obviously the prosecutor is setting the stage to show that alec murdaugh was acting with this knowledge of guilt, ok. that he he knew that he had done something wrong and so he was taking these steps to hide his criminal behavior. he didn t have a whole lot of physical evidence such as blood or dna on his person such that he would have probably had had he done what he said which was to check on the victims and check on the bodies, ok. he had none of that on him as you would expect, so the prosecutor is saying that he changed his clothes in an effort to throw law enforcement off his trail and by extension, to throw the jury off the correct trail according to the prosecutor. gillian: it s an interesting tactic. take a listen to this, phil, call for number one, exchange between the prosecution and palmetto bank ceo on murdaugh s financial misfeasance.
of the triad, and the fact we have not taken some type of heavy action against it we talked about is incredible to me. gillian: certainly does not seem to be a hurry to go anywhere, breaking news, a source in the government tells me the u.s. was aware of the balloon more than a month, possibly up to several months. how does that change our conception of what we are seeing right now? well, gillian, it shows inaction on part of the administration. this is like a test case. chinese are doing something and they are kind of pushing the boundary, where are we going to get in reaction to the united states and we used to do that all the time in the white house and when i was in the military, and checking people s response and resolve. and let s go this step, this step. is this a prelude like taiwan,
thing that s important, which is the information, and for purposes of national security and purposes of, you know, how much we could potentially be compromised based on some of the information that s on that laptop, they are succeeding in having us talk about, you know, this sort of nonsense rather than the real substance of what s in these emails and other documents. gillian: andy, just to kind of recenter this for a moment. the reason that this is a front page news story is because of investigations into the alleged connections between hunter biden s business dealings and his father who was formerly the vice president, now the president. that s the thread here that s of interest. that s the reason why we cover this story. yeah. in just one year s time, gillian, only a slice of what we are talking about, this chinese conglomerate called cefc, the
the courtroom just after 11:30 this morning. the defense argues that murdaugh s alleged financial crimes have no bearing on the double murder trial. john. john: jonathan, thank you. gillian. gillian: let s bring in phil holloway, criminal defense attorney also a former assistant defense attorney, excuse me, assistant district attorney out of georgia. what do you make of the snapchat video we saw yesterday, murdaugh was shown in one set of clothes hours before the murders, talking about the video where he s standing outside, he s surrounded by trees. and then when he s interrogated he s wearing a different set of clothes. yeah, good afternoon, gillian. great to be with you. listen, that snapchat video and frankly i think the other cell phone video taken by the son who is the victim are going to be big pieces of this.
you. gillian. gillian: breaking a moment ago in california. a sheriff says they have arrested two suspects for the heinous cartel style murders of six at a california home last month. it turned out to be a growing gang war between two rival factions. in the beginning i mentioned it was a cartel-like shooting and as you can imagine, this is what it appears to be. investigation began to tighten from all across the state of california, all the way down into the central valley and we quickly learned it was right here at home. rivalry gangs, we have all heard of many, many times. the two members of the perez family, the victims family, were well-known validated sernos gang members in the down of goshen, predominantly held by