Fiance and her father. All told, the congressman and his family avoided over 768,000 in losses according to the document. And the big question we are asking today is, what does the arrest of Congressman Collins mean for the midterms . Joining me nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. Nbc news investigations reporter tom winter, New York Times chief metro Political Correspondent shane gold macher and former s. E. C. Enforcement attorney seth waxman. Tom, you have been following this. You were downtown a little bit earlier today. Here is a statement from collins lawyer saying we will answer the charges filed in court and will mount a defense to clear his good name. It is notable the government does not allege that Congressman Collins traded a single chair of Innate Immunotherapeuticss stock. We are confident he will be
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his son and they describe in the indictment what was said during that call. that tells me one of those unindicted co-conspirators may be talking and explaining to federal law enforcement what either the son or representative collins said during that call. let s put up a full screen of the timeline in the indictment of the moments after collins learned of this trial failure and what he did in those following moments. at 6:55 p.m. on june 22nd, 2017, innate immunotherapeutics s chief executive informed collins by email that the test for the drug had failed. 15 minutes later collins called his son and told his son about the failed drug test. june 23rd, 2017, at 7:42 a.m. when the stock market was open for trading again, cameron collins sold more than 16,500 shares of innate immunotherapeutics stock. later that day cameron collins placed 17 more orders to sell the stock.