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what the voters want? at the same time, it s a legal challenge, not a political one, that may pose the biggest danger to the only other declared candidate, donald trump. what s the special counsel s latest request from a judge say about the possibility that trump faces criminal charges? and we re watching the white house where the president could face questions from reporters just a few minutes from now. under pressure to talk publicly about the shootdowns in the sky. new nbc reporting about the internal debate over whether he should answer those questions. so a lot going on on this wednesday, but we start with republicans facing critical questions about the future of their party as newly announced presidential candidate nikki haley hits the campaign trail for the first time, officially giving the gop something they haven t had in nearly seven years. an alternative to donald trump. we re ready, ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past, and we are m
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crime. legally this case appears to be the weakest of the cases trump may be facing, but the indictment has not been read or witnesses not heard and evidence not been examined. or cross examined. what we know is that trump s prosecutor opened his tenure in office by announcing all of the laws he would not enforce, those he would ignore, ignores the law gives others long distances to ignore the fact. when you ignore the law and the facts, you don t have a justice system, ours appears teetering on brink of being another political tool to protect friends and punish foes, when that is opposite of a real justice system, we don t prosecutor lock people up based on the chance of a crowd or political wims of a progressive prosecutor. or at least we should not. joining us now two men who care about the justice system, they used 2, in it, former prosecutors anni an andy mccarthy, what are you expecting when the indictment is made public? i think based on the reporting that we ve
is. i can promise you i would hurt myself before i would hurt one of them. the alex murdaugh trial in the deep south captivating the nation. there are a lot of conversations i had where i misled my clients and i stole their money. reporter: a case of weltd, po wealth, power, privilege, and murder. once i lied i continued to lie. reporter: but is there enough evidence to convict the man at the center of it all. i didn t shoot my wife or my son anytime ever. reporter: tonight we lay out the facts, the mysterious clues, and the trial s stunning turns in this cnn prime time special. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates and closing arguments today in the double murder trial, and they will resume tomorrow and come after five weeks of tense, emotional, and graphic moments. as the jury of 12 in walterboro, south carolina, will soon decide alex murdaugh s fate. for the very first time today, they visited the scene of the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh trav