Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Team. Facing charges of Insider Trading and lying to the fbi. The government alleging that collins tipped his son off about a failed drug test at a bio tech company. Family and friends then sold their stock in the company before the news broke saving them more than 768,000 in losses. Noting that no one is above the law as charges were laid out against the congressman. Congressman collins cheated our market and our justice system. These charges are a reminder that this is a nation of laws and that everybody stands equal before the bar of justice. Now collins has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his statement that lawyers say we are confident he will be
the news about stock trade and news about his Making Recommendations of other members of congress to buy stock of this company of which he was a member of the board has become public for more than a year. What does this case look like to
ramping up of political activity from the former president. is that now i m sure that is certain. and donald trump is also talking more teasing, more about his eventual announcement of his running mate yeah, last night he said that he will make a decision or an announcement at least about his running mate at the convention in milwaukee. that s slated for mid july. so we re just a little over a month now until that announcement comes at this point, he s basically down to seven individuals, at least that s who is campaign is sort of boring. heading and putting out as like a quasi finalized list. there s a first tier of three names i can read for you. it s north dakota. north dakota governor doug burgum senator marco rubio of florida and senator jd vance of ohio, who i should note was with trump yesterday in arizona. and then there s this sort of second tier that he s considering and that includes center tim scott, representative elise stefanik, representative byron donalds, and former
saturday night, while we all hope that this bill will be passed on saturday because us assistance who has helped to ukraine cannot be replaced placed europe is doing increasingly more and more european nations are taking responsibility. but the united states still provide at least 50% of it. so that s why we all count on, wright american decision. what do you make of some of the senators even? i m. not just the congress people who are in this sort of trump what we call the maga group of of trump republicans in congress, senators like jd vance of ohio who has been ever since the munich security conference, essentially making a case that ukraine doesn t matter essentially that it should just surrender and give land to russia i believe that ukraine is equally important for europe as it is for united
disassociate the two. you ve got to understand that it s not just the voting, but it s also what do these lines look like, and who actually has access to their government? when we re seeing the pushback that we see in the state of ohio where they say you know what? we re afraid that they are going to enshrine the access to abortion care, and they ve gone out and done these petitions, we want to make sure that we change the rules to the game in august. this is a legislature that just said you know what? get rid of august elections because the voter turnout is too low. wait a minute we want to raise the stakes. instead of it being 50% to get a ballot measure passed, we want to raise it to 60% so hopefully when this ballot measure makes the ballot that is coming up because those people have worked hard, hopefully it won t pass because we re going to change the bar. that is the name of the game for the republican party. if it doesn t suit their agenda, then forget democracy. forget all the
pence opted to attend a club for growth donor retreat instead. florida governor desantis, mccarthy, and mcdaniel will also skip the event this year. it will see some appearances from heavyweights in the gop, though. judiciary committee chairman, congressman jim jordan of ohio, and senators ted cruz of texas and jd vance of ohio will speak today. georgia congressman marjorie taylor greene and candidate nikki haley will speak tomorrow. bolsonaro is on the roster, and, yes, former president trump will be the final speaker of the conference on saturday. joining us now, communication strategist and former aid to house speakers ryan and john boehner, brandon buck, a political analyst. some prominent names in the party chooing not to head to cpac. what is your read on this, the schism in the state of the gop? cpac has always been an