News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. When the public trial for the drug was about to be announced as a failure. Want to read a little from the complaint. Mis 416 had the potential to be an enormously profitable if the drug trial was successful. The drug, however, failed the drug trial. Public announcement of these results caused the stock price to drop by 92 . In or about june of 2017, Christopher Collins violated the duties he owed to innate by Passing Material Nonpublic information regarding the Drug Trial Results to his son the defendant so that Cameron Collins could use that information to make timely trades in innate stock and tip others. In detail, it was stunning from the actual complaint itself, those phone calls or the initial ones from the congressman to his sn, they took place on the grounds of the white house, during the white house congressional picnic. Anybody who has been paying attention to Chris Collins on capitol hill the last couple of years
A look at the days latest news and headlines. Supreme court. Harris i bring in my first guess this talk to the president during a golf game. South carolina senator Lindsey Graham is with us now, member of the Senate Judiciary committee. Great to see you tonight. Thank you. And so the president brings us up on the golf course. How does that happen and what did you tell him . He thinks this is a witch hunt and he didnt do anything wrong. Mr. President ive seen new evidence in collusion. Why do you think we didnt collude with the russians. We got to be patient and run its course, and we want to make sure hes treated fairly. I dont blame him for being frustrated. This has been going on for a very long time. Harris i know ive heard you say that it was about 20 or so time that he said that. I was joking. You dont want to hand losses to republicans, how would that go . If we shut down the Mueller Investigation publicly it would be the only thing that anyone talked about. That would just let t
A recap of the days news. A recap of the days news. A recap of the days news. Through the Revolving Door down here, theres a word that became a word i never heard of until this presidency when people were sort of struggling with how to describe this government of sort of fringe characters, people with resumes that did not usually enter into government service. And that word is chacistocracy. It points in this presidency, its been an apt way to describe it. To paraphrase donald trump, theyre not sending their best. And i think the evidence that you its not a partisan point, you laid out the evidence there of an administration that is just filled with people who have either crossed ethical
lines or challenged norms that we have all upheld for decades in this country. And all being led by the president at the top who sets that tone. Lets talk more about the swamp here, Rudy Giuliani says they have responded to muellers latest proposal regarding an interview. These allegations should be ov
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Interviews with political figures and news updates. Able to sell the shares. They have telephone logs, who called whom and when. It appears they have people helping the government out with the testimony. As mimi said, andrea, its kind of overwhelming evidence thats difficult for federal prosecutors to ignore. And chuck todd, weve not yet seen to my knowledge a tweet from the president or any suggestion that this is witch hunt, mueller related. But this is really separate, this is an investigation that started, there was an Ethics Investigation that we heard about some months back, last year sometime. And so this does not come from the Mueller Operation at all. Right. And thats the thing, it has zero to do this is just bad timing, bad coincidence. And it looks bad, right . Here is yet another person close to the president who seems to be taking advantage of access,
special access, or a pay to play issue. The president s ally, the presi
Im phil mattingly. In for dave briggs. It is thursday, august 9th. Congratulations, you are on the back half of the week. Representative Chris Collins refusing to step down after indictment on Insider Trading charges. Federal prosecutors in manhattan accused the new York Congress member, his son and another man of securities and wire fraud. Charged with exploiting secret Drug Trial Information from the australian pharmaceutical company. Collins vowed last night he will continue his run for reelection in november. The charges that have been levied against me are meritless. I will mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my name. I look forward to being fully vindicated and exonerated ending any and all questions relating to my affiliation with innate. The company where collins was on the board of directors. He was the first sitting Congress Member to endorse donald trump for the white house. Collins indictment turns another safe republican seat into a battleground. The White House Leg