was a case that had no legal marriage. one thing that does happens after merchan sentences trump he will formally appeal the verdict which i don't know how much time is going to spend as a president of the united states doing that. it's certainly a verdict that needs to be appealed. bill: as you can imagine trump is not happy about the sentencing he posted on truth social and part there's never a president so evilly and illegally treated as i corrupted prosecutors and not against a political pawn of a president, me at levels of indifference never seen before. is he right? >> is what trump and republicans call l'affaire. there is no doubt elected democratic prosecutors in new york state and also in georgia filed the felony charges against trump. the elected democratic attorney general in new york state filed a hugely damaging l

what is the professional standing now of alvin bragg and judge merchan?have their reputation to deal with. i think the whole country saw what happened here. they've all formed their opinions. i think we know what the majority of the country thinks. biggest problem is that really professional, really excellent prosecutors who are trained and have spent their lifetime prosecuting real crimes were distracted by this over the last four years. and politics aside, many criminal prosecutors -- doesn't matter if you're on the left of the right, you're going after the bad guys. so many bad guys, i believe, got away in a way that we can't count because the best prosecutors were put on this fundamentally unfair, novel case. that's a tragedy that we can never play back the time on, we can never get back. stuart: something's different from just a moment. special counsel david weiss, he's expected to release his report on the hunter biden investigation. could come out next week. what would happen now that biden's been pardoned? anything? >> well, i'll start by saying i

justice sotomayor your ordered this attorney alvin bragg, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, tothe trump petition by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, which is almost exactly 24 hours before donald trump is scheduled to be sentenced. justice samuel alito did not say that he would recuse himself from the new trump appeal, even after it was revealed today that he asked donald trump for a favor yesterday. justice alito explained the situation this way. william leavy, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from president-elect trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position. i agreed to discuss this matter with president-elect trump and he called me yesterday afternoon. so yesterday afternoon, samuel alito is on the phone with donald trump, recommending that he hire one of his former law clerks from the trump administration. that is a call that could have waited. samuel alito knew that donald trump was appealing his sentencing schedule and would very likely be appealing directly to the supreme court, any minute now, but the supreme court justice got on the phon

alvin bragg is its happiest lawyer.eyo end of thu e day, you e a case that was dead misdemeanor that was zapped back into life with novel m theory that turned into this mountain of felonies. and then it went before a judgew in my heel, discarded due process. we still do not know what the s to theided a underlying conduct in the case. i was in that courtroom -- >> laura: so was i. >> i was in disbelief how thein court was ruling. >> laura: this was a raw abuseef of judicial and prosecutorialth power in the united states. that is what it was. e but apparently we have fivegh justices on the supreme court. who thinks this has to go througy h normal course. are we surprised by amy coney barrett in this or not? >> no, justice barrett has been plaguing more and more of aole central role or centrist role of the court. c is often voting with the left of the court. she is sort of carving out her own voice and her own place. i don't want to condemn her for n it. >> it is her prerogative.>> >> she is a very thoughtful jurist. what

this is a case alvin bragg did nowant to bring. from what i read and hear he thought it was inapproialy handled before he got there. a gentleman from a law firm acted as a d.a. that gentleman from what i heard was a criminal or almost criminal in what he did. it was inappropriate. somebody involved with my politicalppent. part of the rords we are talking about, i just noticed he said i was falsifying business records. well the falsification of busiss recordsashey say, was calling it a legal expense and the books where everyone cod e them, in other words legal expense was put down by legal expense. they were not put down by me. they were put down by accountant i did not ca tm construction, concrete wor electrical work. a legal expense. for this, i got indicted. it's incredible. if you look, my attorney alluded to it, the top legal scholars and pundits in this coury that are quoted all the time on , at are making their views lt, highly respected people, have said everyone, virtually everyone i know of, haven't seen any to the contrar

