menendez brothers murder case. the hit drama titled "monsters, the eric and lyle menendez story" is a fictionalized portrayal of theery real murders of their parents in their beverly hills mansion. eric and lyle ultimately admitted to shooting them at point blank range with shotguns. >> i will always protect you. >> reporter: but eric is accusing the show's creators and netflix of quote, ruinous character portrayal. in a letter released by his wife, he condemned the show, saying it is full of blatant lies about him and his brother lyle. it is sad for me to know that netflix' dishonest portrayal of the tragedy surrounding our crime have taken the painful truth several steps backwards, he wrote. >> felt like a joke. it felt like a mockery. >> reporter: some critics on social media also slamming the show's co-creator, ryan murphy for implying the brothers will an intimate relationship. eric menendez saying, quote, how demoralizing is it to know that one man with power can undermine decades of progress in shedding light on childhood trauma. neither murphy nor met flix has responded to nbc's request for comment. during

this morning, eric menendez is speaking out about the show. >> kaylee, good morning. >> good morning,enendez is slamming the true crime show, calling it a dishonest portrayal as it puts the case in the spotlight 35 years after the murders. >> let's go do this. >> reporter: netflix latest true crime drama making headlines of its own. "monsters: the lyle and erik menendez brothers" focused on the murder of their parents. while it is currently the streamers number one show, the real-life subject eric menendez is slamming the series saying it was rampant with horrible and blatant lies. the show implies an intimate relationship between the brothers, which has drawn viewer backlash. >> he's also trashing up and exploiting a very tragic stoimt. >> reporter: in a statement released by his wife tammy, erik writes, it is sad for me to know that netflix's dishonest portrayal have taken the painful >> who is the person that's been truths several steps backward. >> who is the person that's been shot. >> my mom and my dad. >> in 1989, jose and kitty menendez were found brutally murdered in their be

and in that eric menendez complains about the ongoing abuse by his father. >>cousin andy testified erica would confide in him about the abuse. told me. >>is father was massaging his. >>and was before. the homicides took place late out all of the abuse that was going and i think i'm end in reasons. docu series, menendez plus minuto boys betrayed. >>a former member of the menudo boy-band reuters sello revealed allegations that jose had also molested him at the time. jose was an executive with rnc and its sign the ban to a record deal that i think was the game changer. i've always said. >>the fact that there was yet another person was molested what about the prosecution's theory? they killed their parents at of greed. it wasn't like these were destitute kids needed to kill their parents order to live larger than life. they were living in the lap of luxury at the time. but obviously there was something dysfunctional most relatives knew that although the mendez family appeared to be picture perfect, they were far from it. >>one of the things that always struck me

for you, we have a new show this week called, "monsters: the eric and lyle menendez story."murphy who created dahmer, it's a phenomenal drama. david: let's talk about your future. you are in the company for how many years? ted: 25. david: you are or how old? ted: 60 years old. david: that's a teenager to me. you're very young, do you have any interest in going to government, public service, running for office, being an ambassador, anything? ted: i would love to do something in public service, i can't see myself running for office but i would love to be of service to the country. david: at some point. did your parents live to see your success and did they ever tell you how proud they were of you? ted: my dad passed away two years ago. and he did see the success. i don't think he totally understood what i did, but he knew that it was pretty cool. and he knew the people with tell them that's pretty cool what -- would tell him that's pretty cool what your son does. my mom unfortunately passed away before netflix became what it is today. but at the beginning, when we first starte

for you, we have a new show just starting this week called " monsters: the eric and lyle menendez" story is a phenomenal drama. david: let's talk about your future. you're at the company for how many years? ted: 25. david: and you are how old gap ted: 60 years old. david: that's a teenager to me, so you are very young. do you have any interest in going into government, public service, running for office, being an ambassador? ted: i would love to do something in public service. i cannot see myself running for office, but i would love to be in service to the country. david: at some point you would like to do that? ted: at some point. david: did your parents get to see your success? ted: my dad passed away two years ago. he did get to see success. i don't think he totally understood what i did, but he knew that it was critical, and he knew because people would tell him, that's pretty cool what your son does. my mom, unfortunately, passed away before netflix became what it is today, but at the beginning, when we first started "house of cards" days, it was show up on all the awards shows. my

erik menendez story the series follows the highly publicized 1989 murders, jose and kitty menendez, the parents of eric and lyle, the docu series promises to explore whether or not the menendez brothers were acting out of fear due to years of abuse or if they were calculating killers driven by greed. now, as you know, this is all based on a true story and brothers eric and lyle are currently in prison. apparently erik menendez has seen the show about him and his brother and he doesn't like it. in a statement shared by his wife, he calls the show naive and inaccurate, adding, quote, it is sad for me to know that netflix is dishonest for trail of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truth. several steps backwards back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women. so now murphy shares his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character but trails of lyle and of me and disheartening slander is truth. not enough. and now for the first time in 30

