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Bob Menendez: Secret Foreign Agent?

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, who was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was charged with conspiring to act as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government. This follows on the heels of an indictment for bribery and federal corruption. But Menendez says he isn’t stepping down.


Guest: Jessica Taylor, Senate-and-governors editor at The Cook Political Report. 


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So obviously every indictment tells a story.

0:49.9

When you first read it, what details or what evidence stood out the most to you?

0:55.8

I mean, anytime you have gold bars and cash just stashed places,

1:00.6

I mean, the photos, I think, alone were just very striking.

1:05.1

This is Jessica Taylor, the Senate and Governor's editor at the Cook Political Report,

1:10.3

talking about federal corruption charges against New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez.

1:15.7

In a vote to me, there was another corruption case in Louisiana many years ago

1:27.5

where a Democratic Congressman William Jefferson had stored cash in his freezer.

1:33.7

So it almost felt like that to me when you have, you know, jackets that he has

1:38.7

that are just stuffed with cash and then, I mean, the gold bars alone,

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