Corner e, my sisters and brothers of every different color pete another beautiful shot of st. Pete beach. Love it. And rob thomas. Rachel maimed after you. Pete named after me, st. Pete. I pointed out no ones ever called me st. Pete, but saints are what we call all members of the christian church. Rachel we are all called to be saints. Pes pes its pete its a Work In Progress in my case. Rachel in all of our cases. Pete what . Will i mean, im close. Pete hes pretty close. Rachel not today, will. Pete these two have a little bit of a tiff, and im over here as switzerland rachel yeah, you were switzerland during the whole midwest debate, and then every southerner came after me. This is the face he had will heres the thing, the source of this disagreement is about the rundown, and i dont understand how he became switzerland and i became the bad guy when hes the one on National Television airing the dirty the laundry. Pete i didnt air anything rachel yeah, you did. But you are just a little more surly about it. He does it with more midwest good cheer. Will in the court of rachel, im guilty. [laughter] pete yes with. You do not want to find yourself in that court. Will what are you talking about . Im a Repeat Offender in that court. [laughter] pete she will find you guilty no matter what. Will im the convict that doesnt care. Whatever you got, judge, throw it at me. Pete glad youre here on fox friends on this 8 00 eastern time hour. With. Will to a fox weather alert, Tropical Storm ophelia making landfall in North Carolina earlier this morning. To a live look at the boardwalk in ocean city, maryland. Rachel heavy rain and powerful winds are pounding the coast and causing minor flooding. There are about 65,000 outages in North Carolina, virginia and maryland. Pete lets turn now to the chief, chief meteorologist rick reichmuth, for our fox weather forecast. Rick all right. Pete asked me, hey, should i go to the yankees game today or pete well, i bought tickets yesterday. Rick it is going to be a complete washout. But hes like, oh, i didnt know there was a storm. Im trying to get to a point here, that a lot of people didnt know there was a storm. Theres a 70 mileanhour Tropical Storm the, snuck up on us. This time of year, you start to get potentially Tropical Systems that develop closer to land instead of way out to sea, and this is one of those. Formed off the coast of the carolinas and florida with maybe 2436 hours notice and now a 70 mileanhour Tropical Storm came on land about an hour and a half ago, almost two ours hours ago right here in emerald isle. Thats the area thats taking the pummeling of the storm surge. A lot of water being pushed in towards the norfolk area, causing Flooding Concerns right here, and that is a tornado warning. Well see some tornadoes throughout the day today. You get that often with landfalling Tropical Systems. Storm is going to continue to pull off towards the northwest and make this little turn the, maybe somewhere tomorrow afternoon around the delmarva, but this is a really widespread storm, so a lot of areas are going to get a lot of rain thats going to cause significant inland flooding. Theres going to be a lot of wind, sometimes maybe 5060 miles an hour, so potentially trees going down and Power Outages throughout the day. Rachel thank you, rick are. Turning now to a major washington corruption scandal, new jersey senator bob menendez and his wife are facing bribery, Fraud Andings extortion charges. Will the democrat is accused of helping egypts authoritarian government in exchange for lavish gifts like gold barses, Mercedes Benz and more. Pete and lots of cash. Alexandria hoff joins us with more details. Reporter hey, good to be with you. Senator menendez has temporarily stepped down from his role as chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, but he says hes not going to give up his elected position despite calls from democrats who say, quote, the alleged facts are so serious, they compromise the ability of the senator to effectively represent our state, therefore, i am calling for his immediate resignation. The senator has been called with three counts including bribery linked to his work on the Foreign Relations committee, conspiracy to commit Honest Services fraud and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. The indictment was unsealed yesterday and accuses the senator and his wife of a corrupt relationship with three new jersey if businessmen. Senator menendez, the senior u. S. Senator from new jersey and the chairman of the senate Foreign Relations committee and his wife nadine menendez, engaged in a corrupt relationship. The indictment alleges that through that relationship the senator and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars many bribes. Reporter Search Warrants of senator me 9 11 cezs properties turned up approximately half a million in cash in closets and in the senators jacket pockets, gold bars also. In exchange for intervening in a