the statement that is coming forward from chris collins.e'll have live coverage and see what he announces. you say the issue was discussed regularly, even before the stock collapsed in the aftermath of that clinical trial failure for a form of ms. i want to listen to the exchange i had with congressman collins in january of 2017. >> were you telling other constituents and friends of yours to go ahead and this is a great stock and go buy it. >> i never said to buy it or it is a great -- i talked to them about the great work this company is doing, the market for secondary progressive m.s. and, yes, there are many hundreds -- 50, 100 people from western new york, friends and family and so forth who decide the on their own, this was a pretty darn good investment and it certainly turned out -- >> you saw the stories of politico and "the washington post" saying you were bragging to your friends how many millionaires emerged from this company. >> well i wouldn't use the word bragging. it is was a -- it is a factual and i got off the house floor on

news of the indictment, a fellow republican congressman, chris collins. he put out a statement. ll read it to you. "while his guilt or innocence is a question for the courts to settle, the allegations against congressman collins demand a prompt and thorough investigation by the house ethics committee. insider trading is a clear violation of the public trust. until this matter is settled, congressman collins will no longer be serving on the house energy and commerce committee." in terms of what the house speaker -- the top republican in the house has power to do, he can strip a committee seat and that is what he is doing. at least until the that's the very latest with that. >>> and any moment now, the u.s. attorney's office will hold a news conference about this very much. chris collins' arrest, the indictment, the 30-page indictment that they released this morning. we're going to bring this to you live. ♪ it is such a good time to kiss ♪ ♪ it is such a good time to dance ♪ ♪ it is such a good time to [ laughing ] ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo [ goose honking ] ♪ [ lau

now throwing chris collins. all of these people have some sort of close friendship with the president. so it only sort of adds to an ugly stew that is already difficult for the republican party to deal with in november. i think you throw in the ingredient of corruption and it can supercharge a political atmosphere for a political party. >> not to mention the reporting by our own anna schechter and cynthia mcfadden about the trump hotel. >> i left out the saudis and trump. there's that, never mind i think there is a couple -- you're right. >> it's continual. there is story after story about how this administration is taking advantage of their position or things they are doing wrong when they are in a position of power. >> right. >> shane, you have been covering this story. this is far from the first time that we have been hearing chris collins' name in questions about questions at the very least about his trading. jake sherman's first read in january 2017, a year and a half ago, notes that chris collins was overh

republican congressman in the state of new york chris collins, is now in fbi custody. collins and his codefendants including his own son, are facing insider trading charges that include multiple counts of securities fraud e one count of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of making false statements. he has been a very close ally of president trump. he was the first member of congress to endorse him back in 2016. he was a very close ally of tom price, instrumental in price being chosen as hhs secretary. you know price has since left that post. collins' attorneys have released an official statement saying quote, we will answer the charges filed against congress collins in court. and will mount a vigorous defense to clear his good name. it is notable that even the government does not allege that congress man collins traded a single share of innate therapeutic stock. we are confident he'll be completely vindicated and exonerated. the complaint also alleged that collins was at the white house attending the congressional picnic when he conducte

we are waiting on chris collins' arrival.e will bring you that as soon as he steps onto the podium. coming up, about last night, president trump taking credit for a race that we say is still too close to call. republicans may be embarrassing in ohio but should they be celebrating. we will go to the board and dig deep in ohio. what does it mean for the bigger picture across the country in november and also president trump's legal team rejecting mueller's terms for an interview. is it a stall tactic to avoid a decision. a new report that claims trump gave mar-a-lago buddies sweeping control of the veterans affairs. this is "hardball" where the action is. i didn't believe it. again. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪ i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ♪ ooh i'm not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and! ♪ we'll make heaven a place on earth ♪ yeah! oh, my angels! ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ [ sobs quietly ] ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪

we are standing by for a press conference from chris collins. collins pleading not guilty to charges of insider trading and lying to the fbi. collins is the first member of congress to endorse donald trump for president, the first and most vocal. he was arrested today along with his son and the father of his son's fiance. we will bring this to you live. so as we await that i want to give you the details on this development with mueller. the president making new demands on mueller. his lawyer rudy giuliani giving mueller a deadline for a sit down interview with the president. >> you do not want to run into the november elections. this should be over with by september 1. we have now given him an answer. he obviously should take a few days to consider it. but we should get this resolved. >> september 1. let's be clear here. the timeline is not under trump's control. his team is trying to make it look that way and play it that way in the court of public opinion. this is mueller's timeline in his investigation. giuliani telling cnn that trump will con

but chris collins changed that. he came out and backed the president, he endorsed him when it seemed like not a lot of other people would or were at the time. you've got to imagine president trump sitting in somerset county not too far from where we are right now on his so-called working vacation perhaps watching cable news, perhaps seeing the coverage of chris collins' arrest might have something to say. >> yes, well, under normal circumstances the president of the united states should have nothing to say about an ongoing criminal investigation, but these are not normal times, this is not a normal president, and i think that it would be more surprising if, in fact, the president exercise presidential restraint. so i don't think anybody will be surprised if the president tweets out in defense of his friend. >> anna and sahil, talk a little bit more about the idea that this is something that has been in a sense hang over collins for a little while now. i know you've done some reporting on this. >> right. as we mentio

today probably felt like the longest day of congressman chris collins life.t like a long time coming for the reporters who have been on the story from before the beginning. jerry is the washington bureau chief for buffalo news, the reporter who first broke the story there was a house ethics investigation into congressman collins and his ties to the company way back before any of it. buffalo news stays on the story even when the congressman repeatedly publically attacked them, all up until this criminal indictment today. i imagine this has felt a long time coming. thank you for being here today. >> thank you very much. >> how did this evolve from the first stories that buffalo news ran on this matter to where it ended up today? >> it was a long, long trail that we ended up following. it all started as you mentioned with the investigation into tom price and his stock trades and how they related to chris collins. but really the big break in the story i think is one that went largely unnoticed. it was late in june last year when all of a sudden, one wednesday nig

and the chris collins insider trading scandal that burst onto the scene with this indictment 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 that turned into

here is the full statement coming from representative chris collins. "we will answer the charges filed against congressman collins in court and will mount a vigorous defense to clear his good name. it is notable that even the government does not allege that congressman collins traded a single share of innate therapeutics stock. we are confident he will be completely vindicated and exonerated. congressman collins will have more to say on this issue later today." will he issue a press conference or a personal statement? this comes from his team. again this is about a pharmaceutical company out of australia that he sat on the board of while he was a u.s. congressman until just april. >> that's an interesting statement from the u.s. attorney. the government allegation he was passing non-public information to his son, cameron collins, who is also dieted. then the son was passing the information to other people, and they were trading on that information. look, he was the guy who knew what was going on here. he knew that there were some negative results accord

tonight chris collins says he'll be on the ballot in november.hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 566 of the trump administration facing the threat of a possible subpoena, a possible constitutional showdown. the president's lawyers have turned down robert mueller's latest terms for an in-person interview with the president of the united states. the trump legal team's rejection of mueller's terms was first reported by "the new york times." "washington post" followed soon with its own reporting. "times" writes that the president's lawyers did make a counteroffer which, quote "suggested a narrow path for answering questions." trump's lawyers did not reject an interview outright, but included the narrower

republican, chris collins, of new york, turned himself in this morning.federal prosecutors say collins took advantage of his seat on the board of an australian pharmaceutical company. let's go back to june, last year, the congressman was at the white house for a congressional picnic. follow the circle here in this video. there he is. that is when prosecutors say he received a phone call from the firm that a clinical trial failed involving this one particular drug. what does he do from the white house? picks up the phone and calls his son cameron. >> he then tried to reach his son, six attempts in five minutes. and then on the seventh

