being there for us. let s bring in brigadier general patrick ryder. thanks so much for being here. it was just a few days ago that we heard about how these m1 abrams tanks were too labor-intensive, too complex, too hard to refuel, and too hard to send to ukraine. what changed in the past couple of days? well, it s important to highlight too, that what we have been focused on is the near-term ri requirements for ukraine on the battlefield, the capabilities that they need to be immediately effective to address the things that sam highlighted. however, we do assess that ukraine requires a combination of armored personnel carriers, fighting vehicles, and tanks to be able to have the maneuver capability that will need to be successful, both in the near term and in the longer term in this fight, and so really what you are seeing here is the united states making a commitment, demonstrating its commitment to ukraine for the long-term, combined with the near-term capabilities that
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
that very day, stuff leading up a perfect storm that was gathering, much like the storms that are coming outside today. listen for that evidence. listen to that gathering storm that all came to a head june 7th 2021, the day the evidence will show he killed maggie and paul. this has been a long exhaustive investigation. it s going to be a fairly long trial. because it s complicated. it s a journey. there s a lot of aspects to this case, a lot of factors to this case. a lot of things that are complicated, you start to put them altogether piece them together like a puzzle, all of a sudden, a picture emerges and it s really simple. really simple.
once we get to the end of that journey, and you have a chance to deliberate, the evidence will be such that you ll reach the in escapable conclusion that alex murdered maggie and paul that he was the storm, that the storm was coming for them, and the storm arrived on june 7, 2021, just like the storms that are heading here right now. that they died as a result of it beyond any reasonable doubt. thank you. for the defense. your honor. . ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my name is dick harpootlian. i think i introduced myself to
but apparently if you live ouch 1100 acres and you hunt deer and you hunt whatever they were planting the sun flowers for, quail i guess, you have a lot of guns. the truth is in 2017, and you ll hear the testimony, that al ec bought two guns one for paul and one for buster, his other son sitting in the audience. and paul had one, his stolen, he bought another one for paul. now, paul was very irresponsible with guns, cars, he d leave guns around leave guns in cars, oftentimes left guns down at the dog pens in the feed room. now, i can t tell you whether he was shot with his own weapon or not or his mom was shot with his