invaded ukraine. the u.s. secretary of state eye to eye with the russian foreign minister. we ll get an update on their talks and the state of the war from key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. tonight the alleged anti-semitic plot uncovered in michigan is adding to fears for the safety of jewish americans and elected officials. cnn s pablo sandoval has all the details on the threats he s accused of making. reporter: tonight officials foil an alleged plot. a federal complaint filed in eastern michigan naming jack eugene carpenter ii as a defendant. sources telling cnn he was arrested just a day after allegedly posting disturbing anti-semitic threats online using the handle tempered reason. a law enforcement source telling cnn among those specifically targeted by carpenter michigan attorney general damon nestle. i was a target of the heavily armed defe
courtroom today. reporter: wolf, defense attorney jim griffon he delivered the closing arguments and had key moments. certainly he raised some doubt with the jury about time of death. we know the prosecutor said maggie and paul s phone stopped working around 8:49. so that s when they believed they were both deceased. there was no phone activity beyond that time, and so the defense attorney said today you know what that doesn t mean they were dead. maybe they put their phones down. just because your phone is showing no activity doesn t mean your dead. that s what he told the jury. he tried to at least explain away alex murdaugh s lies about not being at the kennel that night around the time of the murders. the defense attorney said it was because of his drug addiction and his addiction to opioids that s why he lied. and finally he also once again breathed new life into this theory for the jury, a theory the defense has put out that this was the work of two shooters. watch this. a sh
this is what we knew would happen in the protocol that could have happened if the jury had a question about this. we are told at this point that the jury has signaled to the clerk of court again at 6:41 p.m. that they have reached a verdict in the alec murdoch double murder case. he is charged with shooting and killing his 22-year-old son paul and his wife maggie nearly six weeks of the court proceeding and witnesses in the defense and the state presenting the case we are hoping to hear from the jury and the judge raising we will stay in close touch with you were all over this, we appreciative very much. we will take a quick break, much more after this.
300 blackout right here because he is so smart and so diabolical that he s going to stage it so it looked like two shooters. so alex has to put the 300 blackout back down, pick up the shotgun and shoot paul. where in the world does that scenario reside other than in mr. waters mind? it doesn t. it doesn t. you know, the most common sense thing here is there were two shooters because there were two guns. reporter: and wolf, i ve also just learned from a source familiar with the deliberations that the judge has informed it jury that they are welcome to deliberate until 10:00 p.m. tonight. as of now, wolf, no plans to bring in any dinner or provide any dinner for the jury, and also, wolf, i m told they ve asked for monitors, which could mean that they are looking to
ministers said today. end this war of aggression. engage in meaningful diplomacy that can produce a just and durable peace. now, the secretary also encouraged the russian foreign minister to reverse russia s decision to effectively pull out of the new start treaty. they announced that just earlier this month with the secretary of state reminding the foreign minister of russia that the u.s. and russia have engaged in arms control talks for many years dating back to the cold war even when there have been turbulent times between the two countries. and then when it comes to paul wheelened, an american still wrongfully detained in russia has been there for more than four years now and the secretary of state has been very clear in saying he wants him to come home. you know secretary blinken and foreign minister lavrov has been in similar conferences over the past year. why did secretary blinken approach lavrov this time the. that s such a great question,