everybody, it is wednesday, january 3rd, 2024. and we start this second hour of fox & friends with a developing story. that man right there, new jersey s long time senator robert menendez is back in the spotlight following new corruption allegations. ainsley: the embattled democrat is now facing even more bribery charges. this time for allegedly helping the qatari government in exchange for lavish gifts. lawrence: this is unbelievable. peter doocy is live from the white house with more on this. hey, peter. peter: the word was allegedly out all around the world. if you want the u.s. senator to say something nice about your country just buy him something expensive. that s what the united states government is alleging now that there are these text messages showing the following. it s pretty extraordinary. bob menendez gets a text from a businessman with ties to the qatari government that says how about one of these? and it s photos of two watches ranging from $9,900
has to be a very nerve-racking event for them. they did a great job evacuating the airplane. faa standards, 90 seconds to evacuate an entire airplane. they did a good job doing that especially without getting a lot of injuries. steve: indeed. i was just reading this morning that apparently the on board paye system malfunctioned. and so, you know, somebody couldn t get on the thing and say okay, let s do this. instead, the flight attendants got them out through three doors just by using their voices and they used those mega phones as well. yeah. it s amazing, miraculous that they were able to get them out so fast and, again, without injuries. hats off to all those flight attendants on that airplane that did that. steve: plus the pilots. i mean, luckily, you have never had to land a plane that was on fire. but they were going down the runway 150 miles per hour and it s on fire. yeah. definitely not what you are expecting to land and hit