listening to all that testimony, he figured he better get on that stand and say, okay, that s me. i think also that 911 call was really important. we heard a clip of it in that story. and that s important because mark ball, a longtime law partner of alex murdaugh s, you hear him on the 911 call, alex murdaugh saying, i checked them both, i checked their pulse. he says that later to investigators. mark ball, a friend, a fellow law partner, testified murdaugh kept changing his story. one day he checked magfy girs, another day he checked paul first. that was critical because there were inconsistencies. the gps data that came in, gm onstar data being given to the prosecution late in their case showed that alex murdaugh arrived at the kennels just 20 seconds before calling 911. so the question is if he checked, ran to paul, ran to maggie, he tried to turn paul over a couple of times as he told the 911 operator, and later investigators, could he have done all of that in 20 seconds?
morning, joe scarborough? i wanted to go to the rev, he s on fire today. the commissioner rev, come on, you know, preacher s kids can be tough, right? a lot of pressur but a carpenter and a preacher, i don t know how he did it. that s a rough combination, we actually had a candidate quoting the bible this morning. we re going to have a great day deacon scarborough. sfwr amen, reverend sharpton. that does it for us this morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now. it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser. right now all eyes are on this courtroom in south carolina as the closely watched double murder trial of alex murdaugh s its final stages. the defense has begun its closing arguments just after a
0 morning, joe scarborough? i wanted to go to the rev, he s on fire today. the commissioner rev, come on, you know, preacher s kids can be tough, right? a lot of pressur but a carpenter and a preacher, i don t know how he did it. that s a rough combination, we actually had a candidate quoting the bible this morning. we re going to have a great day deacon scarborough. sfwr amen, reverend sharpton. that does it for us this morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now. it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser. right now all eyes are on this courtroom in south carolina as the closely watched double murder trial of alex murdaugh s its final stages. the defense has begun its closing arguments just after a juror was dismissed. let s listen. alex murdaugh innocent of these charges and frankly, as he explained that s not natural when you hear on the news that a crime has occurred, an arrest has been made, you feel a little bit relieved, thank god they caught him, and f
6 5 and that defense witness said that could not have been the case. here s the exchange with the doctor in court today. do you exclude a 6 0 defendant like alex murdaugh or anyone at that height from shooting that shotgun at that angle? absolutely not. when a defense expert says a shooter has to be between 5 2 and 5 4 do you disagree with that? i do disagree with that wholeheartedly. i just think it s an unknown. unless you ve got a video of that or someone tells you how they held a weapon i think the notion being able to look at this evidence and determine that is unscientific. reporter: the state also brought in as another rebuttal witness today a man named mark ball, a long time friend of alex murdaugh s, a fellow law partner, and he said there were some inconsistencies in alex murdaugh s story about the night he found his wife and son dead.
the double murder trial of alex murdaugh is his former law partner of more than two d decades. he was there the night of the killings and on the property the next morning. randi kaye is outside the courthouse once again for us in south carolina. i m super interested in this man as a witness. what s going on today? yeah, this is a long time friend of alex murdaugh s. he described him as devastated and try christing when he saw him, but he pushed forward this defense theory this was a sloppy crime scene investigation by the state investigators. and he talked about the feed room. that s the area of the dog kennel where is he was found. he said he was there and investigators told him they were already done with that scene, but he s how he described it. looking around down around the floor and all that, there was a piece of skull about the size of a baseball laying there. did that upset you? it did very much.