this is a case that alvin bragg did not want to bring. he thought it was, from what i read and what i hear a gentleman from a law firm came in and acted as a district attorney and that gentleman from what i heard , it was very inappropriate, somebody involved with my political opponent. part of the records we are talking about, i just noticed where i was falsifying business records. the falsification of business records, as they say, it was a legal expense in the book so everyone could see them. legal fees or legal expense were put down by legal expense by accountants. they weren't put down by me, they were put down by accountants. i didn't call them construction, concrete work. i didn't call them electrical work. they were called a legal fee or legal expense a legal expense and for this i got indicted. it is incredible actually. now, if you look, my attorney alluded to it, the top legal scholars and legal pundits in this count, the ones that are quoted all the time on television that are making their vis felt and highly respected people

not only did this case not move expeditiously, neither did the alvin bragg case. they waited. as mark pomerantz put it, over a year too long. so all of these issues now that are going on with sentencing and with the criminal conviction, i hate to say it, and people will get angry at me. i was very clear when i spoke to vanity fair. i believe that they should toss the case. there is no repercussion. the hush money is going to take place to donald trump on that case. as far as what paula reid said, i agree with her completely. merrick garland waited too long to bring in jack smith. plain and simple. he is going to. meaning donald trump is going to shut that down. this case will never see accountability for whether he did or he didn't. now, where she's also correct is that this case with with jack smith has not been decided yet to. so to release a report that has not been validated, that jack smith, as the special counsel, has not been validated, i think goes against process and we have to start expecting process needs to be first, whether you like donald trump or you don't. >> a

this is a case that alvin bragg did not want to bring, and he thought it was one i read. and from what i hear, that inappropriately handled before he got there, a gentleman from a law firm came in and acted as a district attorney. and that gentleman, from what i heard, was a criminal or almost criminal in what he did. it was very inappropriate. it was a somebody involved with my political opponent. part of the records that we're talking about, they're saying, i just noticed where he said i was falsifying business records. well, the falsification of business records, as they say, it was going illegal expense in the books where everybody could see them. a legal expense, in other words, legal fees or legal expense were put down as legal expense by accountants. they weren't put down by me. they were put down by accountants. i didn't call them construction concrete work. i didn't call them electrical work. i didn't call them. they called a legal fee or a legal expense, a legal expense. and for this i got indicted. it's incredible actually. now, if you look, my attorney alluded

this is a case that alvin bragg did not want to bring. and he thought it was, from what i read and from what i hear, that inappropriately handled before he got there, a gentleman from a law firm came in and acted as a district attorney, and that gentleman, from what i heard, was a criminal or almost criminal in what he did. it was very inappropriate. it was a somebody involved with my political opponent, part of the records that we're talking about, they're saying, i just noticed where he said i was falsifying business records. well, the falsification of business records, as they say it was calling a legal expense in the books where everybody could see them a legal expense. in other words, that legal fees or legal expense were put down as legal expense by accountants. they weren't put down by me. they were put down by accountants. i didn't call them construction concrete work. i didn't call them electrical work. i didn't call them anything. they called a legal fee or a legal expense, a legal expense. and for this i got indicted. it's incr

separadas y este caso se lo presentaron fueron las autoridades de new york de nueva york, el fiscal alvin bragg miembros del jurado residentes de aquÍ de nueva york. >> nicole gracias, cristina. durante esta audiencia tenÍa un tiempo ilimitado para hablar y bueno, lo aprovechÓ y bueno, si pudo definir este caso en sus propias palabras, ahora se suma a esta conversaciÓn el abogado constitucionalista joseph malou. muy buenas tardes. abogado. por quÉ darle libertad incondicional si cada cargo conlleva una pena mÁxima de hasta cuatro aÑos de prisiÓn? >> muy buen punto, nicole, pero en este caso tienes el hecho de que el individuo que va a ser sentenciado tambiÉn va a tener a cargo en una cosa de diez dÍas las riendas del paÍs. y alguien que estÁ en la prisiÓn podrÍa amenazar la seguridad nacional. tener al presidente en una prisiÓn en vez de tenerlo en la casa blanca. asÍ que yo creo que el juez reconociÓ que si Él sentenciara a donald trump a la cÁrcel, que la corte suprema podrÍa intervenir. y para evitar eso y completar el proceso para que Él tenga el tÍtulo de convicto, el juez decidiÓ darle es