Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's a rapture alert or help
Speaker 1: freezing over, but a Democrat is actually getting indicted. Here's
Speaker 1: the part that makes me laugh. They're being indicted again,
Speaker 1: so I believe they will absolutely probably get away with it.
Speaker 2: Now, what am I talking about?
Speaker 1: The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New
Speaker 1: York announced Friday morning that it will soon unseal an
Speaker 1: indictment charge against Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat for New Jersey,
Speaker 1: as well as his wife, with counts of bribery. In
Speaker 1: a tweet, the office alleges the forthcoming bribery charges against
Speaker 1: a sitting senator and his wife, Nina her Menendez, are
Speaker 1: in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen. Now,
Speaker 1: what we're being told is that there are serious allegations
Speaker 1: that he was taking massive amounts of cash, including gold
Speaker 1: bars and other things like that. Now, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have part of the press conference and where they announced
Speaker 1: these charges in a moment, but before that, I want
Speaker 1: you to hear what they said on Fox about this
Speaker 1: indictment charges not just against Menendez but also his wife.
Speaker 3: New Jersey Democratic center Bob Menendez and his wife have
Speaker 3: been indicted on bribery charges, charged with corruption related defenses
Speaker 3: for the second time now in ten years. He's been
Speaker 3: down this road before, he had entered in a mistrial.
Speaker 3: He got a lot of a national attention. But Dana.
Speaker 4: A thirty nine page indictment claims that starting in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 4: Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 4: in bribes in exchange for using his power to benefit
Speaker 4: the government of Egypt. And they did it by way
Speaker 4: of cash and gold and payments toward a home mortgage
Speaker 4: rather compensation for a quote a low or no show job,
Speaker 4: a luxury vehicle, and other quote things of value. That's
Speaker 4: what's in the charging document now.
Speaker 5: Is that this is a second time in a decade
Speaker 5: he's been charged with corruption. And when those charges were
Speaker 5: dismissed after a hung jury in twenty eighteen, this indictment
Speaker 5: says that discorrupt relationship started the very same year.
Speaker 1: Doesn't this sound exactly like the Biden's Right, you get
Speaker 1: accused of something, ah, you just keep doing it, right,
Speaker 1: Menindez is like I'm in New York.
Speaker 2: I got a hung.
Speaker 1: Trial last time we complicated things they didn't convict me.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to the bribery. Now, the US
Speaker 1: Attorney has come out and had a press conference. I
Speaker 1: want you to hear what the US attorney had to
Speaker 1: say about what Senator Menendez was allegedly providing sensitive, non
Speaker 1: public US government information. Is what he was selling, almost
Speaker 1: like a spy, to Egyptian officials.
Speaker 6: Listen, let me say a little bit more about the conduct.
Speaker 6: That's a leegend the indictment. The indictment allegens at Senator
Speaker 6: Menendez took several actions as part of this corrupt relationship. First,
Speaker 6: the indictment alleges that Senator Menendez used his power and influence,
Speaker 6: including his leadership role on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Speaker 6: to benefit the Government of Egypt in various ways. Among
Speaker 6: other actions, Senator Menendez allegedly provided sensitive, non public US
Speaker 6: government information to Egyptian officials and otherwise took steps to.
Speaker 7: Secretly aid the government of Egypt.
Speaker 6: We also alleged that Senator Menendez improperly pressured a senior
Speaker 6: official at the US Department of Agriculture to protect a
Speaker 6: lucrative monopoly that the government of Egypt had awarded to Hannah,
Speaker 6: a lucrative monopoly that Hanna then used to fund certain
Speaker 6: bride payments. Second, the indictment alleges that Senator Menendez used
Speaker 6: his power and influence to try to disrupt a criminal
Speaker 6: investigation and prosecution undertaken by the new Jersey Attorney General's office.
Speaker 1: By the way, doesn't this all sound exactly like what
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and James Biden have done?
Speaker 2: Like, how is this any different?
