griff: took the jury less than three hours to convict him of the murder of his wife and son. ainsley: charles watson is outside of the court house in walter borough, south carolina. what is the latest? what are you expecting this morning will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole when alec murdaugh is sentenced behind me this morning for the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. after thursday s verdict alec was remanded almost immediately and let out ever the cool tan county courthouse he is staring at 30 years to life in prison after the jury came back guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. scene of the murders after voice was caught snapchat video moments of before his wife and son were killed. son buster sat a few rows behind him with a deflated look on his face. his lawyers tried to throw a hail mary with a request for a mistrial lack of evidence. judge newman thought otherwise
been. i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, i can proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin is dialing up his rhetoric against the west, suspending participation in the last nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., even using the word war as he sends a clear message about what russia has long called a special military operation. translator: i would like to repeat, they started the war and we used the force in order to stop it. complicating questions about the future of this conflict, china s top diplomat is now in moscow this morning. live reports from russia, poland, and ukraine in moments. meanwhile, back here at home, a compounding crisis in ohio, the head of the epa is back in east palestine today as a clinic is set to open to address the community s health concerns following the derailment of the train with toxic chemicals on board. can they treat the mistrust building in the community
well, look, there is bad apples in every family. my father is sick. i don t know i m not going to tell buster say. he is sick. he is a sick, disturbed man. i can t wrap my head around it. i don t understand. don t do drugs. whatever message you want to tell yourself. this guy is so disturbed that he represents everything that is abhorrent and we can t relate to him. that has nothing to do with this family. ainsley: mark, what was the jury thinking at first they were thinking all right he stole a lot of money. he has lied a lot. doesn t make him a murderer. as the evidence poured in is that when they changed their mind or they knew from the beginning? most jurors decide in opening statements. so, when they heard the prosecutor s opening, i think they pretty much felt that he was probably guilty. when his voice is heard on that video, there s no rational reason why you would say you weren t there unless it s for consciousness of guilt.
how he coached little league, things that they just did in their normal life. another topic that they have started to focus on with buster is discussing the types of weapons they had at the hunting lodge, which is where these murders took place. the prosecution and investigators since the trial started have said they never recovered any of the murder weapons, they have said that they believe maggie murdaugh, particularly, she was shot and killed by a family weapon because of the cartridges they found around her body. they have been asking him specifically about the type of weapon that those cartridges were allegedly found around her body and what we have heard buster say today is that his brother, paul murdaugh, the late paul murdaugh, oftentimes left weapons, that weapon, which he and his brother both had, around the hunting lodge, and that it wasn t uncommon, he says, for those sorts of weapons to go missing. the big question for me as he continues to stay on the stand and ultimately