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but eric adams is not alone when it comes to alleged foreign corruption. new jersey senator bob menendezcongressman henry cuellar. and donald trump has yet to answer questions about the $10 million egypt's president thought to donate to his 2016 campaign. joining me now is the former federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york and an msnbc legal analyst. thank you for being here. the list is longer than it should be. and it feels like this is, is this a recent phenomenon where you have the foreign governments acting so deliberately with relatively easy marks. >> i don't know that it is you, but it is certainly becoming more brazen and therefore because it is so brazen it becomes that much easier for prosecutor to start investigating. and you look at the example that you just gave of donald trump. there it began with a reliable performance. and it was corroborated by intelligence and they started digging and oh, there is this $10 million cash withdrawal. there was an audit done of his campaign donations. there was a lot where you couldn't put two and two together on where the

menendez, democrat. convicted. hunter biden, president's son, convicted. representative henry cuellar, democrat, indicted. and mayor eric adams. they're going after a lot of democrats for a justice department that's trying to weaponize itself against democrats. >> that's correct. and u.s. attorney williams is a man whose reputation is one of integrity and high ethics that he's not political. that he wouldn't just, you know, go after the mayor of new york because the, quote, biden doj was upset because the mayor was upset about immigration. so this is, as the reverend al said, this is an indictment. it is an accusation. it is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. these allegations have to be proven in court. and criminal defense attorneys normally will say this indictment is just a piece of paper, which is true. it's a very factually detailed indictment that has very serious charges. it's clear from when you read it that there are clearly several people who probably are cooperating or confidential sources against the mayor. that again doesn't mean that that's proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but these are very serious cha

menendez brothers is now shadowed by charges of murder. >> prosecutors say greed drove the boys to shooting their parents to death last august. >> in july 1993, lyle and eric's began. the two handsome, well-dressed defendants would propel it into a media spectacle. >> they were getting love letters and people were writing to them, so it was just a huge mania. and you have to think we weren't in a place where there were social media and things like that. >> the brothers testifying that they experienced sexual abuse at the hands of their father. >> my dad. wait one second, mr. hernandez. okay? let me. >> no, no, he was in the process of answering, so there was no need to ask. >> can you answer the question? >> yes. >> okay. it was you telling lyle what my dad had been molesting me. >> and after confronting their parents about it, eric and lyle feared for their lives. >> i thought they were going ahead with their plan to kill us. >> i was just sitting on the couch with my hands in my head saying, we're going to die. >> they had been so abused, so traumatized, and that the family was was in such horror, such a situation of tension and secrets that were coming ou

menendez. who was scythed. but you cannot indict a it ising president. at a lower level than the presidency that might strike some people as odd. the second thing to note is eric adams is history before he was mayor, he was quite senior in the new york city police department. and so, like donald trump, that is somebody who was in charge of law enforcement. who now will be facing charges by the u.s. attorney's office reportedly in the southern district of new york. and finally, what i'm looking for, i think in any case like this, the real thing i will be looking for if the charges are unsealed tomorrow which i suspect they will be is how the government is going to prove intent. all the investigations deal with some form of campaign finance violations whether the money is coming from overseas or not. whether they are quid pro quos. it would be illegal to have foreign campaign funds go into it. but you need to show eric adams the mayor knew that. that he was aware. so i suspect that we will learn that some of the people whose homes have been subject to searches are cooperating with the u.s. attorney's office. because that's a way into the head of the mens rea, th

