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america reports with my partner for this friday, how are you today? i m good, well, thanks for joining us on this friday. welcome to america reports. this has been fascinating to watch, day 2 as the prosecution now cross examinates alex, and what s interesting to me, jonna spilbor said the prosecutor is seemingly getting outlawyered by his own witness here. let s bring in now criminal defense attorney phil holloway to get his take on what we have seen so far, as they take a break there in south carolina. phil, you know, yesterday you said that you thought that he needed to testify. he s admitted to stealing from clients, admitted to lying repeatedly, do you still think that was a good idea? yes, i do, good afternoon. thanks for having me back. i think so far the defendant is doing quite well as a witness in this case and honestly this is a master class how not to conduct a cross examination. open ended questions, and even in law school in trial advocacy classes young
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
hunt has more on the story for us. what can you say? well, jacqui, the missouri attorney general is trying to force out kim gardner. he has not actually done so yet. he had given her until noon local time to resign and having not received that resignation at 12:01 central time he began the legal process to have her removed. the a.g. saying gardner has been negligent in her duties as circuit attorney and has repeatedly let down the people of st. louis. this is about the rule of law and about justice. instead of protecting victims, which is her obligation, she s creating more victims by neglect in office. the final straw for the a.g. appears to have been an incident over the weekend in which 17-year-old janay edmonson, in town for a volleyball terrific was horrifically injured as a result of a car crash on this security camera video that happened as she walked downtown with her family. she lost both her legs when she was pinned between two vehicles. the driver who caused