have mesothelial not we ll send you a free book to answer questions you may have called now and we ll come to you 808 to one 4,000 welcome to inside politics on this memorial day monday, i m phil mattingly in today for dana bash get ready for a history making week in american politics by the end of it, the jury of 12 ordinary american citizens may actually finished their deliberations and decide whether to make donald trump a convicted felon. now, no matter the outcome, both trump and biden campaign we ll have huge strategic decisions to make on how much, if at all, to focus on that verdict in the final months before election day, quinnipiac poll last week found that 70 in ten voters are actually following the trial, at least somewhat closely. the big question whether an unprecedented criminal trial will have any impact at all on who wins in november my great political panel is so here to help answer that question and many more, cnn s kristen holmes, little grown lopez, the
news night. laura coates live starts right now tonight. drugs, a gun, a document, and an alleged lie, another their historic trial. this time the president s son. so just who are the 12 jurors who will decide? hunter biden s state plus president biden tries at a new tougher message against trump, but not the public. what he just told a group of donors. and it was the foul seen round the world, but it has now become something now a little bit more hasn t been the new twist and the caitlin clark story tonight. i m laura coates, live alright, stop me if you ve heard any of these statements before, the cases, an unusual prosecution that quote, would not have been filed gantz anyone else? is the result of prosecutors have in quote, bowed to political pressure and the entire thing is quote, unquote, politically motivated can you guess which case i m talking about? no, it s not donald trump s conviction in manhattan though all of those things hadn t thought about that case
You know, if you wanted to hold a pageant to decide the president aes favorite Member Of Congress, i dont think any of us knows who the final winner might be. Might be whether the president insisted on a swimsuit contest or something scarier. Without any argument at all, i think almost all of us who paid any attention to the news in this era, we could all name a couple of the pageant finalists were this contest to happen. One of the finalists would undoubtedly be the Member Of Congress who started off today being taken into custody at the offices of the fbi in lower manhattan. Chris collins a Republican Congressman from new york, hes from buffalo, he was the first Member Of Congress to
endorse Donald Trumps president ial campaign all the way back in february, 2016. We know that is the kind of thing that really matters to this president. Congressman collins has since been among the most Faithful Visible Trump loyalists in washington. But now hes been arrested in an alleged scheme that a
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 todays 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 turne
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Penalties are even higher, the evidence is even more volume nous, or will he cut his losses, cut a deal and tell what he knows if anything about potential collusion between donald trump and the Russian Election interference effort . Let me bring in the panel now. I want to get to my legal experts, more of my legal experts. By the way, a little more breaking news, the Cohen Hearing is officially over. Sentencing is scheduled for December 12th for his guilty plea at 11 00 a. M. Hes out on 500,000 bail which was cosigned by his wife and a second person. Were going to go there. But Donald Fryman is is on Air Force One on his way to West Virginia to prepare for a rally for the West Virginia senate race. How is he feeling . We think hes emotionally and politically in as much of a corner psychologically as hes been since hes become president of the United States. Hes worked very hard to get at
least some n. Some polls his