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Well, good evening, im laura coates. A week that began with Merrick Garland being accused of weaponizing the Department Of Justice against republicans ends with one of the most powerful democrats in washington, d. C. Now indicted for corruption. The chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, new jersey senator bob menendez stands accused of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. Essentially using his official position to force someone to give him something of value. Tonight, we are taking a deep dive into all of it from the investigation to the indictment and, of course, the political fallout and here are the Big Questions ive been asking all day, after seeing all the reports ive cut through all of it, here are the real questions, number one, did he do it . Right did he do it . Could a senator who left a hung jury in his last trial for conspiracy, bribery and Honest Services fraud, sound familiar, led to
Alleged-official-acts-that-don-tIdeaInvention-ideaAnnouncerHelpCall-invent800-710-00208007100020Laura-coatesMerrick-garlandPortfolio as they deal with a record number of arrests on the u.s./mexico border. and now most recently there are also the lead coordinating agency on resettlement of tens of thousands of afghans. so this is a defendant that has been in crisis mode and also a department that has been rattled with turnover over the last four years. under the trump administration if you recall there was five secretaries. but still these departures are still a surprise to many within the department especially this early on in the administration. we d expect less turnover in the biden administration than we saw in the trump administration. what is this going to mean going forward for policy do you think? for the chief of staff role, we know jennifer higgins is going to fill that role in an act capacity. and then we still don t know who is going to fill david s role. we imagine that the administration will continue on its track in terms of policy. though clearly a shakeup here
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