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
Touches several other serving republican members of congress and disgraced health secretary, tom price, the first trump Cabinet Secretary to resign in scandal. We have had our fair share of political scandals and public corruption indictments as a country. That is a history that includes todays date on the calendar in 1974, when president Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in the wake of the watergate scandal, this day, 1974. But even so, even with that rich history under our belts, it really is something when you wake up to the news of a sitting member of congress being indicted by federal prosecutors and the sight of a sitting member of congress being hauled before a federal judge for criminal arraignment. So, we will have more ahead tonight on trump ally republican congressman Chris Collins turning himself in and being indicted and arraigned on federal criminal charges today
including talking to the intrepid local reporter at the buffalo news, who first broke the story that turne
australian open. they want him here to back up that crown. it ll be extremely interesting to see how it plays out when it hits court on monday. that s the federal circuit court on monday not the tennis court, lynda. exactly. not where he wants to be at this point in time so close to the start of the australian open. angus watson in sydney, thanks very much. joining me now is sam fillip. sam is a sports reporter for the sydney morning herald. good to have you with us. thanks for having me. this is such an intriguing story because it s unprecedented. the world s number one tennis player stuck in a detention center having to go to court to avoid deportation. we have seen support from serbian fans and several players. i m wondering how much support he has from people in australia who have lived through some of the toughest longest covid restrictions in the world. yeah, i think initially there was 99% of the reaction to
when all of a sudden, one wednesday night, immunotherapeutics introduces this press release saying hey, we ve got this great news from the fda. we re going to be able to do clinical trials in the u.s. a couple days later, there s a sudden hold on the stock trading. and that seemed very, very suspicious. and then only a couple of days later, the following week, the following monday night, we find out why there was a hold. the clinical trials of their much touted drugging to supposedly cure multiple sclerosis failed completely. the company s only product was essentially worthless and so was the company. that s an unusual dynamic to have this hyping press release saying things are going great right before things actually cratered. exactly. i did a story where i talked to people in australia and also people in buffalo. they both looked at this as what s called a pump and dump scopy where you it out tyou tou
the clinical trials of their much tauted drug to supposedly cure multiple sclerosis failed completely. that s an unusual dynamic to have this hyping press release saying things are going great right before things actually cratered. exactly. i did a story where i talked to people in australia and also people in buffalo. they both looked at this as what s called a pump and dump scheme where you taut the price of the stock and everything goes quiet for a while while the insiders sell. so the investors in the know will get the best possible price for their stock while they are selling it out while the rest of the dupes in the public are about to take a bath. the highly tauted optimistic press release, that s not in there. but the second part of this long