potential presidential campaign just ahead plus what we re learning about donald trump s deposition yesterday in new york after spending eight hours at the attorney general s office. and we ll have the latest on the arrest of the young air national guardsman suspected of leaking classified documents all right, good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 14th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire we begin in florida where ahead of a likely presidential run governor ron desantis signed a six-week abortion ban into law yesterday, a move that underscores just how controversial the move is. the typically boisterous desantis announced the decision with little fanfare last night, putting out this tweet just after 11:00, hours after the ban was approved by the gop controlled state legislature just two out of the 28 republicans in the florida senate voted against the bill, which makes exceptions for pregnancies involving rape or incest up until 15 weeks thosexes
i did i have a conversation with paul about cash? did you talk to him about cash and a problem with his tail prior to going down there. did you have any knowledge of that prior to going down there? i m not sure. as i sit here today i don t recall that but i don t i don t think so. when you first arrived in the golf cart where did you pull up to? i pulled up right where maggie was. which is where? she was standing in the spot where she could see in between the chicken coop and the storage room of the kennels. where the dogs were back up in the planted pines behind the kennels to the left of the chicken coop. and what did you do after that? i went back to the house. no, you pulled up, get out of the golf cart. when i pulled up i stayed on the golf cart. how long did you stay on the golf cart? however long i was down there. i got off to take the chicken from bubba? how long were you down there before you took the chicken from bubba? a very short t
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 moving testimony from a defendant and a double murder case making national headlines. alex murdaugh, the former well to do south carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son took to stand in his o
paw. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. ever. bret: breaking tonight, an all-day testimony, the south carolina lawyer accused of murdering his wife and son took the stand today. alex murdaugh admitted lying to authorities but insisted he did not kill his family. correspondent jonathan serrie has details tonight in what has been a very long day. good evening, jonathan. indeed, bret. a bold move by the defense putting their client on the witness stand and asking him some very direct questions. did you shoot a 300 blackout into her head causing her death? mr. good win, i didn t shoot my wife or son any time. in front of the attorney disbarred. bret: we have tape difficulties there. we will go back to jonathan serrie and once we figure that out we will go back to the piece. jonathan just to ask you a question about this. at times it was emotional. at times that testimony really got heated between the prosecution and alex murdaugh. ye
alex, we just heard you say i should have known. what are you referring to? i said, paul, paul, i should have known. what were you referring to? i was referring to paul got so many threats. he didn t take serious. i was just telling him, paul, paul, i should have known. i don t specifically remember saying that, but i can clearly hear myself say that. what kind of threats did you understand paul was receiving? paul got the most vile threats, the stuff that was on social media. you couldn t believe it. you couldn t believe it. it was so over the top, truthfully, we didn t think anything about it. it was just so crazy. people talking about what he was going to get and how they were going to do this and get him and it s stuff you really disr disregarded it because it s so over the top. thought it was so over the top. keep going please . when was the last time you talked to maggie? probably two hours ago. okay, you said about two hours ago you talked to them?