weeks. it took less than three hours for the jury to announce a verdict. two counts murder. murdaugh faces a minimum sentence of 30 years. the judge has the option to put him away for life. it may have been his reversal on the witness stand. he admitted he was at the scene of the crime the night his wife and son were killed. that s the exact opposite of what he told police. bill: the verdict marks a stunning fall from grace from a prominent south carolina family. 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, justice will be done in south carolina and i think south carolina has shown to the nation and the world how a process can work and work well. dana: one of the jurors is peeling back the curtain on the deliberations. take a look here. we started deliberating going through the evidence and ever
america s newsroom. bill: i m bill hemmer. jose gutierrez is an architect from cincinnati. he was in mexico visiting his fiance over the holidays and they went missing christmas day. 300 miles northwest of mexico city, the region known for cartel violence. dana: williamlagelage is live in los angeles. bill: 40 million americans a year visit mexico. being kidnapped is a small risk, some areas are a lot worse than others especially where cartel checkpoints leave tourists defenseless. the latest victim ohio architect in mexico visiting his fiance. they were offered dinner with two relatives when they disappeared on christmas day. we were just going to have a dinner together along with her sister and her cousin. witnesses report seeing the four pull into a van, later found filled with bullet holes. bodies buried nearby. officials confirm the fatalities this week with his employer saying we ll miss him more than words can express. where this happened is in the middle o
and what we ve now seen is those searches were not only incompetently done because the bureau found additional documents in the wilmington residence after the searches took place but green lighting having people without security clearances look for classified documents that they were not authorized to see, which is virtually what biden is under investigation for. dana: if i could make a point then. if you remember, it was president biden s legal team said in january that they had looked at the beach house and there was nothing there. dana, not to cut you off but they also said that about the wilmington home, right? they serarched at least twice. then the bureau, we don t know how much stuff they missed. bill: it is possible, gentlemen, that he could have had documents everywhere in multiple locations. the story is still ongoing. you have a spot in washington, d.c., a spot in wilmington, delaware, maybe one along the shoreline in delaware. maybe there is information and
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