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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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. When the public trial for the drug was about to be announced as a failure. Want to read a little from the complaint. Mis 416 had the potential to be an enormously profitable if the drug trial was successful. The drug, however, failed the drug trial. Public announcement of these results caused the stock price to drop by 92 . In or about june of 2017, Christopher Collins violated the duties he owed to innate by Passing Material Nonpublic information regarding the Drug Trial Results to his son the defendant so that Cameron Collins could use that information to make timely trades in innate stock and tip others. In detail, it was stunning from the actual complaint itself, those phone calls or the initial ones from the congressman to his sn, they took place on the grounds of the white house, during the white house congressional picnic. Anybody who has been paying attention to Chris Collins on capitol hill the last couple of years
Has found when the boxes came back from north korea. A very meaningful, important moment for that Mcdaniel Family and for all americans its an honor to show it to you. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Im dana perino. Up next, shep smith. Shepard its noon on the west coast. 3 00 here in New York City where republican congressman is facing a judge on charges of Insider Trading. The lawmaker denies he did anything wrong. Were live at the courthouse. President trumps lawyers making what they are calling a Counter Offer for an interview with the special counsel Robert Mueller. Ahead, the details on what they call the last chance to avoid a possible subpoena of the president. And the star witness on the defense at the trial of President Trumps former Campaign Chairman. But rick gates says he has a very good reason to tell the truth about everything Paul Manafort did. Lets get to it. Shepard smith reporting live from the Fox News Deck. And first from the Fox News Deck this afternoon a sitting
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Robert mueller is not. See you in a bit. Here onset for another day, dan goldman, an msnbc legal analyst along with our pal nbc News Reporter carol lee. It is less hot than it has been all week. You picked a good day to be here. Dan, let me start with you, if you look at what each side wants, they are both looking for leverage. And the sticking point, one of them seems to be this idea much an in person interview. What is the framing behind that . The trump team wants questions on collusion only and special counsel wants to hear about it all. I think Rudy Giuliani is trying to figure out a way to drum up some leverage because ordinarily the witness of the defendant or target or subject does not have the leverage, the prosecutor does. And but because bob mueller is not talking and Rudy Giuliani is, hes able he has the whole Public Domain to make all of his arguments, even though as
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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