complete the scheme, they planned to mischaracterize the repayment to michael cohen as income to the new york state tax attorneys -- tax authority. the conduct i just described and that which was charged by the grand jury's felony criminal conduct in new york state. true and accurate business records are important everywhere, to be sure. they are all the more important in manhattan, the financial center of the world. that is why we have a history, the manhattan district attorneys office, of vigorously enforcing white-collar crime. my office, including the talented prosecutors you saw at arraignment earlier today, have charged hundreds of felony falsifying business records. this charge is the bread and butter of our white-collar work. fraud presents itself in all different forms in manhattan. we have charged falsifying business records for those who violated federal bank secrecy laws. have charged falsifying business records for those who are seeking to cover up sex crimes. and we have brought this charge to those who committed tax violations. at its core, this case today is one without -- with allo

cohen as income to e new york state tax auorities. e contact i just described, and that which was charged by the grand jury, is felony criminal conduct in new york state. true and accurate business records are important everywhere, to be sure. they are all the more important in manhattan, the financial center of the world. that is why we have a history in the manhattan das office of vigorously enforcing white-collar crime. my office, including the talented prosecutors you saw arraignments today, have charged hundreds of felony falsify business records for next records. this charge is the bread and the fraud presents itself in all different forms here in manhattan. we have charged falsifying business records for those who violated federal bank secrecy laws. we have charged falsifying business records for those seeking to cover up sex crimes. we have brought this charge for those who committed tax violations. at its core, this case today is one with allegations, like so many of our white-collar -- allegations someone lied again and again

good afternoon. 34 fall statements made to cover up other crimes, these are felony crimes in new york state, no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. the defendant repeatedly made false statements on new york business records. he also caused others to make false statements. the defendant claimed he was paying michael cohen for legal services performed in 2017. this simply was not true. and it was a false statement the defendant made month after month in 2017. april, may, june, and so on through the rest of the year. for nine straight months, the defendant held documents in his hand containing this key lie, that he was paying michael cohen for legal services performed in 2017, and he personally signed checks for payments to michael cohen for each of these nine months. in total, the grand jury found there were 34 documents with this critical false statement. why the donald trump repeatedly make these false statements? the evidence will show he did so to cover up crimes related to the 2016 election. donald trump, executives at the publishing company ame

one of the concealed crimes we alleged is new york state election law. i went through our statement of facts and many of you have it in front of you, goes through things including text messages, emails, contemporaneous phone records, multiple witnesses. all of that will be borne out in a public courtroom in downtown manhattan. reporter: [indiscernible] reporter: [indiscernible] -- the payments to stormy daniels, the release from your office also mentions another woman. can you comment on how those are related to the charges you brought in the case overall? d.a. bragg: i am glad you put your finger on that. it's not just about one payment, it is 34 business records, 30 four false statements and business records that were conceiving criminal conduct, and the earlier question about new york state election law, talking about conspiracy to promote a candidacy by unlawful means those unlawful means include the conduct set forth in the statement of facts, which is additional false statements, planned false statements to taxing authorities. it is not just that o

falsifying new york state business records. reporter: [indiscernible] >> i am not going to go beyond the plain language stating the facts which speak for themselves. reporter: [indiscernible] >> the charges falsify business records. the charge requires that i specify criminal conduct that was concealed. one of the concealed crimes is new york state election law. our statement of fact goes through things including text messages, emails, phone records, multiple witnesses. all of that will be borne out in a public courtroom in downtown manhattan. reporter: the release from your office mentions another woman. [indiscernible] >> i am glad you put your finger on that. because it is not just about one payment. it is 34 business records. 34 false statements and business records that were concealing criminal conduct and the earlier question about new york state election law, conspiracy to promote the candidacy by unlawful means. that includes the conduct set forth in the statement of facts, which is additional false statements, planned f

you successfully with his bill would notice new york state to move to greener future. creating thousands of jobs in the process -- she was heading to the state capitol building in albany. every tuesday groups invited to lobby the government. there's a whole presentation on gun violence. whatever legislation they're pushing. and and people come from all over the state to follow it and then. yes some of these folks are probably going off and having meetings with their elected officials. from their communities this is genuine kind of book no politics is happy right. this is that how it works in this country there's a lot of interesting ironies that happen on tuesdays in albany. i might be here pushing for something that you stop a pipeline. and i'm a get on the elevator with someone from the oil and gas association of america who's got a paid lobbyist there -- you know trying to do the exact opposite but by points all over the place. lewis is he meets with his local legislative to put forward the plan for a 100% renewable energy in new york state. when i left the meeting?

