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Im phil mattingly. In for dave briggs. It is thursday, august 9th. Congratulations, you are on the back half of the week. Representative Chris Collins refusing to step down after indictment on Insider Trading charges. Federal prosecutors in manhattan accused the new York Congress member, his son and another man of securities and wire fraud. Charged with exploiting secret Drug Trial Information from the australian pharmaceutical company. Collins vowed last night he will continue his run for reelection in november. The charges that have been levied against me are meritless. I will mount a vigoro...

Information he needs to wrap up the case within weeks. We do not want to run into the november elections. Back up from that. This should be over with september 1st. We have now given him an answer. He obviously should take a few days to consider it. We should get this resolved. Giuliani says the Trump Legal Team says this should wrap up before the november election. He believes republicans will benefit if the probe drags into november. Prosecutors in the bank and Tax Fraud Trial of Paul Manafort expect to rest the case against the former Campaign Boss on friday. The defense will present its ca...

Not necessarily illegal but we have certain norms in this country that this president has consistently broken. and this is, that interview with george stephanopoulos is reason 1080, why we know that his counsel would not allow him to sit down with robert mueller. because he cannot help himself. he's saying listen, if they interfere, i don't see what the problem is. his mobster mentality is such that if he can blur the lines of legality and if he can benefit himself, he doesn't fundamentally understand that that weakens american democracy. and this is what the framers have warned us about. and ...

Duties to protect us and a president who says i don't see what the problem is because of his mobster mentality and courts who are abdicating themselves to the president, everyone is working for donald trump. this is beyond crisis mode and we're seeing a fundamental breakdown of norms of american democracy and we're realizing just how tenuous our american democratic system is. >> let me ask you, patrice, what christina just said. should mitch mcconnell and the senate and the congress pass a law that you are required, if an adversarial or a foreign government, period, tries to give you informati...

No one at this point will say anything positive about donald trump. >> it's true. they did not affirmatively defend the man. what they did is attack michael cohen's credibility. but they did not defend the character of the man that he was speaking about today. >> that's all they have left. >> what do you -- here's my question, i guess. i always wonder how conscious he is of the law and of skirting it. people describe this sort of mobster mentality, like he doesn't tell you to do something, but he sort of winks winks, nods nods. how conscious is he? >> you want to have a clear answer to that qu...