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house energy and commerce committee. and he says that collins violated the public trust. dana? dana: all right, bryan llenas, thank you. fox news alert in a different federal courthouse. rick gates wrapping up his testimony in the paul manafort trial. gates saying he has no doubt the government would rip up his plea agreement if he doesn t tell the truth. this coming as manafort s lawyers hammered him on his credibility on cross-examination. peter doocy is live outside u.s. district court in alexandria, virginia. peter, how big a factor is rick gates personal life in his own testimony? a huge factor, dana. because rick gates admitted today that the special counsel s lawyers, the mueller team s lawyers helped him prep for his testimony here for more than 20 hours. so, the manafort team jumped in today to ask him well, did you ever tell the mueller lawyers during the prep about the extramarital affair he admitted to and gates said yes,
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or a personal statement? this comes from his team. again this is about a pharmaceutical company out of australia that he sat on the board of while he was a u.s. congressman until just april. that s an interesting statement from the u.s. attorney. the government allegation he was passing non-public information to his son, cameron collins, who is also dieted. then the son was passing the information to other people, and they were trading on that information. look, he was the guy who knew what was going on here. he knew that there were some negative results according to this indictment on his drug trial. and he then took that information, the government says, and passed it along. the other thing i think that s interesting here is that they are using in this indictment they talk about how he tried to conceal the trading and issues surrounding the drug stock. one point in this indictment they mention how h
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client, the president, sit down with the special counsel. you will recall the latest proposal from mueller willing to limit the number of questions about obstruction of justice. they made clear they wanted to ask the questions in person. they want to limit the questions in person to events that happened before he was inaugurated as the president. that doesn t seem something that mueller is willing to budge on either. the president is at odds with his legal team. he believes if he gets face-to-face with robert mueller he can prove his innocence and that that interview can bring all of this to an end. the president s legal team has made quite clear they do not think this is a good idea. they are advising their client against it. one of the president s attorneys put it best today when he said ultimately this final decision will be up to president trump. thank you very much.
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justice that the president s lawyers have said publically and said it once again today that the president will not answer any questions about obstruction of justice and other issues that the special prosecutor robert mueller would like to question the president about. regular viewers of this hour know i for one believe president trump was never going to submit to any questions by my prosecutor under any circumstances, even back when the president said the chance of him doing that was 100%. so he said those things under oath. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of this? 100%. i would be glad to tell him exactly what i just told you, jim. 100%. that was a year ago. and now the chances of the president submitting to an interview with robert mueller is almost officially publically zero percent. although the president s lawyers continue to play the public game
fiance and her father. all told, the congressman and his family avoided over $768,000 in losses according to the document. and the big question we are asking today is, what does the arrest of congressman collins mean for the midterms? joining me nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. nbc news investigations reporter tom winter, new york times chief metro political correspondent shane gold macher and former s.e.c. enforcement attorney seth waxman. tom, you have been following this. you were downtown a little bit earlier today. here is a statement from collins lawyer saying we will answer the charges filed in court and will mount a defense to clear his good name. it is notable the government does not allege that congressman collins traded a single chair of innate immunotherapeutics s stock. we are confident he will be
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but they seem to certainly come prepared