Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Night that he found out some Bad Information about the company. And then proceeded to tip off his son who also invested in the company. So take a look at this timeline. This was on june 22nd of 2017, summer of last year. At 6 55 p. M. , the indictment says he received an email from the ceo of the company saying that a drug trial had been a failure. Now 16 minutes later, at 7 11 p. M. , he starts calling his son. He tries to make that call four times before he is successful. And at 7 16, he speaks to his son and informs him about this information that he had learned. And it is the next day, 7 42 a. M. , in the morning, that his son starts putting in orders to sell off his shares of his stock in this company. N ultimately, the indictment says that he was able to avoid some 570,000 in losses. Now a lot of congressional reporters are actually already familiar with this company Innate Immunotherapeutics
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Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Zeldin. This is a very serious allegation. He misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is whats at issue. Whats at issue is his provision of nonpublic information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. That violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. Michael, this is sdny indicting a sitting member of Congress Months before an election. We know prosecutors are confident but i mean how airtight does this case need to be . Well, two things. First, we know from the from that which happened during the last 2016 election that youre
not supposed to bring indictments against congressman and other political people within 60 days. So they just sort of snuck under the 60day donor election statute. Just. Yeah. But the fact is that, you treat public corruption in the sa
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. There. Its just bad weather, stay there, my friend. Rain, rain, rain. Thank you so much. Joining me now political reporter for the guardian and steph knight, reporter for axios. Ladies, thanks. Sabrina, is there any indication that were getting to the end, the final stretch of whether or not the president will submit to an interview with Robert Mueller . Weve been having the same conversation for months as to what the scope of that interview might look like and the ongoing negotiations with the president s legal team and an interview that would be partially done in person. And then there would perhaps be some questions in written format. So it doesnt really seem like much progress because its something is that we were talking about earlier this year. Whats quite clear is that, the president s legal team does not want him to sit down with the Special Counsel. And i think Rudy Giuliani himself has al
It does not get into 16. He only managed for about four months in the summer of 2016. Harris why do you think bob mueller is perched . For the reasons that this judge has said, what you only one Paul Manafort, you are only squeezing him, the judges phrase, they do not speak this way from the bench. Harris this judge has been very candid. Very colorful, you are only squeezing Paul Manafort because he want him to testify against the president. The response to that is we are lawyers and we have ethical duties. We are prosecutors. If we find evidence of crimes, we must pursue that criminality whether it is our original mission or not, that is a truthful statement of the obligation, they can pursue it themselves or pass it on and have their pursuit. Harris you are judge looking at this case, how much time could Paul Manafort face . Thats where the pressure comes in, right . He could be convicted to 60
years in jail, exposed to more, but thats what it will come down to if he is convicted of
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