attorney. what s the back story on the allegations of financial fraud? as the prosecution ihas painted, this goes back years. despite his being born into a wealthy family, despite his success as an attorney, that is one of the key sticking points from the prosecution, painting him in that bad light. this man is wealthy, this man owns 1700 acre property and several others besides, and he is still using his position of trust, he is still using his personal skills with his own clients to take that money. he said on the stand, i don t exactly remember when or why i started doing this but at some point i did. that i would think is going to be an important question for the prosecution. trying to get out of the character of alex murdaugh, to get the point where why did you do this, when you have all of this wealth, we have this founded prestige and
people who were very vulnerable, people who are very trusting who wouldn t question him. people who suffered a grievous injuries and lost loved ones. they talked to the jury about how murdaugh was really good at reading people and feeding off their a motion. he can make anybody feel special and you know the like they were the only person in the room. so prosecutors even before all this have laid the groundwork to the jury that this guy is a master manipulator. you can t believe a word he says. and it tears you might see our crocodile tears and they have tried even before we get to the stage, limit the impact of that emotional appeal. and as you mentioned, they didn t get that for muster. buster did help the defense in a number of ways in terms of explaining things, explaining some of those behaviors and countering some of the
that he stole from. people who were very vulnerable, people who are very trusting who wouldn t question him. people who suffered a grievous injuries and lost loved ones. they talked to the jury about how murdaugh was really good at reading people and feeding off their a motion. he can make anybody feel special and you know the like they were the only person in the room. so prosecutors even before all this have laid the groundwork to the jury that this guy is a master manipulator. you can t believe a word he says. and it tears you might see our crocodile tears and they have tried even before we get to the stage, limit the impact of that emotional appeal. and as you mentioned, they didn t get that for muster. buster did help the defense in a number of ways in terms of explaining things, explaining some of those behaviors and countering some of the
in terms of whether they believe the sky. his son did not do him any favors because unlike the testimony you saw there, his son was extremely stop at almost to detach throughout this entire testimony. he needed to make a strong rally to try to connect with that jury and that s what you see him do. again, at the end of the day the question becomes is there one? avery, the prosecution does not want you to see some sympathetic s good old southern boy. they want to paint a picture of a cold blooded killer, an addict and a thief. what s their strategy being throughout? well, i think even before this cross-examination, the prosecution was laying the groundwork for you know, destroying murdaugh s credibility. throughout this trial, they ve been prepping the jury to not look at murdaugh and a favorable or sympathetic light. they ve been explaining over and over again the financial crimes, the type of victims
0 tomorrow night at this hour nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel will host a special report on assignment, ukraine s secret resistance. after spending time with ukrainians who joined a secret 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 movin