Gubernatorial race was not close at all and that, too, may be telling. Voters overwhelmingly chose the socalled establishment candidate Gretchen Whitmer over the Progressive Choice backed by Bernie Sanders among others. Lets start in ohio with ryan noble nobles. This race isnt called because there is a masmall marg between Troy Balderson and Danny Oconnor. Its a 1700 vote lead. The reason the election cant be certified yet is there are 8,000 professional and Absentee Ballots that have yet to be counted and it will take a week for all of that counting to take place and then the other variable that could take place that is if the margin shrinks to less than half a percentage
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. You snoozed in the makeup room. Theres a bag of wendys down stairs. Spicy chicken sandwich. Leave it alone. I had two of them. Fantastic. We have a lot to get to. Looking in ohio, so much money, so much time, so much energy spent for a thr
happen. we should say, use the caveat, we are a long ways off. the investigations are still happening. the house speaker hasn t made clear if the full house will vote at all on impeachment. we also learned that one of the president s first supporters on capitol hill is resigning from office. what do we know about this? reporter: new york republican congressman chris collins. he was the first sitting member of congress to come out in support of president trump and our colleague tom winter reported that yes, he is going to plead guilty in an insider trading charge. apparently there was some multiple sclerosis drug that completed a drug trial. somehow or another, he got inside word of it, shared it with his son. he is now stepping down. he is the latest in a number of republicans to step down or say they re not running again. his situation is completely different from the others. but yes, you have this long time and first trump supporter from congress now pleading guilty to a bad act
this is about alleged insired trading at a biotech company called immuno therapeutics limited. in june 2017 collins was on the board of this australian biotech firm called innate immuno therapeutics. if you just would lay out for people what would concentrate insider trading. again, not specific to this case, but what action would be alleged in a case like this. people, in general, think about it as, you get an illegal stock tip from somebody who works for the company that the company s going to merge with somebody else or the company s going to develop a new drug, that sort of thing. based on that tip, you go out and buy stock which then rises in value. that s your classic that is your classic insider trading charge. now someone who served on the o would have being a saccess to i
prison for an insider trading charge in order, she had a spot transaction. they couldn t get her on that so went after her for obstruction and don t forget scooter libby the public servant with the book thrown at him over an alleged unproven leak when they knew who the leaker was the first day they took over the case. the strongarm tactics to elicit guilties from individuals because they can t get them on the charge they re investigating. it deserves a conversation in the country by the double standard in the trump-hating media and compare this to james comey and peter strzok and lisa page and loretta lynch and bill clinton. there were 33,000 deleted
focusing their attention on mitt romney. paul is standing by. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com as controversy swirls around him, republican front-runner, herman cain, went behind closed doors with republican lawmakers on capitol hill. just a brief respite from the storm that has blown over previously undisclosed sexual allegations. earlier today, cain suggested some sort of conspiracy is at work, but he insisted he will prevail. there are factions trying to destroy me personally as well as this campaign. but there is a force greater, there s a force at work here that is much greater than those that would try to destroy me and destroy this campaign. and this journey to the white house. and that force is called the voice of the people. cain may face a new round of controversy. one of his accusers apparently wants to go public. brian todd has been investigating this part of the story. what are you learn