scheme they plan to miss -- mischaracterized the statements to michael cohen as income to the new york state tax authorities. the conduct i just described, that which was charged by the grand jury, is felony criminal conduct in new york state. true and accurate business records are important everywhere, to be sure. they are all the more important in manhattan. the financial center of the world. that is why we have a history in the manhattan d.a.'s office of vigorously enforcing white-collar crime. my office including the talented prosecutors you cite arraignment earlier today have charged hundreds of felonies with falsifying business records. discharge can be said to be the bread-and-butter of our white-collar work. fraud presents itself in all different forms in manhattan. we have charge falsifying business records for those that violated federal bank secrecy laws. we have charge falsifying this records for those seeking to cover up sex crimes. we have brought this charge of those that committed tax violations. at its core, this case today is one with allegations like so many of our white-c

these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. the defendant repeatedly made false statements on new york business records. he also caused others to make false statements. the defendant claim that he was paying michael cohen for legal services performed in 2017. this simply was not true. and it was a false statement that the senate made month after month in 2017 april may, june and so on. through the rest of the year for 9 straight mouse. the defendant held documents in his hand, containing this key lie that he was paying michael cohen for legal services performed in 2017. and he personally signed checks for payments to michael cohen for each of these 9 months. in total, the grand jury found there were $34.00 documents with this critical false statement . why did donald trump repeatedly make these false statements? the evidence will show that he did so to cover up crimes relating to the 2016 election. donald trump, executives at the publishing company, american media incorp

but if it's based on the new york state election laws, that's pretty strong and no brainer is not going to be much room there. none of them are federal charges. these are all state new york state charges, and all 34 of them are based on the idea that they falsified business records. they pretended that these hush money payments were for legal retainers or legal fees when they weren't the federal aspect might come in. if they're saying that these falsifications were intended to cover up a federal crime such as an illegal campaign contribution or violation of the campaign finance laws. but new york state itself also has campaign election laws and it remains to be seen if that's the crime that it will be paired with an under this particular law. they don't have to separately prove that, that crime happened. they merely to show that this crime happened with the intent to cover up that way. for is president dean of latte has survived an impeachment bed over handling of anti government protests. congress has rejected a motion to remove bull wattsey. he and ross broke out in december after the

and that might be an argument which a court would have to think about, but if it's based on the new york state election laws, that's pretty strong and a no brainer is not going to be much room there. none of them are federal charges. these are all state new york state charges, and all 34 of them are based on the idea that they falsified business records. they pretended that these hush money payments were for legal and retainers or legal fees when they weren't. the federal aspect might come in. if they're saying that these falsifications were intended to cover up a federal crime such as an illegal campaign contribution or violation of the campaign, finance was but new york state itself also has campaign election was and it remains to be seen if that's the crime that it will be paired with and under this particular war, they don't have to separately prove that, that crime happened. they really the show that this crime happened with the intent to cover opt out. but to other news, hand is really forces have arrested hundreds of palestinians after storming the alex and mosque and occupied east jeru

cohen as income to the new york state tax authorities. the conduct i just described is felony criminal conduct in new york state. true and accurate business records are important everywhere to be sure. they are always the more important in manhattan. the financial center of the world. that is why we have a history in the manhattan da's office of vigorously enforcing white collar crime. my office including the talented prosecutors you saw at arraignment earlier today has charged hundreds of felony falsifying business records. this charge can be said as the bread and butter of our white collar work. fraud represents itself in different forms here in manhattan. we have charged falsifying business records for those that violate the federal bank secrecy laws. we have charged falsifying business records for those who were seeking to cover up sex crimes. we have brought this charge for those who committed tax violations. at its core, this case today is one with allegations like so many of our white collar cases. allegations that someone lied agai

