double murder. now day two of the double murder try of alex murdaugh in south carolina. it begins in 30 minutes. the first witness is set to take the stand today. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. a lot of drama. a lot of people following the story for the prominent south carolina lawyer accused of shooting and killing his wife in 2021. propers cuteors argue all the evidence fits together like the pieces of a puzzle including cell phone footage and gunshot residue. bill: the defense claims it proves nothing. high emotion in the courtroom yesterday. the defendant broke down in tears. dana: now as the trial is set to resume the big question is whether his surviving son will take the stand. bill: that s where we begin with jonathan serrie covering the trial. good morning. good morning, bill and dana. alex murdaugh 26-year-old son buster is on the list of 255 potential witnesses. a list that includes law enfor
glad to be here i m griff jenkins and this is america s newsroom. cheney is one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach the former president and she conceded early last night and gave a concession speech comparing herself to abraham lincoln. rich edson kicks things off with us from the teton village in wyoming. good morning, griff. also in that speech she compares the times and divisions of the united states today to the divisions of the civil war back in the 1860s. congresswoman liz cheney will launch an effort to oppose any donald trump run for president. that s according to a spokesperson telling fox news that information this morning. that effort likely be ultimately be from outside the united states congress. she lost her primary last night. polls were barely closed an hour last evening and cheney called harriman to concede. cheney says two years ago she won her primary with 73% of the vote. that path was clear for reelection if she went along with the stolen 20
Tampering. Thats where we start. Im bill hemmer. It is wednesday, midweek. Dana good morning, im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. That a lot of legal stuff well get to today. Politics as well. Murdaugh issue, six months since a jury found him guilty of killing his wife and son. The former South Carolina prosecutor is serving two Life Sentences without parole. His attorneys say that should be thrown out because they say the court clerk tampered with the jury. Bill the defense is saying the clerk tried to sway and pressure jurors saying she wanted to insure a guilty verdict so she could write a book and make money and go on a media tour. I want to take you back to her talking with us On Fox Nation about the trial. My breath was knocked out for a moment but then i have to tell myself to treat it just like any other trial, any other verdict that i have to read and i have to place my mind there and take out any personal relationships. The murdaughs could deaf niftily set the laws,
Same that is very frightening is how they manipulate the system, what they could do with the system if theyre not kept in check, this is the reason why the democrats are doing everything in secrecy. This is why ratcliff had to come out and others had to say once we question taylor, the whole thing fell apart, sorry we breaking tonight details in cannot show this to you because the mission to take down the leader of isis is president they are keeping the secret from the american public, with the trump had a major success. American public should understand, we should look at welcome to the next both sites and hear all the revolution. Arguments but we should have the public. These hearings must be public, they should not exist to begin per worker, profamily and more importantly than ever, with but they should be public in the American People should proamerica. He was members of the Army Elite Delta force copying from hear everybody including q a helicopters that led to the between the hou
dana. dana: very interesting personal story that adds to the coverage. bill: very interesting angle. republican jim banks out of indiana is with us now. sir, good morning to you. what is your reaction to that story when you consider that he is 1 of millions in america now? that s right. we ve had more illegals come into the country since joe biden has been in office than the entire population of my home state of indiana. you got to hear one personal story there. think of the humanitarian crisis going on at the border at the moment. record number of deaths actually occurring of children and women coming across the border. but also the price that s being paid here from the fentanyl epidemic in america now the leading cause of death of americans my age. i don t talk to almost any family not touched by that. fentanyl poisonings killing so many americans. the drug cartels are pushing it over the border, manufactured in