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.
trail. tell me what the heck is frank? we think somebody made a boo boo. if you are sitting at a crime scene before police show up? it s kind of tempting. maybe move the body. hide the knife. it s why cops don t let suspects hang around the crime scene without them. but the fbi let joe biden spend a weekend at the crime scene alone. two weekends ago biden through to his beach house in delaware right after he got caught lying. hey, feds, i checked my chinese-funded think tank, my house, i swear there is nothing to see here. when the feds searched his home and his office they found some things that joe missed that s when joe flies to his beach house with a bucket of bleach and a booklet of matches. you don t think joe was going to hit the beach house next? that s why he brought the clean up crew. well, today, two weeks after joe scrubbed his second home, the fbi shows up for a search. and what do you know? they didn t find any classified documents. so the white house
classified documents about ukraine, iran and united kingdom. how did the documents end up in that audience and why? a russian soldier talking about the ukraine. what did the el paso mayor show present biden? mayor is my guest. show his pictures first here out front. let s go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. president speaking out here he is moments ago at a summit with other world leaders in mexico. people know i take classified documents and classified information seriously. when my lawyers were clearing out my office at university of pennsylvania set up a secure office. i was a professor at penn. they found documents in a box you know, locked cabinet. at least a closet. as soon as they did, they realized several classified documents in that box. they did what they should have done, immediately called archives, turned them over to the archives and i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that offi
oh, no. also ahead, the latest from the war in ukraine where both sides are preparing for the next major battle among fears of a false-flag attack that could end up flooding 80 towns. plus, hospitals across the country have reported a surge in cases of a virus that s making infants severely ill. it s not covid, but covid has a big role in why the kids are getting so sick. we ll explain that just ahead. willie, our top story this morning. we begin in washington where moments ago former trump adviser steve bannon arrived in a d.c. courthouse to hear his sentencing for contempt of congress after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the house select committee investigating january 6th. the justice department has asked the judge to sentence him to six months in prison and to fine him $200,000. bannon s lawyers argue he should get only probation. they also have asked bannon be allowed to remain free until his lawyers are able to appeal the sentence. nbc news justice an
jury acquitting pro-life activist mark houck. he throws all sorts of insults and vulgarity of me and my son really overstepped his bounds. behind the wheel of a flashy electric car reminding of tax credit. posing in a ev hummer truck which costs more than $86,000. throw my hands up playing my song butterfly got away nodding my head like yeah moving my hips like yeah hands up playing my song. ainsley: good morning, washington, d.c. dark out there, still. brian: in the morning before the sun comes up. steve: sing it miley in the u.s.a. ainsley: how are you feeling? your team won. steve: i m feeling great. i said this in a text message string we had yesterday. i just hope that the super bowl is as thrilling as that game was on sunday night. it was fantastic. ainsley: it was. steve: kansas city came out on top. ainsley: did you watch until the end 20-20 you had to watch. steve: drove me crazy and i took the next day off. slept it off. then