new york to 34 criminal charges. the 1st city or former u. s. president. to do so under new york state law is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud it intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. 34 false statements made to cover up other crocker's fees or felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. well, let's take a closer look at the case against the former president. the manhattan district attorney ivan bragg says, trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the 1st degree in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity before and after the 2016 election. the unseal indictment accuses trump of directing 3 different instances of hush money payments to cover up alleged affairs. a statement from the district attorney's office said from august 2015 to december 2017. trump orchestrated his couch and kill scheme through a series of payments that he then concealed through months of false business entries. in one instance, the dia le

i wonder, people are saying it is a federal election law, and bragg himself mentioned the new york staten law, and i wonder, no one has mentioned that. i think he was trying to give himself some wiggle room. he may not want to state what the law is to protect himself in case fulton county does something in georgia. because if he mentions it and fulton county comes out, it might be double jeopardy. i'm just thinking out loud. but the vagueness is just untenable in a case involving the president of the united states, and the fact that he was arrested is disgusting. it turns us into a third world country, to bring this man, who was the leader of the free world come into a manhattan criminal courtroom, where all kinds of people come in for rape and murder and child abuse, it's offensive to me. i have been a judge, and i have been a prosecutor in these court rooms. it's to me. >> harold: i want to open this up to everybody, but harris, i will come to you first beer in the break, we talked about michael cohen, it appears he is a central part of all of this, but it sounds like if you read it ca

these are felonies in new york state no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. >> this is what donald trump's lawyer had to say to reporters after the court hearing. >> how is he feeling right now? >> ready to fight. >> what does that mean? >> fight in court, to be clear. >> [indiscernible] >> from a political standpoint, that's not for me to answer. >> will these charges stick? >> absolutely not. >> what can we expect from trial? >> the prosecution said they were hoping for a trial to begin in january of next year, 2024. in response, trump's lawyers said they thought that that timeframe was a little, in other words, aggressive, and they told the judge they hoped to push it back to the spring of next year. the judge has not ruled on that yet. this is a long, slow process, but the key to this is both the prosecution and defense are looking at a trial date of next year, and if it's early next year, mid next year, or late next year, one thing is for sure -- that will be right smack in the middle of the 2024

new york state business records. [ inaudible question ] >> reporter: -- tax pumps, which you made your statements -- you allege -- [ inaudible question ] >> i'm not going beyond the plain language i think it speaks for itself >> reporter: -- violating state election laws, there are charges -- >> the charge is falsifying business records the charge requires, as i specified, criminal conduct that was concealed. one of the concealed crime we allege is new york state election law our statement of facts i believe you have in front of you, you know, goes through things including text messages, e-mails, contemporary unions phone records, multiple witnesses, all of that will be borne out in a public courtroom in downtown manhattan. [ inaudible question ] >> reporter: -- released from your office mentioned another woman, can you comment how those players are related? >> i'm glad you put your finger on that. it's not just about one payment. it is 34 business records, 34 false statements and business records, conceals criminal conduct. the earlier question about new york state election law, talki

in new york state, and i think it's a reasonable argument to say new york state law can't cover a federal election. what if any of this happens tomorrow? is there any opportunity tomorrow for trump's attorneys to get in there and file motions? you don't do that you would not file emotions until after you have the indictment until after you've been arraigned. they may preview it, they may say to the judge. here's some of the motions we believe we're going to bring, but the time for motions is a bit down the line. first things first. you get a rain tomorrow. then you start to get covering which means you get to see as any defendant the prosecution's evidence. it's an open book here. prosecutors have to turn over all evidence. good bad, indifferent, and then we'll get into motions and that's where we'll see those motions. by the way. none of us knows what's in this indictment. this could be a little bit of a different story tomorrow when we finally know what's in there. of course we have filed. cnn has to see the indictment today. no word yet on that, ellie, hold a great to have you here. th

