we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba
we have andrew weissman here. should be interesting. also late they are hour, new clues on where covid really came from and what it means for safety and geopolitics. we do the facts here with an open mind, and we ll try to bring that perspective to a very important story. even if we re talking about some aspects of safety policy, we re going to get into where this virus came from. that s later tonight. the top story now is a once in a year moment. comics raising the curtain on this cpac conference in today s real news. stays coachella were team who post on facebook in all caps. clowns periodically in ash centers. there will be a quan session sorry, q&a. qanon/q&a, you get it. this conference has become in more ways bizarre than conservative. while many political gathers have all kinds of characters i have been to conferences across the spectrum. you see all kinds of stuff. we ll show you what the proramming is and you can see for yourself. they have sessions on
According to our reporters, the former president s lawyers at times seemed to be arguing for an audience of one, and it wasnt the judge saying maralago was worth at least A Billion Dollars, and so was doral. That real estate valuations are subjective coming down to whatever a person is willing to pay. That there was no harm. The banks made money, and quote, there was no intent to defraud, period, the end. What was curious is that trumps lawyers were making some of the same arguments the judge has repeatedly thrown out, and they were doing it confrontationally. Were going to ask our experts why, since this was a bench trial. And Michael Cohen, Donald Trumps old fixer really is the quote, lynch pin of this case, as the defense argues, and whether his sworn testimony that the valuations of Donald Trumps properties were based on trumps desire to be be quote, higher on the forbes list are credible, and more importantly legally relevant. Now that Court Appears to be back in session after the
Testimony can resume at 9 30 tomorrow. I want to bring in msnbcs katie phang, msnbc senior national politics reporter, joathan allen, and all live outside the courthouse for us. Also here with us is former Manhattan Assistant d. A. , catherine christian, and former brooklyn prosecutor, charles coleman. In our last hour, lisa was mentioning that David Pecker didnt give much really time for the prosecutors to, you know, talk to him about his story before the testimony because he gave very long answers. How effective was he as the first witness on the stand . Well, its a great question, andrea, because even though he was only on the stand for a brief moment of time before the
Analyst and cohost of the Msnbc Podcast how to win 2024. Ruth benghiat, History Professor at nyu, and author of strongmen, mussolini to the president. And charles coleman junior, msnbc legal analyst, civil rights attorney, former brooklyn prosecutor, and the host of the charles coleman podcast. Thank you all very much for spending part of your Saturday Evening with me. Clare, your reaction to that stunning Back And Forth between Trumps Lawyer and the member of the appeals court. Well, im ashamed to say he is from missouri. Im ashamed that. Well frankly, and the right has to be very disappointed, maga has to be very disappointed, because they have been peddling to america that all of the Ivy League schools are hotbeds of socialism and communism, and brainwashing to the progressive left. This guy is a harvard law grad, how embarrassing for harvard