menendez. >> nbc has learned the department of justice is expected to announce an indictment against long-term democratic congressman henry cuellar of texas. >> we are announcing campaign- finance, bribery, and conspiracy charges against eric, the mayor of new york city. >> an extraordinary step by the to justice department earlier today, federal prosecutors have indicted president joe biden's sole surviving son, hunter biden, on three criminal counts. >> the biden doj has rescued a sitting democratic senator, a sitting democratic congressman, new york city mayor eric adams, 40 days out from an election in which there is a bunch of swing districts around new york city, democrats are trying to win, and joe biden's last surviving son, awaiting sentencing on charges that even trey gaudi, the former republican prosecutor , things are ludicrous. >> i'll bet you there were not 10 cases prosecuted nationwide, of addicts or unlawful drug users who possess firearms rely on application. i bet there weren't a dozen which makes you wonder, of all the cases you could be pursuing in delaware, why are you pursuing this one? >> it is entirely possible that joe biden will leave the presidency and never see his son outside of a prison again

menendez in new jersey. >> let me interrupt you. the officials are announcing the charges. let's go right to that. >> today, we are announcing campaign finance, bribery, and conspiracy charges against eric adams, the mayor of new york city. as the indictment alleges, mayor adams engaged in a long-running conspiracy in which he solicited and knowingly accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign donors and corporations. as we allege, mayor adams took these contributions, even though he knew they were illegal. and even though he knew these contributions were attempts by a turkish government official and turkish businessmen to buy influence with him. we also allege that the mayor sought and accepted well over $100,000 in luxury travel benefits from some of the same foreign actors who arranged many of the illegal campaign contributions. these benefits included free international business class flights and opulent hotel rooms in foreign cities. the mayor had a duty to disclose these gifts on his annual public disclosure forms so that the public could see who was giving him what. but as we allege, year after year after year, he kept the public in the dark. he told the public he receiv

eric adams if he is found guilty he will be held accountable just like the republicans lord and master donald trump. so, hunter biden has been investigated by the trump -- biden administration as well as bob menendez and these guys are democrats. they just give up the kool-aid and they worship a criminal, a known sexual predator, a draft dodger and cult leader and these people are mentally disturbed. they are just mentally disturbed. host: looks like we lost that one. let's try. hello, you are on the air. caller: good morning this is peter from seattle washington. i think the mayor should hire clarence thomas as an attorney there in the same boat. that's all i wanted to say. >> let's try this one, is it carol? caller: hello. are you there? >> is the c-span? >> you are on washington journal, good morning. caller: this is carol. host: go right ahead. what did you want to say about the indictment against mayor adams? caller: mayor adams did no more than what trump did, i don't know why they're resting trump or any opinions. he's not the president of the right -- asking trump or any opinions paid their always asking him like he's an authority on something. and he is nothing for it he is a criminal. tr

eric adams has absolute top shelf defense attorneys. i think what we're going to see is a defense like the one that we saw in the first trial of senator robert menendez, not the one that just concluded with a conviction, but the one a few years ago where senator menendez beat those charges, essentially what he argued is, look, if i took travel for and benefits from people they were friends of mine. if i did things to try to help them, that's constituent service, that's what we do. and that's not bribery. there are some supreme court rulings that actually lend some support to that theory that say it's not enough if you're just sort of setting up meetings and making phone calls for people you have to show something more specific than that. but the problem for adams is the funneling of foreign money through straw donors. i think that's going to be a big problem for him here. >> all right. elie. thank you so much. really appreciate i always feel smarter and once i get your perspective, thank you. and now we're going to go to another major breaking story this hour, hurricane helene, it is dousing the country hundreds of miles of rain, at least 23 related

eric adams if he is found guilty he will be held accountable just like the republicans lord and master donald trump. so, hunter biden has been investigated by the trump -- biden administration as well as bob menendeznd these guys are democrats. they just give up the kool-aid and they worship a criminal, a known sexual predator, a draft dodger and cult leader and these people are mentally disturbed. they are just mentally disturbed. host: looks like we lost that one. let's try. hello, you are on the air. caller: good morning this is peter from seattle washington. i think the mayor should hire clarence thomas as an attorney there in the same boat. that's all i wanted to say. >> let's try this one, is it carol? caller: hello. are you there? >> is the c-span? >> you are on washington journal, good morning. caller: this is carol. host: go right ahead. what did you want to say about the indictment against mayor adams? caller: mayor adams did no more than what trump did, i don't know why they're resting trump or any opinions. he's not the president of the right -- asking trump or any opinions paid their always asking him like he's an authority on something. and he is nothing for it he is a criminal. trum