he said, new york state law says he doesn't have to. this hour, former president trump is en route back to his florida estate, mar-a-lago, after pleading not guilty. the former president will speak in just a few hours, at 8:15 p.m. eastern time, let's get right back to lydia hu. she's been breaking the news outside the manhattan criminal court. lidia good to see you. reporter: great to see you as well, liz. that's correct. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records here at manhattan criminal court today, just hours ago. trump arrived at the courthouse at roughly 1:30 this afternoon and spared the handcuffs and mugshot but he was fingerprinted and later walked into the courtroom about an hour after arriving with a straight face, took a seat and at types the courtroom contained more than 20 law enforcement officers in uniform. justice juan marshawn decided not to issue a gag order on the former president but made it clear he could change his mind if he continues to see more social m

new york. in new york state alone, you have six republicans who represent democrat seats in the past they only had two. democrats see their route back to house majority running through those six seats in new york, seven in california and other states. part of the challenge for democrats is that republicans could go back and redraw maps and other states. at the same time, democrats pick up seats in north carolina and ohio last fall republicans took back control of the state supreme court and that is important because state supreme court's were the ones to invalidated the republican gerrymandering is the last time around. if these new state supreme courts agree in my legislatures to go back to revisit those lines in the middle of the decade that could give republicans an additional five seats in the house and doubled their cushion considering they sit on a narrow majority. >> that's just for the house, you don't see anything happening on the local level or does it impact local elections to? >> this trends across the board. we see a decline in the number of swing states, swing districts, swing cou

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these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. finland has become an nato's 31st to member. a ceremony was held at the alliance's headquarters in brussels, finland's president described the occasion as historic and nato secretary general said. the expansion shows that russia's attempts to weaken the alliance of backfired. finland flag hoisted high over nato headquarters in brussels and as anthems ring out helsinki, waves good bye to 8 security policy of the past and move prompted to directly by moscow's aggression toward ukraine. the era of military non alignment, you know, a history has come to an end, new era figures. it's gone to re maximize, he has its own security. so does finland. nato membership per strengthens our international position and to room for maneuver. nato allies take a collective defense pledge under which an attack on one is viewed as an attack on all that means finished troops are no bound to protect other members of the military alliance. and finland

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and states like new york still haven't recovered. and for the first time in recorded history, the state of florida has more total people employed than the state in new york. and that's saying something because we got a lot of retired people in the state of florida. so those results speak for themselves. but, you know, we've always had lower taxes in florida. that's nothing new. we've never had an income tax and we've always worked to keep government small. so that in and of itself, while it contribute cuts, that is not the only reason why people have moved. i think the pandemic caused people to reevaluate who was in charge of their state governments more than any other event in my lifetime. and you had to make a decision about how you were going to handle that. were you as the governor, going to look at everything or consume the data yourself, be mindful of your state's economic well-being, the education of your kids? yes, health in terms of covid, but also health in terms of every other thing. or were you going to basically subcontra

doctor kelles, uncontrolled energy use a factor of concern in your assessment of bitcoin mining in new york state>> absoluty. particularly given the impact our climate goals and, to, our energy grid. havevery aggressive climate goals. the conce was the amount of cryptocurrency mining that was growing rapidly in new york state would actually de-rail our ability to reach our climate goals. paicularly the more renewable infrastructure we put in place, if we divt that to the cryptocurrency mining, there is profound opportunity cost at that exclaim renewable energy infrastructure would not be available for all of the existing building infrastructure and trsportation infrastructure. two of thereatest contributed to the greenhouse gas which we wanted to get on to the electricity grid. >> thank you dr. kelles, very much. at this texture theres a roll call on the floor of the senate right now. we will leave it up to senator ricketts. my thought would be i would hand the gavel over to him. i'm going to run over and makes a roll call in trying to get back here, like a really lace, so he can get over and mak

there are limits. >> is nebraska, new york, and vice versa,'s new york nebraska? >> of easily not. >> they are different states. is it fair to say the different states they're going to have different rules with regards to power generation, and promoting clean air, things like that? >> yes. i would say with a caveat, that any increased energy demands that you are putting on to the grid means that you will need to produce more renewable energy infrastructure in order to make that great completely renewable. >> thank you, doctor. i've run over, thank you very much. >> i love this subject, honestly. every question we are asking is vastly expanding the body of knowledge for all of us. this is like the frontier in terms of issues, and it gets kind of arcane, until you have the discussion, then you can keep reducing it down to a more simple understanding of what we are talking about. and so i love any questions, because i'm learning from all of this as well. mr. alton berg, do you think that crypto linings reports are in line with the national goal? >> it certainly does. even the situation where we have crypto mining

