and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did. and it came inside our territorial waters. will: so, what is this thing? is this another chinese balloon in the pentagon says they have no clue or they are just playing stupid. can you say definitively it was not a balloon? i don t at this point, considering the fact that we re still assessing the object. i don t want to get into characterizing it. will: so, they are calling it an object. we don t know what kind. an object could literally be anything. they say it was so lynn democratic call in shape. but, also, the size of a chevy malibu. apples and oranges here in terms of size. as i said, this was the size of a small car and it was over very sparsely populated area but also more critically over it was over water. but, it completely different size. the debris field much, much smaller. will: biden wasted no time in shooting down this so-called object.
weeks. it took less than three hours for the jury to announce a verdict. two counts murder. murdaugh faces a minimum sentence of 30 years. the judge has the option to put him away for life. it may have been his reversal on the witness stand. he admitted he was at the scene of the crime the night his wife and son were killed. that s the exact opposite of what he told police. bill: the verdict marks a stunning fall from grace from a prominent south carolina family. it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think, how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, justice will be done in south carolina and i think south carolina has shown to the nation and the world how a process can work and work well. dana: one of the jurors is peeling back the curtain on the deliberations. take a look here. we started deliberating going through the evidence and ever
any of them here? i m sure some of them are. yes, sir. half of them? there are a substantial number of charges here and some in hampton and allendale, there may be others i m not thinking of right now. we might have worn out our welcome here. i will take this opportunity to thank the sheriff here and all of the court officials and really everyone i ve met and dealt with while here in carleton county have just been great. we ll schedule some of the other matters. i know the scheduling is complicated and you sacrificed quite a bit to be able to be here defending mr. murdaugh, as well as the attorney general s office with all the other many, many things and obligations you have. and to be able to have the attorney general here, allen wilson, for the period of time that he has devoted to being here along with everyone else, it has been quite a sacrifice. but there are victims whose cases deserve to be heard. and this case has jumped some of those other cases, perhaps jump
coming up this hour, an honor that is long overdue, president biden will award a vietnam veteran with the medal of honor for his incredible bravery almost 60 years ago. we begin with breaking news out of south carolina where just in the last hour disgraced ex-lawyer alex murdaugh was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. after he was convicted of murdering his wife maggie and youngest son paul in a high profile case that captivated the country. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. before he was sentenced, murdaugh addressed the court this morning. i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son paul paul. pretty much all he said. last night in just under three hours
new york city. alex murdaugh in the initial hours now of what will be a lifetime behind bars. the judge piling on during sentencing calling the double murder defense an assault on the judicial system. we ve got a live report coming to you in just a minute. plus, reports that president biden has now tapped some of the most successful track governors in the country to help lay the groundwork campaign. and fury erupts again at a town hall in east palestine, residents whose patience is clearly being tested to the limit nearly a month after that toxic train crash. this has touched my family. this has touched my friends, and it will touch me for the cellular level when i get diagnosed with cancer, als or whatever is going to come down the road if i stay in this contaminated, toxic town. more on that and the failure of norfolk southern s ceo to show up, the second time he s avoided coming face-to-face with those residents. but we begin in south carolina with today s dramat