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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...

Have jeff sessions oversees the mueller investigation and in terms of his conversation between jim comey before he was fired. he's very nervous when he does not have that now. the u.s. attorney had recused himself and the idea of unrecusing himself were some sort of strong reason seems hard to imagine. it is something disappointing to the president. that's why he's worried and that's why chris christie said he'll have a chill up his spine if he had heard these words. >> the president said openly that he wants the doj to protect him. he thinks the attorney general should be his protector. he sa...

Buy into and really for the american people to believe in. >> democrats are not quite there yet. >> yes. >> congressman castro in texas, thank you sir for joining us. >> joining me now, our ken dilanian and our correspondent and peter baker and ben whitis. he's also an msnbc legal analyst. ken, mr. castro could not get into a lot of the specifics. obviously this is a closed door hearing. he did believe what the sdny may have on donald trump and his family. impa impa i am paraphrasing here, could be explosive. >> that's the main take away. the story that i have on msnbc.com is long after the mu...

Of? if he has nothing to hide, he shrugs his shoulders. he once again holds the american people hostages, you investigate me, we are not going to make my progress. what kind of president is that? t >> the big question we are asking today, what exactly is the president hoping to achieve with this warning. joining me now garret haake, bill rucker and our senior fellow, ben whitis and our msnbc analyst. garret, how were those words taken on capitol hill, how republicans are saying publicly that they saw them? >> well, republicans lawed this speech from front to back. democrats have a different ...

And there is nothing unique about it at this particular moment. >> the investigation, that's not a partisan investigation by most of the efforts from those committee. it has been pretty bipartisan and john cornyn is trying to keep it that way? >> that's exactly right and the senate seen that has a national security priority to get to the bottom of russian interference and the election which is the conclusion of all of our intelligence agencies have reached. >> ben, when you heard those words or when you read those words, what was your reaction? >> i was confused by them. for at least three dif...