you re not compelled to say anything. but you have the opportunity to do so. i ll tell you again, i respect this court, but i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie, and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son pau-pau. and it might not have been you. it might have been the monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills. maybe you become another person. i ve seen that before. the person standing before me was not the person who committed the crime, though it s the same
ones we heard him repeat twice in court. i am innocent. he said i did not kill he said i did not hurt my wife maggie. i did not hurt pau-pau. the judge pushing back on that saying essentially the evidence here shows that you have lied, shows that you re duplicitous. chris. you know, bill, we ve talked a lot on this program about the big gamble, and south carolina attorney general alan wilson said murdaugh taking the stand was probably the nail in the coffin. do you think he s right? one juror said it took only 45 minutes actually to come to a verdict, so obviously it didn t help him. yeah, i mean, i don t in hindsight it wasn t the right thing. he went on the stand and had the jury believed him, we d be having a different outcome here. in hindsight, yeah, he probably shouldn t have taken the stand. at the time i can see the rationale for him taking the
the last administration did not. i think he will be shown historically to have been a very effective president. if the aliens landed in washington, d.c. tomorrow, and said take me to your leader. it would be embarrassing. my children were taken away from me. this is a war. act like it. do something. poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl. the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration, ha ha. is mexico helping us effectively with our fentanyl? they are helping us. i would hate to see whatnot helping looks like. bret: a verdict has been reached. defendant, indictment for murder. guilty. i m innocent. i would never hurt my wife maggie and i would never hurt my son pau pau. i sentence you to the state department of corrections for term of the rest of your natural life. bret: one week covering the news. we have some good news though.