[national anthem] [national anthem] pete: thank you, as always, for sharing your photos. reminder, those are your photos on our nation s anthem every single saturday and sun morning here on fox & friends weekend joined by, as always, will cain, rachel campos duffy. good morning. will: do you think pretty good is better than good or less than good? pete: i think pretty good is less than good. will: this is an ongoing debate. when the boys say practice was pretty good, my response is, what went wrong? because in my world, pretty good is less than good, and they have tried to convince me pretty good is actually an increased level of good. pete: pretty is not full good. will: i agree. they made a decent counterpoint of it s how you say it. rachel: i can solve this entire thing. just say muy bueno, done. pete: also works. well, a lot went on yesterday between our show. there were two events where donald trump took the stage. he first was in georgia and then in north ca
we re all excited the gang is back together this wednesday morning after a christmas holiday. a christmas break for each of us. it was a wonderful time. makes us all grateful for this job and we are all back together. feels good. steve: feels great. welcome back, brian. before yesterday. we were here, and griff jenkins was here as well through the entire holiday. hats off to him and everybody else who filled in the chair. brian: must have been tough for him to not surf. griff prefers to surf. steve: i was talking to griff yesterday because is he going to go down today to south florida to go surfing. and i told him the beaches are gone because of beach erosion over the last month. brian: you are kidding. steve: beaches are pretty much shot. lawrence: finally gets to celebrate and there is no beach. ainsley: still waves. brian: waves crash into land. just send you. steve: just smooths out. no roll. ainsley: y all, before christmas we saw the presiden
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
who, are you i really want to know who, who, who, who? ainsley: wisconsin, they still have the christmas tree up with all the christmas lights. look at the star on the building there. steve: keep it up until the epiphany january 6th this year. brian: i thought epiphany sudden idea you weren t expecting. ainsley: like i just had epiphany. steve: that isn t capitalized this one little christmas capitalized january 6th. ainsley: since you are catholic do you keep your lights up until epiphany? steve: absolutely. ainsley: how about you? lawrence: after january they come down. steve: end of january? brian: everything came down last night. most credit belongs to dawn. lawrence: did you help? brian: of course. bag ever the tree does not work. whose idea was that put the bag underneath the tree? it didn t work, there is a stand there. so it s underneath the stand. so you got to undo the stand, because my guy did it. in the customersry and he hammers
court documents are now unsealed and several prominent figures are referenced. brian: includes former president bill clinton as well as celebrities and business leaders. lawrence: many of the people named, including clinton, have not been accused of wrongdoing but the documents are answering some questions about epstein s web of associates and famous friends. steve: brooke singman joins us now with the sorted details. brook? good morning, guys. a federal judge releasing nearly 200 names previously redacted from hundreds of court documents filed in a since settled defamation lawsuit brought by one of epstein s accusers against ghislaine maxwell. former president bill clinton one of the biggest names. the documents reveal personal relationship with epstein including four trips epstein took on epstein s plane in the early 2,000s. in the deposition one victim was also asked did jeffrey ever talk to you about bill clinton she answered quoted that one time clinton likes the