new york, local office, congress, they were all running against trump. not about how they were going to do things for new york city or new york state or the country. so toxic in new york city. the numbers show it. the polling numbers show it. it's impossible to get a fair trial. it's absurd he's being charged for things that took place seven years. the time to have brought a charge would have been earlier. amer americans -- i don't see how he can get a fair trial in new york city. new york state potential. not manhattan. maybe he could get a fair trial in staten island. >> neil: maybe. thanks, don. good seeing you. always have an interesting perspective that ron desantis opts not to run given this. for those of you just tuning in, might not the semi attention to a former president back in the news in light of history to be made tomorrow. a 30-plus criminal indictment. the first for a former president. all that goes down tomorrow. right now he's back home in his new york home tonight. more after this. a third kid. what if she likes playing golf? it's expensive. we're outlawing golf. wait. can i still play? since we work with emower, we don't have to

facilitate with the false business records with the playoffs to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal new york state election fraud and violations of new york state criminal tax fraud now, i would submit to you that actually if we didn't have the laser focus that the world has on this particular indictment, i think you take a step back and say to yourself, that's actually a really shrewd tactical decision, and the reason is, ari, because with the threat of a challenge because of a federal preemption of election law, federal election law over new york state law, by having two theories backed in the indictment, the d.a. has the flexibility if -- and i don't think this is going to happen -- if in the event a court were to decide, well, you can't proceed under this theory with election law because federal law preempts new york state law he's still got the second theory so i say this is not only fair, right, but it's shrewd tactically. >> it's interesting you raise that tactically. this was eluded to yesterday, neal again, if the defendant's rights are somehow violated, a judge would be very interested i

these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. r the first time in united states history of former president is now facing criminal charges. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley and i'm dionne lim trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records the indictment accuses the former president of trying to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election by making a $130,000 hush money payment made to adult film actress stormy daniels the manhattan da called it part of a catch and kill scheme. the former president was fingerprinted, but no mugshot was taken tonight. trump is already back in florida where he is expected to speak from mar-a-lago and abc news reporter melissa, don isand joi. dan dion, what a monumental at this point former president trump is now back in palm beach and he's getting ready and gearing up to address a crowd here in mar-a-lago and that's where we're awaiting his remarks. former president donald trump now officially criminal defendant donald trump following his arraignmen

new york business records. these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. >> reporter: across from the courthouse, police tried to separate pro and anti-trump protesters. they don't have a permit. police can declare an unlawful assembly if it gets out of hands. marjorie taylor greene called the proceedings an injustice. >> donald j. trump is innocent. this is election interference. >> reporter: antitrump demonstators say justice is a long time coming. >> it's satisfying as a new yorker to see him finally see the inside of a courtroom and face a judge like every other criminal. >> reporter: trump's lawyers will fight the prosecution in court. once back in florida, he plans to hold a rally with invited guests at his mar-a-lago estate. trump called this a political prosecution, it's important to note that the decision as to whether or not there is enough evidence to criminally charge him was not made by a d.a. or judge but by 23 regular citizens in the grand jury. reporting in manhattan, michael george. reed, back to you. >> thank you. >

felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalizes serious criminal conduct now at five or historic indictment unsealed, former president donald trump has arranged in a new york city courtroom as prosecutors argue he falsified business records arising from hush money payments made to influence the 2016 presidential election. the former president pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges. good evening, everyone. i'm mike mibach julie julie haener. the arraignment in manhattan marks the first time in us history of former president has faced a judge in his own criminal prosecution. just a short time ago, the former president arrived at his mar a lago club in palm beach, florida. or he is expected to speak later this evening, and we do have live team coverage for you. foxes. alexis mcadams has been gathering reaction from new york city, ktvu brooks jarocz their in the newsroom with details on the next steps in the case. we begin with the historic arrangement and our political reporter greg lee greg cases hav

