Stock sale that helped his son and others avoid millions in losses. The fbi said theres a better inside tip. Do not lie to its agents. And assange to testify . Wikileaks said the founder is asked for the Senate Committee to testify about russia interference. Would he leave the London Embassy where hes been holed up for years . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The u. S. Announces its imposing new sanctions on Vladimir Putins government after finding the kremlin responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy and daughter in britain. 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
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Ive got a lot of people that care about me. And its going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose. You think this will get me a job as a pilot . I think theyll yeah, right. Can this thing do a back flip . Do you think . A barrel roll . If that goes good, and im just gonna nose down and call it a night. Lets try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anyone on the ground. All right. Oh, damn it, i dont know, man,
theyre likely transcribing a lot of what you just heard there to get the full picture here of what was going on in this mans head. Of course social media is going to be important too. We know the Sheriffs Department said he was suicidal, but the fbis going to want a fuller picture. Did some specific event trigger him to do what we saw him do yesterday . The ntsb just gave a briefing. We know theyre on the ground. You saw that plane crashed. He died. It crashed in a very hea
story. athena, pretty big development this morning. absolutely, chris collins saying he s going to suspend his campaign. let me read to you part of the statement he put out this morning. he said after extensive discussions with my family and friends over the last few days, i have decided that it is in the best interest of the constituents of new york 27, the republican party and president trump s agenda for me to suspend my campaign for re-election to congress. now, ryan, this comes just a few days after he was indicted on 13 counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements. he was indicted, along with his son and his son s fiance s father. he, at the time, vowed he was going to continue to seek re-election. well, now he is stepping aside, but he says he will be filling out the remainder of his term. we should note that these charges involve an australian pharmaceutical company. prosecutors allege that representative collins learned about a drug that had failed a drug tria
said initially. that is a story we re staying on top of and have been on since maria hit. live pictures right now over at the pentagon, where defense james mattis is waiting for arrival of mike pence because the trump administration is launching details on its space force today. in the next hour vp will lay out the plan at the pentagon making it the first new branch of the military potentially. more than 70 years, that s a story i ll be reporting on tonight for nbc nightly news. within just the last hour, democrats are coming out swinging against what they call a culture of corruption within the republican party. it comes after congressman chris collins was arrested on those federal charges of insider trading. we shared that breaking news yesterday. today collins is defiant, prosecutors say the congressman schemed with his son so his family could avoid big losses on an investment in an australian pharmaceutical company. collins served on the board and still a top shareholder. this mo
he endorsed him very early on. but the president, donald trump was never involved in this company biotech firm. that s perfectly fine but how many times are we going to hear about corruption from the president, a top supporter, a lawyer, a campaign chairman before we start to really recognize how much this corruption is running through everything the president touches. it s like king midus was the president turned everything that turned to gold. the president seems to touch everything that turns to corruption and everywhere it seems to be following him. the indictment and i ve read it and you ve read it. it doesn t say he did anything wrong when suggesting to other family members, friends, hey, this is a great stock, a great company. they could come up with a cure for some form of m.s. he didn t tell them to buy but clearly that was the implication. the charges that when the clinical trial was about to fail, he got advance word and then tipped off his son. who then tipped off oth