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don t come to me, i ll come to you. the president makes the trip up pennsylvania avenue as democrats set their priority list. senate majority leader chuck schumer was in the room, and now he will be here on the lead . a plot to kill foiled in michigan as authorities arrest a man they say wanted to kill jewish lawmakers including fwf michigan s attorney general. after six weeks of testimony and more than 70 witnesses, now the jury gets the case in the double murder trial for alex murdaugh. welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we start with our national lead. moments ago the jury began deliberations in the murder trial of alex murdaugh. the jury will have to decide if murdaugh killed his wife maggie and son paul. more than 70 witnesses testified in the trial, which spanned more than six weeks. murdaugh admitted on the stand he lied to investigators about where he was the night of the murders, but he has fervently denied he committed the killin ....
he was able to be a witness for himself. pentagon officials reportedly investigating whether cargo planes made in china are being used for espionage. republicans say this is another example of china flexing on the white house. it s time for joe biden to take a firm stand against chinese communist. deeper s union boss randi weingarten attempting to slam ron desantis on twitter but it backfires big time. writing this grammatically inaccurate disaster of a post quote. he is expanding gun access. we need to focus our education on the basics. going off to the spirit in the sky going to go when i die. brian: someone brought all their colored pencils to work today. look at that mamma general that and mauve. steve: that s red, white, and blue. brian: that s purple. although d.c. is not purple. d.c. is really blew. it s dark now. ainsley: depends on the chamber. brian: that s true, too. i m talking about the people of washington, d.c. not all about politi ....
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 verdi ....
it s not me. we re not destroying our country. it s the president of the united states who is destroying our country. it s the u.s. senate that is destroying our country. it s the news media. it s the democratic party, academia, hollywood, wall street, and many of our big corporations. wow. florida senator rick scott starting his cpac speech with a light hearted and optimistic tone. whew. bulgaria. plenty of maga messaging at the conference, just as you can see. not a lot of people there to hear it. not a lot. that was dark. that was really dark. donald trump will take the stage tomorrow. very reagan esque. that s where he said oh, wait, he said we re a city shining on the hill. right, for all the world to see. no, that was not that. tone is a little different there, okay. incredibly different. anyhow, this trump appearance tomorrow is following a campaign announcement clearly influenced by florida governor ron desantis. we ll explain what s go ....
Facing what 99 other charges for financial crimes and screwing people out of money and all sorts of stuff. ainsley: they are looking into some other cases, too. steve: suspicious. ainsley: suspicious cases that may or may not be affiliated with the family. brian: does he have money left to pay his lawyers? ainsley: good question, brian. the satterfield did get money. i don t know if that s insurance money. we interviewed attorney who lives in lexington, south carolina. they are have recovered a lot of the money millions of dollars. there is more yet to come. i know in one of the documentaries his law firm partner did say he is working hard. we saw that when he took the stand i m working hard to pay everybody back. steve: ch rkwhich, ultimatelf alex murdaugh was out of money the public defender would be appointed and the people of south carolina would pay his bill. ainsley: that s right? steve: more legal peril for that guy and great interview. ainsley: thank you. ....