Speaker 1: And the reason why I say this now, if I'm
Speaker 1: Bob Menendez, I'm actually like livid that I'm getting indicted
Speaker 1: and publicly treated this way if it because this is
Speaker 1: really no different than what the Biden crime family has
Speaker 1: been doing for years, except the Biden's made more money
Speaker 1: doing it, and they took money from even more corrupt individuals,
Speaker 1: and just these individuals were saying, these Egyptian officials, and
Speaker 1: also you know it's scandalous, right, It's it's sexy. Oh,
Speaker 1: they gave him cash and gold. They were giving cars
Speaker 1: and diamonds to the Bidens and then putting them on
Speaker 1: fake positions on boards and then funneling them five million
Speaker 1: dollars and then another five and then another three year
Speaker 1: and another seven there and then it turned into thirty million,
Speaker 1: and then fifty million, then seventy million. Like what Menindaz
Speaker 1: did is nothing compared to the Biden family. But all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now we've got a legitimate, you know
Speaker 1: us atturn here that's going to really come after Menendez,
Speaker 1: Like this is hysterical to me, related.
Speaker 6: To an associate and a relative of your rebate. Third,
Speaker 6: the indictment alleges that Senator Mendez use his power and
Speaker 6: influence to try to disrupt a federal prosecution of Debies
Speaker 6: in the District of New Jersey in two ways, first
Speaker 6: by seeking to install a United States attorney who he
Speaker 6: thought could be influenced with respect to Davies.
Speaker 1: And second, by the way, how is that any different
Speaker 1: than what the Bidens have done?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: You got David Wise, who's the guy who's protecting them.
Speaker 1: You've got Garland who's protect them. They then put people
Speaker 1: in charge that will protect them. Then they give them
Speaker 1: special prosecutors and the same capacity that will quote protect them.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how this is any different, to be clear, than.
Speaker 2: What's already happening right now.
Speaker 1: Like to me, this doesn't this is no different than
Speaker 1: what they've been doing. The Bidens been doing the same
Speaker 1: damn thing, and now they're charging him with crimes when
Speaker 1: the Bidens did the same thing.
Speaker 2: That's why this case matters. Like part of me.
Speaker 1: Didn't give a crap about Mendez. We've known he's shady,
Speaker 1: we know and he's corrupt. We saw him and died
Speaker 1: last time, we saw him get away with it. None
Speaker 1: of this surprises me. It is the fact now that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this prosecutor and the DOJ are like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a big deal. This guy used his power
Speaker 1: and influence, including his leadership role on the Senate Foreign
Speaker 1: Relations Committee, to benefit foreign governments. That's exactly what Joe
Speaker 1: Biden has been doing for decades. And now you're going
Speaker 1: to go and throw this guy in jail. Menandez, but
Speaker 1: you won't even look at and you protect the president
Speaker 1: at all costs.
Speaker 6: Come on by trying to influence that office to act favorably.
Speaker 6: In Davies's case, and as we allege in the indictment,
Speaker 6: the senator agreed to do these things and use his
Speaker 6: power in this way because Hannah was paying bribes, because
Speaker 6: your rebate.
Speaker 1: Was okay, well, then let's go through the bribery here.
Speaker 1: How many people are paying bribes to the Bidens. The
Speaker 1: number is I can't even get to what the probably
Speaker 1: the number is because we don't know how many suspicious
Speaker 1: activity reports are there one hundred and fifty of them plus.
Speaker 1: So we know that these bribes are there, right, we
Speaker 1: know that all this is happening.
Speaker 2: We have proof that the Bidens have been doing this.
Speaker 1: But now we're going to be outraged over Bob Menendez
Speaker 1: doing the same damn thing, and we're going to act
Speaker 1: like this is some just total breach of public trust
Speaker 1: and that we should go after him, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: we should.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying we shouldn't.
Speaker 1: But the idea that Bob Menendez is going to go
Speaker 1: down for this, and I believe that he will, but
Speaker 1: no one else will is total insanity. This is absolutely
Speaker 1: psychotic that we have a government that will do this
Speaker 1: to Menendez, but the president can do it on steroids,
Speaker 1: on crack right hunter Biden's drug of choice, and do
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Speaker 1: to the bribery and corruption that we know about in
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Speaker 6: And because Davies was paying bribes, fortunately the public officials
Speaker 6: the Senator sought to influence did not bend.
Speaker 7: To the pressure. That's a good thing.
