The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Unleashing a nerve agent in the uk. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Republican Chris Collins of new york first sitting member of the congress to back the President Trumps bid in february 2016. He was such a strong supporter of mr. Trump collins at the Republican National convention was asked to formally second mr. Trumps nomination to be his partys nominee. I have the honor of seconding the nomination of donald j. Trump as the next president of the United States of america but today the congressman was arrested by the fbi. Moments ago the congressman walked out of Federal Court in new york city where he was arraigned. Prosecutors this afternoon detailing the grand jury indictments of the new york republican, his son and his sons fiancees father for 13
counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements. All stemming from an alleged Insider Trading schem
maneuvering up her sleeve to that the republicans need to think about. there are a couple republicans who make the hearts soar however briefly of moderates and liberals. their names at least on my list germane to this conversation, collins, murkowski and flake. and you re hearing people ask, because their quotes have been all over the map, which collins, which murkowski, and which flake do you think will show up at the end of the day? as you say, brian, the hearts flutter in the hopes they will do the right thing, but most often they don t. and so we re going to have to see in this case. senator murkowski is the one most likely to opposite the kavanaugh nomination both because she s pro-choice, and because native american groups, which are important to her in alaska, have come out against kavanaugh because of his position on programs that benefit native americans. that kind of leaves collins and flake as key votes for mitch mcconnell. he said today they were going to plow through,
maybe not. but that is really what it comes down to is what does senator collins and flake do. ron klain, and indeed i saw that tweet from the new york times journalist tonight saying the senators have been far more accommodating to google and facebook than they have to dr. ford in this instance. our thanks to ron and annie terrific conversation. thank you both for coming on. coming up for us, president trump says there s a lingering stench at the justice department. we ll talk all about it when we come back. so you just walk around telling people geico
she worked for ted kennedy and was the first investigator anita hill told her story to. so she is advising dr. ford right now. i don t know that they re anywhere near her wanting to go public with a tv interview. i m just saying she has some maneuvering up her sleeve to that the republicans need to think about. there are a couple republicans who make the hearts soar however briefly of moderates and liberals. their names at least on my list germane to this conversation, collins, murkowski and flake. you re hearing people ask, because their quotes have been all over the map, which collins, which murkowski and which flake will show up at the end of the day? as you say, brian, the hearts flutter in the hopes they will do the right thing, but most often they don t. and so we re going to have to see in this case. senator murkowski is the one most likely to oppose the kavanaugh nomination both