The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Unfolding in the same district, there are a lot of legal issues these are all people, you say people all in the president s circle. Its Congressman Collins, his son and the sons soon to be fatherinlaw. There are a lot of references to coconspirators not named as defendants. Yes. So are those folks who if youre a prosecutor, are these other Family Members who are cooperating or might they be indicted down the road. They could be indicted down the road. At this point theyre not being indicted but they participated in criminal conspiracy according to the indictment. The most Famous Coconspirator in an indictment probably was Richard Nixon in the watergate affair. He was never indicted but he was clearly listed as a coconspirator with respect to some of the charges that were brought. So, this is something they do in the early stages of a case. The case may name others later. Might you have other Family Members flipping on othe
Updates of the days news. Theres a lot more to what they did that nobody knows about yet, and mueller is going to have a lot to answer for and in ohios congressional Special Election the race is tighter after a late addition to voting tallies. Officials in Franklin County announced yesterday an additional 588 previously uncounted votes had been found in a columbus suburb. The result has given Democrat Danny Oconnor a net gain of 190 votes. He and republican Troy Balder S son are separated down from yesterday. Balderson declared victory tuesday night, but oconnor is waiting for all votes to be counted. Whatever the outcome, these two will go headtohead again in november when they compete for a full term in congress. The Trump Administration is hitting russia with new sanctions, punishing Vladimir Putins government for the poisoning of a former russian
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if the law didn t apply to him. reporter: collins, his son cameron and his son s future father-in-law face 13 krim ncri counts all together. the crimes revolve around the australian pharmaceutical company innate. according to the indictment, on june 22nd of last year, innate s ceo informed his board of directors, including collins, that the company s critical drug trial had failed, news that was not yet public. congressman collins was at a picnic at the white house, and minutes after getting the news, according to prosecutors, collins called his son to tell him, breaking federal law. cameron collins moved quickly to save his money. he sold stock based on that inside information, and he also took that illegal inside information and tipped others. reporter: days later, the stock would plummet.
the case may name others later. might you have other family members flipping on other family members? no. what s mhappened here the s.e.c came to agreement with some of the other family members involved with the congressman son s girlfriend. that s what you have here. u.s. attorney s office has chosen not to prosecute these people. okay. let me move on, stay with me, everyone, because now the president s legal team is trying to avoid, quote, perjury traps from special counsel robert mueller, trump s lawyer rudy giuliani has submitted a counteroffer to mueller regarding an interview with the president. it is a, quote, good faith attempt to reach an agreement. he also said that the trump legal team is open to some obstruction of justice questions but a absolutely he says no perjury traps. he went on to tell dana this,
with fraud related to insider trading. the congressman along with his son and his son s future father-in-law were just arraigned in federal court, all three pleaded not guilty. prosecutors say congressman collins found out about a failed drug trial conducted by a pharmaceutical company whose board he sits on. collins then allegedly shared that information with his son who then allegedly traded on the news before it was made public. the house ethics committee is not commenting for now, but we know the speaker of the house, paul ryan, has already removed collins from a top congressional committee. so with me now, charlie dent, cnn political commentator and former congressman who chaired the house ethics committee. congressman, good to have you on. and, you know, you have worked with this congressman in the past, but this notion that he stood there at i think it was a congressional picnic at the white house, gets the call from the pharmaceutical company that the drug is no good, calls up