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Was about trying to fix th election so tua owed of the three parties went south on him. now, heres donald trump alone hugo lowe talked about havin covered it a long time, this i the first time had no one wh could fix it >> except all of those facts are established by the souther district of new york all the facts you just asserted, michael cohens guilt and bein a patsy is a - live tv. he already confessed to that the facts are established. they are black and white they are in michael cohe senten...

Who is of course when th senior prosecutors on robert muellers special counse investigation. he also served as fbi genera counsel, also crossed than christian, who is a veteran of the same manhattan distric attorneys office that brought these felony charges against the former president today hes a former special assistan da from that office. thank you all to our legal firepower here for being here. and join catherine, let me jus with you guys. we have been pontificating ove here at the table her...

Or is anything important tha you think we are missing in terms of understanding th law here and what we learned >> well, its going to start b saying i thought we are at the childrens table because obviously this is the adults - but, with all due respect, i will say that i didnt think there was anything wrong i actually wanted to maybe focus everybody on an issu that is sort of forward-looking. because one of the things that -- interesting was the timefram going forward. so we are in april and th...

Is connected to, that feel very explicable, ver straightforward now as well. how do you feel about th overall strength of this case? >> i would call it medium high not completely high. a prosecutor would like more precedent, youd like more precedent on the books >> you mean, more cases like this than have been previously run? >> more cases like this i thin would be generally awful but donald trump, we should al remember, it is fairly unprecedented. these type of schemes are no habitually pursued...

Deployed by the trum organization made a comfort -- 130,000 dollar payment at th defendants direction the purpose of the payment was to avoid negative attention to the defendants campaign by suppressing information abou an allegedly sexual encounte between defendant and adul film actress after the election, defendan reimbursed alerts through series of disguised monthl payments that had the true nature of the, that hid th true nature of the payoff by causing a serious of false business records in...

Bomb thrower -- going out of his way to stay - of course, i dont believe i will have to tonight i, calling the prosecutors an animal, a racist, and a lunatic. i dont know whether it will g and. >> the question i guess is what does it take to get i gotta gorder remember roger stone makin threatening noises that th judge and not gettin sanctioned, really so i think donald trump ha lived in a universe where hi -- have gotten away with. it i would be my question. what will it take? >> there was a ga...

Been doing this for 24 years i dont bring cases prior to a thorough, rigorous investigation. now having done so, the case has been brought >> i do not bring cases prio to a thorough and rigorous investigation. but now having done so, th kiss has been dropped brought. -- i want to bring into our conversation our colleague cor malphurs, host of the beach, a msnbc chief legal correspondent, also with list throughout th night tonight, andrew weissmann, who is of course when th senior prosecutors on ...

The alleged tax purpos restructuring of these payments, is again, as described b prosecutors, one of th attempted crimes tha prosecutors need to be able to point to so all of this all, o this, can be charged as felony instead of just as misdemeanor. one last point here. just not this up from the arraignment today here is how the lead prosecuto laid it up to the judge to kic off the arraignment toda basically, after trump pled no guilty he says this the defendant, donald j trump, falsified new yo...

That just resulted i convictions in november. so, those give the da a lot of room so even if there is a attack on one or two of them particularly the state crime of tax fraud and the ami false statement charge, seem ver solid. it seems very hard to imagine motion to dismiss thats going to knock out all of that and reduce all of the charges to misdemeanors >> and it doesnt mean tha when you describe, andrew, the district attorney as havin laid out a lot of differen paths by which he can get to a ...

Days before the election to pa off yet another person to keep quiet with a weird sex story about donald trump, th presidential candidate, mr trump himself, and his own supposed business, they were left to take care of the money this time on their own, withou that much help from th national enquirer. that is where we got the storm daniels payment. that is where we got a deepl stupid, rob goldberg schem that was supposed to make it seem like they were doin something other than payin stormy daniels...