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washington. disgraced south carolina lawyer and now convicted killer alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge handing down that sentence this morning after a jury needed less than three hours to find murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife, maggie, and his son, paul. >> -- in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the retsst of your natural life. >> judge clifton newman notably getting very personal before handing down that sentence, talking about knowing alex murdaugh and his family and that

alex was a well-respected and gregorius person, but the judge also made it clear that he agreed with that guilty verdict handed out by the jury. he accused murdaugh of duplicitous conduct in the courtroom and on the witness stand and he said the lies finally caught up with him. cnn's dianne gallagher is here outside of the courthouse in walterboro, south carolina. diane, it was really the last just 24 hours here very astonishing moments inside of that courtroom, led this morning by the judge himself. >> reporter: abby, i don't know if people exhaled out here outside of the courthouse watching until judge clifton newman finished speaking directly to alex murdaugh who answered him when was asked questions, but mostly because he has to just sat there and listened. it was a dressing down like i have never seen, going through the family history of the

murdaughs, letting alex know that he had to remove that portrait of alex murdaugh's grandfather from that very courtroom where he was just convicted of murder so that he could have a fair trial, letting him know about the power his family has and trying to understand how he could do something like this. you know, judge clifton newman handed down those consecutive life sentences to alex murdaugh while expressing disappointment and bee winderment. abby, he is an extremely respected judge in south carolina, he has had a very measured tone throughout the past six weeks, but he went for it with alex today, telling him that he knows that he has got to feel something when he closes his eyes at night. >> and i know you have to see paul and maggie during the nighttime when you're attempting to go to sleep. i'm sure they come and visit

you. i'm sure. >> all day and every night. >> yeah, i'm sure. and they will continue to do so and reflect on the last time they looked you in the eyes, as you looked the jury in the eyes. >> reporter: and there was so much discussion about that. you know, this trial likely ended the way, abby, that it only could, which was with alex murdaugh, not his attorneys, addressing the court in that plea before the sentencing. just like he took the stand in his own defense to try to explain why his voice was identified by so many people on that video found on his murdered son paul's phone, six months after he was killed, but it was recorded moments before. they say paul was murdered at those dog kennels, calling for their dog bubba who had a chicken in his mouth.

according to a juror it was that video and an interview with abc, it was that video that sealed the deal for that juror, letting him know there is no other way that anybody but alex could have done that. alex professed his innocence once more today in court. the judge, though, brought up the opioid addiction saying maybe you say you didn't do it, but maybe you aren't who you think you are, either. >> i respect this court, but i'm innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son paw paw. >> well, and it might not have been you. it might have been the monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills. maybe you become another person.

i've seen that before. the person standing before me was not the person who committed the crime, though it's the same individual. >> reporter: just a very sobering moment. there were no victim impact statements made this morning before sentencing on behalf of maggie and paul murdaugh, instead prosecutor creighton waters spoke about them and talked about getting justice for them. you know, this is something that has been very difficult for really everybody in this community to see. there has been so much power in this family, there has been -- there are so many cases, the judge alluded to that, there are so many other victims who the judge still has to oversee charges, those financial charges against alex murdaugh in 90 some different charges that he continues to face. i talked to the attorney general this morning and he said they will still pursue those, even in light of this life sentence that alex murdaugh has. now, just a few moments ago alex

murdaugh's defense attorney spoke as well, abby, they do say they plan to file for an appeal within ten days, a notice of appeal. they maintain that there was just too much reasonable doubt and that they don't think all of the information about the alleged financial crimes of alex murdaugh should have been allowed into this trial. now, look, he got up on the stand and admitted to them, he admitted to lying, he admitted to stealing and they say that that maybe prejudiced the jury against them in the defense's point of view, but, again, abby, it only took three hours from the time they were charged for them to come back with a verdict and according to that juror interview this morning they had decided what they wanted to do within 45 minutes of first polling each other and having a discussion about it. >> that alone is an extraordinary fact. this trial has gone on for weeks, but the jury didn't really need that much time to come up with their conclusion. dianne gallagher, thank you for all of your work on this story. and this morning a juror in the trial as we were just saying

