washington. glad to have you. here right now in south carolina, there are major developments in alex murdaugh s double murder trial. the prosecution now respond ing after the defense presented its closing arguments yesterday. defense attorney jim griffin made an emotional plea when wrapping up his presentation. there are two words that justice demands this thises case and those two words are not guilty. the oath you have taken in this case it requires a verdict not dwlt. on behalf of alex, of buster, on behalf of maggie and on behalf of my friend paul, i respectfully request that you do not compound a family tragedy with another thank you. just before closing arguments began, the judge remove d a jurr for discussing the case outside of the trial. diane gallagher is outside of the court in south carolina. diane, what more did the defense say today as they were presenting to the jury in these final hours of this trial? reporter: jim griffin spoke for about 2 hours and 15
comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can charge th
diplomat for the first time since russia s invasion. and significant turbulence rocks a flight from texas. what caused a plane to plunge, terrifying passengers and sending seven to the hospital. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the death threats against jewish elected officials in michigan. this comes at a very, very dangerous moment following a dramatic rise in anti-semitic attacks across the country as well as threats to government leaders. let s bring in our senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, what more first of all are you uncovering about this alleged plot in the state of michigan? reporter: yeah, wolf, this is part of an alarming and dangerous trend that we see across the country. in this case this man by the name of jack eugene carpenter is charged with making interstate threats against a number of jewish officials in michigan including dana ne
questions, ladies and gentlemen. raise more questions that we wouldn t have to be dealing with if they had simply secured maggie s phone on june 8th when they got it, we wouldn t be here. so we do know from the timeline that alex left the property at 9:07. were they killed before he left? y don t know the answer to that. i don t know the answer to that. we do know if he was in the house when the shots were made down at the kennel, that he would not have heard them. we had decibel testing from mr. sutton. they were angry with mr. suttons test, not angry, challenged his conclusion on many things, they didn t touch his acoustic testing. didn t doubt that, haven t challenged that. if he s in the house, and shots are ringing down at the kennel, he doesn t hear them. he doesn t hear them. now they say that sometime after 8:44, and they peg it 8:48, 8:50, that is when paul last responded to a text from this friend of his, they ignore the fact there had to be clean-up. buster testifi
have to be consistent with each other and have to point conclusively to the guilt of alex murdaugh, beyond a reasonable doubt. these circumstances just raise more questions, ladies and gentlemen. raise more questions that we wouldn t have to be dealing with if they had just simply secured mag maggie s phone on june 8th when they got it. we wouldn t be here. we do know from the time line that alex left the property at 9:07. were they killed before he left? i don t know the answer to that. i don t know the answer to that. we do know that if he was in the house when the shots were made down at the kennel that he would not have heard them. we had testing from mr. sutton. they were angry with mr. sutton s not angry, but they challenged his conclusions on a lot of things. they didn t touch his acoustic testing. didn t doubt that. haven t challenged that. if he is in the house and shots are down at the kennel, he doesn t hear it. they say that sometime after 8:44 they peg it 8:4