we start with another update from the ongoing trial of us Senator Bob Menendez on the stand today were investigators revealing how old the money was that They confiscated from the Senator's home as well as more details about conversations between New Jersey's first assistant us prosecutor vikas kanana Senator Menendez and the attorneys of Fred Davies menendez's friend and co-defendant those conversations ultimately resulted in a plea deal and a possible quidd pro quo senior correspondent Brenda Flanagan got to see testimony firsthand once again she joins us now from New York Brenda this afternoon really brought some compelling testimony about those gold bars walk us through that yeah Joanna we got to hear from vashan corosion now he's a jeweler in Edgewater he's a middleman who buys and sells gold he does business through the Diamond District in New York and he was a uh did a lot of business for two codefendants in this in this trial will Hana and Fred Davies and they introduced him to naen mandez the the Senator's wife now this was a lot of gold that went through Mr corrosion via naen in early April 2022 he sold two kilos of gold for her two kilo bars at $124,000 then four gold coins for $7,200 and another two kilos of of gold gold for $117,000 now the Jeweler also sold gold as we said to will Hana at one point sold him $40,000 worth of 1 o gold bars now they put up two shots uh two photos on on the screen for the jury and showed the serial numbers one digit off a gold bar from corrosion and that was sold to Hana and a gold bar that was in a picture from naen cell phone they want the jury in their head to connect the dots that this is where naen got the gold and then sold it Joanna wow that is very compelling now we also heard today from vikas kanana right who's the uh first assistant us attorney worked underneath Philip Selinger who we already heard from what did he have to say about meetings well we know that at one point Menendez had called and um met with with or called Salinger and asked him to carefully consider his friend Fred Davies who had a federal bank fraud case after the Department of Justice recused Selinger from that case guess who got it it was vikas kanana and what did Menendez do he called vikas kanana now he did not according to Conor mention specifically Fred davies's or the davies's case but he did mention two attorneys one of them was Davy's attorney and one of them was connected to will Hana both of them codefendant in this case Joanna and we know that in the end they did reach a plea deal just a few seconds left Brenda we know that timing is an issue here prosecution was supposed to wrap today that didn't happen what did happen we did lose a juror juror number 15 an alternate was dismissed the judge had promised her that the J the trial would be winding up by now she had a prepaid non-refundable cruise and the judge had promised her he would let go if the trial wasn't done she left she's going on her Cruise tomorrow and we are down a juror Joanna okay so we say it should have been wrapping up we are not even through the prosecution side and we are going to be following this for a lot longer senior correspondent Brenda Flanagan thank you so much [Music]