see first here on out front. massive reeducation effort. it s a damning report, saying some of them are up for adoption, others being trained now to join the military. let s go out front. good evening, welcome to a special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. we begin with breaking news, tonight for trump s former chief of staff mark meadows subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating the former presidents attempt to cling to power. of course, remember, meadows helped lay the groundwork for trump s election lies, which ultimately feel the outrage and violence that we all saw on january 6th. he was literally by trump side during the insurrection itself. much more on that in just a moment because there is so much breaking developments here tonight. we also have other breaking news this hour from the justice department. we are learning that the special counsel investigating trump s locked now in at least eight secret court battles. the special counsel jack smith tryin
watch. murdaugh spent hours, as trace pointed out, on the stand answering questions about his opioid addiction, his finances, stealing millions from clients, even being disbarred, but he denied he was desperate enough to kill. did you shoot a 300 black out into her head, causing her de death? i didn t shoot my wife or my son any time, ever. the disgrace south carolina lawyer on trial for allegedly killing 52-year-old maggie murdaugh in their 22-year-old son, paul, or paw-paw, as he kept coming in for some reason, back into a 21. murdaugh admitted to lying to cops about being at the estate kennels earlier in the evening on june 7th, the day the bodies were later found. i lied about being down th there. and i m so sorry that i did. most of all, i m sorry to mags and paw-paw. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. boy, it does not look good for him. he also said that he initially lied about being at the dog kennels because of his years lon
paw. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. ever. bret: breaking tonight, an all-day testimony, the south carolina lawyer accused of murdering his wife and son took the stand today. alex murdaugh admitted lying to authorities but insisted he did not kill his family. correspondent jonathan serrie has details tonight in what has been a very long day. good evening, jonathan. indeed, bret. a bold move by the defense putting their client on the witness stand and asking him some very direct questions. did you shoot a 300 blackout into her head causing her death? mr. good win, i didn t shoot my wife or son any time. in front of the attorney disbarred. bret: we have tape difficulties there. we will go back to jonathan serrie and once we figure that out we will go back to the piece. jonathan just to ask you a question about this. at times it was emotional. at times that testimony really got heated between the prosecution and alex murdaugh. ye
santos. quoting from the congressman s statement, with the ongoing attention surrounding my personal and campaign financial investigations i have submitted a request to speaker mccarthy i be temporarily recused of committee assignments until i am cleared. he has been disowned by his own republican leadership for lying to them. he says he expects to be fully cleared. why you might ask does he think that? because, and these are his own words, i have nothing to hide. it wasn t even true when he said it. when asked which network he had done an interview with he refused to say. it was oan. he promised the interview would be fun and comprehensive. fun, we will leave it up to you. but in the 12-minute clip the network posted late today the congressman who lied about his religion, education, ancestors and career, criminal charges, athletic accomplishments and more was far from comprehensive. in those 12 minutes released he wasn t asked about specific lies and admitted none of that
this is a southern version of a mafia story. enough evil had been done by the family. it s gone too far this time. i have an alex murdaugh on the line. hampton is a small raul community, very few stop lights, country folk. generations and generations of families, the same families. not a whole lot going on, you know. not a whole lot of jobs. a lot of poverty. people like me, we work for our money. we wasn t born with a silver spoon in our mouth. nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody had any reason to come to that part of south carolina. small towns generate big fish in small pools. hampton is pretty much historically dominated by one family, the murdaughs. murdaugh, that name means power. they are a great american family who has a successful law firm and had deep roots in their community. money. position. power. the murdaughs have had control of hampton county for close to a century. they have held the position of t