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they actually expect that one to extend to much more of the ice sheet and, erin, we've seen it in europe. many parts of the u.s. there and even here in greenland, these heat waves. we expect to see a lot more of those as the global climate continues to rise. erin? >> all right. rene, thank you very much. then of course you see that giant deluge and how does it feet throughout the whole world. thank you so much. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. with the house january 6th committee gearing up for primetime finale tomorrow, we begin with a headline that makes as good a case as any for the committee's existence and underscores a threat to democracy that's not gone away. at first you might think it's a typo but it's not. wisconsin assembly speaker says trump called him this month to decertify 2020 election. that's the headline. the story comes in the wake of a
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story on ballot drop boxes. the former president called him last week trying to overturn his 2020 defeat. last week as the speaker put it, i explained, it's not allowed under the constitution, adding, quote, he has a different opinion. in other words, trump may be sweating and stewing in mar-a-lago, but he is still at it. there were other warning signs today as well. rusty bowers, remember him, lifelong republican who refused to buckle to pressure from the former president and testified emotionally before the select committee. well, we learned he was just censured by the state party which declared him no longer a republican in good standing. in maryland they chose dan cox to be their republican nominee for governor. he once called on the former president to seize voting machines. he also sponsored buses to take people to the so-called stop the steal rally on january 6th and that afternoon he tweeted, mike
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pence is a traitor. so there's that. there's also this we got today having to do with the former white house aide garrett ziegler. he escorted michael flynn and sid sidney powell into the white house. ziegler met with the select committee earlier and said this afterwards about the members on telegram. >> they're bolshevik. most white people in general. this is a bolshevikist white campaign. if you can't see that, your eyes are friggen closed. they see me as a white christian they can basically scare. >> that guy was an aide to the president. this went on for 20 minutes. ziegler used vulgar and misogynistic language. as for the missing secret
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service text messages from the 6th, today we learned of the messages sent and received by 24 individuals, the agency has only managed to provide the select committee with one single exchange. committee leadership said they have concerns. if all that falls on what you call the debit side of the balance sheet, there are also new items on the other side. a new york judge today ordering rudy giuliani to appear before the georgia grand jury. bipartisan group of senators reaching agreement on legislation beefing up the electoral count act which if passed would make it harder to do what the former president did in 2020 and attorney general garland gave the strongest signal yet when it comes to bringing charges in connection with what the former president did, no one is immune from prosecution. >> no person is above the law in this country. i can't say it any more clearly than that. there is nothing in the principles of prosecution, in any other factors which prevent
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us from leaving anyone, anyone who's criminally responsible for an attempt to undo a democratic election. >> as for the committee's business tomorrow, the final hearing expected to focus on what the former president did and more importantly did not do for 3 hours and 7 minutes as the mob he invited then incited ran sacked the capitol. expected to testify, sarah mathews and matthew pottinger. here's some of what they have already told the committee in video testimony about what they saw during that time. >> we had all talked about -- at that point about how it was bad and the situation was getting out of hand. i think when kayleigh gave us that order of don't say anything to the media, i told her that i thought the president needed to tweet something. >> one of my staff brought me a
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printout of a tweet by the president. >> we all got a notification so we knew it was a tweet from the president. we looked down and it was a tweet about mike pence. >> and the tweet said something to the effect that, mike pence, the vice president, didn't have the courage to do what he -- what should have been done. >> i remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment. the situation was already bad and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. >> i read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign. that's where i knew that i was leaving that day. >> again, tonight, it's a lot. joining us now is jamie raskin. congressman, what more should we expect to learn, do you think, from these witnesses who are testifying tomorrow, pottinger
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and mathews? >> well, generally we're going to see what donald trump was doing and what he was not doing during that 187-minute fateful period of american history. he continued to exhort, inflame, insight the crowd. he continued to direct extremely negative comments towards vice president pence saying he didn't have the courage to do what needed to be done. he obviously inflamed the crowd in the morning saying you've got to fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore. he directed them to the capitol and so on. those two witnesses both have very individual specific stories to tell. i think i'll keep everybody in suspense. >> the washington post isup up with some reporting really within the past few minutes that they plan to show outtakes from