spoke publicly for the first time about alex admitting that it was his voice on paul's dog kennel video from the minutes just before paul was murdered. >> when he said it was him, were you surprised? >> i was very surprised. >> why? >> it was his only savior right there. i didn't see any true remorse or any compassion or anything. >> even though he was -- he cried a lot on the stand. >> he never cried. >> he never cried? what do you mean by that? >> all he did was blow not. >> did you not see tears? >> no tears. >> how did you know he wasn't crying? >> because i saw his eyes. i was this close to him. >> and joining me now is criminal defense attorney sara azary and joey jackson. thanks both of you for being here. wow, what an extraordinary few days here. the defense just sat down with cnn's randi kaye just in the

last hour and she asked him about this pivotal decision to put murdaugh on the stand in this trial. listen to what he had to say. >> the thinking of it at that point in time is what is there to lose? they've heard about all of his financial crimes, they really hadn't heard why he committed the financial crimes and they needed to hear about his drug addi addiction. by putting him on the stand i think the jury also got to see his emotions about maggie and paul, which are very raw and real, and they were moving. some of the jurors were moved by his testimony. but then, you know, the next day on cross-examination i've got to give credit where credit is due. i mean, they clearly painted alex as, you know, a liar who could just look you in the face and lie to you. >> i mean, look, jim griffin i'm sure is a very good defense attorney, but it seems like what he's describing is wishful thinking especially in light of what that juror said. the tears and the emotion may

have backfired. sara, you can -- >> oh, i'm sorry. yeah, look, abby, there were really two reasons why we have a defendant testify, to humanize and to explain. he did have to explain things. i was always saying that this is one of those cases where i fear that, you know, it certainly is his right, he wants to exercise that right. i think his lawyers have to let him do it. and the problem here is that there were two death nells, not just his testimony but the admissibility of all of this lying, it really at the end was not about motive, it was about looking people in the eye that he eventually stole from. there was no presumption of innocence in this case, abby. i think these jurors made up their mind way early on when they realized that he is a con man and a liar, and then, you know, his testimony just sort of sealed the deal. and, you know, 45 minutes or 2

hours and 50 minutes, whatever it was, to me there was no way that there was any analysis in in jury room under the circumstantial evidence instruction because you're supposed to take every piece of evidence and look at it and if there's two inferences to be made, it's supposed to be made in favor of the defendant. there is no analysis here. they had made up their mind. i'm no longer stunned because i've processed this, but it is absolutely a travesty of justice. >> i want to play what you're referring to here. this is a jury member speaking out about how long those deliberations took. take a listen. >> when you first got in the room, you took a vote? >> it was two not guilty and one not sure and nine guilty. >> what was your vote? >> guilty. we started deliberating, going through the evidence. everybody was pretty much

talking and, i don't know, about 45 minutes later after all our deliberating we figured it out. >> joey, are you surprised by that? they went from two not guilties and one unsure to a unanimous guilty verdict in 45 minutes. >> abby, i'm not. good to be with you and sara, and here is why. of course, the judge every day instructs the jury after the conclusion of the case that you are not to discuss the case, you are not to render any decisions or conclusions. having said that, remember that the jurors are there and they're locked in day in and day out, they were there for six weeks. they are not formulating their opinions automatically even though the judge says don't render the final determination until you deliberate. so they go into that jury room certainly with an idea as to what they want to do and they speak about that idea and it's one thing to have a reasonable doubt, it's another thing to have a doubt that's not founded upon reason, that's not founded upon good judgment and that has no basis in fact. so the way i see it is that the

jurors came in there, they listened to all they needed to listen to, it was rehashed, they heard closing arguments, they heard rebuttals, they heard all they needed to hear and based upon the actual defendant himself and his attempt to get on the stand and to give a rendition of events, which one do you believe, the first one, the second version, him crying, him not crying, him lying to his clients and lying to us? i think they said enough is enough, we're done, you're guilty, end of story and i think that's how it flad out. >> sara, we don't have a ton of time left but i want to ask you about judge newman made that really searing point about the opioid use and maybe you were a different person in that moment. the opioid addiction was such a key part of murdaugh's own testimony, but, again, this may have backfired it seems to me. >> yeah, so, abby, i think you and i talked at length about this and how it's a double-edged sword. it was never a defense. addiction is not a defense to a crime, but it's certainly an explanation for the lying and conning and thieving.

