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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential pr...

Rights, and the coach argues he has a free exercise right to pray where he wants to and it's private activity and the government cannot constrain him because he's a teacher. this court has been particularly interested over the last couple of years in expanding the scope of the free exercise clause and with that expansion comes the establishment clause, whether the government can endorse a particular religion, so one of the things being questioned today is whether this court and expanding free exercise is willing to trim back some of its establishment clause and government speech precedence, so...

Felonies he committed having been done not just in coordination with but at the direction of the federal candidate in this case was unavoidably president trump. if that federal candidate was somebody other than a president, which of course raises constitutional issues whether or not you can indict a president, would you expect a person described that way in court to be on the hook in some way, the subject of an investigation or to be expecting indictment himself or herself? >> i think that's fair we would expect them to be under investigation. we have to be careful implicating people because e...

Directly directed him to commit those crimes but it appeared to have evolved from the financial case from him and his taxi business and that case appears to have de75ed insignificant part from that little courthouse story out of albany. the new york state attorney general and the new york state tax department bringing a big criminal case against cohen's partner in the taxi business and flipping him like a flapjack in sleepy little state court in albany, new york, three months ago today. the law enforcement official who made that happen is somebody you might not known, barbara underwood, you pr...

Apparently still unfolding today. in this lawsuit brought by the new york attorney general, brought against trump's foundation, trump himself, ivanka and eric and don jr. and she accuses them of abdicating all responsibility that the money was used in compliance with the law. if that will be a criminal case and not just a civil lawsuit by the state of new york, that could end up being a very serious matter for not just trump's charity and the president himself but also for his three eldest children. we should also note because it's a state's case there won't be a way to pardon people out of je...