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remarks the president made january 7th. can you tell us any more about that? >> well, the president displayed extreme difficulty in completing his remarks. of course, hours had passed when he could have simply taken a walk for 10 or 15 seconds over to address the country and address his followers and go home and people were beseeching him, begging him to do that, and he refused to do that. 24e then he finally went over and made some comments when it was clear, no thanks to the president, our police forces had turned the tide and were beginning to, you know, win back the capitol. and at that point he got on and said, we love you. you're very special. you know, time to go home and so on. but it's extremely revealing how exactly he went about making those statements, and we're
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going to let everybody see parts of that. >> so this was the statement, just so i'm clear, this was the statement that he made on the day of the insurrection or was it the day after? >> oh, i guess you're referring to the one the day after when he made another speech, but also, you know, there was a statement made on the day of at the end of -- >> you have out takes on that one as well? >> i'm not sure we have outtakes on that one. it's the other one we've got outtakes on. we certainly have snippets from this one, also on the 6th. >> you have snippets of the one on the 6th? >> yes. >> obviously your investigation is ongoing. what is -- does the committee's time line look after the hearing? what do you do the next day? is there ballpark when you plan to issue a final report, potential criminal referrals to the justice department, any,
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other hearings? >> well, this should be the end of this block of hearings, but never say never in this process because new material and new evidence is surfacing all the time. but i think that the committee is continuing the investigation. there's some important new leads that have opened up so i wouldn't be surprised if there could be another hearing or two down the road, and certainly we need to do a hearing to discuss our conclusions and the recommendations that we're making for fortification of american democracy against coups, political violence, attempts to steal away the will of the american people and take over elections which is what we saw january 6th and which, alas, continues to go on with the same forces that were already against us that day. >> the story that the wisconsin assembly speaker said the former president called us as part of a
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fresh effort to decertify the state's 2020 election results, what does it say to you he's down at mar-a-lago playing golf. he's now trying to overturn election results while your investigation is ongoing. >> well, to me what it says is that although donald trump knows full well that he lost the election by more than 7 million votes and 306 to 232 in the electoral college, even though everyone around him knew that, knows that, try to convince him of it, he still wants to propagandize his followers in the big lie. it's become a litmus test for mastriano and dan cox. these people are true believers that will follow anything the cult leader has to say. he uses it as a litmus test to see who's with him or not. it's scary to see it take place
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in america's democracy. >> congressman raskin, thank you for joining me. >> thanks for having me. get thoughts from george conway. jamie, what do you expect to hear in their testimony tomorrow? >> anderson, i'm told that it's going to be very dramatic. these were two white house aides who were in the white house on january 6th. they are firsthand fact witnesses. i'm told that sarah mathews will talk about how they tried to get trump to say something but could not and matt pottinger, we should know he was at the white house four years on the national security staff. he knew trump well. i'm told he did not see trump on the 6th but he did say see mark meadows, there will be key testimony about that. as we reported, they both
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resigned to that. this dereliction of duty. one source told me that they were both very upset because trump wouldn't say to the rioters, stop, leave. these two aides will say he didn't say that because he didn't want them to stop and leave. >> george, i want to play you some more of what attorney general merrick garland said today. >> no person is above the law in this country. nothing stops us. >> even the former president? >> i don't know how -- do you want me to say that again? no person is above the law in this country. i can't say it any more clearly than that. there is nothing in the principles of prosecution, in any other factors that allow us
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to obfuscate someone who tries to undo an election. >> if the former president announces he's running, does that change the calculus from the department of justice potentially? >> not at all. it shouldn't. in fact, it should enhance the department of justice. what we're going to see tomorrow is something we've never seen. in 233 we've had presidents of the united states. the first president, george washington, sworn in 233 years ago, and this -- january 6th was the single worst day of the presidency because you had a president who went a.w.o.l., who basically -- he engaged in supreme dereliction in his duty when a crowd was attempting to stop the peaceful transfer of power, was attempting to basically overthrow the constitution. we had a president of the united states who was sworn to preserve, protect, and defend
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the constitution. he did nothing for 187 minutes. we're going to hear evidence of how he did nothing, which was to ignore people who were telling him, please do something, mr. president. and to watch television. we know from published reports he was just watching television gleefully. this is something we've never, ever seen before, and it goes to his criminal intent. he did everything he could to overturn that election for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and then between 1:10 p.m. and 4:17 p.m. on january 6th, 2021, he did nothing. and the reason why he did nothing, you know, in contrast to the energetic attempts to overthrow the election that preceded it was he viewed the attack on the capitol as an effort, as one way to try to overturn the election result.
