i m alisyn cam . welcome to cnn tonight. honoring the people of ukraine fighting for their country for a year and the song includes an unexpected guest. however you talk, whatever you think, from the song that you sing to drink that you drink i m fighting for our children, our parents to defend our houses and families. to love each other like crazy i m guessing you recognize that voice but if not, brad paisley will tell us who that is in a moment. plus, a dramatic day in the alex murdaugh trial. how will the jury respond to the defendant that admits he s been lying to everyone for years? you lied to maggie, didn t you? i did lie to maggie. you lied to paul? sometimes. i would have lied to randy at some point, i m sure. did you lie to him about the last time you saw your wife and son alive? i did. all right. we re going to bring you up to speed on that trial. also, part two of our voter panel. i sit down with parents around the country to talk abo
to me tonight. so we played a little snippet of your new song and i ll do the big reveal. that was president zelenskyy in your song. it s not every day that president zelenskyy is in a country song. so how did that come to pass? well, about a i guess, it was last summer we did a fundraiser for ukraine on nbc with a bunch of celebrities and singers and actors and, you know, they were looking for an original song at the time and to get involved trying to write something for an event doesn t really work. it s you know, the next thing you know there are all these legal issues. the song got scrapped but i had already written this and in the process they heard it and one thing led to another and he s president zelenskyy is very smart about how to reach people. he saw this as an opportunity, i think, to go straight for the heart and basically say through a mel ody and a song that we re