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 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. The company where collins was on the board of directors. He was the first sitting Congress Member to endorse donald trump for the white house. Collins indictment 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. 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 talking to sean hannity. Stop the nonsense. You are trying to trap him into perjury because you dont have a case. Giuliani called the first offer a good attempt faith to reach an agreement. Mueller has all of the 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. Accounts to show the path of the money which flowed from Ukraine Business men to manaforts accounts. They showed Bank Account Statements manafort signed. His Passport Photo included in the Bank Accounts. And showing funds which flew to u. S. Vendors. The jury heard from those early in the week and last week detailing he paid for a mercedesbenz and ostrich jacket. And several other expensive real estate properties. The jury heard from prosecutors in total that meant manafort did not pay tax on 15 million. That is a key part of the case. Prosecutors told the judge they have eight more witnesses to call. They could wrap by the end of the week. Christine, phil. Kara, thank you. The Trump Administration set to slap a new round of sanctions on russia as the punishment for the poisoning of former russian spy and his daughter. The state Department Says the sanctions are required under international law. Banning the use of biological and chemical weapons. The first round of sanctions set
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i will mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my name. A sitting Congress Member indicted for Insider Trading creating another midterm headache for the gop. Trying to trap him into perjury because you dont have a case. President trumps lawyers rejecting Robert Muellers terms for a sitdown interview in the russia investigation. Russia responding to a new round of sanctions. We go live to moscow. Do you know how the fire started . I have no idea. I was asleep. Police say that man started a destructive wildfire in california that is still raging out of control. Welcome back to early start. Im phil mattingly. Im christine romans. 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. 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 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 Trumps 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 talking to sean hannity. Stop the nonsense. You are trying to trap him into perjury because you dont have a case. Giuliani called the first offer a good attempt faith to reach an agreement. Mueller has all of the 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 case. 18 witnesses have testified. Notably rick gates. Manaforts exdeputy and former adviser to the trump campaign. Also taking the stand is a former irs agent on how manafort avoided paying taxes on millions of income. We have more from cnns kara scannell. Reporter follow the money. Thats what prosecutors asked the jury to do in the document heavy day. Witnesses from the fbi and irs walked the jury through documents, emails and Bank Accounts from the ukraine to manaforts accounts. They showed Bank Account Statements manafort signed. His Passport Photo included in the Bank Accounts. And showing funds which flew to u. S. Vendors. The jury heard from those early in the week and last week detailing he paid for a mercedesbenz and ostrich jacket. Bought several expensive real estate properties. The jury heard from prosecutors in total that meant manafort did not pay tax on 15 million. That is a key part of the case. Prosecutors told the judge they have eight more witnesses to call. They could wrap by the end of the week. Christine, phil. Kara, thank you. I think she has been living in virginia over the last few weeks. Thank you very much. The Trump Administration set to slap a new round of sanctions on russia as the punishment for the poisoning of former russian spy and his daughter. The state Department Says the sanctions are required under international law. Banning the use of chemical and biological weapons. The first round of sanctions set to go in effect in two weeks. Lets bring in correspondent matthew chance. Live in moscow. Whath matthew, it is no secret the tension here. What is the reaction to moscow . Reporter phil, this will come as a major surprise to many here in moscow and authorities here because there is a lot of expectations of new sanctions from the United States. They would be congressional sanctions. They are debated right now in the u. S. They would focus on punishing russia for the alleged meddling in the 2016 president ial election. To use antichemical Weapons Legislation by the Trump Administration, not congress, is unexpected. The reactions so far has been predictable by the Russian Diplomats saying this is an example of the theater of the absurd in the United States. There is no clue or no proof or logic. They are restating this russia position that russia had
absolutely nothing to do with the poisoning of the skripals in the united kingdom. And the u. S. Sanctions are totally illegitimate. What we have to remember is this all comes out of the feverish political atmosphere that is at play in the United States, particularly after the summit in helsinki between President Trump and President Putin of russia which President Trump is perceived as weak compared to the russian leader. It shows how much pressure there is building in the u. S. Right now to adopt a much tougher stance toward the kremlin. It comes from that, phil. A lot of pressure. This is the first round. A second round of sanctions could be triggered in a couple of months. Matthew, thank you. Lets bring in zach wolf live from washington. Good morning. On the subject of the sanctions on russia, it is as if we have
said on a split screen. The white house reluctantly imposing sanctions on a regime that we are not talking about the mueller interview. The russia sanctions. You have senator rand paul presenting a letter of introduction of donald trump to vladimir putin. Two different optics. Very different optics. Coming on the same day. The other element, you assume the white house would rather impose sanctions for chemical weapons than election meddling. That is the thing that President Trump thinks is delegitimizing his entire presidency. He would rather do chemical weapons. This is like something out of di dickens. Something you dont hear about much. Slapping russia with sanctions on the same day. Not the kind of thing we heard
about from previous administrations. I love the 5 30 a. M. Dickens drop. I want to talk about the tactics from the president s legal team. I want to play sound from last night. Alan dershowitz on what the strategy is here. Take a listen. They will make mueller an offer he cannot accept. In the end, mueller will say i cannot accept this offer. We will subpoena you. The president will say, i wanted to testify. It was mueller who turned me down. So zach, is that the play here . Are they not serious about the actual offer . This is a ploy to push further and never actually sit down . From the sound you played of Rudy Giuliani earlier, im not sure what they want. He seems to think they have a strong hand if they went into the kind of Supreme Court over the subpoena. This is the main Story Heading into the november election. On the other hand, he says you
can get it done. They would like it both ways here. And it is very muddled to what they want. By not taking the offer, they are certainly making sure that this is going to drag on. They are pushing it into november at this point. Lets talk about Chris Collins. This was a bombshell yesterday. For those of us who cover markets and trading and sometimes Insider Trading, this looks like a textbook do not do. He sits on the board of a company. He gets word the companys main source of revenue, potential revenue, the drug trial will fail. On the white house grounds, he calls his son, six or seven times and he sells the stock to mitigate his losses. According to the government. How damaging is this to him . And how damaging is it for the gop in november . You know, i think we have to see. He promises he will run for
reelection. We have to he says he didnt do it. We have to remember that. Although, the way they laid out the case yesterday was pretty damning. You know, this is an interesting thing heading forward. You know, i dont know how damaging it will be to the gop. Simply because so much other things are going on. What is interesting to me is that we had so many examples of the sort of Swamp Mentality going on. This is maybe the swampiest thing. I did not realize Congress Member he is the only one that sits on the board. He stepped down from the board. While are you an american lawmaker, that seems on its face a conflikon flikconflict. Particularly on the House Committee which he was stripped of. I dont know. Stay tuned. Zach, thank you. Disturbing details emerge
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county, california. Thank you, stephanie. The holy fire triggering a new round of evacuations as flames inch closer to residential areas. 20,000 people have been ordered to leave. Officials are battling the blaze from the air and land. At this point, the fire is 5 contained. In the meantime, a 51yearold man an kuccused of setting the is scheduled to appear in court today. Here is the man, Forrest Gordon clark, talking to a cameraman on monday. Two days before his arrest. Do you know how the fire started . I have no idea. I was asleep. I had earplugs in. I just woke up, dude. I got burned. A local Fire Official says clark sent him an email warning this place will burn. Disturbing details emerge
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