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coming up this hour, an honor that is long overdue, president biden will award a vietnam veteran with the medal of honor for his incredible bravery almost 60 years ago. we begin with breaking news out of south carolina where just in the last hour disgraced ex-lawyer alex murdaugh was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. after he was convicted of murdering his wife maggie and youngest son paul in a high profile case that captivated the country. >> in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder o...

we are wrapping our part of our special recap of today's closing arguments in trump's criminal trial but do not go anywhere. coverage continues with the last word, and lawrence o'donnell, who spent all day today in court and has the back pain to prove it. >> i was working on my posture for most of the day, rachel. two full reporters notebooks today. i've never filled up two in the day before, i think. certainly not on the courtroom day. it went on longer than any of us expected, i think longus than most thought was necessary but it was one of those no stone unturned closings by the p...

of today's closing arguments in trump's criminal trial, but do not go anywhere. our coverage continues with the last word and lawrence o'donnell who spent all day today in court and has the back pain to prove it. good evening, my friend. >> i was working on my posture for most of the day. but look, rachel, two full reporters notebooks and a day. i've never filled up to before, certainly not in a courtroom day. it went longer than any of us expected. longer than most of us thought was necessary, but it was one of those no stone unturned closings by the prosecution. the defense, i thou...

him and said, oh my god, he did it. >> i just remember screaming. >> probably the scariest moment my entire life. >> it was physically painful. it was not justice. the murders took only minutes. all these years later, the shock has yet to fade. >> it was a stunning time. and american legal theater. >> you think you might know the story of the oj simpson case, but there's a lot you probably haven't heard and seen. did nicole brown simpson actually predicts her own death? >> what she said to us was that oj is going to kill me. and he's going to get away with it. >> what went on in th...

Or, they were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant killed his wife, by suffocating her with a barbell. upstairs, in the jury room, tense deliberations began. >> it was like, game. on its time. it's your decision. >> we spoke with four from patterson's 12 member jury. their first order of business, a straw vote. foreman, larry vaughan, was stunned by the results. >> 7 to 5. that shocked. me >> that's a big gap. seven guilty, five not. for those in the guilty camp, a pivotal piece of evidence they say, was a surveillance tape. scott, at home, when lisa died, then lying about h...