alex murdaugh under way. >> i don't believe so. >> your honor, this might be a good time to for a break. >> and addressing the jury, we'll break until 2:15. so go to the jury room and please to not discuss the case. >> all right. they are taking a break where alex murdaugh is back on the stand. he faced cross-examination from prosecutors who say that he murdered his wife and his son. we have dianne gallagher out

side the courthouse. and another long day of testimony here from alex murdaugh. a real focus on the time line here, what he was doing at the particular moments. what more have we learned in this trial? >> reporter: we're just now really getting into the thick of discussing what happened the night of the murders june 7, 2021. so much of the cross-examination had been focused on the financial crimes and allegations against alex murdaugh dating back about a dozen years. but what we're watching the prosecutor do is go minute by minute at some points second by second what murdaugh was doing the night of the murders. and so much of it was hinged on

what he said that he was never down there at the ken untilnels that was not true, he had lied to law enforcement. and waters has continued to talk about the fact that this is a story that keeps changing. he had repeated saying that this is a story that you are now telling. and at some points disdain for alex murdaugh who has tried to answer some of these, but has not come up with exact answers for certain periods of time. and wife e've seen a back and f. and waters told us about three to four hours of cross- cross-examination and we're roughly at that mark today already. and we're just into the night of the murders. this is going to continue. we're watching this prosecutor

essentially saying this is alex murdaugh, he has hadmitted on te stand that he had lied to his family and his friends. up until yesterday he lied to everybody about where he was. so why would you believe him now. murdaugh has admitted to quite a bit on the stand especially with the financial crimes. but if i'm looking at things like his phone activity, and that was a moment between murdaugh and waters, talking about steps that were recorded during a period 6 tiod of time e start says that he was cleaning up. but tmurdaugh says that he was getting ready to go to his

mother's house. and in some cases he has a photographic memory about moments that happened during that night. but other points he is more vague. and the prosecution hinging on that. now, look, there are moments that we are talking about what he did that night and what we've known about for roughly a week now, this 20 second time period of when the gps says that his suburban arrived there at the kennels and that 911 call was made and how alex murdaugh may have had the time to check on his wife, check on his son, call 911 and find their bodies in that 17 to 20 second period. murdaugh again it is quite contentious as we see them going back and forth.

additional revelation that we're looking at here is murdaugh discussing his addiction to opoids. and some of these numbers are astounding. murdaugh says that he took roughly 30 -- he took roughly sometimes 60 pills a day. 30 milligrams ofxycodone instan release. and the prosecutor saying at some times were you taking 3,000 milligrams of opoids a day and he said yes. even when he did that interview with law enforcement after the murders, that he had them in his pocket and had been dealing with it 37b. and because of the prestige that the tau fammurdaugh family hered

the privilege that the prosecutor has tried to paint him as. that he has always been bending the law. we have lines of people waiting to sits in the courtroom. >> this is a pivotal moment in this trial. stay with us. i'm going to bring into the conversation criminal trial attorney from death by fame. a lot has you been unfolded in questioning. so i want to start with wonlg of the things that dianne talked about.

they spent time on this four minute period of time where he made 283 steps asking alex murdaugh to explain what he was doing in that time. what do you make of what you heard and that is a short period of time. do the prosecutors make their case that he was doing something nefa nefarious? >> yeah, and also maybe a liar but also a lawyer, and so he condensed the time that he spent at the kennel. which is key. you know, i think that the prosecutor at some point it looked like murdaugh is cross-examining the prosecutor as opposed to vice versa. and the prosecutor is trying to get these sound bites from him. and he is not getting them.

he is trying to -- the prosecutor is trying to prolong how long alex was at the kennels and alex did a good job of saying i didn't want to be down there, it was gross, sweaty, i had just taken a shower, i just wanted to take the beard obird out and came right back. so he couldn't explain the steps.beard bird out and came right back. so he couldn't explain the steps.eard bird out and came right back. so he couldn't explain the steps.ard bird out and came right back. so he couldn't explain the steps.rd bird out and came right back. so he couldn't explain the steps.d bird out and came right back. so he couldn't explain the steps. bird out and came right back. so he couldn't explain the steps. most of my clients lie. it is about whether the jury believes you now despite having lied before. >> yeah, critically the defense really only needs reasonable doubt here in order to prevail in this case. but he talks a lot, and he provides a lot of information including information that he is not asked about.

