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tonight rips into the judge who we now know will oversee his case plus stormy daniels speaking out tonight for the first time since trumps indictment the woman at the center of all of this the center of those hush money payments, breaking her silence. and you will hear what she is saying tonight caught red handed. that is what the kremlin says about that american reporter who has been arrested on espionage charges. red handed. a lawyer with detailed knowledge of the case warns us that ...

makes history charging donald trump with more than 30 counts connected to a hush money coverup of his alleged affair with adult film actress stormy daniels. all those details are still under seal. but republicans arent waiting on the facts and are rushing to defend the former president. this is legal voodoo. you got a misdemeanor thats been made of felony. this case will follow, like a cheap suit under legal scrutiny. plus team. trump plans to mount a loud defense in the court of publi...

Charges will be unsealed. now, at the same time, trump is now starting to read. back to these charges. hes lashing out at the judge who has been handed this case. this judge has overseen tax fraud trial of the trump organization. trump saying that he railroaded his former chief financial officer in pleading guilty and, of course, that chief financial officer alan weisberg did testify at the trial and did help secure that conviction for prosecutors. the judge did not railroad westward to doing th...

Jury of 12. new yorkers, and the judge sentenced that company to the maximum sentence of $1.6 million. fine now. the same time that all this is going on kind of publicly, and we have all these concerns as evan was just describing about security. the d a. is putting out this image that this is business as usual. we saw him today inside the courtroom. he went to attend the sentencing completely unrelated hate crime case he spent the entire time during the sentencing inside the courtroom when he le...

Killed ahmaud arbery, two of the men have made plea deals according to federal prosecutors, but the details of those deals have not been released just yet. we are watching this mornings hearing very closely for more information but im joined now by joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney and professor and is also an msnbc legal analyst. joyce, weve already had the murder trial, the state level for the three men involved. now were talking about the federal hate crime case. we should note the first ma...

These new federal convictions could add more life sentences. >> we got a victory today. there are so many families who dont get victories. >> reporter: this is a federal hate crime case that almost didnt go to court due to a plea deal with the defendants which was ultimately rejected by a judge. his mother expressed outrage with the department of justice today. >> i told the doj that yes, they were prosecutors, but one thing they didnt have, they didnt have a son lying in a cold grave. and they ...

A federal hate crime, and attempted kidnapping of arbery. the mcmichaels were also each found guilty of an additional firearms charge. the mcmichaels and bryan are already serving life sentences for the felony murder of arbery after a separate state trial in november. only bryan is eligible for parole after 30 years. but these new federal convictions could add more life sentences. >> we got a victory today. but its so many families out there who dont get victories. >> this is a federal hate crim...

Do you think the prosecution has done enough to prove its case with an admittedly different bar than a standard murder trial? >> its very tough to prove a federal hate crime case. but given other circumstances, given how high that bar is, i think that they did a really good job. what they reminded this jury of over and over again was this circumstantial evidence of the racial epithets used by these defendants. thats important when you are proving a federal hate crime case, its not enough that th...

But these new federal convictions could add more life sentences. >> we got a victory today. but its so many families out there who dont get victories. >> this is a federal hate crime case that almost did not go to court due to a plea deal with the defendants which was ultimately rejected by a judge. arberys mother expressed her outrage with the u.s. department of justice today. >> i told the doj that yes, they were prosecutors, but one thing they didnt have, they didnt have a son that was lying ...

Federal hate crime case we saw a verdict in was about the motive and about the why and about the fact that at the end of the day, what the jury found was that these defendants violated ahmaud arberys civil rights because they were motivated by racial hatred whereas in the state case it was the what? did they commit the crime they were charged for and in that case they were found guilty. both of these things are independent of one another but came together to paint a much clearer picture for the ...