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this saturday. Msnbc headquarters in new york city. Heres whats happening for you. Were going to start with breaking news. Republican congressman Chris Collins today saying he is suspended his Reelection Campaign in a shift there in the wake of the charge of insider trade. Geoff bennett has the details. Geoff, what do we know . Reporter hey there, rick, as you mentioned Congressman Collins is stepping aside, suspending his campaign after earlier this week being arrested and indicted on charges of insider trading. Collins maintains he did anything wrong. But republicans have offered little more than a defense. So it is a statement he issued today. He says this, democrats are laser focused on taking back the house, electing nancy pelosi speaker. And then launching impeachment
proceeds against President Trump. They would like nothing more than electing in this district. If that statement didnt make it clear, you should know that Chris Collins is in fact an ally. In fact, he was the first member of congress, the first nationally member of congress to endorse candidate trump. While President Trump did win collins district, the 27th District of new york, he did not, of course, win the state of new york. So, looking at this big picture, there is a risk here that collins seat had been a safe republican seat could now be in jeopardy if democrats nationally decide to target it. The other thing worth knowing is that it would be really difficult to scrub collins name. If the Republican Party does decide to remove his name theyre going to have to figure out a way to do it. Geoff bennett, thank you, sir. Collins statement is in
stark contrast to what he says a few days ago. You may remember. Take a list. As i fight to clear my name, rest assured i will continue to work hard for the people answer constituents for the 27th Congressional District of new york. And i will remain on the Ballot Running for reelection this november. Joining us now, aisha, and editoratlarge. Folks want to know why the change at heart and why today. Obviously, what this might mean for the seat. Well, listen, i dont know exactly why today. Hes facing very serious charges and may be after consulting with his own legal team and consulting with his family, he felt like it was best not to go ahead with his reelection. As was said earlier, its going to be hard to get his name off the ballot. And its not really clear what
that means for the election. But perhaps, with such a huge Cloud Hanging over his head, he didnt want to have to focus on campaigning as well. John, whats your thought on that . And how might democrats take advantage of this situation, gimp that his name will still be on the ballot, most likely . Well, democrats would probably rather have Chris Collins on the ballot than some replacement candidate. I suspect that suspending his Reelection Campaign is in response to pressure from other republicans who as an interim step simple dont want him to be out actively campaigning and allow democrats to use him as a symbol of republican corruption. Because theres a long list of Corruption Scandals that have followed the Republican Party, beginning at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with President Trump. And the russia investigation. The manafort trial. Multiple members of congress in hot water, including Chris Collins. So, i think theyre trying to turn the temperature down. Again, dont know if hes going to as opposed to suspending his campaign actually quit and somehow make it easier for republicans to replace him. Democrats are unlikely to win this seat in the end, but theyve got a shot now. Theyve got 65 or so targets to try to pick up the 23 seats they need to win the majority. This just provides them are little more assistance. Ayeisha, your thoughts on what that this means for the democrats . This is going to be a solid seat for them to pick up but it does feed into the idea that republicans have a problem with ethics and the idea of the swamp. President trump came in talking about he wanted to drain the swamp, and here you have one of his first top supporters in Congress Getting charged with insider trading. This is exactly what people dont want from their elected leaders. And then you have all of the
too. What else is happening . Reporter yeah, i think theres a lot of reflection and regret, especially amongst authorities and officials here about the way things were handled or not handled. Take a look at that street and youll see that reflected in this security presence. Now, this street is separating basically charlottesville from the market area, which is just about a block that direction. Whats happening there right now, we have some pictures we can show you, a small group of protesters have come to the market area. Theyre marching silently, because, again, this Police Presence is so thick. As we swing around here, we want to show you, richard, all of these police are protecting access to the robert e. Lee statue. It was this statue that became such a touchstone which set off that initial tiki torch protest. Which led to that incredible violence. You remember those pictures from a years ago. Far different than what you see today. This is a town that is
john harwood. John, the president did tweet about charlottesville this morning. You saw it. He wrote exactly what he was saying for all america, is what you focus on, if you would put a headline on it. Your reaction . First of all, i think theres a parallel between what he said in that tweet and what he said after charlottesville last year. Remember, he came out and said there were good people on both sides, there was fault on both sides. In this tweet, he says, i condemn racism of all kinds. He was generalizing there. Which i think is not necessarily inconsistent with what he said last year. Look, this is a president who his political strategy is focused on polarizing by race. Going after nfl players. Going after lebron james. What happened after charlottesville. The set of political rhetoric and policies that the president
