Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And commerce committee. Collins lawyer is saying, we are confident that hell be completely vitamndicated and exonerated. Lets start with tom outside the courthouse. Tell us about the fbi investigation, what did they say Chris Collins and his son did . Reporter the key thing they say is the congressman came into a possession of privilege material inside information. He was aware of Material Information of this company specifically that a major drug trial they have done. Whats not okay the government says and whats against u. S. Laws was for him to pick up the phone and call his son and let him know that information before the information thats publicly released by the company and allowed his son and fiance and other associates and stockbrokers to be involved in
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. June 26 oeth, innate released t results of the public trial and the next day the stock drops more than 92 . Our zeke miller covering the white house and danny cevallos. Jake, i want to start with you. This is something you tweeted of your reporting from january, 2017. Over heard at the capitol, Chris Collins talking loudly into a phone, bragging about how many millionaires i have made in buffalo in the last month. He was brainging about a stock tip he had shared with people. Are there any congressman that should be worried jake sherman . I can tell you in play book p. M. , we laid out a number of
congressmen who were invested in this stock, republicans in texas and oklahoma who some of them have said they got this tip from Chris Collins who was on the commerce committee. I think we should take a step back here. This election, democrats have been looking for a theme. They want to make this election about the swamp and washington, about republicans were not just acting on the level in their duties. They seem to have been handed this on a silver platter. You have the president s Campaign Manager on trial of virginia. You have a congressman who was indicted not for Insider Trading but on Insider Trading scheme and you have a whole host of issues that indicates that republicans could be run against as a Swamp Creature who has not treated office well. You compound this with the issue we saw yesterday. Democrats gaining crowds on
republicans of this strong district here in columbus. You kind of paint a picture of serious political problems for republicans. Hours after that special election, number of other News Making Elections around the country. Danny, how much trouble again, we should note there is allegations at this point. Based on what we know, how much trouble is the congressman in. The allegation and indictment are very bad for the congressman. The law recognizes two kinds of people when it comes to insider tradi trading. There is a tipper and there is the tippee. Collins is a tipper. He had Insider Information and information according to the allegations and indictment was information under company that
should not be exposed. You show allegations of the Phone Records as he supposedly franticly calls his son from the white house. From the white house. Yes, multiple in a row and there is a sixminute phone call. This is the kind of case even if you dont have a recording from that phone call, the inference to be drawn is very compelling and you have all of these tippees who are selling and avoiding the disaster that was the result of this negative report. U. S. Attorneys typically dont bring charges like this unless they feel it is a slam dunk case. U. S. Attorneys build their case and spend a lot of time until they finally seek an indictment. When a federal case is indicted, it usually leads to a conviction. Zeke, i want to play something of what President Trump said, this is july of last year. Take a listen. Congressman Chris Collins. Right from the beginning he said trump is going to win thats why i like him. I didnt like him that much before. Now i love him. One would assume someone working all on the campaign ad is featuring that. You can assume that as this jake mentions that this brought into the narrative right now for republicans and the problem that they have of the Perception Problem of President Trump ran and saying hes going to drain the swamp and democrats dont have a fairly they have a lot of details and a picture of the swamp getting swamper with President Trump in the white house. Thats a problem for republicans this november but also for President Trump in 2020. All of that paints a picture of that. It will be challenging not just for the president s party but for the president himself but over the next two years as he contemplate in the elections. Zeke, any words about these charges . Nothing yet. Not to blame too much for the president with somebody surrounding himself with only the best people. It seems like all the people surrounded himself with are not connected with this case. He surrounded himself with a lot of people that seems to attract scandals himself. We are not talking about any congressman. This is a congressman from new york and everyone bystanders in congress, there is a lot of wealthy m wealthy men with zand women who
served. Hes a guy thats worth upward 66 million. Hes at the top of the pack. Not many members of congress. Congress is broadly thought of wealthy institutions but few of people worth upward of tens of millions of dollars. He had on paper between 25 and 15 million at one point in this stock. You look to reiterate because it is important. John cobleson had this stock and mike conwnaway, he had this stock. This stock, many of his colleagues actually were invested in this as well and we quote, a colorado representative who conceded and he took a bath on this stock and lost more than 10,000. The word of this stock clearly had gotten around capital hill from this man in many cases, Chris Collins close to the
president , a wealthy Member Of Congress and a powerful committee that oversees the pharmaceutical industry. We cant over state that enough. Jake sherman for us in ohio, well be talking in mere moments. Zeke, always good to have you. Danny cevallos, thank you for your insights as well. Key witness, the defense team for the former Trump Campaign chairman gets his first crack at Robert Muellers star witness and painted him as a thieve and a cheater. We also have some Breaking News from the president s personal attorney telling nbc news hes made of what he calls a legitimate offer to Robert Mueller to set up an interview with the president. Plus, trumps test. Trump back Republicans Out Performing Expectations and early races but come november, things are going to get a lot more complicated. Well look at that and plus breaking hate. A year after charlottesville, well share the story of a man who attended last years white
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intentions to sit down with Robert Mueller. The condition that Rudy Giuliani has staged, we wont talk about Obstruction Of Justice, well talk about potential collusions and we want written answers, thats ridiculous. It is Robert Mueller thats going to set the tone and agenda for a meeting that he may or may not have with President Trump. He has the law to his side. If he has to take it to the subpoena, it will go to the supreme court. It will say that President Trump must sit. Based on what. The nixon was the precedent. There is not a specific case of a president delivering testimonies before the testimony. The president is not Above The Law. Thats our theme of america, no one is Above The Law lets turn to our defense
attorneys helicopt attorneys continuing their attack today on rick gates. We know that he cut a deal if you will to provide testimonies against manafort. Is the revelation he had these affairs and some of the other stuff thats revealed in court, could that affect the plea deal that Rick Gates Cut with prosecutors . The question is, the question about whether or not he had affairs as opposed to one, gates did not answer that question because there was an objection and they moved on tch. The jury heard the question and whether or not if thats going to prejudice them. This is what the defense is trying to do over and over again. You cheated on your wife. Why should we believe you. Why should this jury believe you now. Yes, if he lies on the stand about anything, that eviscerate his cooperation agreement. Many people think the deal has been signed on the dotted line and it is over. Absolutely not. Whats going to happen is the prosecutors are going to write a letter to the Sentencing Judge when gates gets sentence. If it goes well, they would not oppose for a request of a non custodial sentence. Does it have enough of a paper case to convict paul manafort. They do. Enough to put gates on the stand. At the beginning of the trial, they said they were not sure putting him on the stand. You can read this indictment, it lays out in perfect order just how this crime was commitmeted. It is a paper case and it is going to be a snooze fest. It is heavy in documents and it is quite complicated. Theyre sandwiching their star
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in the crowd there. Two State Trooper were also killed when their Helicopter Patrolling the area crashed. Morgan radford is with us as well. Eddie, what have we learned from charlottesville, eddie glaude. We learned that the the current of hate still runs strong in this country. And then we learned a couple of things as well and thats one that roy corn was afendoffended terrorists than donald trump