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and that's criminal and attorney general garland means what he says. >> the phrasing that he did nothing, by doing nothing he was in fact doing all he could to encourage the attack, continue the attack, prolong the attack, clearly because he wanted it to suck seetd. -- succeed. would they reach might pence? it wasn't that he tbt know what to do, he was watching the well-laid plans that he no doubt discussed with, you know, steve bannon and his cronies and field marshall mike flynn play out. >> no question about it, and you may remember we've had -- we've had reporting that, in fact, not only was he watching it, he was
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rewinding it to watch it again. that he was enjoying this, and i think we're going to hear a lot about that also from someone else who's at the white house and that is white house counsel pat cipollone, who my sources tell me, that testimony will be on videotape, but i'm told we will see a lot of pat cipollone, that he is a star witness tomorrow. and there is a reason the committee pushed so hard to get pat cipollone to give this videotaped testimony. i am told we will see just why tomorrow when they show it. >> george, do you think any of the former president's associates or allies, like former chief of staff mark meadows, could face legal exposure? >> absolutely. mark meadows was facilitating all of this. he facilitated the rally. he facilitated team crazy coming in. he was in the thick of it.
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he was -- he -- he definitely, absolutely. he had involvement with the situation in georgia where they were trying to put the arm on raffensperger to find those. >> george, gina, thank you. appreciate it. next, prosecution resting in steve bannon's contempt of congress trial after showing the jury evidence of his defiance. we'll show you how the defense might rebutt that and what bannon is up to when we continue. whether it's wildfires, falling water levels, misery. we'll bring you the latest in what is now a global inquiry. when you have technologygy that's easier to control... that can scale across alall your clouds... we got that right? yeah, we got that. it's easier to be an innovator.
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political strategist was willing to cooperate and not before the prosecution showed more evidence he was defying it openly. more now from sarah murray. the judge allowing questions about the hail mary cooperation. how did that play out? >> you guys have been in contact with him. are you still open to getting information? and the select committee staffer said, we are still open to getting information. when prosecutors circled back with her on the redirect, they pointed out, these recent letters bennie thompson clearly states, even if you give us information now, that doesn't mean you complied with the subpoena. you still defied it. they also narrowed in on the fact bannon did not make this offer after he was charged. he did not make this offer once this followed that. he made it on july 10th a week before he was set to go to trial, anderson.
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>> the defense used a book club membership to show bias of the january 6th committee staffer who testified. what was that about? >> yeah. you know, the defense doesn't have a lot that they can argue in this trial. one of the things they can make the case, perhaps someone was bias. they pointed to the fact that the house select committee staffer used to be in a book club together. perhaps this witness is biased. in reality, neither of these two women have ever been to the book club in the past year. we'll see how that sits with the jury, anderson. >> in terms of the time line, do we know how soon the jury might begin deliberations? >> the caveat is you can't predict what is going to happen in court. tomorrow the defense gets to put together their case. we don't know if they're going to call any witnesses or if
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steve bannon is going to testify. if they don't put forward a case or witnesses, it's possible it could go to the jury tomorrow. >> we are glad to be joined by joshua green, author of "devil's bargain, steve bannon, donald trump, storming the presidency," and jeffrey toobin. former federal prosecutor. what do you think of the developments? >> when you hear a case is just two witnesses and basically a day of testimony, you think, wait a second, there has to be more to this. >> not even the book club? >> that's right. that was the big gotcha. there was nothing more. he got a subpoena. he didn't show up. he didn't challenge it in court. he bragged that he didn't cooperate. that's the whole case. i mean, you know, he's innocent until proven guilty, except he's guilty. there's just nothing to this case. >> josh, when you and i last
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spoke, you said one of bannon's motivations is to create a big spectacle. he tried to do that yesterday with this statement he made outside the courtroom, trying to challenge bennie thompson in a mano-a-mano arm wrestling challenge if he showed up in court. it looked sad. what did bannon get out of this? >> i don't think he got anything out of it. the judge said -- surely he was eluding to this. quote, i do not intend for this to become a political circus. at every step he shut them down by turning it into one of them. he wants to subpoena nancy pelosi and seize control. it will be interesting whether the defense allows him to testify on his own behalf because it's hard for him to imagine being on good behavior and exploding in a way to
