don t come to me, i ll come to you. the president makes the trip up pennsylvania avenue as democrats set their priority list. senate majority leader chuck schumer was in the room, and now he will be here on the lead . a plot to kill foiled in michigan as authorities arrest a man they say wanted to kill jewish lawmakers including fwf michigan s attorney general. after six weeks of testimony and more than 70 witnesses, now the jury gets the case in the double murder trial for alex murdaugh. welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we start with our national lead. moments ago the jury began deliberations in the murder trial of alex murdaugh. the jury will have to decide if murdaugh killed his wife maggie and son paul. more than 70 witnesses testified in the trial, which spanned more than six weeks. murdaugh admitted on the stand he lied to investigators about where he was the night of the murders, but he has fervently denied he committed the killings. mu
infamous snapchat video taken by paul murdaugh that puts alec at the scene of the crime that night. despite his denial that he had been there. four minutes later the state would have you believe that alec murdaugh up and blew his son s brains out of his head and murders his wife, after having that conversation about bubba having a chicken. there s nothing on that tape that indicates there s any strife, any conflict, any anger, any planning, anybody being afraid, anybody running, anybody scurrying. nothing. maggie, paul, and alec down at the kennel. that s it. and john stood up after the defense to offer the rebuttal, meadors was brought on my the south carolina attorney general s office. maybe he got angry at paul. maybe he got angry, he started all of this. and maybe he just lost it. maybe he just lost it. maybe it looked like a suicide, and then maggie came and he had to shoot her. maybe he just lost it. the jury set to begin deliberations any moment. as judge clifton
detail about maggie s phone and maggie s phone was not secured properly. maggie s phone was let me just go right into it. maggie s phone was found on the side of the road in the morning or early afternoon on june th 8th. whoever killed her threw that phone on the side of the road without a doubt, without a doubt. alec from the get-go has said you get maggie s phone, you get my phone, and you get my onstar data, and you will not see my car traveling down the road with maggie s phone because it did not happen. it could not happen. have you gotten it yet, no, we ve not. we sent the black box from on the on the chevy to the fbi,
think it was tossed. that would have gotten him out of the circle i would hope but probably not because they ve been so focused on him. now, as i mentioned, alec asked multiple times, i think the testimony was five times, agent owen, agent owen, you know, if you get this data it will show i wasn t there. and you know we were we didn t learn why they didn t get it off alec s phone until very recently. you ll remember on june 10th, he gave s.l.e.d. his phone, yeah, you can copy it. please copy it because it will show that i wasn t driving my phone was not with maggie s phone at any point in time going down the road and i did what i said i did. well, they did extract it, but what we ve learned the extraction was a superficial extraction, not because alec
financial issues, misconduct were exposed. and that made him an easy, easy, easy target for s.l.e.d. and i hate to say this, but the evidence is crystal clear from that moment they started fabricating evidence against alec. mr. griffin, that s an awful, awful charge, don t all lawyers accuse law enforcement of fabricating evidence. i can tell you this guy right here, was a federal prosecutor, was a state prosecutor, and some of my best friends are law enforcement, and i don t make that claim lightly. here what you have heard is they came up with a report that says alex had high velocity blood