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

to their feed for future episodes.

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 defendant, 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

galavanting on vacation and got pulled back. Yeah, trying to galavant. I could tell you

I was so tired and and thus so caffeinated that I came off of one of the shares and somebody said,

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