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fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements, just some of the charges against congressman george santos. after spending the day in federal custody, he just pleaded not guilty to 13 counts. so what will speaker mckcarthy do? a major test at the southern border. patrols encountered more than 10,000 migrants on tuesday alone as pandemic restrictions come to an end, our reporters are speaking live with those families desperate to get cross. plus presiden...

side the courthouse. and another long day of testimony here from alex murdaugh. a real focus on the time line here, what he was doing at the particular moments. what more have we learned in this trial? >> reporter: were just now really getting into the thick of discussing what happened the night of the murders june 7, 2021. so much of the cross-examination had been focused on the financial crimes and allegations against alex murdaugh dating back about a dozen years. but what were watch...

>> and thanks for the shout out, a lot was happening here with his words. there is something called statement analysis, words that have hidden meaning behind them. and the strongest denial is always a no. so if i said to you, are you on heroin right now and he said absolutely not, what kind of person do you think id be, i knew youd ask me these kinds of questions. truthful people convey. liars try to convince. and we hear that from him. >> lets play a bit of that so our audience can see. >> did ...

They spent time on this four minute period of time where he made 283 steps asking alex murdaugh to explain what he was doing in that time. what do you make of what you heard and that is a short period of time. do the prosecutors make their case that he was doing something nefa nefarious? >> yeah, and also maybe a liar but also a lawyer, and so he condensed the time that he spent at the kennel. which is key. you know, i think that the prosecutor at some point it looked like murdaugh is cross-exam...

Peace between ukraine and russia. what is the white house reaction to that? >> reporter: so far the administration says that they are looking at it but make no doubt that this is a white house that is not pinning any hopes on the plan that it bring an end to the con fkconflict. the white house is more concerned about the prospect of china providing lethal weapons support for the first time to russia, something administration officials have been talking about and saying that they have intelligenc...

Authorities are saying that it is safe ever to stay home. weve seen some trucks try to clear the snow but five minutes later, it is completely covered again. so it is very dangerous and something that were not used to seeing here in southern california. and weather forecasters and sign tifss scientists saying that i could be historic and well whikly have more snow throughout the day. >> and probably really happy kids in southern california. but thanks to you and your team for braving the weather...

And that is all i can tell you. when someone says that is all i can tell you, 100% of the time it means that there is something that they are not telling you. so there is a smoking story that there he is not sharing. this is the explanation that he has given for his lies. and youve said that you would only pete someone like alex murdaugh on the stand if the objective here was to humanize himself. do you think that he has done that with his discussion of his addiction with even the emotion that h...

>> sarah, please continue. >> so the biggest thing, just saying no. but no, i did not, ive never done this, and he goes on to what i call smoke screening. the -- what i really wanted to pull if you listen closely, he says things like unwe qequivoc absolutely not. again, liars try to convince. and he also said something later, he says what i can tell you is this, did he call the wife to have her come home. lance armstrong side bar here, lance armstrong came clean that he took steroids, but when h...

Going after companies and countries that have helped russia evade some of these answers to try to limit those efforts. a lot of this is focused in particular on some products, dual use products as they are no, civilian technologies used for military purposes. so that is where the work is focused. and something that officials are clear eyed about, arming ukraine, increase defense production amid concerns about dwin dw dwindling munitions supplies. jake sullivan made clear that despite the challen...