menendez and his co defendants were found guilty across the board in all of these charges that will be waiting for this senator to leave the courtroom. he usually walks out on his own, even without his attorneys and often speaks to the cameras behind me, waiting for the senator to make his way out. it will be a few things left that the judge will do, including sentencing, set a sentencing date, but we ll be standing by to hear what the senator have to say every has been found guilty on all these charges, charges, dana okay. kara? absolutely. extraordinary that we have this united states senator senior senator who has a lot has had a lot of power. now, being found guilty, as you said, on 18 counts of corruption using that position that he has elected by the people of new jersey according to this jury, to sell his office to foreign powers and also to corrupt business people. really remarkable. brianna keeler is going to pick up our coverage now stay with us cnn breaking n
he says that senator robert menendez s attorney is patting him on the back. but again, for the senator who s been in public office since the late 1980s as our colleague steve kornacki has just been talking about, he s been a member of the united states congress since the early 1990s. the 70-year-old 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 he s supposed to represent and he s been found guilty on that. just like every other count that he s 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 don t know what range he might be obviously he s 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, t
we expected a flurry of media interest and where did it come from? that seemed worth knowing as people were dying of it. butng nobody asked the question and instead their silence punctuated only by occasional smirking about anti-asian racism and conspiracy theory. that s where it stood for more than one year until a few weeks ago. suddenly, reasons we don t really understand, all the smirking in the american news media change their view completely overnight. of course corona escaped from a tiny virology lab, do you think it came from a whiteap market? that s the new consensus. an avalanche of evidence thatth the first victim seem to have been researchers working with bad viruses at the wuhan institute of virology. buzzfeed obtained thousands of emails showing tony fauci new from the beginning that covid had been manufactured in china in dangerous experiments he helped pay for. the lab leak theory turned out was never crazy. it was likely truth. why did they lie to us about it
wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. yeah, we do. i don t know what s the problem. 200 representatives voted today keep mccarthy in power. the number of member in his own party that wanted him as speaker of the house vastly outnumbered those who didn t. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. today in the fulton county election interference case rudy giuliani s lead lawyer asked the judge if he could be removed from that case. now, that is the second lawyer to leave giuliani s georgia team this week alone. their departure comes on the heels of mr. giuliani s lawyer and long time friend suing him last month for unpaid legal bills. we have known for a while now all is not well in giuliani land. he has huge legal bills. he is reportedly very short on cash. and now to add to those troubles, there s a new story out today that at first feels kind of like it s been ripped from the tabloids, but ultimately it could have serious legal consequences for g
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