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undermine what little case he seems to have. >> do you think bannon would testify? >> i think this is classic bully behavior. when you're standing at a press conference. we're going medieval on their asses. on his podcast he's a big, tough guy. when it comes to testifying under oath, you you are subject to cross examination, i don't think he's going anywhere near the witness stand because that's not the forum he will excel in. >> josh, does steve bannon matter at all? yes, he was once on the cover of "time." he was involved in the president's campaign. he was out of the orbit. i know he's specifically building this network of people who are going to run for school boards and stuff and try to destroy it from inside? is that for real? is that something people should be worried about or is he just this dude with a podcast? and there's a lot of them. >> no, i think -- i think -- i
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think what he's doing is real. i think he's got a bigger role than that. still as we can see from what we know about what happened on january 6th in the days and weeks leading up to it, he is still the chief popropagandist. thousands of people showed up and rioted and countless republicans believe this misinformation joe biden isn't right for president. steve bannon is responsible for that. it's hard to lean on that when your ma're in court. >> it's a very weird statute where misdemeanors are no jail time required and a year maximum. the two counts at least carry a 30 day minimum.
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he's looking at 60 days at a minimum in jail. he could get more. >> can he do a podcast from jail? >> i doubt it. only jeffrey epstein gets to live his life that way. >> is that right? >> he did for a while. >> didn't end well. >> no. >> coming up, election denier wins the republican nomination for republican after democrats spent more than $1 million to try to turn out support for that right wing candidate. we'll discuss the high risk strategy. ♪ it wasn't me by shaggy ♪ you're never responsible for unauthorized purchases on your discover card.
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there is concern and criticism tonight over democratic strategy to help fund far right candidates. the plan is they will be so toxic that it would help democrats. the fear is they might actually win an election. the latest is dan cox who cnn projects will win in maryland. he's an election denier. he said the former president should seize voting machines. he chartered three buses to the january 6th rally and he tweeted during the attack, quote, pence is a traitor. according to open secrets, democrats spent more than $1 million on tv ads highlighting the president's former support
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of cox. it would harm it during the general election. open secret also reports democrats have spent nearly $44 million on ad campaigns in five states. california, colorado, pennsylvania, illinois as well as maryland. joined by david axlerod and former cnn adviser to president obama. david, is this a smart strategy? >> we'll see. it's been smart in the short run if you nominate candidates you think will be easier to beat. the reason they're going to these lengths is this could be a very tough year for democrats. there are gale force winds blowing against democrats so they wanted the most beautiful candidates but those gale force winds could blow one of these candidates in. doug mastriano who is quite extreme on elections, on
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abortion, on any issues not unlike cox, the initial polls in that race after he's nominated had him four points behind the democratic candidate. so, you know, it could be shrewd or it could end disastrously and that's the danger, anderson. >> democrats have done this before. most notably the 2012 senate race where claire mccaskill helped ty ache kin to get on the ballot against her. has it ever been done at this scale with this much at stake? >> yes, that akin race, mccaskill race, it took on mythic importance or significance. and people reached into that grab bag this year. what happened was it started in pennsylvania in the mastriano race if proved successful. i think mastriano might have won anyway. then it transported to illinois,
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on to colorado in a senate race where it didn't actually work and these other states. yesterday was noteworthy because the candidate who won, cox, i think spent only $21,000 from his own campaign. the democratic governor's association spent over a million. these ads, they're not distorting their records. they're amplifying them. most of these ads are the same. too conservative for maryland. too conservative for pennsylvania. it says they're anti-abortion, pro trump. they go through all the credentials that will make them objectionable in theory but music to the ears of poor bass trump oriented primary voters. it worked to great effect in several of these cases. >> it is a little weird to have democrats, you know, warning that some of these candidates are a threat to democracy and at the very same time making sure they win their primaries and are
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on the ballot in november. >> listen, anderson, i spent 30 years in campaigns, or thereabouts, you know, i'm not an engenu. i understand the thinking behind these tactics, but as i said earlier, they come with great risk and, you know, you're handling plutonium here as it relates to democracy. and if something goes wrong, if those gayle force winds are suc that a republican is blown across the line. you'll have a governor who appoints the secretary of state who determines who decides the elections. something could go wrong. it may seem smart today. it may see.
