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Erin Burnett OutFront

Growing calls for Sen. Menendez to resign amid bribery charges

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is facing growing calls to resign after the DOJ indicted him on corruption-related offenses. Plus, the top US hostage envoy who helped free five Americans held in Iran joins OutFront. Also, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins to discuss the significance of a 4.5-billion-year-old rock which is about to arrive on earth.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Out front next, Senator Bob Menendez facing growing calls to resign from his own party after

0:07.6

being indicted on bribery charges, gold bars or Mercedes stacks of cash, and that's just

0:13.3

some of the evidence that investigators have tonight.

0:16.8

Plus, he just helped free five Americans held in Iran, flew back with them to the United States.

0:21.8

The top U.S. hostage envoy is out front on how that deal almost fell apart at the last minute

0:27.6

and what he's doing now to help free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich from Russia.

0:33.2

And officials just revealing new details about what may have caused that deadly bus crashed.

0:37.7

One of the high school students who survived is out front tonight.

0:41.3

He'll tell you about the moment that he knew something was terribly wrong.

0:44.6

Let's go out front.

0:47.7

And good evening.

0:48.8

I'm Aaron Burnett.

0:49.7

Out front tonight, the breaking news.

0:51.5

Calls to resign.

0:52.9

The drum beat growing louder from Democrats,

0:55.2

calling on one of their own to step down. Senator Bob Menendez was indicted today on federal

1:00.9

charges, and the evidence, the charges are stunning. He's accused of taking hundreds of thousands

1:07.1

of dollars in bribes, bars of gold, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash

1:12.0

were found hidden in clothing in closets, even a gifted Mercedes. He's also accused of sharing

1:18.2

sensitive U.S. government information with Egypt, which is a huge deal on its own because

1:23.0

keep in mind, he was the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, powerful committee, classified information that he was privy to.

1:30.8

He was only forced down to step down today from that due to the indictment.

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