griff: took the jury less than three hours to convict him of the murder of his wife and son. ainsley: charles watson is outside of the court house in walter borough, south carolina. what is the latest? what are you expecting this morning will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole when alec murdaugh is sentenced behind me this morning for the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. after thursday s verdict alec was remanded almost immediately and let out ever the cool tan county courthouse he is staring at 30 years to life in prison after the jury came back guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. scene of the murders after voice was caught snapchat video moments of before his wife and son were killed. son buster sat a few rows behind him with a deflated look on his face. his lawyers tried to throw a hail mary with a request for a mistrial lack of evidence. judge newman thought otherwise
president biden downplayed that balloon s significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? no, yeah, absolutely. it s the right call. i mean, it s interesting what we don t know, as you indicated, we need a lot of answers. what s very revealing though and concerning is that this we did not pick this up before it entered u.s. air space which is very similar to the historical record we were able to put together after the spy balloon transversed the entire swath of united states. we went back and looked at what s the history of chinese fleet balloons, and we found several of them that had, in
be controversial. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we have to end this. what happened to paul pelosi s despicable, unacceptable. unfortunately, it has become a more dangerous place me have to do everything we can to lower the rhetoric, have a civil conversation but make sure people are safe. we are counting down to midterms, now just nine days away. we are looking at the biggest issues driving people to the polls. a new abc abscess poll shows the economy, inflation, and abortion as the top three concerns, respectively. today the chairs of both republican and democratic campaign committees gave their message to voters. exploding cost of living, a crime wave in our major cities that is the result of this defund the police nonsense. those are the issues that are top of mind for every voter in this country, that is why they are going to show up on november 8th. that is why democrats a republicans are going to win in the midterms. we will pla
with hours to go, the final round of frenetic campaigning for the us mid term elections is under way ahead of the in person polls opening on tuesday. tens of millions of votes have already been cast. but there s still plenty to play for. earlier, president biden spoke at a rally in maryland, in support of the democratic candidate for governor, wes moore. he told the crowd that the election is not a referendum, it s a choice of two very different visions for america. biden, who has avoided campaigning in several swing states as his approval rating continues to lag, travelled to the reliably democratic state, where the nominee is widely expected to win back the republican held governorship. former president trump is speaking in ohio at a rally to support the republican jd vance for senator. he spoke to the crowd about immigration, claiming that president biden and the democrats have not done enough to stop migrants and drugs from entering the us across the mexico border. there
all important. unlike you, there s no one thin that crosses the board. domestic ask about one policy t multiple issues and all important. fox news contributor joe concha has thoughts about the president s reaction enjoins us the homelessness in california is so out of control and the left is calling it a crisis. fox new @ night investigates what s going on in the big cities including potential remedies it to the ever-growing problem. what would you say if i told yo one toilet, one sync it would cost as much as the average hom in san francisco. we thought the same thing. we called in the fox new @ nigh common sense department for tha one. plus an update to a story idea for tucker carlson tonight on the award-winning journalist missing since the fbi reportedl seized classified information i a heavily underrated. we begin tonight with president biden that the big release of that 15 million more barrels of oil from the strategic petroleu reserve. kevin corke is live in the na