new york republican chris collins arrested for an alleged insider trading scheme. he faces up to 150 years in prison and he's not the only one. his song among the others named in that indictment. collins is vowing to clear his name and run for reelection. let's bring in "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman and cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. as we look at this, if we start with mueller, based on your reporting, maggie, where do we stant at this point in terms of how quickly there could be some sort of resolution here between mueller and giuliani and the legal team for donald trump. >> i think you can expect that this is going to be one of the final exchanges between team trump and mueller on this. giuliani threw out the date of september 1 sayingnks this needs to be done by this date because of doj guidelines. then there comes the question of is there a subpoena fight? does mueller try to subpoena the president? there are some who think it's not likely, there arors who think it is likelier than not. i think we have seen is what mueller

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republican, chris collins, of new york, turned himself in this morning. he's set to be arraigned this hour. federal prosecutors say collins took advantage of his seat on the board of an australian pharmaceutical company. let's go back to june, last year, the congressman was at the white house for a congressional picnic. follow the circle here in this video. there he is. that is when prosecutors say he received a phone call from the firm that a clinical trial failed involving this one particular drug. what does he do from the white house? picks up the phone and calls his son cameron. >> he then tried to reach his son, six attempts in five minutes. and then on the seventh attempt he got through to his son and he is alleged in the indictment that he illegally relaid the results of that drug test so that his son could trade on that information. >> so his son, cameron collins, has also been indicted along with the father of his fiance. the two men made more calls and in the end prosecutors allege theed inners saved themselves more than $700,000 from this tip r

today is another perfect of example of the chris collins thing. >> this sounds like -- chris collins was on the white house lawn and caught on camera. >> if you list 100 people, surely the indictment would be one of the corrupt people we have met so far. and then they keep adding characters to a drama that needing to be subtracting character. i am not a financial expert and when you hear there is an indictment and the security exchange people are involved, today was so crazy because when they took out the flowchart of how it happened it was the easiest to follow flowchart. it was two rows. the flowchart they show kids to teach them how flowchart works. >> that is the other part of this is, when we watch people in this orbit commit crimes, it has not been incredibly sneaky stuff. it has been in broad daylight activity. >> never that scene from a movie where the detective has yarn going a hundred deferent ways. it is just one piece of yarn. >> and you get rick gates on the stand, that was an amazing moment. we did crimes together. >> there is something really sweet about saying it that

we have chris collins today. the fact of the matter is if danny o'connor had shown maybe a little bit more separation from his party, maybe if he had strongly disavowed nancy pelosi, maybe we'd be talking about a win for the democrats from this r plus 7 seat. >> let me follow up on that. is this -- do those folks, democrats sitting in those marginal districts, do they look at danny o'connor coming up short and say, you know what, i'm going to say no to the pelosi question. >> we're already starting to hear it, chuck. we've got a candidate in northern indiana who's disavowed her who might have a shot. there are democrats all over the map in similar districts who know that this is what they have to do to show separation and show that they're the candidates of change. >> all right. david wasserman, pretty much the only person you need to follow on an election night on twitter. david, thank you very much, sir. >> i dispute that, chuck, but thank you very much. >> i know you do. this is why we're throwing accolades at

this is chris collins! no we'll never get caught, sell!it's hard to hear but i think he is saying sell. >> not a good morning to be chris collins. >> for our international viewers, cnn talk is next, for u.s. viewers, new day continues now. >> you're trying to trap him into perjury, you don't have a case. >> every smart is starting a new fire. >> we're grieving the loss of our home here. >> they're trying to stop this fire from growing any further. >> disturbing new details about what went on in that trial. >> they are trying to make a better life for themselves. >>. >> this is new day with alisyn camerota. >> alisyn off today. erica hill with me. this may be the last case for them to get face to face, they have submitted a new offer of terms. for a man that is no stranger to high profile interviews, this could be the most high takes yet for the president if it ever happens. what the team is mostly concerned about is the president could get caught lying. they want to limit the scope of questions as much as humanly possible to avoid a perjur

