Today on inside politics, defiant, bob menendez seeks to beat a federal indictment. On the clock, congress is shrinking a sixday window to stop a shut down. And guess what, donald trump just made the house speakers job a whole lot harder. Plus a picket line gamble, joe biden hopes to edge the gap between automakers say they can afford. Im manu raju for dana bash, lets go ahead to inside politics. Up first, Bob Menendezs big fight and one he vows to win. Minutes ago the new jersey democrat responded directly to a federal indictment. The allegations leveled against me are just that. Allegations. When all of the facts are presented, not only will i be exonerated, but i still will be the new jersey senior senator. Now, menendez took the microphone and National Attention to flatly deny he did anything wrong. And all of the ways he has stood up to egypt over decades of service and make what sounded like a case for reelection. Well start in new jersey with cnns Kara Scannell in the room. Kara
Hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im bianca nobilo. Welcome back. Thank you so much. Diving back in. Yes, i think i still have nag jen bubbles in my brain. Im max foster in london, joining you live here on cnn newsroom. Its reached a tentative agreement with major film and Television Studios following days of marathon negotiating sessions. Wga but out a statement calling the deal exceptional and saying basically there was something for everyone in the build. The clock is ticking as the government deadline looms. We dont have a shutdown if we dont getthy economic process handled in this country. As long as theyre the majority in the house of representatives, all of us are being held hostage, as well as the american people. A new era for kansas city, the taylor swift was spotted at the chiefs tame. For weeks the superstar has been the rumor involving the tight end travis kelce. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom wit
senator bob menendez, the chair of the powerful foreign relations committee, is under federal criminal investigation according to two people familiar with the matter, the spokesperson for the senator, in a statement, an adviser for senator me den dez says that the senator is aware of the investigation but not of the scope of it. we have more now. can we have more plain english, tom? we don t know, and we can t report why or for what yet? that is perfectly put, hallie. we don t know the scope of the investigation and in other words what type of potential criminal wrong doing it might involve and we don t know how many individuals may be involved in it, so those are obviously the two key questions, we re running that down, we just don t have it confirmed to the level that we re ready to report it yet, that meets our typical standards here, so that is something that we re continuing to work on, and obviously, if we have, that we ll bring that to everybody the second that we do. as you
u.s. citizens in the thousands of green card holders left stranded, how will they get out? why are the planes not taking off, who is being investigated, what is the administration s approach to dealing with the taliban? if you noted how democrats approached questioning, they are really largely stuck to asking the secretary for help in getting people out of afghanistan, u.s. citizens and afghan allies and really allowed him, gave him the opportunity to explain just how he got here. a senator asked what are lessons of the last 20 years of war? you could tell democrats were trying to pivot and allow him to talk about the last 20 years as opposed to what happened during august. i want to mention, chairman menendez does want the secretary of defense to also testify next and democrats like senator murphy says he will work to make it clear the entire committee
wants that, as well. sandr john: he wants to subpoena him for another hearing. drill down on what you just mentioned about democrats and their strategy to go into this. not making this about the last six weeks, but about the last 20 years and senator menendez articulated that in closing statements saying this goes back 20 years, saying at times congress has been misled. and i think you heard that also in the house hearing yesterday, where they tried to bring up the trump administration and what had happened with that. i believe one senator today, it was ted cruz said, it is all trump s fault. secretary joe biden is the president, and kamala harris is the vice president, you are the secretary. did hear them trying to push back on this argument and get him to take accountability,