the house ethics committee opens an investigation into embattled republican george santos. congress and the house of representatives needs to hold its own members accountable. norah: ohio residents meeting face-to-face with the company responsible for that toxic train derailment. you re worried about having your kids play in your yard or your dog go outside without getting sick. dragon spacex go for launch. engines full power. and lift off. the vehicle is supersonic. the crew is in orbit. welcome to orbit, congratulations. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. tonight, we re going to take a look at the opioid crisis ravaging communities across the country. in our eye on america, school teachers are now enlisted to help save lives amid the rising number of teen fentanyl poisonings. plus, we ve our retirement series continues with a lesson on never giving up on your dream from a 79-year-o
we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba
individual. we ll leave that at that. before announcing sentence on these cases, with regard to all of the other pending cases, are any of them here in colleton, i m sure some of them are. yes, sir. half of them or? i don t have that in front of me, but there are a substantial number of charges here, buford s, allendale, there may be others i m not thinking of right now. we might have warn out our welcome here. they have been and i ll take this opportunity to thank sheriff hill and all of the court officials and really everyone i ve met and dealt with while here in colleton county, just been great. without any delay we re going to schedule some of the other matters. i know mr. harpootlian s scheduling is complicated and you ve sacrificed quite a bit to be able to be here defending mr. murdaugh as well as the attorney general s office with all the other many, many they thinks and obligations you have and to be able to have the attorney general here, alan wilson, for th
coming up this hour, an honor that is long overdue, president biden will award a vietnam veteran with the medal of honor for his incredible bravery almost 60 years ago. we begin with breaking news out of south carolina where just in the last hour disgraced ex-lawyer alex murdaugh was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. after he was convicted of murdering his wife maggie and youngest son paul in a high profile case that captivated the country. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. before he was sentenced, murdaugh addressed the court this morning. i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son paul paul. pretty much all he said. last night in just under three hours
[ applause ] [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction. gracious and everlasting god, as we depart, inspired by the a powerful and long overdue honor at the white house at this hour. good day. i m peter alexander in for my friend andrea mitchell. we have been watching president biden awarding the medal of honor to paris davis for gallantry during the vietnam war. he was one of the first black officers to lead a special forces team in combat. dragged his fellow soldiers to safety, despite suffering multiple wounds and grenade fragments during a 1965 raid. an honor that is decades overdue coming to fruition in the east room there at the white house. we have been following breaking news from south carolina. convicted attorney alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a powerful preamble, the judge clifton newman, sentencing the lawyer this morning after a jury spent fewer than three hours deliberating last night before findi