The comments come after Menendez on Monday said he will be exonerated.
But Karine Jean-Pierre declined to say that the senior senator from New Jersey should resign.
“This is a serious matter. We see this as a serious matter,” she said in response to a reporter’s question at Monday’s White House briefing. Jean-Pierre also called Menendez’s decision to step down as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee “the right thing to do, obviously.”Menendez, speaking at a Monday press conference,
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