criminal prosecution, prosecutors say menendez was gifted a mercedes. Additional allegations that the senator used sensitive u. S. Information to aid the government of egypt. Senator menendez remained defiant yesterday stating this it is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a loo latino and push him out of his seat. Ooh im not going anywhere. The senator is expected to the appear in Federal Court on wednesday. He was tried six years ago on unrelate charges, and that results in a hung jury. Will thank you, alexandria. Pretty blatant, pretty dumb can. Cash, gold bars. In so many different ways, of course, people cant help but notice the similarities between the allegations in the allegations between this and hunter biden. The is salaciousness and obviousness of the allegations against menendez. Theres literally a Mercedes Benz involved. Rachel a usedded Mercedes Benz. Its a lot more egregious on the biden side. First of all, lets talk about the timing for a second. Why now . There have been Corruption Allegations swirling around this senator for decades, so why now . I think we have to look at the timing. Its a Perfect Timing if you want to quickly take off hunter biden and joe bidens corruption scandal, take that off the table, easily take out this guy who, by the way, not the most reliable democrat for the bidens, you know . If hes come out against Biden Policies on cuba, also came out against, you know, obama had a lot of problems with him on the iran deal because he was very vocal against that as well. We know the obamas are running this whole operation anyway, so get him off the stage. Not trying to minimize what hes done, will, but he did this with the egyptian authoritarian, as you say, government, but an ally of the United States. The bidens were working with the communist Chinese Government and getting money from them and also ukraine and russia. So its just and shell companies, you know, and many more millions of dollars involved. Pete we just did a segment about the media and how they said lets not be neutral anymore, lets be truthful rachel exactly. Pete if they wanted to be truthful, they would look at the mountains of evidence against Haunter Biden and examine it. Hunter biden. Theyre covering this one because its so obvious, but its nowhere with near if as consequential. If Senator Menendez is compromised and given gifts by the egyptian military, yeah, thats not good, but it doesnt undermine our entire country the way joe is. Rachel right. Pete Senator Menendez also had the audacity to go to the senate floor and talk about donald trump be compromised by the russianss. This is a tape from 2019. Watch this. The American People deserve to know who they elected to be their president. They deserve to know if hes, in fact, putting americas interests first. They deserve to know donald trump is, wittingly or unwittingly, an agent for the russian federation. Pete so as hes peddling that concern. Will hes compromised. As hes peddling that, hes Peddling Influence to foreign powers. Its just always the case, a reminder, that which they accuse you of, they are guilty. Rachel yeah. Will whether or not its claims of, you know, misogyny or racism, its usually as a cover for their own misogyny and racism. And for what its worth today, menendez suggesting its all about race. Hes played the race card and said its because hes latino. Rachel yeah, he did say that. Again, its just such a dirty business at this level of politics where menendez is a high ranking, chairman of foreign relation ares, and theyre going to take him out. Theyve been covering for him for decades. Like i said, this stuff the fbis probably known for a long time, but they bring it out right now and sacrifice him which, you know, hes rightfully guilty, but they do that in order to cover up for the bidens. The bidens can get away with a hundred times more than what Senator Menendez, but they needed him right now for that purpose. Pete speaking of the bidens, you know when youre happening out with someone whos a little bit aged, and they tell you a story. Good story, cool story, and two minutes later they tell you the same story, and you go, okay, i heard that story. But youre nice to them because maybe their memorys not quite there. Well, that was joe biden on wednesday, and were just learning a little bit more about it now. He was at a fundraiser, and this is no tape of this, but there was a press pool which means reporters that wering able to cover it that were covering it. And heres the readout of the White House Pool notes, the notes they took of joe biden at a fundraiser, heres how they describe it. After briefly touting his economic record, potus reflected on his decision to seek the presidency. He told the story about the events of charlottesville in 2017, as hes talked about a lot, as the reason for his campaign. A few minutes later, he toll the same story he told the same story again nearly word for word. Rachel wow. Pete it is politico, by