will: in a fiery cross-examination yesterday, alex are murdaugh alex more cough claims a 2019 boat wreck led someone to murder his wife and son. pete: is this enough to create reasonable doubt for at least one juror? rachel: here to react is former prosecutor francey hakes. i don t understand all the details of this murder trial and what happens, i m having a hard time understanding how the boat crash would make someone want to kill his wife and his son who i understand that son is not the one who was driving the boat. well, i believe that son was the one who was driving the boat, but, of course, the wife had nothing to do with it. that s the weakest part of his defense, which is sort of the classic some other dude did it defense. and he s saying that because a young woman died when his son was driving that boat drunk, someone in the community was outraged enough about it to kill his son. but like i said, the weakness in that argument involves the wife. why would someone include th
peter, about these classified documents. you wrote that the revelations about president biden, his documents, have been politically let donald trump off the hook. now that it seems that mike hence, he too has classified documents, what does that do. it increases the whole everyone does it defense that former president trump and his people are going to use. never mind that there are some substantial differences between what we know about president biden and vice president pence. in both cases it seems like they, on their own initiative, search for documents, discover them voluntarily, turn them over, and cooperated with authorities. it s nothing like what former president trump has done, in which he not only seemingly intentionally took documents but then refused to turn them all back over until he had even after being subpoenaed, until a judge finally ordered a search, under a search warrant of his place. that is very different than what we have happening with president biden a
bunch of drugs, but sure enough, suspects with a table full of firearms, that has happened plenty of times. modern criminals decide to post their doings online, on social media, maybe they think it makes them look cool. you know who loves it, police, the first thing they do is scour the social media of a suspect, and almost always find something. i understand we can stay at a local level and look at the trump made me do it defense, but i m actually turning that around and saying this is the case against trump, all of these smaller, but incredibly important and increasingly dangerous events across the country where people decide, you know what, it was a lie, and i did win, and i m going to follow someone who believes in the big lie like me, who started the big lie, donald trump, jen palmieri. you look the at influence he had
at the suspect in this case has lots of issues. the dna is the most powerful, i think they are going to have a hard time. it defense is going to argue th circumstantial evidence case which in this case, there s jus so much freight they dna, it is just the difficult thing that he s going to have a hard time getting around. that s what they re going to go after bird further going to contest that great they re goin to contest the chain of custody. i think he has a tough time and an uphill battle on this one. we are not talking about the preliminaries now set for june. leaped out right to speedy public cause hearing. representative said he needed time to review the details of the case in his next court case
former president actually has his lawyers go to court and make this claim once and for all and swear to it and then we ll see whether that is something that flies in this investigation going forward. victor. evan perez for us. evan, thank you very much. manu raju is on capitol hill. some top republicans are not buying that. i thought about it, so i ve declassified it defense from the former president. reporter: yeah, that s right. this is different than what we have seen in the aftermath of the search of mar-a-lago when a number of republican senators defended donald trump and even attacked merrick garland and suggested he should be hauled up to congress and answer questions. in the aftermath of donald trump saying he could think about declassifying documents and they would be declassified and there s no process declassifying records, i put that question to some top republican senators and they pushed back. there s a process for