tonight chris collins says he'll be on the ballot in november. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in ne

chris collins is a -- >> they all lied to the fbi. >> a different matter. it's not connected to this other set of problems donald trump has. >> but just being untethered, disrespectful and disdainful of fed riddle law enforcement. it's hard to find five people in the last 15 months who lie to the fbi. and frankly they're all unrelated -- >> i've never tried. i'm not sure. >> i'm amazed you think it's only going to be five. [ laughter ] >> remember, susan -- on the over/under, that seems definitely under. >> these are all the ones they charged. there may be more they've identified. >> a lot of people -- i'm going to ask steve a question because i want to hear what he has to say about this. a lot of people have been saying for awhile now, forget built russia inquiry. focus on the things that matter. focus on health care and focus on corruption. there's a lot of corruption around the swamp and the ways in which donald trump is not drained it, but has filled it up to the point where it's like an infinity pool. >> filled it up like toxic waste. >> one of those i

at any moment we expect to hear from republican chris collins. we are told he will hold a news conference following that indictment of insider trading charges that broke earlier today. and as we roll along in prime time several big tuesday races still too close to call. but there is one clear winner in michigan. being called a future of the republican party, john james known mike joins me next. alexandria ocasio-cortez says she is the future because america is no longer soccer moms and minivans. and at ben shapiro says he has some thoughts on that. stay put, you know he doesn't mince words. liberty. liberty ♪ we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you >> tech: at safelite autoglass, to get your windshield fixed. with safelite, you can see exactly when we'll be there. saving you time for what you love most. >> kids: whoa! >> kids vo: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ the world is full of different hair. that's why pantene has the perfect conditioners for everyone. from air-light foam, to nourishing 3 minute miracle, to the moisture-in

here is the full statement coming from representative chris collins.swer the charges filed against congressman collins in court and will mount a vigorous defense to clear his good name. it is notable that even the government does not allege that congressman collins traded a single share of innate therapeutics stock. we are confident he will be completely vindicated and exonerated. congressman collins will have more to say on this issue later today." will he

congressman chris collins. right from the beginning he said trump is going to win that's why i like him. i didn't 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 he's going to drain the swamp and democrats don't have a fairly -- they have a lot of details and a picture of the swamp getting swamper with president trump in the white house. that's 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 th

i like chris collins.it's not true but you have to really by the end of the week make a decision whether or not somebody should step down. >> sandra: on the board of this company and expected to react at that press conference in the noon hour. you referenced talking about last night and these races and were you suggesting this could be a distraction for your party? >> it is. one more seattle that -- seat that was a for sure republican seat and it is a distraction and it will play out in court and here we have a press conference about that instead of talking about somebody like a john james who will have a really good race. >> sandra: if you could characterize what last night and the results that we still see coming in, what it all says about november. >> it means that there is no big blue tsunami that's out there. democrats don't have national leadership. if you look at the woman who ran and won in new york, every single person that she supported lost. >> sandra: ocasio-cortez. >> yes. >> sandra: great to

president, any response to chris collins? >> exit! nk you. >> got to love the look on his face there. collins, of course, was arrested yesterday, charged with inside trading. yet, he says he's not giving up. his name is still on the ballot in november. but what was once considered a reliable republican win now, with this, has democrats smelling blood in the water. alex marquardt went on the scene to talk to voters and is "outfront." >> reporter: in the far western reaches of this firmly blue state, new york's 27th congressional district is as red as it gets. a district that went heavily for president donald trump in 2016, where in that last election, voters gave representative chris collins a 34-point landslide victory. bill schroeder is a mayor in this district and was one of those voters. now, after collins was arrested for and charged with insider trading, schroeder says he and others are changing their minds about the congressman. so what do you think the reaction was in western new york when they saw this happen yesterday, when he

