 Jeff Clayball, WTOP News. We'll take a look at how the Asia-Pacific markets are doing a bit later in the evening as they start to operate. In Manhattan today, the federal bribery trial of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez continued. The New Jersey lawmaker has pleaded not guilty to accepting cash and gold bars in exchange for his political influence. The defense has said that Senator Menendez was simply doing his job. He was delivering results.