how long do you think democrats will be comfortable standing behind menendez? >> in new jersey, maybe for a while. do you get a jersey when you're number 11 indicted? >> not a banner. i don't think so. >> i don't think this says a lot, despite what the public says. i don't think this says a lot about the culture in the u.s. senate. i spent a lot of time in that state. i know you have. it is the way that money and friendships and politics intermingle. it is so many fifedomes. i think in new jersey he retain his support for longer because i think this is the way politics has historically been played. >> it is built in, an expectation. helene, one conspiracy theory out there by some critics of the president is menendez, probably the loudest critic of the president, that somehow this is all connected. you buy this theory, you buy the conspiracy? >> i don't. i think it is interesting. he's the biggest democratic critic. it hasn't muted him. on thursday -- one of the first e-mails i got, you know, as iran deal was announced, was from senator menendez, with -- he was