new york? and vice versa, is nebraska new york? >> no, it is not. >> they are different states. >> correct. >> is it fair to say that temperatures are gonna have different needs with the guards to power generation, permitting, clean air, things like that? >> yes. i would say with a caveat that any increased energy demands that you are putting on the grid means that you will need to produce more renewable energy infrastructure to make that great completely renewable. >> thank you doctor. i have run right over. thank you. >> no problem. i love this subject. it is, honestly, every question we are asking is vastly expanding the body of knowledge for all of us senators. this is like the frontier in terms of issues. it gets kind of arcane until you have the discussion in the you can keep reducing it down to a more simple understanding of what we are talking about. i love any question -- i'm learning from all of this, as well. mr. austinburg, do you think crypto mining supports or undermines our national goal for clean, affordable, and reliable electricity grid? >> it certainly does.

these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. t w. washington guarantee. venus paul has been following the story from new york and she told us more about the charges brought against donald trump. i was quite a day here nichol. we started really early and it was really intense helicopters, i still cruising over the court. i saw to simplify what's happened. the prosecutors are saying they're donald trump, are broke election law by falsifying business records to cover up bad information about him. information which might have heard his chances to become elected as the president of the united states. many people here and probably around tonight is states and maybe even around the world. we're hoping for some bombshells today to be disclosed. they might be disappointed because we didn't really learn really very new things, but it still might be far too early, really to say, or what we are will be a kind of learning over the course of the next days. because this is just like th

losing a bunch of ses in new york state and that included the chair of the democratic campaign committeethere was only so much the democrats and d. could do to control what was going on in albany. democrats in new york tried to gerrymander a map thatould give them 22 out of 26 seats. they pasd a constitutional amendment that was supposed t curtail gerrymandering in the narrow majority enforce that amendment and said that redistricting needed to be done by a special master. that special master drewines that included competitive seats. wh we noticed in 20 is that democrats did well in stes in the midwest where abortion had been a flashpoint. they did noto as well in a number of soliy blue states where there were fewer threats to abortion access and the races played out along lines of inflation and crime. neyork being such a solid state at the presidentl level at the party has not invested the infrastructure to turn out a loof the voters. that handicaps democrats and those house races. they will not make that same error in 2024. they will fully fund races. we have already seen grge santos i

but since 2019 project lead 2020 new york state got rid of cash bail crimes felonies are up 20%. i think you take a snippet of what we are in the policies that impact this pit look, new york city they forward with defend the police over a billion dollars lead there depletes department was rerouted to other places. you are suing people in this city on the way from the year a taxi driver told me without knowing who i was he felt crime has gotten worse in the city. i think you are seeing they think a lot of the witnesses tomorrow going to echo that because it is concerning and you are seeing this in washington were carjackings are up 30%. those are similar numbers to new york city. we really need to the bottom of this and what can the federal government do to highlight the problem, one, provide oversight to but also get this country back on track from a criminal perspective. democrats say this is a dog and pony show and they are going to try to drown out the message of this hearing. are you concerned about that? >> i don't think so think of you to congressman goldman's own words abou

these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. this is what donald trump's lawyer, joe tech athena had to say to reporters after the court hearing really right. i'm ready to fight. and what does that mean like important, clear. i don't want to put a man from a political standpoint. that's not for me to answer. i don't know. apparently, according to the polls, but i'd stopped using the target was absolutely not. gabriel's owner is outside the court house in new york gave when can we expect a trial well, the prosecution said in front of the judge that they were hoping for a trial to begin in january of next year. 2024 in response from lawyers said they thought that that timeframe was a little in their words aggressive. and they were telling the judge if they would hope that they would perhaps push it back to the spring of next year. the judge is not ruled on that yet. this is a long, slow process. but the key to this is both the prosecution and the def

to the new york state tax authorities. the conduct. i just describe and that which was charged by the grand jury is felony criminal conduct in new york state. true and accurate business records are important. everywhere to be sure. they are all the more important in manhattan. the financial center of the world. that is why we have a history in the manhattan d. a s office of vigorously enforcing white collar crime. my office including the talented prosecutors, you saw an arraignment earlier today. it's charged hundreds of felony falsifying business records. this charge. it can be said, is the bread and butter. of our white collar work. fraud presents itself at all different forms. here in manhattan. we have charged falsifying business records for those who violated federal bank secrecy laws. we have charged falsifying business records for those who are seeking to cover up sex crimes, and we have brought this charge for those committed tax violations. at its core. this case today is one with allegations like so many of our white collar ca

