washington. disgraced south carolina lawyer and now convicted killer alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge handing down that sentence this morning after a jury needed less than three hours to find murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife, maggie, and his son, paul. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the retsst of your natural life. judge clifton newman notably getting very personal before handing down that sentence, talking about knowing alex murdaugh and his family and that alex was a well-respected and gregorius person, but the judge also made it clear that he agreed with that guilty verdict handed out by the jury. he accused murdaugh of duplicitous conduct in the courtroom and on the witness stand and he said the lies finally caught up with him. cnn s dianne galla
german chancellor olaf scholz to the white house. the world has changed a lot since their last face-to-face meeting, russia has plunged europe into its largest ground conflict since world war ii. today the two leaders will discuss now the strategies on how to best help ukraine in that fight. cnn s phil mattingly is over at the white house. phil, what s on the agenda today for this discussion? reporter: you know, abby, it s interesting, over the course of the last year there s certainly been a geopolitical transportation but also a transformation led by the chancellor at least rhetorically and in practice when it comes to defense-related issues in germany. that s what s so critical between the one to one relationship between the chancellor and president biden which by all accounts within the administration is quite solid, quite productive and they speak quite often. when you talk to folks about this meeting and what the expectations are, this is not a meeting of atmosphere ricks, ther
elections, the national atmosphere ricks, the president s unpopular. the momentum in this race those things favor glenn youngkin something is going to prevail and we will find out soon enough. bret: is it a canary in a coal mine? is it fair to put it in that category about looking closely at broader picture for 2022? jeff? is that for me? i m sorry, bret. i didn t hear you say my name. the white house doesn t think it is. they are trying to play it down or at least they are not saying that they think it is. broadly, everybody is going to be looking tharkts of course, that s one reason why this race is so significant. it s really important to the democrats and to the white house to say, look, our neighbors down the street here from the white house are supporting somebody who shares the same vision and the same agenda that president joe biden does. bret: bill, i have got to run. we heard it is noted. thank you very much. when we come back, using golf to help american military v
i might add, by the way, that the atmosphere ricks are a lot less stressful than in the united states. i actually agree with what the president said and i wish he would commit that to a written directive from him to the fbi. that s who the fbi works for, it s in the executive branch, works for the president. so it would be great if he would convert what he said verbally into a written directive to the fbi which could be published and, of course, if it were up to me, which it isn t, i would allow the fbi to conduct a full investigation as expeditiously as they can but with no limits on time or interviewees. i ve been the subject of an fbi investigation a couple times as a political appointee and i know them to be thorough, professional and methodical and if anybody can, you know, come
what rouhani s mission is to try to get some softening of the sentiment in the west to get the sanctions lifted. and if president obama were to grant him based upon all the atmosphere ricks and no substances that have come from him so far would be a mistake. a visit with the president of the united states is is a meaningful thing and should not be given lightly. is there a danger a.b., that if they meet then the president might get played in the same way the clinton administration got played by north korea back in the 1990s? right. that is a problem under tremendous pressure in the israelis prime minister netanyahu is worried about what kind of a trap the iranians are laying, that rouhani is really talking a great game and acting like he wants to open up his society, but it really is alli khomeini the supreme leader who makes all the decisions and not rouhani. syria as a back drop. if president obama doesn t have a guarantee of enforcement and is he getting the security council can