dollars. they were spending money like they were drunken sailors. now lyle and erik menendez face the death penalty, first-degree murder. greedy rich kids kill ozzie and harriet on a sunday night in beverly hills, and there s much more to the story than that. the courtroom at the l.a. superior courthouse in van nuys was actually a very tiny courtroom, and so there were a dozen media people that got to see the trial in the courtroom every day. writer dominic dunn appeared to hear opening statements. i m just a writer here covering this. i had just gotten out of school and started as a cub reporter at this legal newspaper. i got one of the seats in the courtroom. there were the lawyers and the brothers. my editors and i knew from the get-go that it was going to be captivating as [bleep]. okay, now opening statements by the prosecution. thank you, your honor, and good morning. the only time i ve ever thrown up during a trial was right before opening statement
emily: hello, everyone, this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno here with my co-host harris faulkner, fox news contributor tammy bruce, former obama state department spokesperson marie harf, and joey jones. let s go back to the washington national harris: we have breaking news we ve been following all hour. chief justice john roberts is speaking eulogizing the former u.s. supreme court justice sandra day o connor thchl is her beautiful funeral today. listen in and watch together. i was proud to be part of her team. i thought our group did a pretty good job. after all the justice was confirmed 99-0 and we must have had something to do with that. only many years later was i told she thought i had been slow in getting material to her. i should have learned that when she had a challenge or responsibility before her, her approach was simple and direct. get it done. the way she participated in oral argument at the court is a good example. justices have many styles on th
are no stranger to the disgraced, twice-impeached, four-times indicted ex president saying the quiet parts out loud. it is basically his calling card. often it meant speaking in code using dog whistles telling the proud boys for instance to stand back and stand by or saying there are good people on both sides after white supremacists marched through the sheets of charlottesville chanting, jews will not replace us. but now? now, donald trump has dispensed with the dog whistles. he is going for. . as a rule we don t air video of donald trump lightly on this show but we thought it was important that you hear this, that we all bear witness to what the ex-president and current leading republican candidate is saying here. we re like a rocket ship, who s like a rocket ship sent by kim jong-un, just like that. who is very nice, i will tell you. he is not so fond of this administration, but he s fond of me, and we had a very good relationship. vladimir putin of russia says that bi
staffers with a baseball bat now charged with a hate crime print other incident. chilling video chasing a woman three artifice she screamed for help. high-stakes meeting worries in the debt ceiling about white house. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. rachel scott at the white house with news coming in at the star there might be s progress. what we re learning right now. they were in ukraine tonight in russia unleashing a fierce attack on the capital of kyiv. ukraine u.s. patriot missile helped shoot down 25 russian missiles including hypersonic missiles. the race for the white house. florida governor ron desantis taking aim at former president trump tonight. after trump refused to say whether he would sign a national abortion ban. jon karl with us. growing outrage over the deadly shooting of an alleged shoplifter in san francisco. the d.a. choosing not to file charges against a security guard seen fighting with the suspect, shooting and killing him moments lat
this is america s newsroom. so finally the prosecution will rest its case. after the jury took a field trip to the crime scene. they toured the kennels where they say alex murdered his son and wife. he told investigators he wasn t near there. he had to reverse that story on the hand. they paint him as a serial liar with the means, motive and opportunity. this defendant, on the other hand, has fooled everyone everyone, everyone who thought they were close to him and everyone who thought they knew who he was. he has fooled them all. and he fooled maggie and paul, too. and they paid for it with their lives. dana: team fox coverage. nancy grace is here with analysis. let s begin with jonathan serrie in atlanta to set the scene for us. good morning, dana and bill. in their closing arguments, the defense for alex murdaugh are expected to push their theory that perhaps two shooters were involved with the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh and that the initial crime scen