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
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Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. To do things like flip. The Attorney General who has been under fire by the president quite a bit has release his own statement pushing back on the president. This is consequence because the Attorney General did this right as he was going to the white house to meet with the president on criminal sentencing. Here is what he said. While i am Attorney General, the actions of the Department Of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political conversations. I demand the highest standards and where they are not met i take action. However, no nation has a more talented, more dedicated group of Law Enforcement investigators and prosecutors than the United States. I am proud to serve with them and proud of the work we have done in successfully advancing the rule of law. Just another note. I spoke with the doj official after that statement came out, asked what the mood is at the doj, and the person said
A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Lawyers and tweeting of the russians investigation, the president i dont know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. I will tell you what. If i got impeached, i think the market will crash. I think everybody would be very poor. Reporter as Rudy Giuliani talked about rebellion. You only impeach him for political reasons and the American People would revolt against that. Reporter as for the white house has been saying manaforts pardon have not been under discussion. Sarah sanders came in and we have put it up on screen. This pardon is not something being discussed in the white house and the president has not made a decision on pardoning of Paul Manafort or anyone else. Wolf, you can look at how carefully worded that statement is. This discussion is not taken place inside the white house. Dems are running him up. No, mr. President , i am
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Been hijacked or what was going on. The two fighter jets escorted him and they would trail behind him i dont know what they were trying to do at that time. Like i said i was unclear of what was going on. He headed down towards where eventually crashed at and pulled the nose backup again and i thought hes going to stall again. He made his way down and i looked again and he was in a nose dive and he went into the ground. I saw a brief flash of flames and big plume of smoke and the sound of explosion. I just had a bad feeling that it was not an exercise or anything. I knew he had crash at that point. Cnn transportation analyst, and on the phone, renee marsh,
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Vista for american film. This is cnn breaking news. Im Natalie Allen at cnn center in atlanta. We are following breaking news here. A shooting has occurred in california at a Food Festival near san jose. This is video new into cnn from a witness. The sound of gunshots there and people running as this festival was about to end. This is when it happened. It happened in gilroy, california at the annual and very popular gilroy garlic
festival marketed as one of the countrys largest Food Festivals. According to local news reports quoting witnesses, there are people hurt, and a Law Enforcement official tells us that the atf is responding. This tweeted a short time ago from the Police Department. It says the hearts of gilroy pd and entire community go out to the victims of todays shooting at the garlic festival. The scene is still active. We are closely following the developments from the breaking news. Cnn is monitoring the story from our l. A. Bureau. Also with us, cnn crime and justice rep