All eyes continue to be on New Jersey's senior senator and what his next move might be.

Menendez was found guilty on Tuesday on all 16 counts of bribery, espionage and acting as a foreign agent.

A chorus of calls for him to resign started immediately thereafter, not only from his friend and New Jersey Senate colleague Corey Booker, but from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

There were news reports last night he was poised to resign, but Menendez quickly shot them down.

Separately, the Senate Ethics Committee is in the middle of an investigation into his potential wrongdoing.

Results from the inquiry could trigger boos to expel the embattled senator.

Here to break it all down is our Washington correspondent, Ben Hulac, Ben, thanks for joining me up to talk.

All right.

Reports last night, Senator Menendez had told some allies he would resign.

But then the senator quickly refuted that.

What did he say?

Right.

He said to CBS New York that, and I'm roughly paraphrasing that that's not true.

It's not resigning.

And he decried any so-called allies that are saying he is resigning.

All right.

so his Senate colleague Cory Booker says he will lead the charge to expel this senior senator.

But first, the Senate Ethics Committee needs to finish their investigation.

What is your report on that?

You don't necessarily need to finish their investigation.

The ethics does its business, its work fairly privately.

They can subpoena people, call witnesses, hire outside counsel.

really?

They're building a body of evidence, and they've been looking into Menendez ever since he was indicted in September.

It could be a political bit of cover for people who want to expel Menendez.

once the committee releases its report, they can say, hey, look, we've given him the benefit of the doubt.

He's been given, lots of chances to explain his actions in connection with Egypt and Qatar.

And we have this report now.

We're going to expel him.

The obvious parallel is, to Jorge Santos, a former Republican from Long Island who was in the House briefly last year.

And a similar thing, similar scenario played out.

Members in the House wanted to see the ethics report into Santos and Santos, his behavior before they voted to boot him out of the house, which they eventually did.

Right.

That's a that's actually a great example.

So here's the thing.

What's the timeline for that investigation?

And then once that's completed, what, you know, what do expulsion proceedings look like?

The timeline is is really unclear.

That's not a great answer, but this committee is known for being somewhat toothless and taking its time.

an expulsion, a vote really is up to Chuck Schumer, the majority leader in the Senate who had held his fire in criticizing Menendez up until the conviction this week.

And minutes after that happened, minutes after that, that guilty really, and I should say not a conviction.

The guilty ruling came down, Schumer said.

Menendez, it's time for you to step down.

any movement on an expulsion would require a two thirds vote that 67 members in the Senate, and they're out now.

They will be out all of August, all of October.

So an expulsion would either happen has to happen very quickly now or likely sometime in September.

Right.

So we know that he was found guilty.

But in the meantime he said business as usual for Bob Menendez.

Or is he back on the hill next week?

That's that's a really great question.

I will, of course, along with every other reporter in this town, the keeping my eyes on him, to an extent, yes.

It is business as usual.

There is no prohibition under the Constitution that you can't be, guilty of a crime and still serve in the Senate or in the House, for that matter.

So theoretically, he could still be a senator while, behind bars, although that's certainly highly unlikely.

The senators that he will appeal.

And that appeal can't happen until October after he sends that sentence in New York.

Well, I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Thank you.

Ben.

Great reporting as always.

Thank you.

Raven.