>> and thanks for the shout out, a lot was happening here with his words. there is something called statement analysis, words that have hidden meaning behind them. and the strongest denial is always a no. so if i said to you, are you on heroin right now and he said absolutely not, what kind of person do you think i'd be, i knew you'd ask me these kinds of questions. truthful people convey. liars try to convince. and we hear that from him. >> let's play a bit of that so our audience can see. >> did you take this gun and blow your son's blaine brains o? >> no, i did not. >> did you shoot a 300 blackout into her head causing her death? >> yi didn't shoot my wife or m son anytime. ever.

>> sarah, please continue. >> so the biggest thing, just saying no. but no, i did not, i've never done this, and he goes on to what i call smoke screening. the -- what i really wanted to pull if you listen closely, he says things like unwe qequivoc absolutely not. again, liars try to convince. and he also said something later, he says what i can tell you is this, did he call the wife to have her come home. lance armstrong side bar here, lance armstrong came clean that he took steroids, but when he made a statement statement to the a.p. press, he said i told oprah to go wherever she wants and i'll be each and honest.

and that is all i can tell you. when someone says that is all i can tell you, 100% of the time it means that there is something that they are not telling you. so there is a smoking story that there he is not sharing. this is the explanation that he has given for his lies. and you've said that you would only pete someone like alex murdaugh on the stand if the objective here was to humanize himself. do you think that he has done that with his discussion of his addiction with even the emotion that he has shown on the stand? >> yesterday i was hungry for more about his addiction. he said that he lied because i was paranoid. because it wasn't digestible to me. and today because waters chose

to go there, and i thought that was a big mistake, you cannot go down the road of addiction because it is not the same for everybody. the number of pills that you take, the amount of money you spend, the withdrawals you experience, the functionality -- i'm around a lot of attorneys who are just like alex murdaugh who are functional, winning trial, but strung out on drugs. and so it is a mistake to try to question somebody's addiction because it is not just himself-diagnosing. we have text messages that he was always fidgety. so that was a mistake. i don't know if the jury will go down the hole of konliconning,

covering up, those are things common to someone who is an addict. and that is just a fact. i know because i've been around it personally and professionally. but, you know, i think that it was a mistake to go there because i think that i explained himself very well. i think that he humanized himself with the second part of why i put a client up on the stand is to spra explain facts. waters doesn't even know what he is wanting from alex murdaugh and then he is surprised by the answer and then he gets really annoyed. and i'm told that jurors are rolling their eyes which is to me a death knell. >> i want to go back to dianne. this issue of alex murdaugh's lies, there are so many of them and he admitted to quite a lot of them. lies about what he told to police, the lies about being at the kennel, lies about stealing money, what do you make of all

of that? >> that is obviously what the prosecution is doing, trying to establish that this is an established liar. so why trust him now. when does murdaugh say he decided to lie about that? the reason was because during the initial interview with state law enforcement, he said that owen freaked him out and that is when because he says that due to his addiction to opoid, he had paranoid thoughts and he lied because owen asked him about his relationship with maggie and paul. and this is the line of questioning right before we broke for lunch, that is when this lie took hold. yesterday he testified that he kept the lie up because he had already told people and that is when he did the oh, what a

tangled web we weave. and i never bothered to tell law enforcement or anybody else that this was a lie. he says until yesterday. but i anticipate after lunch that we'll get more into that. because that is the meat that the prosecution has to continue reminding the jury that up until yesterday, everybody who testified, no matter how close they were with him, what great relationship or nickname they had, alex murdaugh had told him that he was not at the kennels. >> yeah, a really important point. jeanine, back to you before we wrap up here. look, a lot about dauf oig makes him a character on the stand. but you have to put it into the context that he is an admitted addict.

his licking of the lips, his mouth is dry, to jurors at contri attribute it to the addiction? >> and you are looking at when do the tongue proceedtrusions c out. when he pushes his tongue inside his mouth, they are called the pacifiers. you see it often. and even in movies. and it indicates usually the smugness where it is demonstrating like this is a joke. but this is interesting. he is very charming. yesterday in the courtroom, they had a couple jurors crying. and if he cries and we cry, that makes us like him because we experience it. and i think that the prosecuting attorney will have his hands full. and i would think the best way to detect deception is not have.

and so you will make a better decision. the fact that two jurors were crying yesterday is not good for the prosecutor because it will be hard to turn the tide on those two women to say, oh, no, you just were duped because we have this innate -- i said do you want to be right or effective. most of us want to be right. and this is disgust is repelling contaminated objects. it doesn't belong here. if anything we should have sadness and maybe fear. hey, who did it? 23 it if it wasn't him, who did it? >> and go ahead, sarah. >> yeah, just to diane's point, there are moments where murdaugh is cross-examining the

prosecutor. and why you have never mentioned in all of these months why this is a lie and clear up your lie about being at the kennels. it was terrible when he said -- i've been trying to get a meeting with you and you have refused to meet me and my lawyers. it doesn't matter whether at that meeting he would actually come clean about this lie. it goes to the whole sloppy investigation and totality of this that they really singled him out, they decided that he killed his wife and son, and it was like we're not interested in talking to you anymore. you know, so that was a bad moment for the prosecution. >> really fascinating analysis from both of you. thank you for joining us. and today marks the one year anniversary of the war in ukraine. one year of fighting. one year of broof blood shed. we're live in washington, ukraine and moscow next.

