was and what he was doing, and he told attorneys today he told prosecutors, he was not trying to manufacture an alibi when he now admittedly lied to investigators around that time. here with me is cnn s jean casarez who has been watching so much of this trial and what jumped out to you at the end here, particularly the dramatic finish of that cross-examination? he went through every single name of his partners, the people that should have gotten millions of dollars from the law firm, his family, everyone for decades he had lied to over and over and over again. then he lied about not being down where the murders happened with his wife and his son. so close in time to when their phones locked forever, meaning they never were on them again because they had been murdered. trying to show this jury, you can t believe today anything he says on that sand because he s a liar and always will be. let me dig into that a little bit more, the specific moment, now that murdaugh admits t
i was the last one with them. i don t trust sled, law enforcement. and i just said it. i couldn t take it back. but now i m telling you the truth. yes, i was there. but i came back. watching the cross-examination all afternoon, what you saw leading up to that moment, again, where the prosecutor finished there, it felt like five to ten minutes of the prosecutor asking murdaugh again and again about other lies or instances of lying that he told and the list of people did you lie to x, did you lie to z, did you lie to number 3? it was yes, yes, yes. then you have to get the state of mind of someone who lies, who defrauds people. you have to then take that over to someone who would commit first-degree murder, which is a premeditated with malicious intent, an evil person, to commit violence against those that are the closest to you. so the state of minds are