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>> no. a lot of people say, you'd be surprised. i get that all the time. >> i have to look up the exact definition. >> i should, too, now that i've said it on national television. >> lastly, there's been a lot of reporting about president trump running for president again. the narrative is more when he'll announce or when -- when, not will. do you think he will? >> i think he will. yeah, i think -- he's not very subtle. he generally signals what he's going to do. the legal threats signal him to do it. and his need to be the center of attention encourages him to do it, but i'll tell you what, there's a group of people who don't want him to do it and that's republican office holders and there's a group of people
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that do, the democratic officers. if he plunges himself in, he could change the equation in an interesting way. >> appreciate it. >> good to see you. extreme heat is fueling fires in europe and forcing yellowstone national park to issue a warning. the zero covid policy. a stunning live report from beijing next. feel the rush of performance at the lexus golden opportunity sales event.t. thinkorswim® by td ameritrade is more than a trading platform. it's an entire trading experience with innovatn that lets you customize interfaces, charts and orders to your style of trading. personaliz education to expand your perspective. and a dedicated trade desk of expert-level support. that will push you to be even better. and just might change how you trade—forever. because once you experience thinkorswim® by td ameritrade
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europe right now is battling wildfires caused by extreme global heat. just outside of athens, greece, firefighters tried to control blazes inspired by winds. firefighters from romania have been assisting. 6,000 have been evacuated, including a children's hospital. no active wildfires right now but they say a high fire danger right now means wildfires are likely and it could be difficult to control under certain situations. celine wang has the story from china. >> reporter: scorching temperatures sweep over china turning mass covid testing into a dangerous task. state media shows covid workers collapsing on the job due to what the videos say are
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heatstroke. in eastern china a covid worker vomits on the ground as colleagues rush to tear off her hazmat suit. unable to stand, she's carried away. it's a seen played out across china. fainting, falling, crumbling on the ground lying motionless. struggling to breathe. the covid workers long hours in the suffocating heat made worse by their head to toe full body protective gear. that is not water, according to state media, it's sweat gushing out of this worker's hazmat suit. it pools inside the protective gear. the surging temperatures coinciding with surging covid cases. >> cities across china including here in beijing require a recent covid test to enter a public area. that means young, old, sick all
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have to wait in long lines like these in the brutal heat. >> it's really hot. you feel like -- a lot of times you feel anxious because you have things to do. >> reporter: to survive covid workers are getting creative, hugging giant blocks of ice, putting them on their backs, feet. colleagues rub ice on each other and tape ice cold water bottles to themselves. some authorities have said covid workers can wear ppe that does not cover their entire bodies. dozens cities have been experiencing record high temperatures. last week more than 80 cities issued red alert with some logging temperatures more than 110 degrees fahrenheit. the city opened underground airway shelters for people to escape the heat. meanwhile, crops are withering
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and dieing under the high temperatures. the soil, parched and cracked. the damage to china's crop production threatens to push up inflation putting more pressure on an economy already devastated by the pandemic. but in zero covid china, even health care workers hospitalized from heat exhaustion get a positive spin from authorities. this propaganda video shows government officials visiting covid workers in the intensive care unit while showing the motionless patients together in bed, it encourages them to rally to work together against covid. >> celine na wang joins me. have we seen the worst of the heat wave in china? is it going to get better? >> anderson, we have seen temperatures come down. after that things could get worse with more extreme weather expected in the coming months. this heat wave follows extreme flooding in china that has
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displaced millions of people. this hitting a population still reeling from the harsh covid lockdown. making it more suffocating for people at home and making it more dangerous. according to a government report, temperatures in china are actually rising faster than the global average which can make the extreme weather event more frequent and intense. china is making climate change a top priority but the question, is all of this too late? >> it looks like these are sort of propaganda videos the chinese government is making about the chinese workers collapsing. what's the message they're sending with these? >> some of the videos were very striking. the last one i wouldn't necessarily say it's a celebration of the sacrifice, but they're showing an example that these health care workers collapsing over and over again. being in the icu for heatstroke, it shows the amount of sacrifice and dedication that these front
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disgraced former south carolina attorney alex murdaugh has pleaded not guilty in connection to all charges in connection to his wife and son found shot to death last week. he was thought to be a grieving widower. then came many twists and turns, culminating on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime in the two deaths.
