Is senator bob menendez a National Security threat . And where are the nations Top Democrats on whether remaining in his position should even be tolerated . Two central questions as menendez remains defiant in the face of a damning indictment. Im abby phillips, among the charges democrat is accused of using his power to get Sensitive Information of the plots overseas. Information that eventually made its way to a Foreign Government. And while he is temporarily stepping down from being chairman of the senate warm relations committee, he is still privy to classified information. Now, the governor of his state suggested those allegations alone make him compromised. And one of menendezs democratic colleagues went even farther. Does it sound like espionage from your perspective . As a former intel officer, we collected information and we paid people for that information. So in the simplest of terms, yes. From a legal standpoint, ill defer to the doj on that. We are now starting to see these