Speaker 6: And as part of this investigation, special agients with the
Speaker 6: FBI executed search warrants on the residents and safe deposit
Speaker 6: box a Senator Menendez and Nadine Menendez in New Jersey.
Speaker 6: When they got there, they discovered approximately five hundred thousand
Speaker 6: dollars cash stuffed into envelopes and closets. Some of the
Speaker 6: cash was stuffed in the Senator's jacket pockets. Some of
Speaker 6: the cash some of the envelopes of cash contain Davy's
Speaker 6: fingerprints or Davies DNA.
Speaker 7: That's not all.
Speaker 6: Agents also discovered a lot of gold gold that was
Speaker 6: provided by Dabies and Hannah, and the FBI of course
Speaker 6: found the Mercedes Benz that your rebay had provided them.
Speaker 6: That the items that being covered are discussed in the indictment,
Speaker 6: which I encourage all of you to read carefully.
Speaker 7: Let's take a look at just some of the items.
Speaker 6: So as you can see here, this is the Mercedes
Speaker 6: Benz that we allege that your reba provided as part
Speaker 6: of the scheme. You see here are three kilograms of gold.
Speaker 6: These three kilograms together are worth approximately one hundred and
Speaker 6: fifty thousand dollars. And of course here you can see
Speaker 6: just a fraction of the cash that was uncovered as
Speaker 6: part of the scheme.
Speaker 1: You look at all this, this is no different. If
Speaker 1: you're angered or shocked by this, this is no different
Speaker 1: than what we have on the bidens. We have pictures,
Speaker 1: we have bank accounts, we have phone records, we have recordings,
Speaker 1: we have emails, we have suspicious activity reports, we have
Speaker 1: wire transfers. We have whistle blowers, we have IRS whistlelwers,
Speaker 1: FBI whistleblowers, we have foreign whistleblers. We have people under
Speaker 1: oath and giving testament. The Biden crime family was doing
Speaker 1: exactly what Menindez did. And this US attorney who comes
Speaker 1: out and says, good morning, Right, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: how we're cleaning up America. And I look, I'm glad
Speaker 1: they've done this. I'm glad they got Menendez. But you
Speaker 1: have to look at this, and you see they're in shock.
Speaker 1: They're like the senator and his wife accepted hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousand of dollars in bribes, right, hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars in bribes in exchange for Senator Meninez using its
Speaker 1: power and influence to protect and to enrich those businessmen
Speaker 1: and to benefit the government of Egypt.
Speaker 2: That's their accusation.
Speaker 1: That's what the Bidens did on a scale that even
Speaker 1: Menendez could have never imagined. And so when I see
Speaker 1: this type of justice, it makes me angry because when
Speaker 1: you see this attorney come out today, I'm like, why
Speaker 1: aren't we doing the same thing for the president? Listen
Speaker 1: to how angry is and I'm glad he's angry. I'm
Speaker 1: glad this is happening. But when they lay it out
Speaker 1: in this indictment, it's like, well, then, how can we
Speaker 1: not have the same for the President York.
Speaker 7: Today, I'm announcing that my office has.
Speaker 6: Obtained a three count indictment charging Senator Robert Menendez, his
Speaker 6: wife Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey businessmen, while Hannah
Speaker 6: Jose Uribe and Fred Davies for bribery offenses.
Speaker 7: The investigation that led.
Speaker 6: To these charges has been run out of the Southern
Speaker 6: District of New York. The indictment alleges that between twenty
Speaker 6: eighteen and twenty twenty two, Senator Menendez, the senior US
Speaker 6: Senator from New Jersey and the chairman of the Senate
Speaker 6: Foreign Relations Committee, and his wife, Nadine Menendez engaged in
Speaker 6: a corrupt relationship with Hannah.
Speaker 7: Your Rebay and Dabies.
Speaker 6: The indictment alleges that through that relationship, the senator and
Speaker 6: his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes
Speaker 6: in exchange for Senator Menndez using his power and influence
Speaker 6: to protect and to enrich those businessmen and to benefit
Speaker 6: the government of Egypt.
