Rep. Garbarino on the House Budget Negotiations and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
U.S. Representative Andrew Garbarino (R, NY2) talks about his work in Congress, including as a member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, as the House Republicans grapple with passing a plan to fund the government without the support of some extreme right members.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Bryan Lair show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. We have some big breaking news |
| 0:16.4 | for people in our area just out in the last few minutes. Senator Robert Menendez, the |
| 0:22.4 | New Jersey Democrat, has been criminally indicted. This just broke a few minutes ago. I'm going |
| 0:28.5 | to read you most of the New York Times version here. This I think will be the first time you're |
| 0:33.8 | hearing this. The headline is Senator Robert Menendez is indicted in New York. It says Mr. Menendez, |
| 0:40.2 | a New Jersey Democrat, was charged six years after his trial in a different corruption case |
| 0:46.2 | and did in a hung jury. It says he's been charged in a federal corruption indictment, |
| 0:52.1 | according to authorities this morning. The indictment against Mr. Menendez, a 69-year-old Democrat |
| 0:57.6 | who leads the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, follows a lengthy investigation by federal |
| 1:02.6 | prosecutors in Manhattan and comes nearly six years, as it's said earlier, after his trial on |
| 1:08.6 | unrelated claims of corruption ended with a hung jury. The indictment unsealed in Manhattan |
| 1:15.0 | federal court also names the Senator's wife of three years, Nadine Menendez, age 56, |
| 1:22.0 | and a prominent New Jersey real estate developer, Fred Dabes, accusing them of participating in |
| 1:27.8 | the corrupt scheme. While Hana, a longtime friend of Ms. Menendez, who founded a Hualal |
| 1:34.0 | meat certification business in New Jersey, was also charged, as was a fifth person, Jose |
| 1:39.9 | Rebe, a New Jersey businessman. The time says it has been known for some time that Mr. Menendez was |
| 1:46.0 | under federal scrutiny, and he has said he was willing to assist investigators and was |
| 1:51.5 | confident the matter would be, quote, successfully closed. Representatives for Mr. Menendez and the |
| 1:58.0 | others could not immediately be reached for comment on the charges. The time says the indictment |
| 2:03.1 | is almost certain to resound in Washington and in New Jersey, yeah. Mr. Menendez is already facing |
| 2:09.5 | at least one Democratic challenger in his planned run for re-election to a fourth term in the Senate, |
| 2:15.0 | and the Republican mayor of Mendenboro has also announced that she will compete for the seat. |
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