[ applause ] [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction. gracious and everlasting god, as we depart, inspired by the a powerful and long overdue honor at the white house at this hour. good day. i m peter alexander in for my friend andrea mitchell. we have been watching president biden awarding the medal of honor to paris davis for gallantry during the vietnam war. he was one of the first black officers to lead a special forces team in combat. dragged his fellow soldiers to safety, despite suffering multiple wounds and grenade fragments during a 1965 raid. an honor that is decades overdue coming to fruition in the east room there at the white house. we have been following breaking news from south carolina. convicted attorney alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a powerful preamble, the judge clifton newman, sentencing the lawyer this morning after a jury spent fewer than three hours deliberating last night before findi
chairman jim jordan has gavelled in an entire subcommittee on this issue. he s touted allegations from dozens of whistleblowers who he said came to him with stories of the discrimination and bias they face, the problem is that was pretty much all we knew about them until now. before we break down what is in this new report, i want to bring you back to an exchange between jim major dan and congressman dan goldman between the first and so far only weaponization of the federal government hearing last month on the quote unquote evidence that republicans claim to have had. take a listen. you talk about dozens of whistleblowers, when are we going to get that information? when they testify. i ll work with the ranking member on that issue. you don t have any transcriptions of their interviews? we have the first one and the dozens who have come and talked to our office. they talked to your office privately. republican staff, right. and they re not transcribed, no notes,
Hows your client now . Hows his State Of Mind . Not good. Jimmy, where jim i was with him that morning he was shot. In his mind, he was ready to give up. I said, you know, alex, theres an end to this, and theres a life beyond this. And you need to be here for your family, and buster loves you, and, you know, we all support you 100 . And he told me that he had an Opioid Addiction and that he had been struggling with it for many, many years and it was very expensive. Alex murdaughs speaking for the first time in weeks, this time from a savannah hospital bed. The patriarch of the family making Big Decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. The murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. Ive made a lot of decisions that i truly regret. Im resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle thats been exacerbated by these murders. After alex was shot, first thing he did was admit that he had an Opioid Addiction and a problem and then wen
i said there is a life beyond this and you need to be here for your family and buster loves you and we all support you 100%. he told me he had an opioid addiction and had been struggling with it for many years and it was very expensive. the patriarch of the family making big decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. the murders have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. i made about decisions i truly regret. i am resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that has been exacerbated by these murders. after he was shot the first thing he did was admit he had an opioid addiction and a problem and then went immediately to rehab. he has to stay there and can t leave. is he going home with you guys? going straight back to rehab. the murder of his son and wife 90 days ago took a tremendous toll on him. most people could not get through that. he got through it with the use of opioids. that void just keeps getting bigger. you feel for
who is this guy? well, he is 40 years old. his name is matt muffley. he was flying, anderson, from the airport in northeastern pennsylvania on a flight to orlando, according to the f.b.i. he checked the bag, and in the routine screening that was happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the f.b.i., this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap. they found fuses. the powder appears to be from commercial-grade fireworks, and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this? the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested later that evening on monday. by the f.b.i. now, the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that. this is something obviously the f.b.i. was focused on over the last couple of days. nothing like that appears t