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it has been one year of devastation and fear and 12 months of resilience and courage. one year ago today, russian tanks rolled in to ukraine unleashing brutal fighting that has not stopped. but today, kyiv still stands. and ukraine's president is confident that vladimir putin's forces will be defeated perhaps even by the two year mark. >> translator: if we all do our hom homework, it will be inevitable. i'll certain that there will be victory. i don't think, i want this year. >> u.n. figures show that at least 8,000 civilians have been killed in russia's unprovoked war. and among those, nearly 500 children. that number is actually likely to be much higher. some 8 million people have pled

ukraine and of those who stayed, roughly 18 million are in dire need of assistance. and that is nearly 40% of the entire population. but the world has rallied behind the besieged ukrainian people. and you see the symbols accepting millions of refugees and providing tens of billions and counting in humanitarian aid. and western tanks are being sent over to ukraine. and putin expected that these alliances would splints er, but the opposite has happened. and the way that the u.s. sees it, global security for the entire world will depend on that unity. >> nations around the world continue to stand with ukraine. because we all recognize the

principles and rules that make all countries safer and secure. >> and jar peremy diamond is at white house to us. a really important day for this biden administration. really starting about a week ago gee as the plans are being put in motion for president biden to go to kyiv. and now today a flurry of activity on the tip wdiplomatic front. >> reporter: that is true. president biden began his day with a call with g7 leaders and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy showing that not only is kyiv stands within year later but also crucially the coalition of nations that have really provided ukraine with economic financial and military support as well as impose severe sanctions on russia to show that that coalition is still standing. and we just got a joint statement from the g7 countries committing in that same statement to intensifying the support on all of those

different fronts over the course of the coming months and years. as long as it takes as we have heard president biden say as long as ukraine continues to fight off this war of aggression being waged by russia. what we're also seeing by the united states is security assistance bringing the total u.s. security assistance to $32 billion. and also a string of new sanctions announced today which the treasury department is billing as the most to date. and especially after a year of trying to cut off russia from the global economy, what they are focusing on, and i spoke with the deputy treasury secretary about this, and focusing on trying to seal the cracks in these sanctions evasion actions that russia is doing. specifically to continue to bring in a revenue for russia. and so many of the sanctions were announced in particular

going after companies and countries that have helped russia evade some of these answers to try to limit those efforts. a lot of this is focused in particular on some products, dual use products as they are no, civilian technologies used for military purposes. so that is where the work is focused. and something that officials are clear eyed about, arming ukraine, increase defense production amid concerns about dwin dw dwindling munitions supplies. jake sullivan made clear that despite the challenges ahead, the u.s. believes that russia has already lost this war, failing in its initial objectives to take kyiv, to subjugate ukraine and make it a part of russia. >> and another interesting development today, china presented this 12 point plan for

peace between ukraine and russia. what is the white house reaction to that? >> reporter: so far the administration says that they are looking at it but make no doubt that this is a white house that is not pinning any hopes on the plan that it bring an end to the con fkconflict. the white house is more concerned about the prospect of china providing lethal weapons support for the first time to russia, something administration officials have been talking about and saying that they have intelligence indicating that china is considering that possibility and issuing stark warnings of the consequences should china move ahead with that. but so far the administration not willing to share that underwunder willing lying intelligence. >> and now fred pleitgen, this is a day of great importance for putin.>> and now fred pleitgen,

is a day of great importance for putin.lying intelligence. >> and now fred pleitgen, this is a day of great importance for putin.>> and now fred pleitgen, is a day of great importance for putin. is moscow marking the da? >> reporter: there is really very little that we're hearing from the kremlin. this is dis defenders of the fatherland so it has been quiet. but of course now russia at war because of all the casualties that russians are suffering. and today we haven't heard from vladimir putin, but it has been a vladimir putin media blitzoff the past couple of days. a massive speech earlier this week. and a big event at a massive stadium wednesday.

