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Deadline: White House

Prosecuting Donald Trump: The First Indictment

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted. Veteran prosecutors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord take us inside the strategies prosecutors might use to build their case.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Chris A's. Well, it's been a truly historic week as a Manhattan Grand

0:11.0

jury voted to in Diteformer President Donald Trump. I'm assuming you know that by the time

0:15.5

you hear this. Well, MSMBC legal analysts and veteran prosecutors Andrew Weissman and

0:20.1

Mary McCord are back with their insights based on their 50 plus years of collective experience

0:26.2

of building some of the most complex criminal cases in US history. This podcast is a special

0:31.5

inside look at how prosecutors from Alvin Bragg to Fanny Willis to Jack Smith build their

0:37.2

toughest cases. Please join me in listening to prosecuting Donald Trump the first indictment

0:42.6

with Andrew Weissman and Mary McCord. And if you like what you hear, please subscribe

0:46.2

to their feed for future episodes. This is Andrew Weissman. I'm here with Mary McCord.

0:54.3

Good to be back again. The plot continues. So what thing, Mary, that I thought it would be

1:00.2

useful to discuss is really trying to make sure that people understand what's about to happen now

1:06.3

in terms of the Manhattan case. There will be an arrangement by all accounts next week. Absent

1:13.4

the former president is deciding not to self surrender and having to be extradited. Although

1:19.0

not to self when I was thinking about if he doesn't agree to self surrender, he's supposed to

1:24.4

be in New York next month for of all things a civil case where he is accused of rape. And that is

1:32.2

supposed to happen at the end of April. And so he needs to appear for that. So he can be arrested

1:40.2

then if he doesn't self surrender. And if he doesn't appear for that, a default can be entered

1:46.3

against him in a case where the allegations are quite serious. So there's a lot of reasons for him

1:53.4

to actually just show up. Yeah, it's a good one. So one of the things that that people should be

2:00.3

aware of though is that well, everyone's been waiting for the rule of law to be imposed into see

2:07.9

the day of reckoning where he is actually subject to criminal charges. But there's going to be a

2:14.2

long time as you and I both know from having tried a ton of cases in a variety of different

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