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
what his attorney s advice was and what it might not be. explain south carolina to it was courage. it was a lot of courage to get there with all of these financial crimes and know that you are gonna get drug threw 99 financial crimes. and the betrayal of everyone close to you through financial misdeeds. that would not be fun for anyone to sit through. do you think that is courageous? or delusional and desperate? maybe all of the above. i know when defendants do not testify, stephanie, people will say that they were cowards. they wouldn t even take the witness stand! and so, i think if. and so, i have to have those conversations. if somebody does choose to testify, knowing that there is going to be a tough experience, but they want to tell their story to the jurors. i want to give them some credit for courage, not delusion. i m gonna let you give him that credit. i mean i reserve judgment on that one.
or didn t have others. i found nothing the support of the fact that he called up and said to have those troops activated. i just know that i request of the national guard in advance january six multiple times on the sixth and couldn t get the pentagon to send them over to help me. and who would ve been in charge of that? would that have been nancy pelosi and the mayor of d.c.? i was dealing with lieutenant general pr but the commander-in-chief at that time was president trump. thank you for clearing that up. jeremy as these multiple cases in investigations against long trump move forward, what kind of things are we going to hear from the far-right media? they can t simply say we re not going to cover it. but they will. they will whitewash it. or they ll say the raid that was a legal search, they re gonna say it was an illegal raid? the revisionist history that has gone on here, stephanie, is unbelievable to me. the fact that you have the host of the highest rated show in
where social media is shaping the minds and molding the public conversation, conspiracy theories. the coin of the realm. and antisemitism, you could call it the oldest conspiracy theory in the book. the idea is that the jews are, again, inventing covid 19 or trying to commit wide genocide. or trying to kill, fell in the blank, children. these are ugly troves that have persisted for centuries across cultures, across continents. and today, they are manifesting in this time. and all of it, all of them i must say are scary. and imagine a world that might not be far off, stephanie, where artificial intelligence is not just shaping our news feeds. it s literally shaping the world around us. and embedded with biases, and amplifying prejudices, in ways that might be invisible but absolutely terrifying. jonathan, i want you to talk
to the people out there who might not pay close attention to these stories because it doesn t affect them personally. it doesn t affect their community. what would you say to them? well, i would say a few things. i mean, antisemitism, isn t a jewish problem. it is an american problem. because if you think about it for a moment, antisemitism may start with the jews, it never ends with the jews. you could think about it as a canary in the coal mine of democracy. and when you see antisemitism going up, it usually is symptomatic of societal decay. and, look in just the last two months, stephanie, we have had, you know, just last month. we have had two different jewish man on two consecutive days shot out when they were coming out of a synagogue. in los angeles. we had a mob, on a college