has pursued have increased the republicans reliance on nonviolent white voters. That has a cost to it. We saw in the Quinnipiac Poll in july that 49 of the American People thought the president was racist. 55 of the American People thought he was encouraging racists. Since charlottesville has become such a symbol for division in the country, the president felt a need to tamp it down, but only so much. I think given his pattern of his politics, were going to see that pattern continue. And theres going to be more provocation on a racial basis going forward. Your thought. I agree with much of that. The president has basically since charlottesville, he walked back his walkback, when he said there was blame on both sides and fine people on both sides. And he really hasnt gone away from that. Since then, hes continued to make statements, challenging maxine waters, saying she has a low i. Q. And the statements about illegal immigration and people say thats dehumanizing. He has not stepped back he has not stepped back from rhetoric that critics say is divisive. Even though, today, he also pointed out theres low black unemployment and low hispanic unemployment. He kind of falls back on the Employment Numbers to say hes the president of all americans but the issue that a lot of his critics will bring up is that its his rhetoric, its the things that he says are divisive. And those things are things that people are concerned about. Even though he can point to the employment anybodies, the things that hes saying are not bringing people together. I think those numbers show that. Trying to offer insight to what the president is saying there is this, there is omarosas upcoming back. The claims that she levels against the president. When you look at them, john, given that omarosas credibility has been in jeopardy will they stick . Im not sure omarosas allegations will stick. Honestly, i wouldnt believe anything that shes said, the way shes oscillated with public presence for the president and now saying negative things. I think people are going to judge President Trump on things theyve been able to see with their own eyes. His approach to politics. The targets that hes picked as he tries to polarize voters and motivate his own supporters. I dont think the account of a former aide who has credibility problems, who has not supported some of these allegations, i dont think thats going to make much difference. Omarosa, this was someone who was hired and working at a very high level in the white house. But now, the white house is trying to disavow her. The question is, why did you hire this person . And now, she has these tapes. Now, i do think with these tapes because President Trump has been so blunt publicly and on twitter, its unlikely that theres anything in these tapes at this point that could really be shocking. I dont know what would be shocking for President Trump at this point. But i think its the reflection of this white house and the way that they have handled hiring. The way that theyve handled staffing. That you now have someone who has worked in the white house who is recording conversations. Shocking and less shocking nowadays. Ayesha rocco thank you so much. John harwood, have a great saturday. Thank you. Next, a stolen commuter planes flight ends in tragedy. The last wording of the pilot, we have that. Never really knew it until now. Joining me now msnbc aviation analyst john cox. John, how rigorous is the Background Check for those who might be a Ground Service agent . Theres a pretty good look at someones background. They look for criminal history. They look for anything else, bri previous employments, things like that, to get an idea what sort of individual, anybody who works for an airline actually is. And one has to wonder how bad this could have been . It appears that it crashed in a place where there were no other buildings or individuals, at least from the reporting so far. Its only believed potentially that the very suspect himself is dead. I think one thing thats important to understand is that the air Traffic Controllers did a really good job in several
areas. The local tower controller, when he saw the Airplane Taxiing out toward runway 16 center. And he wasnt talking to them, started separating airplanes away from this airplane when he didnt know what it was going to do. When it took off, they immediately notified the security folks, and they were able to scramble fighter jets, too, that were on scene very quickly. So, how bad it could have been, once the fighters were on scene. They were trying to push him towards the pacific ocean, away from pop lameulated areas. So, the system in that respect worked pretty well. We can hypothesize about what ifs, but in reality, the system actually worked fairly well. The planes a turboprop, right . How would you compare the difficulty of lying this video we see on the lefthand side,
calm complex airplane. Pilots say its not easy to fly. For someone who is a pilot it would be a handful im surprised he did as well as he did. I understand they were trying to get him to land. How much more difficult would be to land a craft as opposed to getting it in the air . Would he be able to land it safely . Well, its certainly easier to get it airborne than it is to put it on the runway and keep the track on the concrete. Oftentimes, the people that are not pilots that have tried to force land a small airplane, they can get it to the runway, but keeping it on the runway is much more difficult. I dont know how the end result of him attempting to land it would have been. I dont think anybody does. So, you know, once he chose to take this course of action and crank the airplane up and got it airborne, im sadly, i think
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your constituents reacting to the heavy showing of Security Forces so far compared to what happened last year . Yeah, there are definitely mixed feelings about the security measures. There are people who are, you know, thankful and challenging those who say that, you know, are unhappy that were in a police state. So, as you can imagine in any city that there would be mixed reactions. Heather heyers mom, as youre aware, yesterday saying shes still keeping secret the location of her daughters grave. Lets here what she said and i want to get your thought. We dont want wellwishers trampling other peoples graves. We dont want n