Menendez: From Gold Bars…to Behind Bars?

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., becomes the first U.S. senator convicted of acting as a foreign agent. President Trump reaches out to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. during the Republican National Convention. And Democrats are arguing over “virtual convention” rules that could install President Biden as the nominee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, July 17th, and he's not immune from anything. We start here.
0:05.6	Bob Menendez becomes the first sitting US senator ever convicted of acting as a foreign agent.
0:14.6	His years of selling his office of the highest bidder have finally come to an end.
0:18.4	Why the jury found him guilty and what happens to his seat.
0:22.1	Donald Trump wants all his rivals
0:24.1	teeming up against President Biden,
0:26.0	even the rivals not in his party.
0:28.0	We're going to win.
0:30.0	Get a win way ahead of the guy.
0:32.0	The revealing phone conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
0:35.6	and don't let the silence fool you, Democrats still aren't all sold on Biden.
0:40.4	There's still a lot of debate within the party about whether or not
0:43.4	President Biden is the best nominee. Why a battle over the calendar could
0:48.2	determine the nomination. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milkie.
0:57.0	At this moment in American political life, there are very few things that can
1:04.9	eclipse the spotlight that is on Donald Trump and the Republican National
1:08.1	Convention and yet yesterday something did breaking news out of New York City, a jury finding Senator Bob Menendez guilty in the federal bribery
1:17.8	trial against him.
1:18.8	In his 50-year career in New Jersey politics, Senator Bob Menendez has been accused
1:24.1	multiple times of using his political office to enrich himself and his
1:28.6	associates. He had never actually been convicted of a crime though. Well in
1:32.4	federal court yesterday that
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