tornados tear through texas and louisiana, right now more than 60 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. ammunition on the agenda today. president biden meeting the german chancellor and sending more firepower to ukraine. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just hours from now, tau alex murdaugh will stand in a courtroom to learn his fate. a judge will issentence him for murdering his own wife and son. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. the jury heard six weeks of testimony but took less than three hours to convict him. murdaugh now facing a possible 30 years behind bars. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is, it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina.
the tarnishment of the murdaugh name is fascinating. i think that is why the public has been so attached to this trial. and the prosecutor hitting home that no matter how small a town, how big a name is, no one is above justice. and i think the jury here really the dynamic of it, small town, the family, the jury had to take that into consideration. and now of course the sentencing today. we see alex murdaugh being brought to justice. there was a lot of conflicting testimony about cellphones and whether they were on or off and different ballistics testimony. i wondered if that would be enough for one person to find reasonable doubt. but it doesn t look like any of that conflicting technical information deterred the jury. i always say a trial is a dynamic beast. there is ups and downs for both
please. go. okay. some security measures will be set. how will i know that you made it through okay? i don t know. okay. okay. so gregory went into the witness protection program in the united states, and, you know, but as i said, two of his colleagues died unexpectedly, so those seem to be the fates. those seem to be the fates that may meet people who tell the truth in these cases. i mean, look, alexei navalny is about to go on trial and facing ten years in prison. what is his crime? essentially running for the presidency of russia. so i mean, this is par for the course, and i think what we re seeing at the olympics right now is very sad and the tarnishment of such a young career, obviously such an extraordinary
week in high school and threw up from drinking but to say, oh, about that sensitive stomach of mine to spicy foods, bull! he was shooting the moon. he was trying to get through this as unscathed as he should. to someone like brett kavanaugh who in his professional life has been so accomplished the notion that he would have to admit under oath that he possibly did drink too much or that he possibly behaved boorishly at time, you re right. there s a large segment of the population saying so what? he drank in high school. it s not that uncommon. some people do. some people do not. but if he was fibbing, it was so he could shoot the moon and try to avoid any further tarnishment of what he believed to be his integrity. so that s why people try to do that and a lot of times witnesses have just too much confidence in what is provable and what is not provable. and i think brett kavanaugh is learning that now. something that he should have
one misstep suddenly reflects tarnishment of their character and a loss of their leadership, i think is a little bit much. all that said, criticisms on policy are completely legitimate. questions as to whether or not decision-making is rational and right is fair game. and i think it is a good question to ask, where are we going on policy and what role are each of these key cabinet and national security figures playing? we ve got to be careful about overplaying the caricature around the drama and political theater that we often talk about. juan makes a wise point but character is essential because the indictment from bob corker this week was of the president s character. the indictment on the floor of the senate by jeff flake was of the president s character. our head of state s character is being called into question by two men with nothing to lose. we have to assume that all they have left is the truth.