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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to a performance. he s dismissing some of these questions are not answering others but there are certain things that he can t answer. like for example, why now have this national program looking at school board meetings? local and state laws cover disruptions. people are citing about five of these cases across the country and there s no argument in his letter about a pattern that would justify the effort. he also didn t respond to the fact of the department of justice put out a press release that referred to getting the national security division involved, and this was raised by congressman jordan. and he really didn t respond to that. sandra: jim jordan is now speaking on capitol hill. just stepped out of the hearing room. targeting a political opponent and now there s a vote on the floor. i hope every republican votes against this and i think that s going to happen but we will find out here soon. thank you very much. sandra: that was jim jordan
shipping jobs on communist china. senator state senator miller and i got together, put out a press release, asking them to reconsider, we would be happen to help them through some of our economic development programs here in the state of minnesota. then smith saw the press release and jumped on the issue. and we re very supportive of what senator miller and i was trying to do that was get major league baseball to reconsider. so, we i was notified on july 8 that 18 to 24 months jobs would be shipped to china. they do already make some bats over there. to be clear, the what makes for major league baseball are helmets.
unexploded mine from the whole of the ship. iran denied playing any role in the attack. the bridge government issued a statement backing the us conclusion that iran is to blame. the iranian s put out a press release that they rescued all 44 sailors on the two disabled tankers. one of the tanker crews were detained after being rescued by another merchant vessel. those sailors remain in iranian custody and there are no plans to release them to dubai. the u.s. navy rescued the other 21 sailors from the tanker rescued by the uss bainbridge. they were released to their ship. us officials say four tugboats contracted to pull the norwegian owned tanker were prevented from doing so by iranian gunboats. the u.s. navy prevented an iranian tugboat from approaching the japanese to vessel.
the la city limits. a councilmembers is enough is enough. we have an increasingly tense foreign-policy dilemma as the president himself blames iran for attacking two oil tankers and critics point the finger back at donald trump. reporter: the sun is rising over the strait of hormuz and as we speak there are two us ships standing guard over one of the attacks. iran is standing by its denial even parading the crew from one of those ships to tout iranian hospitality on state tv. i am from russia, the service is excellent, they have treated us really well. everything is fine. reporter: at first the iranian s put out a press release saying they rescued all