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
embattled republican congressman george santos talks to the media as the house prepares a vote on his expulsion a lot of folks now coming forward listen, we were going to wait for his trial to see what happened. others have now become convinced now that that report is out from the house ethics committee. they have seen enough there are a number of people now publicly, including many, many republicans who say they will join a vote to oust him. could that be thursday? could it be friday? we will keep you covered as we look to see what happens there. and it raises further questions about what is happening on the senate side with a possible ethics investigation into senator bob menendez. also facing a trial there are those on that side calling for due process but a number of democrats as you know who have called for his resignation there. so, we will watch to sees a all of those ethics issues plays out more immediately with representative santos in the next day or two. we will ke
denying the allegations against him. i did not do what has been alleged, period. look, it s very simple, i never harassed anyone, i never abused anyone, i never assaulted anyone. and i never would, right? let s start with the new allegations coming from a former reporter, cnn s polo sandoval is following the latest developments. what are you hearing? reporter: fred, you re referring to jessica bateman, the latest in a growing list of women who have come forward recently with these allegations of sexual harassment and assault against new york s governor andrew cuomo. as you mentioned earlier, these are accusations that the governor continues to deny and continues to refuse to step down over, instead saying that he wants the investigation to proceed. but she s recounting when she was a reporter, she s now a reporter in miami. basically she self-penned a piece, a first-person piece in new york magazine in which she recounts multiple occasions in which she alleges that she
i just want to play some of that sound. our democracy depends on you. it really does, folks. it s no joke. we need you. we need your help to ensure joe s leadership continues to guide us forward. we know the other side won t rest, so we can t either. form u.s. president barack obama there by joe biden s side calling out the threat to democracy if donald trump is elected. he went on to say history is watching. what does joe biden have to do to win over more voters? it s a great question. i thus he does need to emphasize the threat to democracy that it could be the death nail of u.s. democracy, at least temporarily, because just listen to trump s words. he says he s going to be a dictator for the day and weaponize the justice system and infringe on civil liberties.
the conversation was about and i think there was no pressure. so you have democrats on the one side calling for the president s impeachment over this and you is ukrainian foreign minister saying, i don t see any pressure. i think we need to know what happened, the allegations are that the president used the power of his office for partisan political purposes jeopardizing the national security of the united states by withholding aid to ukraine, one of our key strategic partners. nobody has made the connection of aid yet, we don t know what this thing is about. at least there s been some reports that there was $250 million that were held up, ultimately people have connected the dots but i don t think we have gotten anything to back that up. let s find out. let s have transparency here, we can easily find that out, the information about those phone calls would be released and we could see exactly what s involved, but the president which is chosen at least to date not to releas