this is exactly what i was saying, that at some point it's going to turn and backfire. and this judge weaponized it. he said, well, maybe you didn't kill your wife and son, but the monster in you did. the addict in you did. to joey's point that those eggs that we were talking about yesterday, i didn't take those eggs lightly, i had a brownie case. when jurors bond in that way where they're sharing food for six weeks and they're really tight and good friends, i always fear that it's pro prosecution. in my experience it has been. so i just think that also from the interview with abc earlier, there's a mere presence instruction that was not given in this case, that your mere presence at the crime scene cannot by itself indicate guilt, it's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt of guilt. so to him the video alone even without the lie was -- was enough to decide verdict in this case. i think he has a strong appeal. i think that if he -- when you take the stand it sort of locks

you into harmless error, but i think he has a lot of other grounds, fifth amendment, the admissibility of all the motive evidence. we will see where it goes. >> and they do intend to appeal. we will see where this goes. sara, i will always remember those eggs our canary in the coleman for alex murdaugh. sara and joey, thanks so much. >> thanks, abby. and the battle for the 2024 gop presidential nomination is center stage at the annual conservative cpac gathering. nikki haley delivering her big speech right now. and ahead, former president trump's speech tomorrow. so will she go after her former boss? plus a high-stakes meeting is coming up very soon over at the white house, president biden and german chancellor olaf scholz will talk about the way forward in ukraine. experience the exhilaration of the performance line at the invitatioion to lexus sales event.

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german chancellor olaf scholz to the white house. the world has changed a lot since their last face-to-face meeting, russia has plunged europe into its largest ground conflict since world war ii. today the two leaders will discuss now the strategies on how to best help ukraine in that fight. cnn's phil mattingly is over at the white house. phil, what's on the agenda today for this discussion? >> reporter: you know, abby, it's interesting, over the course of the last year there's certainly been a geopolitical transportation but also a transformation led by the chancellor at least rhetorically and in practice when it comes to defense-related issues in germany. that's what's so critical between the one to one relationship between the chancellor and president biden which by all accounts within the administration is quite solid, quite productive and they speak quite often. when you talk to folks about this meeting and what the expectations are, this is not a meeting of atmosphere ricks, there is no meeting in the rose garden, no state dinner, it is a

substantive meeting which will be a significant one-on-one component between the two leaders and it is about continuing, maintaining and expanding on the alliance and how things were coordinated in terms of assistance to ukraine going forward. obviously this war passing the one year mark the alliance between president biden, between his european allies of which germany is a critical -- one of the most critical components has been central over the course of the last year but the tensions over what to provide and when, over very real domestic political issues very clear, economic issues that have been driven by russia's efforts over the course of the last year are still significant and to some degree growing. that's why the importance of these meetings both on the phone and in-person is focused on by u.s. officials, focused on by president biden. one other element to keep an eye on, u.s. officials say it won't be the focus here but on thursday the chancellor warned china about providing weapon to ukraine. the u.s. has been very blunt

about that as well. alignment there as well that may come up in the meeting. >> i think that that is definitely a topic on everyone's mind. phil, thank you very much. i want to bring in navy admiral john kirby, he is the national security council coordinator for strategic communications. admiral kirby, good to see you. thanks for coming on. the u.s. and germany obviously have a closely coordinated relationship on military aid to ukraine, but just a couple of days ago, really, chancellor scholz was talking about not putting an end date to this war. i do wonder as part of the discussion that will happen today between president biden and chancellor scholz about how this war eventually comes to an end. >> i can't think of a single conversation that president biden has had over the course of the last year, certainly over the course of the last several months with foreign leaders where he hasn't talked about or they haven't wanted to talk about as well how this war ends and when it can end. we all want it to end

immediately, it could end today if mr. putin would pull his troops out. that doesn't appear likely right now. we want it to end soon and so do the ukrainians. what's important and what president biden has stressed with every one of his foreign counterparts we have to make sure that nothing about ukraine without ukraine. that whatever we do in terms of helping president zelenskyy get to a point where only he can decide he's ready to negotiate, that he can do it on his terms in circumstances that he can tolerate, the ukrainian people can tolerate and that at the end state it gets to ukraine being satisfied that their sovereignty is being respected, their independence is being preserved. >> one of the things that ukraine is asking for as you've been discussing for quite some time is this issue of u.s. fighter jets. will today's discussion include a conversation about a strategy that involves giving those f-16s to ukraine? >> that's not a key part of the agenda. i don't think that there's going to be a long discussion about fighter aircraft.

