this is america s newsroom. so finally the prosecution will rest its case. after the jury took a field trip to the crime scene. they toured the kennels where they say alex murdered his son and wife. he told investigators he wasn t near there. he had to reverse that story on the hand. they paint him as a serial liar with the means, motive and opportunity. this defendant, on the other hand, has fooled everyone everyone, everyone who thought they were close to him and everyone who thought they knew who he was. he has fooled them all. and he fooled maggie and paul, too. and they paid for it with their lives. dana: team fox coverage. nancy grace is here with analysis. let s begin with jonathan serrie in atlanta to set the scene for us. good morning, dana and bill. in their closing arguments, the defense for alex murdaugh are expected to push their theory that perhaps two shooters were involved with the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh and that the initial crime scen
any of them here? i m sure some of them are. yes, sir. half of them? there are a substantial number of charges here and some in hampton and allendale, there may be others i m not thinking of right now. we might have worn out our welcome here. i will take this opportunity to thank the sheriff here and all of the court officials and really everyone i ve met and dealt with while here in carleton county have just been great. we ll schedule some of the other matters. i know the scheduling is complicated and you sacrificed quite a bit to be able to be here defending mr. murdaugh, as well as the attorney general s office with all the other many, many things and obligations you have. and to be able to have the attorney general here, allen wilson, for the period of time that he has devoted to being here along with everyone else, it has been quite a sacrifice. but there are victims whose cases deserve to be heard. and this case has jumped some of those other cases, perhaps jump
bill: thank you for the plug. where were these people when i was in school? find that out. dana: surging crime and mounting safety concerns giving rise to growing fear in cities across america as police departments struggle to maintain law and order. now a violent crime has those who live in washington calling our nation s capital a war zone. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. that went fast. the first hour. here we go. bill: are you great today. dana: great. bill: i m bill hemmer. crime on the rise in d.c. homicides, car thefts, violent crime all up sharply in the past year. one d.c. council member calling for the national guard to help address the city s troubling epidemic of crime and violence. man, a war zone. those who have not been affected by it directly, you will be directly or indirectly if we don t do something now. our government has to step up. our police department has to step up and our residents have to step up. dana:
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