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One of the jurors brought some eggs in potentially from their farm or something like that to share with their fellow jurors. they all had them still. i don't think anybody expected to hear they had a dozen eggs back there. >> we only have one alternate left. >> i have so many questions, but you make a good point. this is the last possible moment to be replaceing a juror. they only have one left after that. thank you so much for all of that reporting. now we have criminal defense attorney sara azari with us. let's start on the serious stuff here. the core of the defense presentation to the jury...

Murdaugh and i presume that's what they'll do with their rebuttal testimony. i think they probably should have owned the possibility after two shooter scenario earlier in the case because we knew this was coming. we've talked about it well before the case began. >> so you're saying they need to offer essentially an explanation of how there could be two shooters but that paul murdaugh was one of them. >> yeah. i think the best thing they can do if they're doing away with the potential reasonable doubt that now has been thrown out with the two shooters, everyone was wondering why there were two ...

South carolina's premier trial attorneys, he knew exactly how to answer it. they had been rehearsed. when the prosecutor took over, he is starting to build quite a case against mr. murdaugh. >> that's right. the direct testimony we saw, as a hardworking honest family man, still in from a paraplegic and lied to the police who supposedly are his cronies. >> steve: right, and much was made during the defense presentation and the cross-examination about his addiction to painkillers and stuff like that. they made it sound like he was loaded all the time. i was struck by the fact that, if he was loa...

Financial wrong doing. the defense has said, yes, set that aside. why does it follow that because he was getting ready to be revealed as a fraud, but why would he kill his wife and son who he loved. >> we'll see what happens this week with the defense presentation. thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. watch the three-part docuseries "low country." it starts tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. where randi kaye, i think, has turned in some great reporting on the trial. still to come, the final result of this week's poll question. will you please go to smerconish.com right now....

Are referring. in terms of timeline, i think it's difficult to know when it can be done to fall. this doesn't dish until it committee has done, the justice department has to anticipate cross examination of these witnesses. they did have that the committee. they have to make sure that they can comply with rules of evidence. hearsay is not admissible in the court. so they have to go back to the firsthand witnesses and these things. there is no defense presentation of the democratic committee. the doj has to anticipate potential defenses, and try to listen to them, understand the. determine wheth...