1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Stateside Richard Arnold, what do you mike top all time 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: for the Dems. Of course, Medindez hasn't helped. 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 2: That's right. The breaking news here is that one of 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: his country's top senators, in the shape of Robert Menendez, 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 2: has just been found guilty of selling his office to 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 2: foreign governments for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash 7 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 2: and gold bars. That gold sealed in plastic baggies or 8 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: crammed into boots were here in a closet in his home. 9 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: It's pretty bizarre, says US attorney Damian Williams. 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 3: This case has always been about shocking levels of corruption, 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the forum 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 3: of cash, gore bars and Mercedes bands. This wasn't politics 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 3: as usual, this was politics for profit. 14 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. 15 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 2: Menendez has been found guilty on sixteen counts. He was 16 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: tried along with two other individuals. His wife also is 17 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 2: facing charges, but her case has been delayed because she 18 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 2: has cancer. This senator was found guilty of taking payoffs 19 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 2: to quash convictions in his home state, New Jersey, then 20 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: seeking to cover all that up. He was also found 21 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: to have met with Egyptian and intelligence officials and help 22 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: that country access millions of dollars in US military aid 23 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: in his role as head of the Senate Foreign Relations. 24 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 2: Emerging from courtman Indez pressed his claim to be innocent 25 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 2: and said he will appeal. 26 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 4: I have never been anything but a patriot of my 27 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 4: country and for my country. I have never ever been 28 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,639 Speaker 4: a foreign agent. And the decision rated by the jury 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 4: today would put at risk every member of the United 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 4: States Senate in terms of what they think a foreign 31 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 4: agent would be. 32 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 2: So that's his argument. Everyone does it. I mean, indus 33 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: is seventy. He could face up to twenty years in 34 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: prison for this. The top Senate democrat is calling on 35 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: him to quit the U S Senate men, Indez could 36 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 2: stay on in theory until the appeals processes through meantime. 37 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 2: That other court case you were mentioning involving US national 38 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: security is the Trump Classify document situation, where the Trump 39 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 2: appointed Florida Judge Eileen Cannon. Throughout the case, Trump of 40 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: course had piles of papers in his bathroom and elsewhere, 41 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: secret papers, including material on you as nuclear programs, lying 42 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: around in parts of Marra Lago where visitors could just 43 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: walk in. This Trump judge says that the special counsel 44 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 2: in the case is unconstitutional, had not been confirmed by 45 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 2: the Senate, and so on. This gets down to the 46 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: gritty netty. But the law professor Michael Gerhard says, the 47 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: ruling of this judge, who has issued a number of 48 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: rulings in the case favorable to Trump, is unlikely to stand. 49 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 2: In his view, really a terrible opinion, has very little support, 50 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: and I think is likely to be overturned on a queue. 51 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: But the bottom line is, as you put it, this 52 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 2: holts the case all after the election. So another victory 53 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 2: for Trump and his lawyers exactly. 54 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: Then we come to J. D. Vance, who turned up 55 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: yesterday at the Convention of Course Games first interview. What's 56 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: America making of him? 57 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 2: Well, it's early, but you know, it's pretty interesting. Little surprise. 58 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: Although when Trump first met Vance, whose middle name was 59 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 2: Donald before he changed it to David, when they first 60 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: met at Marra Lago a few years back, Trump had 61 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 2: copies of all the slams Advanced taking against him by 62 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 2: calling him, you know, quote Borral disaster and quote possibly 63 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 2: America's hitler, and to immediately apologize. So things like this 64 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 2: no longer operating. 65 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: The can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and 66 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 3: is leading the white working class to a very dark please. 67 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: So now the never Trump guy is all in. Things 68 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: have changed dramatically. 69 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 4: I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, 70 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 4: but President Trump was a great president and he changed 71 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 4: one mote. 72 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 2: But who is Vance? He was in the Marines where 73 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 2: his job was to escort civilian press basically and gather 74 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 2: some info and a few articles from military news service. 75 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 2: His wife is an Indian immigrant lawyer who worked for 76 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 2: a couple of Supreme Court justicees Spread Cavanan and John Roberts, 77 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: the Chief Justice. Vance himself went into venture capitalism. Policy wise, 78 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 2: he says Latin American immigration is killing jobs for folks 79 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 2: in his home state are Hio and letting more Democratic 80 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 2: voters pour into the land. On foreign policy, he's in 81 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 2: America first, says he quote doesn't really care what happens 82 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 2: in Ukraine one way or another. In the Middle East, 83 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 2: he says, quote his heart goes out to civilians in Gaza, 84 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: but he still fully supports Israel and abortion. Van supposes 85 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: abortion rights even in cases of rape or incest. Victims 86 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 2: of rape or incests should be compelled to have those babies, 87 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: apparently on climate change. He says that's not a real threat. 88 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 2: He wants increasing tariff on imports from other countries and 89 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: is not interested in traditional conservative small government priorities. He 90 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: is thirty nine years old, so half the age of Trump. 91 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 2: He calls people convicted of crimes during the attack on 92 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 2: the US Capitol on January the sixth political prisoners, so 93 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: echoing his boss. He says the twenty twenty election was 94 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 2: not a real election and says he will not commit 95 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: to the results of the coming elections this year. He 96 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: says he had he been vice president in twenty twenty one, 97 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: unlike Mike Pence, he would have thrown out the real 98 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 2: electoral votes in place of Trump proxy. So even though 99 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 2: he ditched that middle name Donald, he has embraced the 100 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 2: mega campaign virtually in every other way. 101 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: Back on Friday, on the program Morning Consopt to first 102 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: pull out post shooting that I can find hasn't moved 103 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: the needle, so, of course, the reference being that when 104 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was shot, he went up twenty two points 105 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: a still early days, but to Trump on forty six, 106 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: butar and forty five. These are national numbers. I'm not 107 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: a big fan of national numbers because it's swing states 108 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: that count. But the previous poll was forty four to 109 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: forty two to Trump. Now it's forty six forty five 110 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: to Trump. 111 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: For more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 112 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 113 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.