You know, if you wanted to hold a pageant to decide the president aes favorite Member Of Congress, i dont think any of us knows who the final winner might be. Might be whether the president insisted on a swimsuit contest or something scarier. Without any argument at all, i think almost all of us who paid any attention to the news in this era, we could all name a couple of the pageant finalists were this contest to happen. One of the finalists would undoubtedly be the Member Of Congress who started off today being taken into custody at the offices of the fbi in lower manhattan. Chris collins a Republican Congressman from new york, hes from buffalo, he was the first Member Of Congress to
endorse Donald Trumps president ial campaign all the way back in february, 2016. We know that is the kind of thing that really matters to this president. Congressman collins has since been among the most Faithful Visible Trump loyalists in washington. But now hes been arrested in an alleged scheme that a
tests will be shipped out at some point. we ll keep watching it. thank you, sandra. sandra: and more on the way. but we ll see. china facing growing criticism meanwhile of the human rights record with the beijing olympics weeks away. and now republican lawmakers calling out executives from the international olympic committee s official partners for staying silent on china s abuses. congresswoman kathy mcmorris rodgers joins us with an exclusive interview. you have some breaking news on how you and other members of congress plan to hold these top executives of these top sponsors accountable for doing business there. that s right. i have written a letter and in the letter we are calling, we are appealing to these american companies to, companies that depend upon american consumers to defend human rights. in this letter we asked the question, where is the red line? if it s not human rights, if
can we have that transcript to put up for a second? there have been these public statements by the republican leadership in congress they re not pursuing this crazy idea of impeaching rod rosenstein. despite those public statements here s kathy mcmorris rodgers appearing to agree that in fact, they are going to pursue impeaching rod rosenstein once the election is over and once they have got the new supreme court justice installed. impeaching rod rosenstein has nothing to do with rod rosenstein. what it is, is the only option, the one option the republican congress has to really force the end of the mueller investigation. if they impeach and forcibly remove from office the man who oversees the mueller investigation, that is how they could arrange the installation of somebody else who could be put in place in that same job who would shut the investigation down. it s really the only thing congressional republicans could do to stop the mueller
during the campaign, it cannot help that the lead opponent of the russia investigation privately concedes when he thinks nobody is recording him that sort of activity, if proven, that would definitely be criminal. now, we have a problem, right? because if somebody stole the e-mails, gave them to cathy, cathy released them, if that s the case, that s criminal. how does that line up with the trump campaign and what they did with wikileaks and guccifer 2.0 and dc leaks? there s twos other statements at this closed door event that will make a little bit of news here. this next one includes audio cameo from the member of congress whose fund-raiser devin nunes was speaking at. kathy mcmorris rodgers is the flub four republican in house leadership. she s from washington state. this fund-raiser we obtained this audio is from spokane, washington, held by her re-election campaign. this fund-raiser was last week,
football game instead. media madness, you are the author. it s out now. melissa: we re getting an update on yesterday s deadly crash involving a train carrying republicans to west virginia retreat. the latest on the investigation and what we re hearing about the lawmakers helping the injured. but first, washington congresswoman kathy mcmorris rodgers. our thoughts continue to be with the victims of yesterday s action and the person who tragically lost his life.