VEHICLES. NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. NEW JERSEY SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ WILL BE BACK IN COURT TODAY FOR HIS FEDERAL CORRUPTION TRIAL. OPENING STATEMENTS FOR TWO OTHER DEFENDANTS ARE SET TO TAKE PLACE. LET'S GET RIGHT TO GOOD DAY'S ROBERT MOSES. HE'S LIVE OUTSIDE THAT COURTHOUSE IN LOWER MANHATTAN WITH MORE. ROBERT. GOOD MORNING TISHANI. >> GOOD MORNING TO YOU. PROSECUTORS ALLEGE THAT BOB MENENDEZ EXPLOITED HIS POSITION TO LINE HIS POCKETS, BUT HIS LAWYER HAS FOUGHT BACK AGAINST THOSE ALLEGATIONS, SAYING THAT THERE IF THERE IS A CORRUPT MENENDEZ, IT'S NOT BOB. IT'S HIS WIFE. NADINE. HOW ARE YOU TODAY? THE ATTORNEYS FOR REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER FRED DAVIES AND BUSINESSMAN WAEL HANA, THE TWO MEN ON TRIAL WITH SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ ARE SCHEDULED TO DELIVER THEIR OPENING STATEMENTS YESTERDAY. MENENDEZ HIS ATTORNEY, AVI WEITZMAN, DELIVERED HIS. HE BLAMED MENENDEZ'S WIFE, NADINE, WHO IS SCHEDULED TO GO ON TRIAL IN JULY FOR THE BRIBERY CHARGES. WEITZMAN CLAIMED THAT MENENDEZ DID NOT KNOW OF THE GOLD BARS THAT WEITZMAN SAYS NADINE MENENDEZ KEPT IN A LOCKED CLOSET, WHERE SHE ALSO KEPT HER CLOTHES. SHE WAS NOT IN COURT YESTERDAY. THE SENATOR, HIS WIFE AND THE TO BUSINESSMEN HAVE PLEADED NOT GUILTY. A THIRD BUSINESSMAN, JOSE URIBE, HAS PLEADED GUILTY AND IS COOPERATING WITH THE GOVERNMENT AS HE LEFT COURT YESTERDAY, MENENDEZ SOUNDED OPTIMISTIC. HOW'D IT GO? I THINK IT WENT WELL. AN FBI SEARCH OF THE MENENDEZ HOME IN ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY, IN JUNE OF 2022 TURNED UP MORE THAN $480,000 IN CASH, ALONG WITH GOLD BARS. PROSECUTORS SAY THEY INTEND TO DISPLAY THE BRIBES FOR THE JURY OF SIX MEN AND SIX WOMEN, ALONG WITH SIX ALTERNATES, TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES. AUTHORITIES SAY THE BUSINESSMEN BRIBED THE COUPLE SO THE SENATOR WOULD USE HIS INFLUENCE TO ENRICH THEM AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF EGYPT AND QATAR. THIS WAS NOT POLITICS AS USUAL. A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR SAID IN COURT YESTERDAY. THIS WAS POLITICS FOR PROFIT. WEITZMAN DENIED HIS CLIENT ACCEPTED THE BRIBES. THIS IS THE SECOND BRIBERY TRIAL THAT MENENDEZ FACES. HIS FIRST ENDED IN A HUNG JURY IN 2017. THE JUDGE EXPECTS THIS TRIAL TO LAST NEARLY TWO MONTHS. MENENDEZ IS UP FOR REELECTION THIS YEAR. HE HAS SAID HE DOES NOT PLAN TO RUN AGAIN AS A DEMOCRAT, THOUGH HE HAS LEFT OPEN THE