chris collins' arrest on insider trading charges this week, getting prominent coverage on the big threeollins to president trump. watch. >> congressman chris collins. >> republican congressman chris collins. >> republican congressman chris collins. >> one of the first to endorse then-candidate trump. >> one of the president's earliest supporters. >> new trouble for one of president trump's earliest allies. >> first congressman to be charged with a crime since trump's presidency. >> melissa: you get the point. the same three networks appeared to ignore or downplay the indictments and trials of two democrats in 2015 and 2016. this is according to a media research study, the networks had zero coverage of former democrat congresswoman corrine brown's fraud conviction and 68 seconds of former democratic congressman fatah also convicted of fraud. the republic be a, collins, getting more than 15 minutes of coverage in the first 24 hours after the news broke. what do you think? >> tom: i can't tell you i'm shocked. what i don't understand is, i understand there is relevance, congressman gets in

. >> after insider trading charges were filed against representative chris collins by officials, he spoke to reporters, denying the charges. mr. collins: thank you all for coming today. before i get started, most of you here know my wife of over 30 years, mary. thanks for being here. national press may not know her as well as our local press does. over the years, i have often talked about the american dream. i am extremely fortunate in that i have lived it. it started for me when i borrowed and started scraping together every dollar i could buy the westinghouse gear division in buffalo. i moved it to niagara falls under a new name. i am proud that we put hundreds of people to work, who are still working there today. after selling that company in 1997, i ran for congress in 1998, up in the niagara falls area, knowing that my business experience would benefit the citizens of new york, and offer a new perspective in congress. after being humbled in that race, i spent the next 10 years as an entrepreneur, investing in and helping to stabilize dozens of bankrupt and financially distressed comp

because, you know, chris collins, we're all talked to him many times.s an early supporter of the president. very supportive of him throughout. trump, of course, as he does with most people who support him who are then caught up in legal messes tries to act like they are coffee boys. or people who are insignificant. to matt's point about the culture of corruption, in 2006, democrats did run on their own kind of anti-swamp, train the swamp campaign. they're bringing that back in some campaigns. and i think matt is right to point out that the aggravatiorg all this is say chance to focus on that. >> drain the swamp. let's remember the indictment relates to innate australian bio company on which the board of directors chris collins sat on. >> i will say two things, one to see how donald trump reacts if he takes it personally or if he lets it go. and i remember talking to chris collins before one of the debates and he was a staunch defender of donald trump not releasing his taxes. because he said as a successful businessman if that information gets out there

. >> one of those headwinds is congressman chris collins.'s suspended his re-election campaign amid the investigation into possible insider trading. to what extent do you think he's going to be a drag on the party? democrats are going to try to say, hey, this is a party that promised to drain the swamp, and they did just the opposite. just look at chris collins. >> yeah, look, it continues to feed a narrative. this is an administration who you could argue is somewhere between corrupt and just dismissive of typical ethical roles and the norms of presidential behavior. does chris collins' alleged insider trading tie exactly to the president? no. but the president knows chris collins as the first member of congress to give a full-throated endorsement to donald trump. and when nobody else would go on tv to defend him, chris collins would. so as a reporter who covers capitol hill or as a member of congress, you know chris collins for his role there. but if you are a viewer across the country watching trump's republican party, chris collins is par

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representative chris collins accused of insider trading. in another court some 200 miles away, trump's former campaign chairman, pfraul manafort, is o trial for bank and tax fraud charges. rick gates is finally off the stand as the prosecution begins to wrap up. just because there is no such thing as a slow news day here anymore, there is also this. nbc news has confirmed the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, is going back and forth with the special counsel's office on what it will take to secure a voluntary presidential sitdown. >> we have now given him an answer. obviously he should take a few days to consider it. but we should get this resolved. >> but of course i want to begin with the latest on congressman chris collins, one of the wealthiest members of congress, charged now with insider trading. he's expected to be arraigned on those charges any minute. nbc's investigative reporter, tom winter, joins me now with the latest. tom, from everything we've seen laid out by these federal prosecutors, this seems like a pretty by-t

