announced that they had done so to the clerk. and now they are just waiting for court personnel to return to the courtroom, in which the jury will announce its verdict. they went in to deliberations at 3:50 eastern time this afternoon, so this seems like a relatively quick verdict for what was a very complicated and lengthy trial. prosecutors trying to prove that alec murdaugh killed his wife and son. they say to create a distraction as his admitted financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him. the murders took place on the same day that people from his law firm approached him and started questioning him about large sums of missing funds. alec murdaugh eventually admitted to stealing money from clients, from other attorneys, vulnerable individuals, some of his closest friends but throughout the trial he insisted and his attorneys insisted that he was not a murderer, that he would never bring any harm to his family. the defendant, mr. murdaugh, suggested that the killi
fentanyl overdoses today blamed the president for their death. she also said that hundreds of thousands of other kids have died on the president s watch. the president owes me an apology and all of the other parents who have lost their children. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene agrees. blaming their deaths on biden s refusal to, quote, stop the cartels from murdering americans every day by chinese fentanyl. she is very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl that that i killed her sons. well, the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration. ha ha ha. what a horrible human being. how can he sit there and joke about it. being. republican lawmakers are now piling on, quote, shameful and embarrassing. what, president biden, do you find amusing about this? the white house isn t too amused with continuing questions about covid-19 sor-ins which the fbi director now says likely came from a w
that that plays a big part of why. bret: well, philip holloway, jonna spilbor we appreciate you coming on last minute here as we get word that the jury has reached a verdict in the alec murdaugh trial in south carolina murdering accused of murdering his wife and son. for continuing coverage of this as the verdict comes in, we go to jesse watters primetime right now. jesse. jesse: thank you, bret. jesse: the fox news alert, a verdict has been reached in the trial of south carolina attorney alex murdaugh. murdaugh is accused of murdering his wife and his youngest son in an effort to cover up financial crimes. jury deliberations began just this morning so it looks like we are reaching a conclusion to this six-week trial. let s bring in jonathan serrie with the latest. jonathan? i had there, jesse. we got word from the pool liaison in the court that the jury reached a verdict at 6:41.
bret: breaking tonight, we are getting word from the pool that covers the trial of alec murdaugh that a verdict has been reached that the jury is coming back into the courtroom and that a verdict has been reached in this murder trial that all of us have been following for quite some time. no more than jonathan serrie has been from the very beginning of this case. surprised that the jury has reached a verdict this soon? yes, indeed. they were prepared. the court was prepared to go as late as 10:00 tonight. and if they hadn t reached a verdict by then that they would break until tomorrow but, again, our pool liaison reporting that at 6:41 p.m. the jurors reached a verdict. they announced this to the clerk of court. of course, we don t know what the verdict is. but our crew there outside the court house said that they saw the murdaugh family walking back into the courthouse. people returning to the