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
msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. developing this hour new report from the january six committee s questions swirl over whether donald trump will formally answer a subpoena from the panel. the former president avoiding the question in the 14-page response to the committee. a bit earlier today panel member reports trump testified live could be an option. that is going to be a negotiation i will only address that when we know for sure whether not to the president has tried to push this on to our lives. he s made it clear he has nothing to hide. so we are coming on the day we asked him to come in. he pushes off the on that we ll figure what to do next. also new today another member of the committee was pressed on why the committee did not vote to subpoena vice president mike pence. i think that is comparing apples to oranges. the former president was the perpetrator and the central figure in orchestrating the effort to ove
ireland. then we will see that rain working south, mixing with the hot air, turning things thundery and lively overnight friday into the start of the weekend. for those of you that don t like the heat, that should see things cooling off as well. all change this week. we stop fairly ambivalent, hot up, and by saturday, back to square one. mice saturday, back to square one. nice for some but saturday, back to square one. nice for some but not saturday, back to square one. nice for some but not for saturday, back to square one. nice for some but not for everybody. susan, thank you. a reminder of our top story: the prime minister says changes to the rules on goods crossing the irish sea will be easy to implement. the eu says it could break international law.- the eu says it could break international law. ., ., , ., international law. not a big deal. we can fix international law. not a big deal. we can fix it international law. not a big deal. we can fix it in internat
other things that are so seated with his family and its name, people have to understand that the jury is not necessarily going to be looking at all of that. so as you said, all they need is one. just one hold out. we end up with the hung jury, he walks away. now this is hardly going to be the end of his legal troubles as he has a number of other things it he has to deal with. but as far as this criminal case, it very well could happen. as far as life in prison with no parole, blake, he did decide to take the stand. so what is the defenses strategy? was there a question like? like charles said, a lot of their questioning has focused on painting alex murdaugh as a loving father, a loving husband who could not have possibly done this to his wife and son. as charles again said, alex murdaugh comes from a very influential family who has very deep roots in this area and again, he only needs to
i m sorry to both of our families. . most of all, i m sorry to max and i would never intentionally do anything to her either one of them ever. ever. so sorry to mags, pop-up, uppity, not talking about the fact that he had been stealing millions and millions of dollars, do you think people are gonna buy that? as i watched it live, and as i watched it now, i said to myself, are you sorry to the people you ripped off to the tune of millions? i couldn t ask but help myself that, that is going to be the question in the minds for the jurors to really think about,