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six weeks. we are standing by for the court to resume in the verdict to be read. dianne gallagher as you know has been covering this from the very beginning she s outfront live in water bro south carolina outside of the courthouse. diane i understand the verdict came in a few weeks ago, a few hours of deliberations what else you understand is happening right here. as you can imagine this is a fluid situation, we have seen movement of the cameras inside of the courtroom signaling there is something going on but were focused on the seal every time we are in break. according to the pool at 6:41 p.m. the jury let the clerk of court no that they reached a verdict. we do not know what the verdict is, alex murdaugh facing four felony charges in a series of the murder of his wife maggie and his son paul, as you mentioned three hours of deliberation after lengthy closing arguments in the prosecution, the defense in a rebuttal from the prosecution this afternoon before the judg ....
announced that they had done so to the clerk. and now they are just waiting for court personnel to return to the courtroom, in which the jury will announce its verdict. they went in to deliberations at 3:50 eastern time this afternoon, so this seems like a relatively quick verdict for what was a very complicated and lengthy trial. prosecutors trying to prove that alec murdaugh killed his wife and son. they say to create a distraction as his admitted financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him. the murders took place on the same day that people from his law firm approached him and started questioning him about large sums of missing funds. alec murdaugh eventually admitted to stealing money from clients, from other attorneys, vulnerable individuals, some of his closest friends but throughout the trial he insisted and his attorneys insisted that he was not a murderer, that he would never bring any harm to his family. the defendant, mr. murdaugh, suggested that the ....
we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. elli ....
part of what happened here today, we started to do more often which is this dismantling of the cybercriminals infrastructure and sometimes that involves taking down dark net marketplaces. other times, it involves essentially removing malware from systems. but more and more, i think you can expect to see from the fbi and our partners situations where success and impact is achieved by more than just arrests. we re doing things like getting keys to victims, taking down infrastructure, seizing cryptocurrency, being much more creative and multiple disciplinary in how we attack the problem. i think that s what s called for and it s a direct outgrowth of the new no longer new, but cyber strategy that we rolled out a few years ago. on the second question, obviously i can t comment on any specific investigation. but we have had, for quite a number of years, any number of mishandling investigations, that is, unfortunately, a regular part of our counterintelligence division s ....
taking the fifth amendment would be a fool, an absolute for. tonight, the maga movement to move away from donald trump. then nobody tells me to do anything, i made a decision on my own, and i will have to live with it. george santos kicks himself off committee so that republicans can focus on their agenda of attacking ilhan omar. he just felt like that there was so much drama really over the situation and especially what we re doing to work to remove ilhan omar. plus congresswoman katie porter on today s first big hearing for the maga oversight committee, and he s a congressman accused of plotting a coup who had his phone seized by the fbi. i went to the door, there are three fbi agents, and they want to take my cell phone. tonight, the secret fight to gain access to scott perry s phone, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, we ll begin tonight with a little secret i want to let you in on, ready, here it is. there ....