todd: harvard tries to move on from the controversy, students and donors are done and want someone to turn the campus around. you are watch ing fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley shimkus has the day off. claudine gay is out as president, her time at harvard is not over yet. that is rights, claudine gay may not be harvard s president, but she is not going anywhere. she will stay on payroll as a faculty member, a role expected to land her $800,000 per year. gay saying we need to heal from this period of tension and division and to emerge stronger. i had hoped with all my heart to lead that journey in partnership with you. i return to faculty and pledge to continue working alongside you to build the community we all deserve. gay s departure comes after weeks of growing plagiarism accusation and her response to antisemitism on campus. just six months after taking on that role, marking the shortest presidency in u.s. history. elise stefanik said it is still too lon
what the audience at cpac is hearing. plus we have a stunningly quick verdict in the alex murdaugh murder trial. we ll get expert analysis on this case in just a moment. and also ahead secretary of state antony blinken meet briefly with his russian counterpart for the first time since the start of the ukraine war. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 3rd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in south carolina where a jury has found disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant, indictment for murder fc code 16-3 verdict guilty. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted of two counts of weapons possession. the defense and prosecution addressed reporters outside the courtroom. we re very disappointed with the verdict.
and supporting prop d to build more affordable housing hi, everyone, it s all happening. it s 4:00 in new york on election day. the end of a campaign that has been like none other in recent history. more than 44 million people have already voted and millions more will have voted before the polls close in the next few hours in all 50 states. it has been an election season defined not just by the issues that dominate every election including the state of the economy, how people feel about the state of the economy, but it s also been defined by an unprecedented threat to income on the ballot and the first national election after the january 6th insurrection. in nearly every state there are republicans who have affirmed their commitment to this same big lie that led to that attack on the u.s. capitol. their races for governor, attorney general, and secretary of state that could have major implications on the next election, 2024, especially if the twice impeached ex-president as
live coverage. and aim jake tapper in washington. the united states still without a house speaker this hour and there is no sign that republicans are going to be able to settle on one any time soon. kevin mccarthy is going to come up short a fourth time. that s the vote we re watching right now. the hard-line opposition of about 20 rebels backing congressman byron donalds of florida this go-around. this vote is playing out as we re seeing quite an interesting split screen moment on the left side of your screen. you see senator senator minority leader mitch mcconnell at an event in kentucky with president biden there talking about the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was only passed because of democrats and republicans working together and now you see on the screen a place where bipartisanship is not happening, in fact, barely partisanship when it comes to republicans. cnn is tracking everything as it happens vote by vote. let s start with lauren fox. kevin mccarthy s a
that address the challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues. there will be a committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws that will be passed in the state of texas because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. we re not going to be here and talking about it and do nothing about it. we will be looking for the best laws that we can get past to make our communities and schools safer. [overlapping voices] universal background checks. [inaudible] governor abbott: let s be clear about a couple things. that show that these background checks. if everyone wants to seize on a particular strategy and assume that is the golden strategy right there, look at what happened in the santa fe shooting. a background check had no relevancy w