well. there s a memo on hunter biden s laptop that sounds like a backgrounder of a security briefing. if he had access to those documents, then that special counsel could very well ask that his mandate be expanded to include hunter biden, his dealings abroad, et cetera. martha: that s a whole ball of wax. that may by why these documents were taken. it s a ball of wax inside a can of worms. martha: thank you for that classification. we have another big trial that we re in the middle of here. riveting testimony in this alec murdaugh trial. a lawyer charged in the murder of his wife and 22-year-old son. highlights from the first day of testimony and there s a lot of them with attorney brian claypool next. they ve checked them.
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though the prosecutor said there was differences in what they did on that occasion. when you listen to these, you and i can think back long enough when we covered the rodney king case. there s obviously analogies to that. there ses will dangers. once the tape is released, that can poison your jury pool. in the rodney king case, they had to move the trial because the coverage was so extensive. also in that case, which is a cautionary tale, those officers were acquitted. they were charged with assault. that also spurred a great deal of unrest. martha: indeed it did. there were riots that followed that. a man was pulled out of a truck and beaten. that was all in the aftermath of the rodney king trial, which also was accompanied by a very difficult to watch video during which the traffic stop led to the beating of rodney king.