Speaker 1: I mean, he lays it out there now, if he
Speaker 1: was doing just this, I would assume there's probably even
Speaker 1: more than this. I would assume that there's other bribes
Speaker 1: that he's done that maybe he hasn't gotten caught for yet.
Speaker 2: But this is again a moment.
Speaker 1: If I'm Menindez right now, I would immediately say, Okay,
Speaker 1: you want to come after me for this. I would
Speaker 1: unearth everything you could, and I would help the Republicans
Speaker 1: go after the president, because if you're going down for this,
Speaker 1: then why shouldn't he as well. Now I don't know
Speaker 1: if he'll do that, right, Maybe he's hoping that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden will give him a pardon right for all of
Speaker 1: this when he's convicted. Because when you've got DNA and
Speaker 1: all these other things that were just described on the money,
Speaker 1: and they knew where all of it was, and the
Speaker 1: bribes there and the other people you're trying to bribe
Speaker 1: wouldn't play game with you, and now you've got to
Speaker 1: deal with the fallout of all this. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Menindez like, all right, well this sucks. But look again,
Speaker 1: if you're Menindez, now there is hope for you. And
Speaker 1: the hope is that maybe people just a won't care
Speaker 1: or be the president will hook you up, maybe you'll
Speaker 1: get a pardon from him because you did the same
Speaker 1: thing the President of the United States of America has done.
Speaker 1: And why should you get indicted? Why should you go
Speaker 1: to jail if the President doesn't get indicted for doing
Speaker 1: ten x This the amount of money that we're talking
Speaker 1: about here with Menindez, Yes, it is a lot of money.
Speaker 2: I want to be clear about that.
Speaker 1: In the grand scheme of things, it's nothing compared percentage wise,
Speaker 1: it's what two three percent of the money that we
Speaker 1: know about that went to the Biden crime family, and
Speaker 1: people are upset, right that Menindez was, you know, getting
Speaker 1: indict again and all this cash coming in and everything
Speaker 1: they just laid out there. And his wife, by the way,
Speaker 1: she's been indict as well well.
Speaker 2: Again people are outraged. But should you be outraged? Should
Speaker 2: you be outraged?
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be if you look at the how much
Speaker 1: money has gone to the family members. There's nine family
Speaker 1: members the Biden crime family, nine of them that we
Speaker 1: know of, that have been taking the money. So when
Speaker 1: the world reacts to this and just they're shocked by this.
Speaker 1: The media is covering this thing wall to wall, right
Speaker 1: that the Democratic Center dieted federal bribery charges, cash envelopes
Speaker 1: filled with cash in his pockets, gold bars, luxury cars,
Speaker 1: and apartment right, this is very scandalous. So the question
Speaker 1: should be asked, and it's a question that the media
Speaker 1: should ask. How is Menndez being held accountable for something
Speaker 1: that the president has not been held accountable for at
Speaker 1: a level that is ten x fifteen x, twenty fifty x,
Speaker 1: whatever the number is of it when it comes to presidency,
Speaker 1: that is the question that should be asked. I'm glad
Speaker 1: Menindez has gotten nailed. Right, I believe he's in serious trouble.
Speaker 1: I think he should be in serious trouble. Okay, I do.
Speaker 1: I believe he should be in serious trouble for this.
Speaker 1: But it's nothing compared to the presidency and everyone around
Speaker 1: the presidency and the Biden crime family. You know, Menendez
Speaker 1: and this whole conspiracy is two people, a husband wife.
Speaker 1: You got nine family members of the Biden family. That
Speaker 1: involves nine, nine different family members, nine folks nine. So
Speaker 1: where is the indictment? Where is the search warn? You
Speaker 1: notice here the search warn. Look at the difference here.
Speaker 1: Menindez gets his home search, social security box or you know,
Speaker 1: safety deposit boxes search. Right, he gets he gets what
Speaker 1: you should get the treatment here. Remember what the government
Speaker 1: did to protect Hunter and James Biden. They were going
Speaker 1: to go search a storage facility, and not only they
Speaker 1: tip off the Bidens, and they wouldn't let the FBI
Speaker 1: go in and search them. When they wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to the Bidens. What happened They said, no, you can't
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Speaker 1: was trying to do their job and they were told
Speaker 1: they couldn't do their job by their superiors, and they
Speaker 1: were told that you couldn't talk to the subject of
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election, seventeen percent used the word
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Speaker 1: All the pollsters say this shows a deep sense of unease.
