ancestral home to commemorate the anniversary of the good friday agreement that ended 30 years of hostilities between catholics and protestants. will tim scott run jay ensley i will speak to gun safety advocate justin jones ahead of the vote to send justin pearson back to the statehouse. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington as president biden begins a deeply personal overseas trip to the republic of ireland. at first visiting northern ireland, still part of the united kingdom, 25 years after the good friday agreement, that ended ed decades of violence this took a long, hard years of work to get to this place it took people willing to come together in good faith and to risk boldly. it s up to us to keep this going, to keep building on the work that has been done every day for the last 25 years. joining me is the founder of irish american magazine who served as a key back channel negotiator between bill clin toclinton and the ira. the president landed in
shelby county commission just voted to send justin pearson back to the tennessee state house. his colleague justin jones was reinstated monday. both were protesting for gun reform after three kids and three school staffers were shot and killed by someone who legally bought the weapons and used them to murder school children and teachers. and both lawmakers were expelled from the state government for speaking out republicans said it was because they lacked decorum on the house floor. the backlash to the gop decision has been so intense, it s only helped to fuel the debate on guns in tennessee. and now the southern states governor is actually pushing for some gun reform. governor bill lee signed an executive order on tuesday, strengthening background checks, and he s now calling for gop state lawmakers, the same ones who expelled pearson and jones to pass a red flag law let s first listen to justin pearson. guilty of not expanding health care. guilty of not giving us educatio
don t have more information whether there was hazardous material or not. the testing they have so far is that it would not be actual poison or threatening material but again, we just got this in moments ago. this is not the first threat of its kind this is a significant development. and while we are careful to note only tell what you law enforcement has said for example they re not saying a source or suspect, i can tell you as a factual matter we re reporting on this new threatening letter sent to the d.a. at the very time just yesterday we were reporting on a new filing by the same d.a. alvin bragg that cites as criminal evidence donald trump s public provocations to potential violence, him swinging a bat at this d.a and that filing, which we have more on later tonight, quotes from exactly these kind of threats, many without powder, many without anything physical attached poured into the office. the d.a. connected in general what he argues is donald trump s unlawful medd
guilty on all counts, after six week trial, more than 70 witnesses took a south carolina jury less than three hours of deliberations to decide that alec murdaugh was guilty of killing his wife and son. his sentencing is set for tomorrow. we re back with s. e. cupp, patrick mcenroe joins us, as well. they ve, you are an attorney, what do you think sealed the deal but allow the jury to decide this in three hours. the jury s all right through this conman. he lied from day one. he lied to his family. he lied to police. and then when he got caught in a lie, because of his sons video, he changed his story on the spot, the jury didn t believe his new story. ironically, it was his son paul who solved his own murder. yes, we ve been saying that. paul s cell phone capture the audio of alex murdaugh at the kennels that night, when he said he wasn t. didn t he know that he said these in discovery where he would ve been tipped off that he had this video? why was he caught in that
verdict guilty. convictions on all four charges including two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of his wife margaret and son paul until life 2021. you seeing him being led away, they re put in a van, taken away from the courthouse. just moments ago, we are waiting for a conference with will be taking place any moment, now our randi kaye was in the courthouse when the verdicts were read. andy, it is extraordinary how quickly the jury came to this verdict, what was it like in the courtroom when the verdicts were read? yeah, anderson, and took them just about three and a half hours or so to find alex murdaugh guilty on all for the accounts, no way tried to read the jury as they fall back into the courtroom, none of them looked to the right of the courtroom when murdaugh sixth and the family set. they all basically had their heads down as they got into the courtroom, also, anderson, you can see the alex murdaugh, we have this precip that is just about the start he