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did you murder paul? i would never hurt paul. court adjourned late today capping a stunning week by my measure. so what was it like in court today? well anderson, this was the first time we got to see the prosecutor question alex murdaugh about the night of the murders. he asked him what time he got to the kennels where the murder took place. and he asked them these questions repeatedly presumably to try to trip him up. but he kept coming back to the same theme. don t believe what alex murdaugh tells you. i have lied well over a decade. reporter: that is what he was trying to propose on the stand. i told a lie about being down there and got myself wed to that. reporter: waters tried to box murdaugh into a corner using cell phone data and time line evidence from the night of the murders. i m still not absolutely certain how they ended up at the kennel. reporter: murdaugh told the jury he drove his golf cart to meet his wife and son at the kennels. he ....
That alex murdaugh is claiming about people that would have had to have happened in the killing of his wife and son. reporter: absolutely. something else more effective, anderson, is when the prosecutor asked him about the behavior of the dogs at the kennels. several of the family dogs were there. were they barking or acting strangely if they could sense someone else might be there? alex murdaugh said they were not doing any of that. he said there was no one else there for those dogs to sense. these are hunting dogs, anderson, we know how dogs noses work. he was telling the prosecutor i was the only one there with my family. randi kaye, appreciate it. professor jessica roth and mark eichlar are here with me. it is such a fascinating end of his testimony so far. what do you make of what he said. how did he do? ....
Accident that husband son had in which his son was likely drunk and driving the boat and a person was killed. one of his son s friends was killed. do you think that seems plausible to people? he claimed there were vile social media posts. it is a big jump from a vile social media post to murder. that s what i have been thinking about. there s been no evidence toward paul or anybody in the family. and so, the leap from if somebody posting something hateful on social media to showing up in this narrow window with all of these sort of implausible factors going their way. to do a double homicide not of of paul but his mother? it seemed like a very big leap for the jury to make with no evidence that would provide the connections. mark, you said the putting the defendant on the stand is ultimately an act of desperation. it is something the defense attorneys think very hard about doing in a case like this. do you think it was the right ....
Call today? in this particular case, it was. i have been practicing for 30 years in spite of my extraordinarily youthful appearance and i have put on maybe two or three defendants. i don t like to put them on because i can t control what they are going to say. you never know how they are going to do. but he had to do it. he had to explain, my goodness, that s my voice on that video i. puts me at the scene. there are too many things he had to explain. and ultimately, i think he did well under the circumstances because the prosecutor missed too many moments. it only takes one, anderson. if he connects with one juror, he avoids a conviction. they will retry him. but a victory would be a hung jury where they don t agree to an unanimous decision. mark, i appreciate it. jessica, thanks so much. coming up next, what a former fbi criminal profilers sees with murdaugh s testimony. and a prediction from ....