good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. guilty a south carolina jury s come convicted former attorney alex murdaugh of killing his wife and son back in june of 2021. we ll have much more on all of that in a moment, but we are also following a key development in the efforts to hold donald trump accountable in the january 6th riot. a new justice department filing says trump can be held liable in a civil court for the actions of rioters at the capitol. doj rejected trump s claim of absolute immunity from civil lawsuits filed by police officers and members of congress. the department lawyers argued that protection goes away if a president uses words that are quote an incitement of imminent private violence. as a reminder, here is just some of what former president donald j trump said on that fateful day. we re gonna walk down to the capitol [applause] and we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we re probably not gonna be cheering much
the states attorney general, dave nessel said that she was informed by the fbi she was the one of the people targeted. jack eugene carpenter is his name and he s been accused of tweeting the threat from texas. he is charged with interstate communication, his mother told authorities he was in possession of six guns. including a militia style weapon. this comes just days after law enforcement in the country was on alert because of as so-called national day of hate. so let s discuss. i want to bring in jonathan, ceo and national director of the anti-defamation league. jonathan the problem is it is never good news when you are. here this is just the latest in a series of incidents targeting jews and public officials in the state of michigan. what is going on? well, first stephanie, i just need to say. and to acknowledge the start of this conversation. that it is, i am grateful that law enforcement and the fbi in