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Bribe Check: Sen. Menendez Indicted

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Federal prosecutors charge Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., with corruption. An ABC News/Washington Post poll shines a light on dissatisfaction with President Biden. And spacecraft OSIRIS-REx drops off a shipment of asteroid fragments from hundreds of millions of miles away. Vote for Start Here at the Signal Awards: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2023/shows/general/news-politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Monday, September 25th, and he says he can explain those gold bars in his house.

0:05.8

We start here.

0:09.1

A U.S. Senator is indicted on shockingly familiar charges, accused of taking hundreds of thousands

0:15.6

of dollars in bribes that took some rather almost cartoonish forms.

0:21.0

Republicans and Democrats are calling for his resignation, but Bob Mnendez says he's

0:25.4

not going anywhere.

0:27.1

President Biden has enough problems on his own.

0:33.0

Even the best interpretation of this new poll shows huge concern for his re-election

0:37.4

chances, and it's like an interstellar drop-off service.

0:41.1

This was like hinting a hole-in-one from 63,000 miles above the planet.

0:45.3

How a seven-year NASA mission ended with success and a hunk of space rock.

0:52.0

From ABC News, this is Stark Here.

0:54.7

I'm Brad Milky.

0:57.1

Senators serve six-year terms.

1:02.7

More than any other elected official in Washington, they get time to establish a record to demonstrate

1:08.3

what they're about before they have to run for re-election.

1:11.3

As voters, we entrust them with a little more leeway.

1:15.6

I'm angry because prosecutors at the Justice Department don't know the difference between

1:20.7

friendship and corruption.

1:22.4

Several years ago, back in 2015, federal prosecutors indicted New Jersey Senator Bob Mnendez

1:28.9

on charges of bribery and fraud.

1:31.4

The big question is whether the U.S. Constitution protects Mnendez to advocate on behalf of voters,

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