griff: took the jury less than three hours to convict him of the murder of his wife and son. ainsley: charles watson is outside of the court house in walter borough, south carolina. what is the latest? what are you expecting this morning will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole when alec murdaugh is sentenced behind me this morning for the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. after thursday s verdict alec was remanded almost immediately and let out ever the cool tan county courthouse he is staring at 30 years to life in prison after the jury came back guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. scene of the murders after voice was caught snapchat video moments of before his wife and son were killed. son buster sat a few rows behind him with a deflated look on his face. his lawyers tried to throw a hail mary with a request for a mistrial lack of evidence. judge newman thought otherwise
moscow where putin spent this morning trying to justify his war in ukraine to the russian people. you know, keir, for his part, president biden seemed to speak directly to the russian people, saying putin chose this war. the west was never planning to attack russia, but my understanding is russian tv didn t air biden s speech. so what did the russian people hear from their president? reporter: for president putin, it was an uncompromising and at times, hard to comprehend speech, chris. he used the word, war, a number of times and folks who pay close attention will know that s usual for putin. he calls the invasion of ukraine his special military operation and described this as a war with the west. a war for russia s survival. suppose you could say in that one respect, one word, there was agreement between president biden and putin. the word war. and i suppose you could also say some agreement that this is more now than a conflict over territory. it s a conflict over ideas.
funeral service for tyre nichols this afternoon. it comes as details about what happened the night nichols encountered police are coming under new scrutiny. and we re learning more about the past conduct of some of the officers involved. more on that ahead. also this morning, bone chilling weather sweeping the nation. a triple threat of freezing rain, sleet and snow causes accidents, power outages and grounds thousands of flights. parts of the country are bracing for windchills that could dip as low as negative 60. we re tracking this brutal cold coming up. plus, face to face, after a public war of words over our country s debt limit as president biden and speaker mccarthy are set to meet at the white house this afternoon. the expectations according to our us who team could not be lower. what both sides are bringing to the table. and the 2024 gop presidential primary is about to get a little more crowded as former u.n. ambassador nikki haley moves closer to becoming for
congressional correspondent ryan nobles. what have you learned about this with the january 6th committee? reporter: we know it s starting to happen, anderson. this was, of course, a big roadblock to the department of justice s investigation as it expanded into areas beyond the rioters that breached the capitol on that day and started looking into more of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. they were very interested in many of the interviews of the january 6 select committee had already conducted, but the committee was reluctant to hand over those transcribed interviews to the department of justice because they considered it their work, their property and they wanted to be able to make sure that they had it in their possession as their investigation moved forward. this became somewhat of a standoff between doj and the january 6th select committee, but now they re starting to find areas of common ground and the select committee chairman bennie thompson telling
view of the evidence at last and when he characterized it as overwhelming. we actually heard from buster murdaugh, the only surviving son of alex murdaugh. i want to play just a little bit of him on the stand, if we had that video. do you remember that? yes, sir. do you recognize your dad s voice? i do. if you listen to it, would you be able to tell the jury whether it s i or they? yes, sir. your honor, pull up exhibit 153, the clip. so bad. what did your dad say? they did them so bad. is that the first time you heard him say they did them so bad . no, sir. when is the first time you heard him say they did them so bad . the first time i heard him say that was the night i went down the night of june 7th. did he say that more than one time? he did.