Last week, a grand jury indicted u. S. Senator bob menendez. This past week, dozens of members of his own party have demanded his resignation. I have been watching along with all of you as it is citizen and also as his daughter. I will not be reporting on the legal case. That said, my colleagues across msnbc and nbc news, they have aggressively covered the story. Theyll continue to do so as they should. Now, to capitol hill in the possibility that a Government Shutdown could be averted despite todays twist from House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy, the clock, still ticking. No less than six hours to keep the government funded. As we speak, the ball is in the senate score to as the Senate Passed a 45day continuing resolution, keeping the government funded through november 17th. It includes money for disaster relief. It does not include further aid to ukraine. Todays vote in the house was overwhelmingly bipartisan. 335 for, 91 against. This outcome, a lastminute development for weeks hardline Re
harris: we begin with a question. what about bob? the house gave republican george santos the boot. now many people are asking why is accused felon bob menendez still in the senate? he is the democrat senator with gold bars and cash stashed inside his home. some dirty details now are coming out and for one exactly where the gold bars came from. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. congress established a new precedent last week by expelling george santos even though he is not convicted of a crime. the case hasn t happened yet. taking the power right out of the hands of the courts and the voters to decide on him. bob menendez has a rather unique legal predicament. he has been indicted before more than once. this time on corruption-related charges. the democrats are in no apparent rush to give bob on the left from jersey the santos treatment except for one liberal senator john fetterman of pennsylvania. fetterman has been the one outspoken dem since the sto
tonight i d love to do it right now. stand your butt up then. stand your butt up. jesse: what s going on with these politicians? it s not looting, it s reparations. what is going on? i m not getting an answer. jesse: pauley p takes the stand. plus fox news alert. the secret service over the cocaine investigation. we just got back over 100 pages of documents. the secret service has been lying to you about everything. here s why. when the cocaine was first found, they said it was in the library where the first family lives. then there were reports the cocaine was actually found outside the situation room. investigation has progressed and so they re saying the west executive entrance which, as you noted, is closer to the situation room. jesse: the secret service said, no, it was in a cubby with a lot of foot traffic around it. yes, there are cameras, but that particular cubby was in a blind spot. how do you mistake the library for the situation room and the
conservative journalists as opposed to conspiracy theory laden journalists? i have so many reactions. this go at it. we re not actually seeing are hiding of the collaboration with far-right some of them white supremacists. the idea that kevin mccarthy is here to stitch together a coalition of a reasonable party is thrown to the wayside when you have somebody who s willing to openly collaborate with conspiracy theorists and propagandists. he gave up a lot to get into the speaker seat and this is the payments he owes the folks who helped get him there. and these are the kinds of actions we re seeing perhaps these are not reasonable republicans at all perhaps they are hell-bent by staying in power. and at any cost, including our democracy. i m also recognizing here a terribly ironic comparison when i first hired organizing around police violence, one of the things we learned about police unions is that they sometimes work with republican-led state
britney. why is kevin mccarthy doing this. why is he doing this with these people if he so committed to transparency why not do it with even more credible conservative journalists as opposed to conspiracy theory laden journalists? conspiracy t i have so many r. this go at it. we re not actually seeing are hiding of the collaboration with far-right some of them white supremacists. the idea that kevin mccarthy is here to stitch together a coalition of a reasonable party is thrown to the wayside when you have somebody who s willing to openly collaborate with conspiracy theorists and propagandists. he gave up a lot to get into the speaker seat and this is the payments he owes the folks who helped get him there. and these are the kinds of actions we re seeing perhaps these are not reasonable republicans at all perhaps they are hell-bent by staying in power.