the way, in rightwing outlet, with their White House Pool readout of what happened. Will Karine Jeanpierre was asked about that, heres what she had to say. Reporter is it any concern the that he would fully retell a story in the same space, in the same vent . Sometimes i respeak as well from here and retell a story. But, look, you know, i think its important to note that the9 president was peeking speaking, as you said, at a fundraiser, and he was speaking from his heart. He was speaking about why he decided to do this. When you hear the president talk about this, its always incredibly emotional for him, because he didnt have to. He went through an incredibly difficult time when he was deciding to jump into the race. The passion that he has when he tells that story and how important it is for him to have done something because he believed, you know, our democracy is at stake. Will i just, i think its a slightly impressive concern. Rachel i do, i was kind of impressed too will slightly impressive but obvious attempt at spin. But look is always a tell. Its usually give me your anticipation, im about to do something here. She then transitions Social Security always important to its always important to, then she begins to say he spoke from the heart, so its ad libbed but its motional. He feels it so much, he might need to tell the story twice, and then she uses that as an opportunity to talk once again about charlottesville or the moment and why it was so important and that democracy was at stake all without ever really answering the question of, is it concerning that he are repeated himself twice. Pete and as the tape plays forward, the reporter asked again, and she followed up with, you know, i have not spoken to the president about it. So its not as if she had a conversation with joe and he said, hey shes looking at the events and spinning it as best she can. Rachel you know, we make fun of this Press Secretary a lot. And i was actually impressed. I thought this was pretty good. This was so heart felt will thats the kind of thing jen psaki was good at. Rachel yeah. Will be clear, youre complimenting her on spin. Rachel on spin. Yes, yes, yes, yes, of course. But, look, i mean, theyre going to keep getting these kinds of questions over and over. This is not can you can see its now speeding up, the deterioration pete because hes going to do this in public. Hes already done it, hes going to do it again, they know that. How you play defense on that for the next 13 months if he is the candidate is rachel theres only one by to do it, and thats hide him. Theyve got to keep him off the stage. This would have been twice as bad if this had been on tape. All right. Turning to course headlines, five people are in the hospital this morning following a House Exmotion overnight in west milford, new jersey, right near the new york state line. No word on how badly the victims were hurt, but they were airlift from the scene. Investigators are still looking boo what triggered the blast. San Francisco Mayor london breed may now have some new competition heading into next years election. Interesting. Levi strauss heir Daniel Murray filing paperwork on thursday. Murray has been outspoken about the spiraling homelessness and crime rates as well as the open air drug market. An official announcement is expected on tuesday. Nfl Hall Of Famer and Buffalo Bills legend jim kelly is praising god and getting baptized. Check it out. You love jesus . Yes, i do in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit [cheers and applause] rachel kelly credits his late son hunter for helping him find god. Hunter died at 8 years old in 2005 after a battle with a rare condition. Kelly says becoming a christian is the best decision he ever made. Wow, that was beautiful. And those are your headlineses. Made me think of your boy getting baptized in the ocean there. Pete its amazing, yeah. Life changing. Good for him. Coming up, we are shining a light on the Clinton Global Initiative. How a record of corruption could taint their latest launch oh, theyre relaunching again . Rachel oh, yeah. 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Is so the situation in ukraine and all the tax dollars that are going over there seems shady enough to me, but now weve added the clintons to this. What do you make of that . What could go wrong is . [laughter] first thing [laughter] i mean, the first thing i would highlight is, obviously, hillary wants to run for president. Why would she be taking this prominent role again. First, Clinton Global Initiative meeting in six years is and previously the foundation, the clinton the Global Initiative with the foundation, you know, as we uncovered through the emails of the state department, the clintons had been using the foundation as a passthrough for Influence Peddling rachel yeah. And they were given special favors at the state Department Despite promises and, of course, a lot of money came from, guess where . Russia. Ukra