good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the defense with its final chance to keep alec murdaugh out of prison on murder charges. his lawyer picking apart the prosecution s theory about why he would have killed his wife and son and accusing state police of faking the evidence, the very latest from south carolina as we get close to jury deliberations. plus, president biden heading back to his old stomping grounds on capitol hill this hour, his mission and his message focused squarely on keeping democrats in charge in 2024. and as if delays and cancellations aren t enough to worry about, multiple cases of weapons trying to be smuggled to planes, a near collision, dangerous turbulence, the latest worries for an already exhausted flying public, more on the search for answers and for someone to fix this mess coming up. but, we begin at the alec murdaugh double murder trial. the defense had e wrapped up its closing arguments on an emotional note.
marjorie taylor greene blamed the president for the at the times of two men who overdosed on fentanyl. but then the president comes back last night and he fact checks her. listen. isn t she amazing? ooh. she s very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl that i killed her sons. well, the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration. by the way, as we see senator chuck schumer, the democratic leader go into that room with the president, we asked or marjorie taylor greene s spokesperson was asked about the fact that she misstated that and basically responded with expletives and nobody cares about fact checking, but beyond that, conventional wisdom might say don t give them oxygen. don t respond, but did the president do the right thing? and is that a playbook for
and also the victims families of those who overdosed on fentanyl and heroin. that needs to be a grassroots push from the ground up for those senators in washington who now home relaxing when they should be in washington working like the president so they feel from their base what matters and what counts. we should know right now. we should have every senator make a yes or no vote on the wall. think about the 60,000 people that died as a result of overdoses. that s more than all the people who died wearing the u.s. uniform in vietnam. we should have all the pressure put on these senators in those states who are not repaired to protect americans and will protect illegals who want to give free passage to ms-13.
homicides, felonies, whatever, and also the victims families of those who overdosed on fentanyl and heroin. that needs to be a grassroots push from the ground up for those senators in washington who now home relaxing when they should be in washington working like the president so they feel from their base what matters and what counts. we should know right now. we should have every senator make a yes or no vote on the wall. think about the 60,000 people that died as a result of overdoses. that s more than all the people who died wearing the u.s. uniform in vietnam. we should have all the pressure put on these senators in those states who are not repaired to protect americans and will protect illegals who want to give free passage to ms-13.
nancy and chuck, you don t want to put a wall up to stop that? we have spent tens of billions of dollars to fight heroin. but you don t want to spend $5 billion to put up a wall to stop heroin for good? nancy and cluck, you both know this year i.c.e. agents seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in the united states. you don t want a wall to stop it. don t you want to stop the human traffickers, the child smuggling and the coyotes raping young women, claiming that they are family? isn t this what every law-abiding american wants in what is with this open border nonsense. and you call us racist, heartless and cruel. i ll tell you what s heartless. the number of americans that are killed by drugs pouring over our