Hi everyone, this is Nicole Wallace. This week, former President Donald Trump became the

first ex-president ever to be arraigned on criminal charges, pleading not guilty to 34 felony

counts. MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissman and Mary McCord, with their combined five

decades of prosecuting experience are back with their insights. Andrew and Mary will help

us understand how prosecutors like Alvin Bragg, Fanny Willis and Jack Smith might think about

building a case when the defendant also happens to be an ex-president. Please join me in listening

to prosecuting Donald Trump, the Manhattan Arraignment. And if you like what you hear, subscribe

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Hello and welcome to our third episode of prosecuting Donald Trump. Well, it was an

extraordinary Tuesday, the former president of the United States of America, under arrest

in a Manhattan courthouse charged with 34 felony counts. He is now defended Donald Trump.

There is so much to examine. I'm here with the perfect person to do that. This is Andrew Weissman

and I'm with Mary McCord. Good morning, Andrew. Really was quite the day. We've both been

through not totally similar things because neither one of us has ever indicted a former

president, but we've both built cases, brought charges, planned press conferences, done

arrangements. So I think that's our topic for this morning. Let's get into it, what struck

us about the decisions that the district attorney made in this case and the things we saw

yesterday. I know you were pretty much nonstop at least 12, but it probably felt like 24 hours

commenting on this. And I myself trying to take a mini vacation was pulled back also to

comment on this, but it's just so important. And so that's why that's why we did that.

Yeah, one of us was at work and one of us was gallivanting on vacation and got pulled

back trying to gallivan. I can tell you I was so tired and and thus so caffeinated that

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