plan our lives better for us than we can plan for ourselves. shannon: that premise is at the heart of the time for leaders series which is asks is prominent conservatives where they believe the party should to go. our fight is not merely about 2022 and 2024, but it s about our future as a country and, therefore, the future of the world. please welcome ambassador nikki haley. [applause] shannon: many shared how their personal stories illustrate american ideals. as a brown girl growing up in a small southern town, i saw the promise of america unfold before me. shannon: others talked about the people they feel the party must champion. the republican party has assumed the mantel of this proud patriotic and populist tradition. we re the party of the common man, the worker, the farmer, the cop on the beat. shannon: and much of the focus has been on the current state of the party, hinting at its recent leadership. we are also so long overdue
plan our lives better for us than we can plan for ourselves. shannon: that premise is at the heart of the time for leaders series which is asks is prominent conservatives where they believe the party should to go. our fight is not merely about 2022 and 2024, but it s about our future as a country and, therefore, the future of the world. please welcome ambassador nikki haley. [applause] shannon: many shared how their personal stories illustrate american ideals. as a brown girl growing up in a small southern town, i saw the promise of america unfold before me. shannon: others talked about the people they feel the party must champion. the republican party has assumed the mantel of this proud patriotic and populist tradition. we re the party of the common man, the worker, the farmer, the cop on the beat. shannon: and much of the focus has been on the current state of the party, hinting at its recent leadership. we are also so long overdue
southern town. it s taboo. he is wearing it proud. somebody didn t like it. it clearly had to have been related to his sexuality. don t you believe? 100%. south carolina and wyoming are the only two states that have no hate crimes law. we have have no hate crimes law? we can t get one passed. we have been trying and begging and fighting. you are kidding me? no. what happened to steven smith? there s so much we don t know. we know bare bones. where is your emergency? we know he was found at 4:00 in the morning on sandy run road in hampton. he was about a mile from his car. he had died of horrific blunt force trauma to his head. his skull was fractured. his wallet was in his car.
you know, and that s how i met them. and stephen went to school with buster. buster is alex murdaugh s eldest son. the stephen smith case was reopened by s.l.e.d. as a result of something that was found at the double murder scene for maggie and paul murdaugh. so stephen died. and he was found july 7th of 2015. rumors were everywhere. everywhere. this is a small county. it s impossible that people didn t know what happened. people talk. what the talk has always been was that stephen had some sort of a relationship with a murdaugh. and that was going to get out. so they took him out? think how courageous stephen was. you re talking about a young man who is homosexual, who isn t hiding it, is very proud of who he is. you re talking about a small
you re going through hell just keep on going. it s the onion you keep peeling. you never get to the core. right. mike hemlep is the attorney for sandy smith. sandy s son, 19-year-old steven smith, was found lying in the middle of a hampton county road in july of 2015. the highway patrol s incident report notes that he suffered from blunt force trauma to the head. his death was initially deemed by the south carolina law enforcement division, or s.l.e.d., as a hit and run. steven s case, it was cold for quite some time, and now s.l.e.d. is taking another look at it because of what they say was something that was discovered after the double murder of maggie and paul murdaugh, which is really interesting. yeah. because it was like mind-blowing. and i d been begging them. you know? nobody returned my call. coming up you re talking about a young man who s homosexual. you re talking about a small southern town.