what there will be is a significant discussion about supporting ukraine going forward. we all know the weeks and months ahead will be critical as the russians prepare for spring offensives and the ukrainians likewise want to prepare to go on the offense and to defend themselves against whatever russian moves are coming. we are focused on giving them the capabilities they need. another package announced today coming from the united states about more ammunition for the kinds of artillery and rocket systems that they have already been provided. we want to make sure we're preparing them for this tough fighting in the weeks and months ahead. i would not expect that freighter aircraft will be a dominant issue today. >> let's turn to china, because as phil mentioned this is something that chancellor scholz addressed with his parliament just yesterday. president biden has said warning china as well do not give military aid to ukraine. is this something that the u.s. and european allies believe is imminent? is china on the verge now of

actually making that decision? >> well, we don't believe they have taken it off the table, but we also don't believe that they have made that decision to move forward. you're starting to hear more and more from not just the united states but from our allies and partners that they don't want to see them make that move. we don't believe that it's in china's best interest to want to help mr. putin kill more ukrainians, innocent people who are just trying to live their lives in peace. we don't think that if china is serious about their standing in the international community that they should see this as a way forward with respect to their reputation internationally. now, obviously, look, this is president xi's decision to make, he has to decide where he wants to go on this, but we would like to see china join the rest of the world in condemning this invasion and doing nothing to help russia continue to fight this war. in fact, we would obviously love to see china take steps to help ukraine in terms of their self-defense. >> part of that picture is just the economic situation in

russia. just recently at an economic conference in siberia one russian oligarch who opposes the war in ukraine said russia could actually run out of money in the next year and desperately needs foreign investment. i wonder, do you agree with that assessment? >> we think that mr. putin has had to take some pretty drastic efforts to prop up his economy. if you look at the gdp growth, it shrank a little bit, not by much, and people are pointing to that like as if he -- there hasn't been any impact on his economy. there has been. and we want to keep the pressure on, we want to make it continually harder for mr. putin to prosecute this war. we know that the export controls and sanctions are having an impact on microelectronics and his ability to continue to manufacture cruise missiles which is one of the reasons why he's reaching out to countries like iran for drones. we know it has had an effect. we don't want to see him prove

tear off of oil revenues but that means the rest of the world will have to line up behind the price cap and sanctions enforcement. this is something not all nations including china would like to do. >> paul whelan, still detained in russia. secretary blinken said he raised it with the russians in that meeting this week, but russia is saying that's a lie. just your response to that? >> paul whelan needs to be home with his family and with his friends, he needs to go back in the united states where he belongs. he's been wrongfully detained. we will keep working to get him released and back home. secretary blinken absolutely brought it up with foreign minister lavrov as well as their decision to suspend from the new start treaty. we are not going to shy away from every opportunity to do what we can to make our case to the russians and get him home. >> all right. admiral john kirby, thank you very much for joining us today. >> my pleasure. and president biden is feeling the heat from members of his own party after he sides

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louisiana. cnn's carlos suarez is joining us live from shreveport. carlos, update us on the situation there. >> reporter: well, abby, the sleenup effort is well under way here in shreveport where in a neighborhood where that tornado touched down yesterday afternoon and this is some of the worst damage we've seen the entire day that we've been here. we are at a laundry mat that, as you can see here, not much of it is left standing. the folks have done a pretty good job of removing all of the debris back on to a corner as they figure out what they are going to do next. the sign of this business, i will draw your attention to t it fell on these three cars that are parked outside. in one of those cars we're told were two kids yesterday. the man you are about to hear, he was inside of that laundry mat and he was talking to the mother of those two children. the mother tells him, look, my kids are inside that car, i'd like to go out and get them. all of this is happening right