yesterday he laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldiers. and he wants russia to come out victor i can't say . a big problem is getting weapons to their actual troops. so what we're hearing is that they mobilized 300,000 soldiers but they can't get them the arms that they need. fred thank you very much. and noining us now is john wol ton. ambassador, let's start with china here. china is really again the

elephant in the room . what do you make of the so-called peace plan? >> and i don't think that it is even handed at all, although that is what the chinese are trying to say. i think that people need to recognize and the administration may be recognizing it to an extent that china here is engaged in a kind of partnership with russia and one might call it very much the senior partner. reverse of the cold war days. and assistance that china has given russia in this conflict politically, economically and perhaps militarily i think is

already significant. so what china is trying to do here is bolster russia's position. let's not kid ourselves. this is not simply a russia/ukraine war. this is a global conflict and i think that takes measure of what lies ahead. may not be in ukraine next time. maybe it will be in taiwan. >> and it raises the question that i think a lot of people are asking and even some of the united states' allies have been pressing ukraine about this issue of what a peace deal would look like. where do you think talks stand today? >> i don't think that there will be any talks in the near future. i think that zelenskyy has no incentive to talk with the russians.

i think it is happy talk to say that russia has lost this war. they have paid a huge price in terms of casualties, but they have doubled the amount of ukrainian territory under their control. they have a different calculus than we do on the value of human life. and the war to them is still very much on. and so looking at the likely scenario let's say for the next six months or so, i think that it is almost certain to be more conflict. >> and the biden administration says that tell continue to rm at ukrainian, but based on what they believe their needs are today. what is behind that, are they still concerned that if they go too far, that they might be seen by russia or china or whoever as being even more of a party to this conflict?

>> i think that they are very worried about that. having failed to prevent the war, unfortunately intimidated by russia for the last year. it was ukraine that was invaded. ukraine that has been suffering that grinding could not flikts for a year. to say that we'll help ukraine now, more effective defense of their country, against this invasion, to say that is escalation of the war i think is nonsense kabl. nonsense kabl. and i nonsense kabl. and i want to ask where is the hidden russian arm that will conduct this escalation. and if it is such a good army, why is it not in ukraine now. i think that putin has been able to head fake us in many respects that have allowed his really very poorly performing military

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we are back now with more of cnn's coverage in ukraine. and we have cnn's clarissa ward live in kyiv with us. but first a clip from per sp special documentary airing tonight. >> reporter: back in april, our team witnessed some of the terror of kharkiv firsthand. >> come on, maria. let's go. >> reporter: so we were just in an apartment building. they were looking for an injured man, a bunch of rounds came in and hit the next door building so now we are getting out as

fast as we can. the incoming fire continued. paramedics kept searching for the injured man. and soon they found him just in time to save his life. on our return to kharkiv eight months later, i knew our first stop had to be here. [ speaking non-english ] how are you? alive? healthy? we're alive, exactly. >> reporter: miraculously the pair is alive and well. and though the skies are much quieter, they are still saving

lives. >> i heard that you are now doctors. >> like resident. >> a resident. >> yeah, in america. >> that is amazing. i don't know who anyone in the middle of a war also manages to finish medical school. this is like not normal. >> it is ukraine. >> yeah. >> reporter: and clarissa, great to have you here. amazing to see the smiles and that laughter after a year of the conflict. you have seen so much on the ground. tell us about the documentary that will be airing sunday night. >> well, this is really looking at how on earth ukraine has come this far. how they have defied the odds. a year ago people were saying that intelligence services were saying that kyiv would fall within a few day, kharkiv would

fall. and help have i bombardment. and neow a year larar later, li hard but this is an opportunity to put a spotlight on all the ukrainians who have made it all possible. >> and really a story of incredible fortitude. thank you so much for all that you have been doing. and join clarissa with the in-depth look at ukraine one year after the war began. you can watch the special report the will to win, ukraine at war, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and we all know getting enough sleep is very important. but a new study highlights just how vital sleep is for your heart. that is next. so becoming a student again might seem impossible.

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a concerning new study says insomnia may cost a lot more than a good night's sleep. cnn's senior medical correspondent is here with all the details. so, elizabeth, this study found a big link between insomnia and cardiovascular disease. tell us about it. >> reporter: abby, it did. the power of the study is just how huge it was.

researchers looked at more than a million people in the u.s., u.k., and several other studies. let's look at what they found. they found that during the course of the study 1.6% of the people who suffered from insomnia either had trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, 1.6% had heart attacks. the people who did not have insomnia only 1.2%. you might say, gosh. that is such a tiny difference. it is not that tiny when you figure this is over more than a million people. we know there is a link between insomnia and all sorts of other diseases. the bottom line is try to get a good night's sleep. do the best that you can. >> all right. i'll tell that to my 18-month-old at home right now keeping me up. that does it for me. thank you for joining us. don't go anywhere just yet. there is much more news still ahead right here on cnn.

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