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
Still, their actions are having a chilling effect on victims, too. where are you afraid to go now? the courts. it frightens me to think just by going there immigration will get me. this undocumented mother of two american born daughters said she used to live in terror inside of her room because of her abusive spouse. but now she s even more terrified when she leaves her home. every single day i think about this. my daughter said, mom, i m afraid when you pick me up from school immigration will be there. there are a couple of important things to note here. one is that statistically speaking there is only a small bit of data because we re only talking about the first three months of the here. secondly, ice agents did end up in courthouses making arrests during the obama administration, but they largely stopped the practice sometime after 2013 chen there was a huge backlash after ice agents arrested some women who had gone to court to
Get me. reporter: this undocumented mother of two american born daughters says she used to live in terror inside of her home because of her abusive spouse before fleeing, he was never charged, but now she s even more terrified when she leaves her home. translator: every single day i think about this, my daughter said, mom, i m afraid when you pick me up from school, imgrargs will be there. reporter: there s some things to note here, it s not a very large amount of data, it s only the first three months of the year, so hard to tell if there s a real trend there. and ice faced major backlash after women were in court trying to obtain restraining orders. sarah, thank you very much. and thanks to all of you as