Two of dnc and touting hope while hitting trump repeatedly. They did not hold back. Day three beginning. Bill hemmer live in chicago. We roll on in our coverage. Dana good morning, im dana perino, this is americas newsroom. Last night was something else, i would have had Michelle Obama go last, her speech was better than Barack Obama and crowd was enthusiastic. Bill we will debate the s substance. Dana taking the fight to former President Trump. Watch. If things dont go our way, we dont have the luxury of wining or cheating others to get further ahead. I heard someone compare trump to the neighbor who keeps running his Leaf Blower outside your window. Doubling down on racist lies as substitute for real ideas and solutions that will make peoples lives better. We do not need four more years of bluster and chaos, we have seen that movie before. The sequel is usually worse. Bill it was a late Night And Vibe was vibrant, will it move the needle . Trump leads harris on number of key issues.
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 well 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 News we are follo
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
He says that Senator Robert Menendezs Attorney is patting him on the back. But again, for the senator whos been in public office since the late 1980s as our colleague Steve Kornacki has just been talking about, hes been a member of the united States Congress since the early 1990s. The 70yearold 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 hes supposed to represent and hes been found guilty on that. Just like every other count that hes 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 dont know what range he might be obviously hes 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, theres no violent crime
And its been a lot of time since 9 11. I dont feel guilt at all. I feel just as angry now as i did backman, if not more so. The wound is so open and fresh, the rates are still there and feels like it was yesterday. I remember it, for fixed memories of that day, a young Secret Service, i was only 26 at the time and in Long Island New York getting ready to serve an arrest warrant, we never serve the arrest warrant. Someone ran in our office and said oh my gosh, a bomb went off in the World Trade Center he was on the phone with our New York office, and office in the World Trade Center on the ninth and tenth. We are all trying to digest the moment, a bomb went off in the World Trade Center . How would this be . A bomb had already gone off their years before that. We didnt find out about the plane until a bit later in my bosses office, we turn on the news, Breaking News and we watched the second plane coming. The agents and i, we took a minute, are we watching a Horror Movie . Is israel . I