these are felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct >> we have a distinct and strong, i would say profound independent interest in new york state. this is the business capital of the world. we regularly do cases involving false business statements. >>> for trump, the ultimate indignity is he got away with the "access hollywood" tape politically, but he will now have to pay for it legally at the hands of manhattan prosecutors and the people of the state of new york. joining me now is hugo lowell, political investigations reporter for the guardian who was in the courtroom today for trump's arraignment. katie phang, host of the katie phang show on msnbc, and charles coleman jr., former brooklyn prosecutor, civil rights attorney, and msnbc legal analyst. thank you all for being here hugo, i'm very excited to hear from you please talk about the atmosphere in the court today, what you saw, and specifically what you observed about donald trump today. >> well, extremely tense when we got

he's not the only one, because the new york state attorney general, letitia james, ran on the same platform. there are several politicians in new york state who have run on a campaign to get president trump. >> martha: absolutely, and there was video of letitia james that proved that, and andy mccarthy sees bragg less as a d.a. and more of a sort of political figure, he's been so open about his attitude and motivation to get trump. so, you know, what we learned is that after they sort of stepped aside from some of the financial investigation that they were doing, then they brought in this michael colangilo, a former d.a. attorney, and let's open that up little bit by little bit through that and let's see if we can put together a case against donald trump, and it was as you know, from 2015 this hush money question of which ledger this financial line of this expenditure was put on and whether it was put in the right place or not is really what this comes down to, and then you know to stretch it out and make it to a felony. and thinking about the widow of a new york city police officer who spo

these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. finland formerly joined nato and a ceremony headquarters in brussels. i think he's accession and 7 decades of military non alignment. it comes less than a year off to helsinki, asked to join the military lines following russia's invasion of ukraine. moscow's wound of counter measures to dress what it sees. a security threats created by finland membership, which roughly doubles the length of a direct order with nature countries. rushes children's rights commissioner has rejected allegations of war crimes made by the international criminal court. the icpc is accused maria over bill over of unlawfully deporting children from ukraine . last month's a have based court issued arrest words for her, and president vladimir putin says hundreds of children had been taken from orphanages in areas of ukraine, claimed by moscow. a massive fire has torn through one of the biggest clothing markets in the bank. there she capital, thousands of

to say $9.9 billion were spent last year in new york state to house and feed illegals in our state. ok at the housing crisis that we have. that is being caused by the demand that we right now in new york city. did you go to the hospital. public hospitals, you would have to wait there for hours to be seen by a doctor at the emergency room. the educational, you know, public schools are going to collapse with the demand of the illegals that, you know, are going tao tend our schools. so, i don't blame actually mayor adams for raising his voice if you will and bringing this issue to a national -- to national attention. >> steve: sure. you know, peter, when we have shown video of the migrants crossing the rio grande river into the united states, sometimes there are hundreds on hand there. we nobody everybody has a story and want to have a better life in the united states. if the old days they used to sign a guest book and there is a process now they crosses river and they are here. never saw a number. on will the big wall. the deal between the hotel association and the city it's going to c

in the new york legislature passes a statute to be applied in new york, new york prosecutor talks about another crime, it means another crime in new york stateeral campaign, this is not a federal campaign violation. if the purpose for which the money was paid has more than one use, not just helping his image but helping his marriage. then, it can't be a campaign contribution. the test is whether it's a proper expensive the money was paid out of campaign funds. it is not a federal violation either. paul: i assume the trump lawyers will make a motion to dismiss. do you think the prospects of that are good? >> the prospects that would be successful? >> would be dismissed. before it goes to trial. >> in front of a judge who has a long history with a supervising this grand jury in this case, i think not. if it gets to a court that takes a close look at it, it will collapse like a $3 suitcase. he would have to have instructed the grand jury on what the other crime wasn't informed donald trump what the crime was so he could plead double jeopardy if he got accused of the same thing later on. it is weak on the facts. paul: the former da talked about