wife and son to hide financial crimes. the prosecutor is seeking to go after alex on this comes back to the notion that he did have a motive, he did have a reason and he did have a world that was closing in on him as again, the details of his financial improprieties and embezzling were coming to life and known by his wife and indirectly by his own son and the separate drugs issue, this break will be about 15 minutes or so. i want to get the read from ted williams what he makes of this argument that the prosecutor is making. that this storm got to the point that he did what he did and he outlined the storm. but it dragged on awhile. he s trying to map the storm out for the jury. how do you think it went? you know, neil, i think mr. waters has put on a compelling case here by the prosecution here. he has laid out a road map for this jury to be able to follow. you know, you have to ask yourself, when is alex murdaugh lie something when his lips are moving. i say that to say th
phone locks at 8:49 and 31 seconds, around that same time, and she never answers another text, never sends another text, never makes another phone call never receives another phone call. three minutes, ladies and gentlemen, three minutes, after a video shows he s at the scene with the victims and told everybody he was never there. never there. credibility ladies and gentlemen. what happens? you ll hear evidence that alex s phone conspicuously he didn t have a lot of activity from about 8:09 p.m. until 9:02 p.m. and if he was at the kennels, which the evidence will show, why is his phone not with him? why is it not showing activity? but you will hear that at 9:02. all of a sudden his phone starts to pick up activity. 9:02 the calls he starts moving at 9:04:40 calls maggie s phone, doesn t answer, of course, doesn t answer it. he calls his father randolph in the house but doesn t appear there s an answer there. he calls maggie again at 9:06. remember he s just a third of a mile
him and he deserves it. he put these people through hell. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, august 5, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where we re getting more revelations in the january 6 investigation including this cnn exclusive. donald trump s lawyers are now in direct talks with the justice department for the very first time. sources tell cnn that they are discussing the claims of executive privilege which he hopes will stop members of his inner circle from testifying about their conversations. we know that the federal investigators have subpoenaed trump s white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy patrick philbin to answer questions about schemes to overturn the 2020 election and there is more, sources tell cnn trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. the former president apparently skeptical grilling his legal team about whether they think that he will actually
jurorses in this case. if one holds it up. i can tell you it would be considered a hung juriry and this case would be retried by those prosecutors down there. i don t think under any scenario, if it s a hung jury that he s off the hook. neil: okay. thank you very much for that, ted williams. if you can stand by. i want to go to jonathan serrie following this from atlanta here. jonathan, there s a lot more questions that are raised when we have these questions that are raised, right? the timeline of this, he could have done it. he was there. appeared to have been there at the time his wife and son were outside this kennel here. there s a lot that you can make hoff the timeline that would allow him to do this. then you re going to hear the defense soon saying, how do you explain the two different guns? how do you explain you take it from there.
basically disregard everything they heard from the prosecutor. he said look, these are not facts. these are theories and then he did something i thought was really good. he had mr. murdaugh stand up and personalized him. he said look at this guy, this is not the guy that would butcher and brutalize his son that he was just riding around in a car with bonding. he wouldn t shoot his son in the head so his brains literally would explode out of his head. we talked about the amount of blood that would be on anyone that executed someone in that fashion, then he talked about the timeline, that the timeline doesn t work. that there wasn t enough time for someone to commit these brutal murders, go back to their home, clean up their body, change their clothes and get in the car and exit that property. so he gave the jurorses lots of things they could use to create doubt. and basically said look, sitting here right now, he is innocent, he did not do this. so i think that was a very powerful openi