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maggie and paul? he's hoping none of that makes sense to the jury, and he actually asked alex murdaugh on the stand, were the dogs acting up and sense there was something on the property and alex murdaugh answered him nobody else was around. there was no one else there. >> randi kaye, stand by if you will. here to discuss, both criminal defense attorneys and former prosecutors. bernardo, let's start in a bigger sense. how would you assess how this has gone so far for alex murdaugh on the stand? >> john, this has been completely the alex murdaugh show. he took control of the complete direct examination, which we expected, but also of the cross-examination. it has all been about alex murdaugh, and he has controlled the answers that even the questions in this case and he's the witness on the stand. he's not even the attorney who is asking the questions. this just goes to show you, when
family about two minutes finally, and took him about two minutes on a golf cart to get back up to the house. there was a key moment he pointed out, the prosecutor pointed out, this 283 steps, a lot of steps, more steps than he had taken all day, in that time period around the time that the murders had occurred or when they believed they occurred around 8:49 p.m. when he was back at the house. 283 steps the prosecutor asked him, what were you doing during that time? he said i was getting ready to go to my mom's house. the prosecutor said, you already showered. were you jogging or running in place. another key moment, key, change between the prosecutor and murdaugh while on the stand on cross. >> all right. let me ask you a question then. what you're telling this jury is it's a random vigilante -- >> that's your term. >> the 12-year-old -- that happened to know that paul and
>> sean: i thought it was weak today in terms of the defense. >> you're right. >> sean: i'm thinking, if they are going to rely on her taking the stand on cross, i mean, the prosecution -- >> they are going to have a field day. they are going through everyday she was hiding the fact her daughter was deceased. she was in the clubs dancing. promoting clubs, getting a tattoo, the good life. blaming an innocent woman and saying that was the person that took her daughter. look at the pictures there. that's what she was doing. >> sean: while her daughter supposedly with knowledge she is gone. >> right. >> sean: could they convince a jury that this would be maybe a coldness or the mental deterioration of somebody who is a victim of sexual abuse? >> that's the idea. >> sean: how do they prove it? >> i wish they would have done a better job in a lawyerly sense. they needed to show there was a break from reality as a
today in terms of the defense. >> you're right. >> sean: i'm thinking, if they are going to rely on her taking the stand on cross, i mean, the prosecution -- >> they are going to have a field day. they are going through everyday she was hiding the fact her daughter was deceased. she was in the clubs dancing. promoting clubs, getting a tattoo, the good life. blaming an innocent woman and saying that was the person that took her daughter. look at the pictures there. that's what she was doing. >> sean: while her daughter supposedly with knowledge she is gone. >> right. >> sean: could they convince a jury that this would be maybe a coldness or the mental deterioration of somebody who is a victim of sexual abuse? >> that's the idea. >> sean: how do they prove it? >> i wish they would have done a better job in a lawyerly sense. they needed to show there was a break from reality as a result of this horrible tragic