The swamp gets swampier

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

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🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump allegedly committed felony insider trading last year while standing on the White House lawn.

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0:00.0	The Power of Possible.
0:05.0	Learn more at U.S. Bank.
0:07.0	slash Newsroom.
0:09.0	Good morning.
0:12.0	I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily
0:15.4	202 for Thursday, August 9th. In today's news, President Trump's family
0:22.0	separation policy did not deter illegal immigration.
0:26.8	The State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia.
0:30.5	And White House aides worry the trade war with China is escalating out of control.
0:37.0	But first, the big idea. The first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump
0:46.4	allegedly committed felony insider trading while standing on the White House
0:51.8	long. while standing on the White House lawn.
0:53.0	One of Trump's mantra as a candidate was drain the swamp,
0:59.0	a pledge to clear Washington of corruption.
1:01.0	Chris Collins, who represents Buffalo in the House, used to join
1:05.4	Trump in leading those chants during rallies. He was the first lawmaker to
1:10.1	endorse the president. We in Western New York, no, Donald Trump is not merely a candidate.
1:17.0	Donald Trump is a movement.
1:19.7	But the swamp keeps getting swampier, and Collins has become just the latest figure in Trump's orbit
1:26.0	to get ensnared in a serious criminal investigation.
1:30.0	As Trump's former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates testified against his former campaign chairman Paul Manifort at a federal courthouse in Virginia, Collins turned himself into the FBI yesterday to be arraigned on charges of insider trading and lying to federal agents.
1:46.0	Collins was at the congressional picnic at the White House in the summer of 2017
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