constant communication with the ukrainians about what their needs are, and those have evolved as the war has evolved and we ll see where this go. the air base, is the u.s. prepared to facilitate the delivery of the meg 29s. we have never dictated to another partner what they can or can t give or on what time line. if one of our allies or partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have every right to make, and we would welcome that. there s $100 million in the appropriations bill. so john kirby in the white house briefing room. the trip to poland by the president, the latest move to show support for ukraine and to continue to work with our allies to keep that support for ukraine going, but a lot of interest continuing on those four unmanned objects in the sky. a couple of things came out of that. you heard him say there s an increasing focus that we have, and we heard the president outline four things yesterday t
national tension for the local stature of the defendant gets grazed south carolina tierney murdaugh and the depravity of his from slaughtering his wife and son. the trial ended, as you see, they re with murdaugh in cuffs taken back to jail with sentencing tomorrow after a remarkably speedy verdict, just three hours of deliberation. then this. guilty verdict. a verdict, guilty, verdict, guilty, verdict guilty. guilty on all four counts, including two counts of murder, in just a short time ago prosecutors including south carolina s attorney general spoke to reporters. justice was done today, it doesn t matter who your family is, it does not matter how much money you have, or people think you have. it does not matter what you think, how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, justice will be done and south carolina. kristen waters, the prosecutor about three hours was coming. now before we talk about details of the testimony, and what com
fight for the speakers dpafbl house speaker kevin mccarthy put that hard fought victory to work and announced a piece of legislation that is at the heart of the republican platform. standing in front of the portrait of george washington the speaker described rights. so many parents were attacked, call terrorists because they simply wanted to go to a school board meeting to be heard on what s going on. one thing going on in this country is education is a great equalizer and we want parents to be empowered, and that s what we re doing today, that you have a say in your kids education, not government, and not telling you what to do. the irony here is almost too obvious to explain. here s a bill introduced by the speaker of the house changing the way parents children are taught in school. mccarthy is literally the government telling them what to do, and he s not alone. in the past several months there s been a wave of republican led bills attacking schools and attacking educa
weapon, the dna evidence was confusing. was that just a defense line of argument, or did you also see this case as unusually circumstantial? in the closing the prosecution said to the jury circumstantial evidence is just as powerful as direct evidence, and he had to because that s what s in the jury instructions. what he wanted to say and what i think he could have said is that circumstantial evidence is often more powerful than direct evidence. direct evidence is eyewitness testimony. it s inherently unreliable. circumstantial evidence is about people lie but things do not lie. and the things in this case did not lie, the on-star data, the snap chat video, all the steps murdaugh was taking around his campus there at his estate, those things could not lie. and when confronted with those murdaugh took the stand supposedly to explain them away but his explanation was i lied.
wasn t on it, and then ten witnesses testified that was his voice. finally, he sat there listening to all that testimony and figure, he better get on that stand and say, okay. that s me i think also that 9-1-1 call was really important, we did hear a little clip of it in that story. that s important because a long time law partner alec murdaugh, you hear him on the 9-1-1 call. you hear him on there saying i check them both. i check their pulse, he says that later to investigators. mark ball, a friend, a fellow law partner testified that, alex murdaugh kept changing his story to him, one day, he told me check maggie first, then he told him another day he told him he checked paul first. that was really critical. there were inconsistencies, and also the gps data that came in very late, on star data being given to the prosecution very late in their case, in the last couple days, showed that alec murdaugh arrived at the kennels, anderson, just 20 seconds before calling 9-1-1. the question