carolina family found guilty onl on all counts in the murder trial of his wife and son. a panel of 12 jurors returned a guilty verdict after fewer than three hours ofit w deliberationass. and it was so quick to quick. in fact, the judge didn t even offer him dinner. e now, according to reporters insy the room, his only living son , buster, sat in the gallery shaking his head in disbelief. but he did not appear to shed a tear. now, the trial really took thats turn after the jury saw a keyaw piece of evidence. it was a snapchat video taken by paul murdaugh at a dog minut kennels just minutes before hees and maggie were killed. lled listen.listen. you re going to hear three separate voices now for[is tibarbara. this is a chick now alex murdaugh maintained for years that he was not there. but when witnesses said he was third voice, murdaugh finally atted to , here s why. as my addiction evolved over time, i would get anyor cir situations or circumstances whercue i would get
like whoever did it had thoughto about it forut a really long time. i just didn t know what thatt meant. that meant. mark, that was an odd moment. you say someone else did it. what s your theory? someone who thought abou fort it for a long tim te, like like he had thought about it for a long time, apparently. so disturbing any and he and jujust you know, he didn t plant on okay, if not him, then who ? anyone of us.e anyse sense to ay okay, if it wa one of us . okay, if it wasn t you, thenin d someone else came in and didel? this knowing they d be inyour the kennel using your weapons,,x alex , and then somehow gettings away undetecteomd, that never made sense. so at best he was hoping, aha, there s reasonable doubts in this thing because i planned itw with two guns to see how clever i was of a trial lawyer.tria i know about the system and they just didn t buy it as it relates to him. ths knew it was him.going to sit three hours says we re just going to sit back here, make
murdoch s decades of deceit. everyonf veryone e thought te close to him. everyone who thought they knewo he was who he was, he fooledal them all and he fooled maggie and paul to and they paid for it with their lives.lie don t let him fall into. that was a brilliant closenow kw as we now tonight. joining us now, mark eglash, who s a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney , and francis hakes, former federal prosecutorrances. mark, let s start with you. b were you surprised by howe jury quickly the jury came back withc this decision?h es, because all those things y we were calling reasonable doubts were merely qs question as. a to this day,ns they might not even know the answer to those question questions.s. he does.
that that didn t work. all right, mark and franci, we are going thank you so much. we re going to hav te more froom the groundh caroli in south carn just a bit.he but now the democracy offenders ,that s the focus of tonight s angle. e blow aren t the blowhards inrty wa the democrat party want americnf to believe that they re the true saviors of democracy? democra they ll take almost y opportunity to evangelizen pe on that topic.opha and people doubt thate on the elections are on the level thath is the beginning of the end of this wonderful democracy. democracy starts flying outsomeo the window and some other form of autocracyth for comes in when conspiracy theories likee the big lie are allowebid to grw . well, we grow. all saw what couo happen on january 6th. lame, lame, lame, checky.blame,e but how are democrats respecting democracy? is that flies out the windowprop when their president tries to usurp congress? cois spending power with billios and billions of student loan
and that is to make it look s like there were two separate killers sos. tated. so that means it was premeditated. he planned it in advance. puse those two weapons, fired multiple shots into the bodiesih of his wife and son with two different weapons as some sortdp of plan to putut the crimeon on someone else and make himself look innocent. mark, just really quickly, if he hadn t taken that gamblebh in taking the stand, murdaugh, in your mind, would it have changed the outcome at all? angeno, he had to .l. he was buried after the statee. rested their case. this was the hail mary .he n heee needed to go there and try to convince them. i don t think itit would would e made a difference. he was buried.he ain wh hey had to explain why he lied about not being there on the scene, which the jurors just could never get past. no, none of us could.why would o you know, why would you lie about that if you were snow-white innocent framed like the mona lisa? come on . yeah, the on the liar, but no