good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the defense with its final chance to keep alec murdaugh out of prison on murder charges. his lawyer picking apart the prosecution s theory about why he would have killed his wife and son and accusing state police of faking the evidence, the very latest from south carolina as we get close to jury deliberations. plus, president biden heading back to his old stomping grounds on capitol hill this hour, his mission and his message focused squarely on keeping democrats in charge in 2024. and as if delays and cancellations aren t enough to worry about, multiple cases of weapons trying to be smuggled to planes, a near collision, dangerous turbulence, the latest worries for an already exhausted flying public, more on the search for answers and for someone to fix this mess coming up. but, we begin at the alec murdaugh double murder trial. the defense had e wrapped up its closing arguments on an emotional note.
tower like many of the mass murderers who followed his footsteps, charles whitman shot and killed his wife, shot and killed his mother. the mass murderer in sandy hook, in connecticut, shot and killed his mother before going to the elementary school they are to murder 20 kindergarten and first grade students. and six adults working at the school. the latest adults reports indicate that as many as 18 children and three adults were shot and killed today. at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the town of 15,000 people, about 60 miles from the mexican border, with some reports indicating that the children were murdered, and were mostly in grades three and four. the mass murder of children in sandy hook changed connecticut senator chris murphy s focus in the senate, where he has become the since leading expert on this uniquely american way of death, being shot to death at school. senator murphy rose on the senate floor today, without a prepared speech, and said this. the
or email me at victoria@bbc.co.uk the queen responds to harry and meghan s damaging allegations about life in the royal family and says the matter will be dealt with privately staff at the sellafield nuclear site tell the bbc a toxic culture of bullying could let serious safety concerns go unreported. and coming up this hour.. the small english town where more than 70 women have had their private, often nude, images stolen and shared online by people living in their town. a serving metropolitan police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a woman in south london. 33 year old sarah everard was last seen leaving a friend s house in clapham last wednesday. in the past half hour, the met s assistant commisioner has cold the development shocking and deeply disturbing and told reporters they really hope sarah is still alive. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. yesterday evening, police issued two new pictures of sarah everard. in o
Immunity from these lawsuits, chris. what s the practical application of this, tali? as ken just described, this is a first step to whether the lawsuit can proceed against president trump at all, and i do think it s consequential, chris, that the appeals court asked the justice department to weigh in on what it thought was a hard question, signaling that it s really interested in what the department has to say, and now it means that president trump will obviously push back, but if he is not absolutely immune, then we can expect fact development and discovery around what he said on january 6th, and whether it fits into liability under this unusual statute, the ku klux klan act of 1871 that is meant to protect government officials from interference with their ability to do their job. there s another development involving the former president and some people say it might be a sign that the manhattan d.a.
Took the gunman down and killed him, lawrence. tony, what are you expecting overnight and into tomorrow in terms of more fact development in the case? facts that will be made public? well, authorities are of course going to be going through the scene and painstakingly so, all night. but of course the other extraordinarily tragic dimension of this, lawrence, is that they are also now going about the horrific process of identifying these victims and notifying their parents. of course, keep in mind that