resistance effort. that s tomorrow at 10 pm eastern here on msnbc and streaming on peacock. peacock is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight. bombshell testimony from a murder suspect. taking the stand in his own defense, telling the jury he lied and stole, but he didn t kill his wife and son. will they buy? it then the tucker tapes. congressman jamie raskin is here to respond to speaker mccarthy s move to put forward the thousand hours of january 6th footage into the hands of one fox news host. and disgraced crypto king sam bankman-fried with four new criminal charges, some related to political donations. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with more moving testimony from a defendant and a double murder case making national headlines. alex murdaugh, the former well to do south carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son took to stand in his o
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
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
75 witnesses, 800 photographs and exhibits but yet as you mentioned the jury needed less than three hours to reach its vertex. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant indictment for murder guilty, guilty, indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, guilty, guilty. reporter: alex murdaugh was immediately handcuffed and led from the court. no obvious signs of emotion on his face. as he contemplated the reality that the jury simply did not buy his excuses for the initially lying to the police about his whereabouts and movements on the night is why and youngest son were shot to death. murdaugh was portrayed as a serial liar by the prosecution who painstakingly went through murdaugh s long history of stealing millions of dollars from his law partners and from his clients and the attorney said if marc spent so much of his life telling lies, the jury should conclude he was lying again now. and to emphasize that point, they showed
accountable for the deaths, terrorist, cartel killers crossing into the united states and those unimaginable numbers of humanity flowing in illegally. while policies under biden defy reality. democrats taking the opportunity to attack the majority party again and again and again. at every turn this extreme republican majority fails to offer genuine solutions and resorts to political theater. the republican majority seems interested only in showboating. unfortunately this hearing is nothing more than a distraction. republicans resort to political stunts at the border and theatrical hearings lairing this one. republicans in congress seem intent on demonizing migrant families. an ongoing and blatant attempt to use fear tactics to scare us into turning immigrants away. we have a broken immigration system because republicans want us to. so they can hold these hearings to mask the fact that they have no affirmative agenda that actually helps people. harris: that was p