Special coverage of opening statements in Donald Trump's New York criminal trial

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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0:00.0	The people of New York versus Donald J Trump.
0:05.8	I should be in Florida now.
0:06.9	I should be in a lot of different places right now
0:08.8	campaigning and I'm sitting here.
0:10.6	For the first time in history, prosecutors lay out a criminal case against a former American
0:16.8	president to a jury.
0:18.8	This case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.
0:23.6	Tonight, the opening statements from the prosecution and the defense,
0:28.0	and the first witness takes the stand.
0:30.6	We should be expecting a lot more of David Packard.
0:34.0	Rachel Maddo was inside the courtroom to see it all.
0:38.0	We got a real roadmap today as to how this case is going to go.
0:41.0	As Donald Trump goes on trial.
0:43.5	He seemed old and tired and mad.
0:49.3	Tonight, Rachel Maddo, Joy Reed, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell, Alex Wagner, Jen Saki, Stephanie Rule, Katie
0:57.1	Fang, and MS NBC legal experts are all here. Special coverage of Trump on trial begins now.
1:07.0	Thank you for joining us tonight for this special prime time recap of the first ever criminal trial of
1:15.1	a former US president the first ever criminal trial of a major party's
1:19.0	presumptive nominee as their candidate for president. I'm Rachel Mato here at MS NBC
1:25.4	headquarters along with Lawrence O'Donnell and Chris Hayes and Jen Saake and
1:29.3	Katie Feng. We're going to be joined tonight by our colleagues Joy Reed and Alex Wagner and
1:34.0	Stephanie Rule. Our legal experts Andrew Weissman and Catherine Christian
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