washington. glad to have you. here right now in south carolina, there are major developments in alex murdaugh s double murder trial. the prosecution now respond ing after the defense presented its closing arguments yesterday. defense attorney jim griffin made an emotional plea when wrapping up his presentation. there are two words that justice demands this thises case and those two words are not guilty. the oath you have taken in this case it requires a verdict not dwlt. on behalf of alex, of buster, on behalf of maggie and on behalf of my friend paul, i respectfully request that you do not compound a family tragedy with another thank you. just before closing arguments began, the judge remove d a jurr for discussing the case outside of the trial. diane gallagher is outside of the court in south carolina. diane, what more did the defense say today as they were presenting to the jury in these final hours of this trial? reporter: jim griffin spoke for about 2 hours and 15
in the new treaty. because that treaty expires in three years. ask is there s almost no chance that there s going to be a negotiation to extend it. there will be no limits on either country s nuclear forces. what is the strategic value for russia in suspending their participation in this treaty. are they now free to engage in expanding their arsenal? any putting the genie back in the bottle if that happens? that s the big problem. and i think i m very concerned that they might not be able to be put back in the bottle at this point. so what the russians want to do is they could potentially be able to use this lack of limits. they have a little less than 6,000 war heads right now this their nuclear arsenal. they could expand that number and they could also develop newer weapons. we talked about the hypersonic weapons capability.