robert menendez is a choose the kingdom of helping fund russia's war in ukraine. not to go ahead and explain for the past few days, we've been hearing from democratic politicians in the united states upset with saudi arabia over opec's decision to cut up to 2000000 barrels of oil production a day starting next month. they're angry for a couple of reasons. one, this is just a few weeks before the next mid term elections poll after poll shows the economy, inflation, some of the biggest concerns for voters, and they tend to favor republicans to fix it. the other reason is ukraine, and that's what we're hearing from a very powerful power politician, senator bob mendez. he's the chairman of the foreign relations committee. he is just the latest to weigh in. in his statement writing the united states must immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with saudi arabia, including any arm, sales, and security cooperation. beyond what is necessary to defend us personnel and interests that he added, that he will not greenlight any cooperation until it mean in saudi arab

senator robert menendez.at's according to nbc news, which reports the investigation also involves a company that's authorized by the government of egypt to certify exports of halal food worldwide. menendez is a democrat and chair of the senate foreign relations committee. in 2017, prosecutors dropped russian charges against him after a jury couldn't agree on a verdict. in that case, menendez was accused of peddling influence on behalf of a new jersey ophthalmologist in exchange for flights on a private jet, luxury hotel stays, and six-figure campaign contributions. the u.s. centers for disease control is warning communities of color are far less likely to receive potentially life-saving treatments for covid-19. a cdc study released thursday found african american and latinx patients received the anti-viral drug paxlovid more than 30% less often than wte patients, even though people in -- people of color are about twice as likely to be hospitalized with covid. this comes as u.s. hospitalizations from covid hav

. >>> breaking news, senator robert menendez of new jersey is under federal criminal investigation byrn district of new york, according to two people familiar with the matter. nbc's tom winter has the details. tom, the spokesperson for the senator is also confirming this. >> that's correct. confirming the investigation right now, the spokesperson says we're not sure what the scope of the investigation is, but should somebody approach the senator about it and wanting to ask any sort of questions that he will offer his assistance, we don't know the scope of the investigation either, katy, so we're trying to get a little bit of a better handle on this, as first reported earlier today by a website, that an individual had received a grand jury subpoena but we don't know when that subpoena was sent out. we do know that the prosecutorial office is handling that, the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york, they're declining to comment on this news today, menendez is not a stranger to federal investigations as you know, katy, he was indicted back in 2019, along with a doc

senator robert menendez. he pushed for it.have no indication at this point that the doctor is involved in this at all. as we have said and talked about, is somebody no stranger to the fbi and to federal investigators. where this case goes, whether or not there's any charges is something that will take place in the future. of course, senator menendez steadfastly said he was innocent of his charges last time. his spokesperson last time said, look, we're not aware of what the scope of this is, but if he's contacted by authorities, he's happy to answer questions. >> much more to come, tom. thank you. >>> to breaking news out of d.c. where a tennessee man has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for brutally assaulting d.c. police officer michael fanone during the january 6th riots. here is part of what he experienced from his own body cam on that day. [ screaming ]. >> before the sentencing, fanone who is seen here entering the courtroom asked the judge to show head the same mercy he showed him on january 6th which he said was