chris collins cass plans for a gop district into turmoil. this is the buffalo news. let me read a little bit of this article about the announcement yesterday by chris collins. he says, congressman collins, who faces felony insider-trading charges said his decision not to seek reelection is a tough thing, but a tough thing for republican leaders. collins withdrawal from the race on saturday left them with a complex legal effort to remove the lawmaker from the ballot and settle on a replacement candidate from about a dozen possibilities, including the lightning rod buffalo developer and 2010 gop candidate for governor. we go to athens, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you, sir? host: i am good. how are things in athens when it comes to race relations? caller: honestly, the have not changed. i have three points if you would allow me, bill. first, i love c-span. i love america. i love being a black man in america with the ability to watch c-span and engage in the political sphere. --ondly, the ignorance of the ignorance out there, the lack of intellig

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also breaking, republican congressman chris collins pleads not guilty to charges of insider trading and lying to the fbi. collins, the first member of of congress to endorse donald trump for president was arrested for alleged securities fraud, wire fraud and lying. our correspondents and specialists are standing by with full coverage. the announcement of tough new sanctions on russia comes as president trump is on vacation. let's go to the senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny covering the president in new jersey. what's the latest, jeff? >> reporter: wolf, the trump administration is announcing sanctions against russia but this is hardly coming out of the blue and hardly the white house taking a lead here. members of congress have been urging the president and the white house to do this for more than a month. it's a turn of the screw in the negotiations of the surmer, will the president sit down with bob mueller and testify? the trump administration tonight is set to hit moscow with sanctions to punish the russian government for a nerve agent in the attack against a former spy a

chris collins finds himself in a very different situation than michael flynn did. ressman collins' son is already now charged with crimes and so it is a lot less clear that congressman collins can get his son off the hook by taking the hit and pleading guilty the way michael flynn did. congressman collins is the big fish in this investigation. his son, cameron collins, is the little fish. so what congressman collins has to wonder is how long will it take for his son to turn against him? how long will it take for congressman collins' son to plead guilty in exchange for no prison time and testify against his father? and that is the drama that president trump will watch most closely, how long does it take for the son to turn against the father? joining our discussion now, david k. johnson who founded d.c. report.org. he is the author of "it is even worse than you think, what the trump administration is doing to america." and back with us, joyce vance. david, what do you suppose is going through the trump minds as they watch the collins case unfold? >> thank goodness da

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i'm phil mattingly. >> i'm christine romans. >>> representative chris collins refusing to step down afterharges. federal prosecutors in manhattan accused the new york congress member, his son and another man of securities and wire fraud. collins vowed last night he will continue his run for re-election in november. >> the charges that have been levied against me are meritless. i will mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my name. i look forward to being fully vindicated and exonerated ending any and all questions relating to my affiliation with innate. >> that is where collins was on the board of directors. he was the first sitting congress member to endorse donald trump's run for the white house. this turns another safe republican seat into a battleground. >>> the white house legal team says it has sent a counteroffer to special counsel robert mueller on a possible interview with the president. sources tell cnn that the president's lawyers are rejecting the terms for the narrow scope for questioning. they do not want the president facing questions of obstruction. here is giuliani ta

you mentioned chris collins, district 27 of new york.ill the gop have to spend extra energy and resources on these districts they thought were safe? alex: yes. not a lot of districts around the country right now that you can look at in say, we don't have a problem here whatsoever. the republican running for reelection can take the fall off. democrats are motivated everywhere and republicans are motivated, but not to the extent that democrats are. we have an enthusiasm gap and that is why days like yesterday where we hear about all of the promise of the republican party, that does not help with republican enthusiasm. i think every republican running for reelection should view this as the toughest environment they have ever faced voters at, and plan accordingly. ,f you have additional problems self-inflicted problems like we have seen in a couple of races, that clearly has a broader problem for the party because resources will be stretched thin given how big the battlefield is. david: you are a republican strategist and you have fought a l

