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 Immunotherapeuticss stock. We are confident he will be
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claims he committed crimes with manafort, but he also admitted to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from manafort. yesterday gates admitted to an extramarital affair that involved maintaining an apartment in london. as my colleagues reported, the topic came up as kevin downing, manafort s attorney, tried to paint gates add self-motivated and untrustworthy by hammering away at his admitted practice of filing doctored expense reports. joining me from outside the court house in alexandria, is nbc news national security and justice reporter, julia ainsley. julia, yesterday manafort s lawyers left court and said it was a great day for paul manafort because, among other things, they got gates to admit to that affair and i presume they think they re doing a good job of painting him as a liar? that s right. they were confident going in today. the gates testimony has now wrapped, but not without a little drama at the end, katy.