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touches several other serving republican members of congress and disgraced health secretary, tom price, the first trump cabinet secretary to resign in scandal. we have had our fair share of political scandals and public corruption indictments as a country. that is a history that includes today s date on the calendar in 1974, when president richard nixon resigned the presidency in the wake of the watergate scandal, this day, 1974. but even so, even with that rich history under our belts, it really is something when you wake up to the news of a sitting member of congress being indicted by federal prosecutors and the sight of a sitting member of congress being hauled before a federal judge for criminal arraignment. so, we will have more ahead tonight on trump ally republican congressman chris collins turning himself in and being indicted and arraigned on federal criminal charges today including talking to the intrepid local reporter at the buffalo news, who first broke the story ....
you know, if you wanted to hold a pageant to decide the president aes favorite member of congress, i don t think any of us knows who the final winner might be. might be whether the president insisted on a swimsuit contest or something scarier. without any argument at all, i think almost all of us who paid any attention to the news in this era, we could all name a couple of the pageant finalists were this contest to happen. one of the finalists would undoubtedly be the member of congress who started off today being taken into custody at the offices of the fbi in lower manhattan. chris collins a republican congressman from new york, he s from buffalo, he was the first member of congress to endorse donald trump s presidential campaign all the way back in february, 2016. we know that is the kind of thing that really matters to this president. congressman collins has since been among the most faithful visible trump loyalists in washington. but now he s been arrested in an alleged ....
They re being charged with a specific statutory violations. this is the contortion without precedent that s been part of the republican argument here that they are going after his trump s allies trump s opponent it s because they believed that the justice department is working unfairly against donald trump, even as democrats themselves are being prosecuted there. but as you can see, marco rubio, who could be on donald trump s vp less, making it very clear where he stands on this issue and saying it s time to go back or after trump s opponents with everything, they got. all right. manu. thank you very much. and david axelrod is out front now, is david you hear what manu saying you hear what trump is saying, how concerned are you that trump actually means it that he s serious, that he will follow through on his threats if he wins in november well, i think he means it. remember, aaron, he was saying in before the last election, he was leading chants of lock lock them up. we ....
Push on the right, particularly on the hard right for them to make the issue of going after the trump s political enemies as they see it it was front and. center as a campaign season, even pressuring the speaker of the house, mike johnson to take a tougher line towards the justice department, particularly when it comes time to fund the government. now i am asked johnson himself whether this is all part of an effort to secret to bhushan, and this is how he put it this is not retribution. this is about trying to reset the parameters and to make the people trust or system again something to cheer justices. and as you said, would want the fact that hunter biden is being prosecuted, robert menendez being prosecuted, henry cuellar been is being prosecuted. democrats are two. is that a two-tier system? yeah, but not by their trials and how being presided over by first of all, by statute, that doesn t exist and they re being charged with a specific statutory violations. this is a contortio ....
Prosecuted. democrats are two, is that a two-tier system? yeah, but not by their trials and how being presided over by, first of all, by statute, that doesn t exist or they re being charged with a specific statutory violations this is a contortion without precedent so that s been part of the republican argument here that they are going after his trump s allies, trump s opponents, because they believed that the justice department is working unfairly against donald trump, even as democrats themselves are being prosecuted there. but as you can see, marco rubio, who could be on down trump s vp less, making it very clear where he stands on this issue and saying it s time to go back to go after trump s opponents with evergreen. they got all right. mano. thank you very much. and david axelrod is out front now, stay here. what manu say? thank you hear what trump is saying? how concerned are you that trump actually means it that he serious that he will follow through on his threats if he wi ....