just ahead on cnn newsroom verdict, guilty. verdict guilty. our criminal justice system worked tonight. it gave a voice to maggie and paul paul murdaugh who were brutally murdered. we didn t hear anything until plywood crashed through our window. the fbi foiling an alleged plot to kill jewish government officials in michigan. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is 4:00 a.m. in south carolina where alex murdaugh will find out whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison. the jury found him guilty of murder in the killings of his wife and son. murdaugh will not face the death penalty. prosecutors have indicated that they will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole instead. after the verdict was reached, the lead prosecutor celebrated the jury s decision. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you thin
we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. we did win this election. (audience cheering) we want all voting to stop. we don t want them to find any ballots at four o clock in the morning and add them to the list, okay? (crowd cheering) reporter: millions of votes still being counted, but the legal battle already under way. reporter: president trump and other republicans have filed more than thirty election fraud lawsuits, and judges keep throwing them out for lack of evidence. reporter: the president and his allies are casting doubt on the integrity of the election itself, fueling unfounded conspiracy theories of cheating and fraud- jamie raskin: the president is trying to stop the counting of tens of millions of ballots, and that obviously is an outrageous assault on democracy itself. we must stand by the popular vote and we must stand by the popular vote as it translates through our complicated electoral college system. there were all
jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
Been told to leave bakhmut. for further into the city. and ukrainian troops have been building new defense lines west of the city. special forces soldier tells cnn a russian missile has blown up a vital supply bridge. for more, we have scott mclean with me. all eyes on washington today because these are two key players behind ukraine. yeah, and look, if you can believe it, this is actually the first time that the german chancellor is in washington since the full-scale invasion began and a heck of a lot has changed in a year. you will remember the germans were extremely hesitant to send large packages of equipment and weaponry to ukraine. they were even hesitant at first before the invasion began to actually cancel the nord stream two natural gas pipeline from russia and now it seems that things have shifted. but what schultz and joe biden have in common, while they are
Jamie raskin: i was drowning in agony and grief at the time. i did not know whether i would be able to do anything again of meaning or substance in my life after losing tommy. that s why i say that pelosi threw me a lifeline in a way because, i mean, she basically said, we need you. (truck engines idling) reporter: washington is ramping up an almost unprecedented security operation