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Menendez: Trump's Denial Of Russian Hacking Nonsense

Alexandra Hill

 

New Jersey Senator and senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, is vowing to hold the Trump administration fully accountable when it comes to Russia-U.S. relations.

Menendez calls Trumps’ denial of Russian interference in the election nonsense and Says there’s never been such unanimity among the intelligence community. 

“If he undermines their credibility when he seeks to use their information in the future as a basis for action somewhere in the world the world will say wait a minute you said they weren’t credible, why are they credible now? So this is very consequential.”

Putin himself has sanctioned Menendez, who has fought against Russian aggression in Ukraine, to which Menendez referrers to as a badge of honor. 

Alexandra Hill began her work with WBGO in June of 2012 in the news department. A graduate of the Rutgers Newark journalism program, Alexandra was also a student of WBGO News Director Doug Doyle. Alexandra has since become the lead general assignment reporter, afternoon news anchor, and producer of the award winning live call in show Newark Today. Since working for WBGO Alexandra has covered politics in and around Newark including the 2014 mayoral campaign of Mayor Ras Baraka as well as the senate campaigns of former Newark Mayor and now U.S. Senator Cory Booker in both 2013 and 2014. Alexandra also covers a host of human-interest stories, and has been recognized by the New York Association Of Black Journalists for her piece entitled Sheltering Newark’s Homeless.