Speaker 1: In total, of majority of Americans, fifty six percent chose
Speaker 1: at least one of the three negative feelings dread, exhaustion,
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Speaker 1: the US politics in recent years, the fact that Americans
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Speaker 1: twenty four promises of this election are going to be
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Speaker 1: as if, in response, a full thirty six percent of Americans,
Speaker 1: a number that includes a staggering seventy five percent of
Speaker 1: voters who identify as Republicans or Republican leaning independents now
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Speaker 1: percent of Americans and seventy four percent of Democrat and
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Speaker 1: It's been a decade of dysfunction where partisans largely agree. However,
Speaker 1: one of the overall issues the trajectory of the us U.
Speaker 1: Nearly three to four seventy two percent of respondents say
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Speaker 1: or white Americans eighty percent, twenty twenty Trump voters eighty
Speaker 1: six percent, and senior citizens ninety one percent say that
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Speaker 1: to say US politics has recently gone downhill are eighteen
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Speaker 1: decade they've been growing up in this insanity. Just forty
Speaker 1: seven percent Black Americans say that American political climate has
Speaker 1: gotten worse fifty four percent. The majority now of African
Speaker 1: Americans agree. Republicans are more likely to express optimism, however,
Speaker 1: than Democrats, it also makes sense to me completely. Thirty
Speaker 1: five percent say that they have optimism, Twenty one percent
Speaker 1: say excitement they have about the twenty twenty four election,
Speaker 1: and Democrats are twenty nine percent. And just sixteen percent
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Speaker 1: is that despite their dread their words, American voters, just
Speaker 1: fifteen percent of Americans excuse me. Just fifteen percent of
Speaker 1: Americans say they avoid talking, reading, or thinking about the
Speaker 1: twenty four election cycle, while most claim to just be
Speaker 1: as interested as they were before. Most are interested, at
Speaker 1: forty six percent say yeah, I'm interested, thirty two percent
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Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Among registered voters, the interests translated into partisans and leaners
Speaker 1: on both sides rating their chances of actually voting in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is either more likely than in the
Speaker 1: prior elections. Thirty seven percent of Republicans and Democrat respondents
Speaker 1: matching perfectly, say they're more likely, not less likely, to
Speaker 1: vote just as likely. Fifty seven percent of Democrats and
Speaker 1: fifty nine percent of Republicans say they are just as
Speaker 1: likely to vote as they were last time, which is
Speaker 1: also very interesting. Now you take away step back from
Speaker 1: this and you say, okay, does anyone have the advantage.
Speaker 1: There is a category that the Republicans do have an
Speaker 1: advantage over the Democrats. That category is the category of
Speaker 1: excitement and optimism. Republicans are more optimistic than Democrats are
Speaker 1: right now about the future this country with their candidate.
Speaker 1: Republicans are more excited to vote for their candidate, Donald J. Trump,
Speaker 1: the leader right now, than Democrats are to vote for
Speaker 1: their candidate. And we know who their candidate is, Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Democrats are basically dreading at a higher number voting for
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. But if you get through those numbers, it
Speaker 1: still seems to be a neck and neck race. You
Speaker 1: go to the very end among registered voters interest in
Speaker 1: this election, are you more likely than prior elections to vote?
Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent Republicans and exactly the same number thirty
Speaker 1: seven percent Democrats say they're more likely to vote, just
Speaker 1: as likely to vote is last time Democrats fifty seven percent.
Speaker 1: Republicans have a two point lead in that category. Now,
Speaker 1: that is a number that I would expect, and the
Speaker 1: reason is Republicans are trying to get rid of a
Speaker 1: Democrat and that's more engaging and when you have something
Speaker 1: to win instead of something to lose. Right, we have
Speaker 1: a white House that we want to win. Democrats have
Speaker 1: a white house they don't want to lose. That can
Speaker 1: explain that gap pretty clearly. What this means is, as
Speaker 1: of right now, this is a neck and neck election cycle.
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