Sandra Fox News Alert the verdict has been reached Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty on multiple counts we are still getting the details at this hour hello, welcome i am Sandra Smith John to be good do stomach, good to be with you. John Im John roberts In Washington this is America Reports. I mics not on. Speed to get your mic on. John its right here on the chair beside me. Im john roberts In Washington this is America Reports if you didnt hear me the first time. Eric shawn is live outside the courthouse. Seeming on all of these counts guilty theyve agreed on all of it. John, guilty on all counts 18 counts of bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, Wire Fraud Conspiracy for honest theft of services, Robert Menendez a New Jersey democratic power senior senator from the Garden State former chairman of the Relations Committee a jury hear moments ago deciding that yes, he did sell his office. He sold the power of the senate that he had In Washington, d. C. , for 480,000 in cas
He says that Senator Robert Menendezs Attorney is patting him on the back. But again, for the senator whos been in public office since the late 1980s as our colleague Steve Kornacki has just been talking about, hes been a member of the united States Congress since the early 1990s. The 70yearold senior senator from New Jersey, the former chair of the powerful senate Relations Committee charged with acting on behalf of a foreign government, not the government hes supposed to represent and hes been found guilty on that. Just like every other count that hes faced. Katy, andrea . Just really quickly, Tom Winter, and this involved egypt and qatar, both of those countries. Just very briefly, what are the potential penalties . We dont know what range he might be obviously hes going to appeal. But what is involved in 18 guilty convictions . On all of these. The potential for decades in prison. But of course those are the statutory maximums. And as you well know, andrea, theres no violent crime
20, 2014, the murder Officers Ramose and fluke. Why did you choose that to start this. For several reasons, one, it was the most significant and unfortunately horrific events in that 50 year career. You lose two offices at one time, thats thankfully still an exception but it was a horrible tragedy coming five days before christmas. Second, it was unfortunately reflective of what was going on and eventually accelerated the next several years, the breakdown between police and communities in the country, his anger directed toward police and murdering two officers so it seemed to me to be an appropriate place to start to help frame the conversation. The thirdd reason was that ironically it took me back almost 50 years to where i began my career in 1970 in boston beginning yours ing chicago that the murder of an washington Police Officer, a Bank Robbery occurred just as i was coming in and two years later his mother was murdered. The first Boston Police Sort of matter so i added that but i
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the time of the raid arguing documents were declassified. president trump has declassifie everything. there was nothing classified by the fact that they put the classification on the inventory to me was because they thought it would get out to the press. and they wanted something to sa oh, look, he kept classified documents. nothing bit is classified. none of it. and republicans our demanding transparency from the fbi calling on the justice department to release the underlying affidavit to the panel. oklahoma republican congressman mark wayne mullen is one of those tonight who will during this. we begin with team coverage of our top story tonight. life outside moral lago at this with reaction from the trump legal team. what a day once again here i the nation s capital. a federal magistrate unsealing the search and seizure warrant of the moral lago home. that magistrate judge by the name of bruce reinhardt signed the warrant back on the fifth o august giving the fbi authorit