The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Or a personal statement . This comes from his team. Again this is about a Pharmaceutical Company out of australia that he sat on the board of while he was a u. S. Congressman until just april. Thats an interesting statement from the u. S. Attorney. The government allegation he was passing nonpublic information to his son, cameron collins, who is also dieted. Then the son was passing the information to other people, and they were trading on that information. Look, he was the guy who knew what was going on here. He knew that there were some negative results according to this indictment on his drug trial. And he then took that information, the government says, and passed it along. The other thing i think thats interesting here is that they are using in this indictment they talk about how he tried to conceal the trading and issues surrounding the drug stock. One point in this indictment they mention how his offi
standing by? what s the reaction? reporter: so far silence. we ve tried to reached out to the speaker s office, get a sense on whether they have any reaction. probably waiting until the press conference and chris collins releases a fuller statement about this. one thing that s becoming clear from just some early indications from people close to collins is they are going to fight this pretty aggressively. you saw that statement that you were showing earlier saying that they do not believe that there is anything that shows any wrongdoing. they believe that he will be exonerated. in a lot of ways they look at what happened to bob menendez, the democratic congressman senator from new jersey indicted on federal corruption charges but he was acquitted on those counts earlier. they view those as a model of sorts. they believe this is something they can fight, it is going to be a battle a lot of ways in the pr battle ahead of the election time to try to convince voters and try to convince th