ac 360 starts now. fwgood evening, we begin wi the alex murdaugh double trial and his attempt to convince the jury that being a serial liar and being at the scene disease not make him a killer. having admitted yesterday on the witness stand to telling a string of lies, most significantly about being at the scene of the crime near the time it happened, he spent another day today under tough questioning. alex, it you murder maggie? i would never hurt maggie. did you murder paul? i would never hurt paul. court adjourned late today capping a stunning week by any measure. cnn s randi kaye joins us with the latest. it like in court today? reporter: well, anderson, this was first time we got to see the prosecutor question alex murdaugh about the night of the murder. he presed him on the details. he asked him what time he got to the kennels, how long he was there, what he talked about with his wife and son. he asked him these questions repeatedly, presumably to try an
did you murder paul? i would never hurt paul. court adjourned late today capping a stunning week by my measure. so what was it like in court today? well anderson, this was the first time we got to see the prosecutor question alex murdaugh about the night of the murders. he asked him what time he got to the kennels where the murder took place. and he asked them these questions repeatedly presumably to try to trip him up. but he kept coming back to the same theme. don t believe what alex murdaugh tells you. i have lied well over a decade. reporter: that is what he was trying to propose on the stand. i told a lie about being down there and got myself wed to that. reporter: waters tried to box murdaugh into a corner using cell phone data and time line evidence from the night of the murders. i m still not absolutely certain how they ended up at the kennel. reporter: murdaugh told the jury he drove his golf cart to meet his wife and son at the kennels. he said t
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reelection bid as soon as next week. for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that would actually happen, and it seems like now we have some sense of a timeline that to some degree has taken a lot longer than people expected. the president is planning and may go forward with the decision to launch his reelection campaign as soon as tuesday of next week. now that date is important because it was. it will be the four year anniversary of the day he launched his 2020 campaign, a campaign that he framed as the battle of the soul of that for the soul of the nation and campaign where he eventually defeated then president donald trump somebody who may be his general election opponent again in 2024. now advisors