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Didnt actually hurt them. it is not a confession but i disagree. i think it is easily assumed that hes upset of losing his lifestyle and upset about losing his career and upset about being humiliated and embarrassed in front of this community and his family dominated for decades and decades. i think thats where his emotion is coming from. i dont think it is coming from his killings of his wife and son. >> another moment today that i need to get both of your reactions on from murdaugh. watch. >> ...

Good morning. >> reporter: alex murdaugh share his story from the witness stand telling the jury he didnt kill his wife and son. >> just to be clear, were you anywhere in the vicinity when paul and maggie were shot? >> i was nowhere near paul and makinggie when they got shot. >> reporter: and after more than a year and a half, murdaugh finally came clean about the key evidence against him. >> mr. murdaugh, is that you on the kennel video at 8:44 p.m. june 7 the night maggie and paul were murdere...

From the witness stand, telling the jury, he did not kill his wife and son. >> just to be clear, were you anywhere in the vicinity where paul and maggie were shot? >> i was nowhere near paul and maggie, when they got shot. >> and after more than a year and a half, murdaugh finally came clean about this key piece of states evidence against him. >> -- >> mr. murdaugh, is that you? on video at 4 pm -- the night maggie and paul were murdered? >> yes. -- over and over, he said he had not seen his fam...

>> i think his speech struck me, anderson, as a bit desperate. theres a lot of half measures in their. you know, we are suspending -- >> we lost thieves audio. we will have to leave it there. sam kiley, general mark, steve hall, appreciate it. a quick reminder, cnns fareed zakaria is hosting a cnn town hall at the top of the hour with by national security and international aid officials on the year since russian forces moved into ukraine. be sure to stick around for that. next for us though toni...

Extremist mass killings in the u.s. by decade, there is 2011 to 2020, and a skyrockets. we are, of course, not done with the decade, but we are already on track with five, and it is the month -- i had to think about it for a second, february of 2023, far from the end of the decade. how are you processing that? what do you glean from this chart other than we are getting worse as a society, quite obviously. >> as a society, not only do we have a gun violence problem, we have a mass killing problem...

Take this gun or any gun like it and shoot your son, paul, in the chest in the -- room in your property of moselle road? >> no, i did not. >> mr. murdaugh, did you take this gun or any gun like it employers and brains out on june 7th on any day or anytime? >> no i did not. >> two takes a day now, -- and former federal prosecutor jessica roth, she now teaches at the university school of law. so mark, just before the break we heard that murdaugh add medic to lying as to his warehouse of the night ...

Killings in the u.s. by a decade, and theres 2011 to 2020 and it skyrockets. were already on track with five and it is the month of -- i had to think about it for a second -- february of 2023, far from the end of the decade. how are you processing that? what do you glean from this chart other than were getting worse as a society quite obviously? >> in society not only do we have a gun violence problem, we have a mass killing problem but we very specifically have an extremist mass killing problem...

Bottom dollar, this kid has some frustration related to a drug dealing street gang. heavily armed to the teeth. whatever the frustration, rage that is inside him boils over. anybody could have been consumed by it. the frustration i have -- more than frustration, march that i am angry. it simmers in me. i say what the hell is this that we can have over 80 mass killings? what is it? i want to know. yet i do know that because you have -- you cant excuse the gun because you have it and youre going t...

In the morning, he allegedly kill as woman in her home. goes into another home and kills another woman and her 9-year-old, this is another mass murderer. what is motivating this child to be the devil, to take these lives, seemingly at random. what is the motive other than hate, other than frustration and whatever it is? i dont care what stresses he was under. what i care about is that he wiped out half the neighborhood. martha, over 80 mass killings in this country so far this year. it is a numb...