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a warning, some of the language is graphic. >> reporter: alex murdaugh facing murder charges. by the time he entered the courtroom, he changed into a suit and gucci shoes. >> are you guilty or not guilty of the felonies wherein you stand indicted? >> not guilty. >> reporter: murdaugh pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife, maggie, and youngest son, paul, on june 7th last year. the two were found shot to death in islandton, south carolina. >> my wife and child have been shot. >> and what is your name? >> my name is alex murdaugh. >> reporter: alex murdaugh called 911. he said he found them shot after returning from visiting his mother. but just last week, he was charged with killing them. both were shot multiple times according to the indictment,
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maggie with a rifle, and paul with a shotgun. a source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to cnn alex murdaugh had blood spatter on his clothes, which could prove he was in close proximity to at least one of the victims when they were shot. no motive has been disclosed. in court today, attorneys on both sides requested a gag order and refused to speak with the media. >> reporter: murdaugh's attorneys also requested a speedy trial, beginning this fall. >> we believe he's innocent. we believe that the killer or killers are still at large and this would allow us to put this behind us and go after the real killers. >> reporter: alex murdaugh said nothing beyond his not guilty plea. he sat at the defense table not far from a portrait of his grandfather, who served as solicitor here. murdaugh has been charged with dozens of financial crimes since september of last year. cnn has obtained over 13 hours of recordings of his jailhouse
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phone calls. he often talked with his only surviving son, buster, about football, gambling, jailhouse workouts and plans for when, perhaps, if, he gets out. >> i've got a deal with all mom's stuff in storage. >> reporter: at one point they talked about guns. >> you don't have your 20-gauge? >> yeah, i have my 20-gauge but they took all the assault rifles. >> reporter: in one phone call from jail, alex referred to a tv report he saw and mentioned the name steven smith and gloria satterfield, two people in his orbit that mysteriously died. >> gloria and all that -- surrounding gloria's death, about how she died. >> reporter: gloria satterfield died in 2018 after falling down
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the steps at his home. both of those deaths are now under investigation by the state. meanwhile, following court today, murdaugh once again returned to jail, where he is being held on a $7 million bond on charges of financial crimes, including insurance fraud. >> randi joins us now from charleston, south carolina. the prosecution give any hints in court today about possible motive? >> reporter: anderson, no clear motive was spelled out, but the prosecutors noted what could be to come. he noted the allegations murdaugh is facing for fraud, for drugs, for financial crimes, all things the grand jury had to consider when it decided to indict him in this double murder case. the prosecutors said in court today, quote, a lot of that provides the background and motive for what happened on june 7, 2021. that was the day of the double murder, when alex murdaugh's wife and son were both killed.
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build the family's real estate empire as it was. the president called it a very sad day but at the same time a celebration of a wonderful and beautiful life. ivana trump was found unconscious and unresponsive at the bottom of a staircase. she died of blunt injuries to her torso. i want to hand it over to laura coates and "cnn tonight." anderson, thank you so much. i'm laura coates and this is "cnn tonight." and it's the final countdown. i mean, less than 24 hours from now, the january 6th committee's last public hearing, at least for now, and it's a prime-time, too. there's certainly a lot of anticipation building on what new revelations could be coming. so, now does the panel plan to make its case tomorrow in this sort of series finale? we're on number eight, mind you. we just got another clue. committee member jamie raskin just confirming to cnn that the committee plans on showing outtakes from
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