Bob's Discount Bribery Scandal
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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is facing calls from fellow Democrats to resign, as he faces federal bribery charges – the second time he’s been prosecuted for alleged corruption in the past 10 years. Menendez is accused of accepting cash, gold, and other gifts to secretly help Egypt’s government.
It’s been a cliffhanger weekend for Hollywood, as the Writers Guild of America announced late Sunday evening that a tentative deal has been reached with the major studios to end the ongoing writers strike.
And in headlines: a Colorado judge issued an order barring “threats or intimidation” over a lawsuit to keep Donald Trump off the state’s primary ballot, the Labor Department is investigating two major food companies over the use of child labor, and a NASA spacecraft delivered a long-awaited asteroid sample back to Earth.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 25th, I'm Trevelle Anderson, and I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is |
| 0:11.1 | what a day, where we are ready to take on the first days of fall, even though it's like |
| 0:15.4 | still 80 degrees outside, pretty much everywhere. |
| 0:18.1 | Although it was very beautiful in Atlanta this weekend. |
| 0:21.1 | Very beautiful. |
| 0:22.1 | And hot. |
| 0:23.1 | But global warming is real. |
| 0:24.1 | It is real. |
| 0:25.1 | It is real. |
| 0:26.1 | It's true. |
| 0:27.1 | On today's show, yet another judge has drawn the line against any threats from Donald Trump, |
| 0:36.3 | plus NASA just got a very special delivery from space. |
| 0:40.6 | But first, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was indicted in federal court on Friday on |
| 0:44.7 | bribery charges, and what is yet another corruption scandal for the Senator. |
| 0:48.9 | Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his wife, |
| 0:52.5 | Nadine, are accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including |
| 0:56.7 | bars of gold in exchange for support from the Senator. |
| 1:01.1 | Bars of gold? |
| 1:03.1 | Are you kidding me? |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.1 | The bars of gold part is not great. |
| 1:08.4 | You know, that's interesting. |
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