Sandra Fox News Alert the verdict has been reached Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty on multiple counts we are still getting the details at this hour hello, welcome i am Sandra Smith John to be good do stomach, good to be with you. John Im John roberts In Washington this is America Reports. I mics not on. Speed to get your mic on. John its right here on the chair beside me. Im john roberts In Washington this is America Reports if you didnt hear me the first time. Eric shawn is live outside the courthouse. Seeming on all of these counts guilty theyve agreed on all of it. John, guilty on all counts 18 counts of bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, Wire Fraud Conspiracy for honest theft of services, Robert Menendez a New Jersey democratic power senior senator from the Garden State former chairman of the Relations Committee a jury hear moments ago deciding that yes, he did sell his office. He sold the power of the senate that he had In Washington, d. C. , for 480,000 in cas
Antimaskers are teaming up with the proud boys to threaten school boards over mask mandates. While one school board meeting in north carolina was so chaotic, attendees attempted to overthrow the officials and install themselves as a new board. There s also something else that s happening right now about 3,000 miles away from the u. S. In brazil. Stay with me because there is a connection. Today is brazil s independence day. Tens of thousands of demonstrators came out in support of their president, jair bolsonaro. Bolsonaro won a closely watched presidential election in 2018 and his victory signalled the country s shift to the far right. He has praised the country s history of military dictatorship and has advocated torture. He was able to win the presidency by tapping into the resentments held by the while upper and upper upper middle classes in a country that like the u. S. Is rife with antiblackness and racism. During the pandemic, bolsonaro downplayed covid despite getting covid him
going to hear from says on a scale of 1 to 10, the former president s level of concern should be a 10. his financial dealings in new york under scrutiny, a criminal investigation for his attempt to overturn the election in georgia. senate leader mitch mcconnell suggests his dereliction of duty during the insurrection was potentially criminal. now lawmakers in both parties are calling for a commission to investigate the capitol attack modeled on the september 11th panel. with the impeachment trial over, president biden looking to turn the page with a focus on getting his massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through congress. and researchers have now identified seven strains of the virus here in the united states, many of them showing the same mutation as the variants first identified in the uk and south africa. we are also following breaking news on the weather front. a powerful winter storm gripping much of the country. frigid tempertemperatures, scar conditio
committee is closing in on donald trump s inner circle. and getting to the key question, did he break the law? and with the focus shifting to voting rights, the family of dr. martin luther king turns up the heat ahead of the king holiday. martin luther king iii joins me with details. i m jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this sunday, we re following breaking news that president biden s build back better agenda is dead in the water. after west virginia senator joe manchin said this just moments ago on fox news. we have the debt that we re carrying at $29 trillion, you have also the geopolitical unrest we have, we have the covid variant, and that is wreaking havoc again. people are concerned. i ve been with my family. i know everyone is concerned. when you have these things coming at you the way they are right now, i always said this, brett, if i can can t go home and explain it to the people of west virginia, i can t vote for it. and i can not vote to continu