republican congressman chris collins is facing charges of insider trading and lying to the fbi. een a guest on this broadcast, represents a district in upstate new york. he surrendered to fbi agents this morning. he's accused of tipping off his son who then sold stock in a pharmaceutical company days before news came public that tanked the stock. according to the indictment, collins was attending, there he is, a congressional picnic on the white house lawn june 2017. indeed, he is visible in picture there's from that day. pictures that appear to show him on his phone at times. it's alleged that during the event, he received an e-mail from the ceo of the company informing him of bad news that a key drug trial had failed. collins was on the board of the company. but armed with that insider information, the feds say he immediately called his son. the indictment says collins' son cameron sold a large block of stock and tipped off others, including his fiancee's father, who is also facing charges of insider trading. the feds allege they avoided in all more than $700,000 in losses by d

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>> of course, chris collins was the first member of congress to endorse candidate trump. it's sending repercussions throughout the republican party. collins maintains he's not guilty of the insider trading charges but has assessed his charges and the wider map of what republicans are facing with the election for members of congress just a couple of months away. so by suspending his campaign, he is stepping out of the way. and that will trigger a flurry of activity among republicans in new york 27 which stretches from buffalo to rochester, to give you an idea of where that's located, to try to find the right candidate to put on the ballot. this is a district that president trump won quite easily. so, this was a prime opportunity, for democrats, had call difference chosen to stay on the ballot, there could have been the kind of nationalization of that race to bring in lots of money and resources to help the democrat. and if that were to happen, of course, we know the margin democrats are looking for it. it looks like it's within reach. a double of dozen seats. and they've go

federal prosecutors about representative chris collins.the charges against him. >> good afternoon. >> harris: let's watch. >> i'm the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. today, we announce criminal charges against christopher collins, a united states congressman. he is charged with insider trading and lying to the f.b.i. as alleged in the indictment, congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system in two ways. first, he tipped his son to confidential corporate information at the expense of regular investors. and then he lied about it to law enforcement to cover it up. also charged is his son. cameron collins. and stephen zarsky, the father of cameron's fiancÉe. these charges are a reminder that this is a nation of laws. and that everybody stands equal before the bar of justice. now i'd like to go into the details of the allegations a little more. in addition to serving in the house of representatives, congressman collins was also on the board of directors of innate immunotherapeutics, a publicly traded compa

trump and that's why chris collins has been such an ardent supporter of the president.e's been on your network and the other networks more than 100 tim times as a real cheerleader for the president so i think they are dismay ed but i bet anythin you'll see chris collins mounting a pro-trump campaign and that will resonate with people. >> what's so interesting now that we know the charges against him is looking back at the words and language he and his supporters used when the house ethics committee was investigating the holdings he had in this pharmaceutical company, his supporters called the ethics probe in the house a witch-hunt. he himself called media reports that anything he did would be a violation of the stock act fake news. it's exactly the language the president uses. >> and that's by design, pop py. he know this is district, he knows what resonates with people and that's why you'll hear trump, trump, trump throughout this whole campaign. >> phil, i wonder what you think about the white house is going to do. mum on it now but this is the first member of congres

congressman chris collins and his son, cameron. talk about it straight ahead on "morning joe." but first, here is bill carin wes a check on the forecast. >> we have 60 large tun tamed fires now in california. still burning in the mendocino complex and the carr fire is about to head into the top ten, too. it's endless. we're not getting the wet weather or the cooler temperatures. and the temperatures themselves today are soaring. it's going to be 106 in the interior sections of washington state. so today's forecast in areas of the southeast, you'll get some thunderstorms to deal with. we're getting a break in areas of new england after the overnight storms. not too bad in the middle of the country. stray storm around chicago. but look at how hot. boise, 106 today and tomorrow will be even hotter. the possibility of getting up there, about 108 all-time temperatures in boise, 111. so not that far away. and no moisture coming this weekend as we head towards the west. saturday, watch out. another soaking rain coming from the mid-atlanti