resistance effort. that s tomorrow at 10 pm eastern here on msnbc and streaming on peacock. peacock is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight. bombshell testimony from a murder suspect. taking the stand in his own defense, telling the jury he lied and stole, but he didn t kill his wife and son. will they buy? it then the tucker tapes. congressman jamie raskin is here to respond to speaker mccarthy s move to put forward the thousand hours of january 6th footage into the hands of one fox news host. and disgraced crypto king sam bankman-fried with four new criminal charges, some related to political donations. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with more moving testimony from a defendant and a double murder case making national headlines. alex murdaugh, the former well to do south carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son took to stand in his o
midterms was ryan salem, ceo of one of subsidiaries that ftx owned. he wasn t mention as a coconspirator because they didn t mention any of the coconspirators. that someone to keep an eye on as we go forward with this investigation. call me naive but i saw the quote in the indictment that stood out to me. around these donations and what he was doing. he did it to quote improve his personal standing in washington, d.c. in, increased ftx s profile and create favor with candidates that could help pass legislation favorable to ftx. here s the thing. that basically sounds what every single megadonor does. sure, in a sound like that, but here s the catch. if you want to compare to something else. mega donors can use llc, its right to donate to a super pack. all with the same attack intention, to curry favors with legislators solely to legislation s favor them. you re 100 percent right.
democrats and another would go to republicans. and this money that was really going to these different committees and campaigns was really ftx customer funds, yet it was under these ftx executives. who is being organized allegedly by bankman-fried himself. this entire operation. and these two coconspirators and in the indictment went along with it. that s one of the allegations we read today and wrote about it. when he was first indicted, we didn t know the names of any republicans, and these democrats to took a whole lot of money where embarrass, melee it d. a lot said we re gonna give it back, put it in a trust. but now we know republicans got a lot of dough to, what are they saying they re gonna do? interestingly enough, nothing from the republicans so far today. tomorrow we might be hearing some more. but you are right. one of the former ftx executives there really was a major flare player in the 22 midterms was ryan salem, ceo of one of subsidiaries that ftx owned. he wasn t m