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
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 off while the rest of the dupes in the public who don t know the it are about to take a bath. exactly. the indictment doesn t address the first part of that, that highly touted optimistic press release, that s not in there. but the second part of this long delay and the insiders dumping the stock, yes, that s in there. one of the other things that s in the indictment i think is a reference to you. there is part of what s alleged in the scheme is that congressman collins office released a statement to a reporter, who i think is you. that is me. essentially saying that, hey, when my family sold off this stock as the stock cratered and dropped by 92% in value, you shouldn t see that as any essentially giving you a statement exonerating the family of any wrongdoing for
delay and the insiders dumping the stock, yes, that s in there. one of the other things that s in the indictment i think is a reference to you. there is part of what s alleged in the scheme is that congressman collins office released a statement to a reporter, who i think is you. that is me. essentially saying that, hey, when my family sold off this stock as the stock cratered and dropped by 92% in value, you shouldn t see that as any essentially giving you a statement exonerating the family, making it seem like they got hit very hard just like members of the public did who might have held this stock. is this the way you feature in the indictment and what did you make of that statement when he got it from collins office? that s pretty much the way it was, is in terms of how it happened, i asked the questions about the family. and the family s investment, what happened with that, did they sell, et cetera. i got this very straightforward
refused to testify, but she was found guilty with no consequences. no wonder many americans are skeptical. they ve seen an investigation of one presidential candidate, hillary clinton, that was supposed to be unbiased, but the proverbial thumb was on the scale to her benefit. she said something about an illegal mail server and swears she never sent classified e-mails, but she did and gets a pass. director comey who is supposed to be unbiased drafts a statement exonerating her before he s even interviewed her. hillary s staff gets immunity deals that smell to high heaven, hillary s operatives use hammers and bleach to destroy cell phones and e-mails, again with no consequences, and on and on. but the other presidential candidate, the one who actually won but wasn t supposed to, well, he s treated very