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
Straight from the source tonight. Please be seated. The 12 new yorkers decide the fate of a former president of the United States. Now criminal defendant, a Roller Coaster day in court ends with a jury of his peers now picked in the case of the people of the state of new york vs donald j. Trump. What weve learned tonight with Opening Statements as soon as monday also, why prosecutors or refusing to tell the defense who their first witness these are the judge appearing to agree that the former president s simply cant be trusted for certain to contain himself. And the kennedys versus a kennedy six of rf okay. Juniors, old siblings, very publicly snubbed their brother and endorsed joe biden for reelection. My source tonight is rfk junior sister, kerry kennedy. Is it a family feud . Or just plain politics . Im john king and for kaitlan collins, this is the source a rough start but then rapid progress on day three, rough because two jurors previously seated in Donald Trumps historic Hush Mo
his lawyers are going to invite it s not to testify. they re going to try and keep them understand, but he is the former president of the united states. if he wants to get on that witness stand, he s going to do that two things. number one, what i m going to tell them is if i m with them tonight, we did the best we can. this is what we got. but tomorrow is really important. we just saw what happened. we lost two jurors, the of the de right. or within 48 hours. there s a high likelihood but that s something will happen with whether these are the jurors. so alternate number one and ultimate number two, and maybe even older number three are very important. i want you to pay attention. i want you to be involved. i want you to tell me who to pick and who not to pick. and looked, just be cool to song from west side story, be cool boy, just be cool, just try to relax and just let us do our job. so let s talk about but that. because at first reflex, the non-lawyer at the table, these 12 of
and if it takes a long time, again, he could get reelected in new jersey. brian: we haven t seen senator schumer weigh in yet. we know that governor murphy s wife is running for that slot. so, i don t see anyone rallying around him. fetterman has probably been the most vocal. steve: well i haven t lived in new jersey for a long time i don t know what the political impact of getting a text message or somebody tries to give you a watcher in exchange for a nice press release about qatari government is. steve: you are right, peter. you haven t lived in new jersey a long time. when are you going to come get your junk? peter: you know, my trunk is really full right now. and i think i saw adam klotz said there is going to be snow this weekend. steve: not this he could would. going back to why he has not been expelled. doesn t that come down to balance of power in the u.s. senate? right now democrats hold the balance of power. lawrence: tight margin. steve: bob menendez leaves,
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