The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Unleashing a nerve agent in the uk. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Republican Chris Collins of new york first sitting member of the congress to back the President Trumps bid in february 2016. He was such a strong supporter of mr. Trump collins at the Republican National convention was asked to formally second mr. Trumps nomination to be his partys nominee. I have the honor of seconding the nomination of donald j. Trump as the next president of the United States of america but today the congressman was arrested by the fbi. Moments ago the congressman walked out of Federal Court in new york city where he was arraigned. Prosecutors this afternoon detailing the grand jury indictments of the new york republican, his son and his sons fiancees father for 13
counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements. All stemming from an alleged Insider Trading schem
i don t get the idea like for the longest time having this debate to go to war with russia or diplomacy? that s not true. it is like he s saying someone is trying to burglarize the house and we should just talk to them. i mean, it doesn t make any sense. appeasement? do you think? there s an urgency here because we are close to an election and that s what they re trying to mess with. they re in the house. present at the top of the mind in dealing with it strictly is important. stick around. we have more to talk about. the president may be touting a gop sweep in the primaries, the results show about republicans and democrats about november. stay with us. hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely. with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast. .and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can t do anything about that.
relatively light. it can affect some exports, financing. the real test is going to be if russia doesn t allow inspections of chemical weapons facilities and doesn t make assurances to not use them again then there are harsher sanctions, ban all imports and exports and relations. that will really be the test for this administration. their hands is forced because it s the law. exactly. earlier today, interesting move, senator paul of kentucky delivering by hand a letter from president trump giving it to putin s administration in russia. it s not really clear what s in the letter, though. it is not. initially rand paul advertised this as something he was a courier here of president trump and president vladimir putin but we are told by white house sources that, in fact, president trump was doing a favor for rand paul. he was in moscow. wanted to meet with the russian president and president trump, this according to white house, wrote a letter of introduction and that this was not a
dragged on for eight months now. mueller indicated last week he d be willing to limit the questions of obstruction of justice maintaining to ask those questions in person. today, giuliani making clear certain questions are off limits. i could right now give you the answer that he s going to give to the question, why did you fire james comey? he gave it to lester holt. it is on tape. reporter: openly admitting he s worried the president could perjure himself. start to think that the only reason they want this explanation is so that they can come up with some kind of a perjury thing. it s called a perjury trap, what we have talked about often. reporter: while trump ramped up the public attacks on the special counsel he s at odds with his own legal team over the prospects of an interview. the president stated he wants to do an interview. the position of the legal team is we don t advise that.
things elsewhere and great britain, that s one thing. there s a case for congress weighing in in support of a tough u.s. foreign policy. not much case for one senator trying to undercut american foreign policy. rand paul spoke last month about the importance of diplomacy with russia and gets to the false choice that you say he makes. take a listen. nobody is saying or excusing russia s meddling in the elections. absolutely. we should protect the integrity of our elections. but simply bringing the hatred of the president to the senate floor in order to say, we are done with diplomacy. the hatred for the president is so intense that partisans would rather risk war than give diplomacy a chance. is that you? are you a partisan to risk war because you hate donald trump so much? i m pretty sure that diplomacy is the reason we didn t go directly to war with russia or the soviet union.