before that tornado hits. the man tells her, ma'am, it's not safe to do that. stay inside, and seconds later that's when that sign fell. the kids we're told are okay, no one was hurt out here. now, we caught up with that man earlier this afternoon. he was back out here to take a look at the dak mage and he sai all in all he is happy everyone out here is okay. >> i just had to be here for a reason, i guess, right torques tell her don't go outside. i was scared to death for those kids. scared to death. but, hey, it turned out good, nobody got hurt. they had the ems come and check the kids if they were okay. the little girl, i grabbed her and she goes, that was some strong wind. i said that was some crazy wind. >> reporter: and so after that tornado hit that man along with that woman they were able to get those kids out of the car. now, we also talked to the mayor of shreveport who told us he's been in contact with the governor who told him whatever resources this city might need,

the state is ready to give them. however, because this tornado was on the ground for such a short period of time, we believe well under a minute, the sense is they're going to be able to make due with what they have, they're not going to need a whole lot of emergency relief. the good news, again, abby, is despite this tornado no one was hurt out here. >> that is always great news that people are safe in the midst of all of that. carlos, thank you so much. just moments ago republican presidential candidate nikki haley wrapped up her speech at the conservative political action conference, better known as cpac. she used that flat form to rail against democrats and the biden agenda, but she made no mention of her 2024 rival, donald trump. even though haley was there, a lot of influential republicans are skipping cpac this time, including ron desantis and mike pence and even the house speaker, kevin mccarthy. the summit now regularly attracts maga all stars and election deniers like marjorie

taylor greene and matt gaetz as well as former president trump. he will speak tomorrow. as you can see from some of the merchandise on sale there, he is still the big draw at cpac. let's discuss all of this with political commentator and republican strategist alice stewart. good to see you. so cpac, i've been to many cpac, it used to be the marquee event for republicans, your former boss, ted cruz, but when the biggest names of the upcoming election, in particular someone like, you know, ron desantis decides to skip it, i mean, is that a sign that it's lost its juice? >> it certainly is a sign that many people realize that their time is better served elsewhere. look, all of my former bosses that ran for president spoke at cpac because over the years it has been the place to go to get your message out and raise your name id and increase awareness to the grassroots of the republican party, and now what we're seeing is many of those that are potentially running in 2024 have decided instead of going to cpac they're going to

the club for growth event down in florida. look, cpac is about awareness, club for growth is about money, and what we're seeing is while we had nikki haley come out today and she just spoke, others are choosing to go where they can help to raise money. what i thought was interesting with nikki haley's speech, look, she is taking her message right to president biden. she is not -- she has called punching side to her republican challenger, she's going right after biden and what she calls democratic socialism. she's saying it's time to make this country proud and strong and not weak and woke, and really going after some of the important issues that really touched the red meat there at the crowd, talking about how she wants to make our economy strong, our streets safe and also secure the election, which that's not a very popular topic with many people this that crowd who are election deniers, but she made a really good point to make sure it's time to restore confidence in our election process. >> one of the things that she also talked about was this line

from her -- from her announcement where she said, you know, republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight elections. my understanding is that the crowd didn't really react all that much, in part because that's an indictment against her former boss, trump, who she didn't mention. do you really think that there is a good reason for nikki haley to address this particular proud that seems to be veering farther to the right and to trump's column than she wants to position herself? >> that, abby, is going to be a consistent message from her what first alert what her team has told me and it's important because this is a message that the entire republican party needs to listen to. voters in the midterm election made it quite clear they are tired of election deniers and conspiracy theorists and as mitch mcconnell said, we need to focus on candidate quality and the more we have trump-like candidates and i believe former president trump that might do well in a primary, that is not

going to farewell in a general election. so what she is doing and what i expect to see the other potential gop 2024 candidates do is focus on, look, as a party we are united on the policies, we just have a different style in how to go about accomplishing them, and that's really the gop message moving forward is let's get together with the policies that unite us, but understanding that we need a softer tone and a different tenor in order to appeal not just to the base but to broaden the electorate to a lot of the voters who have left the gop because they didn't like the style and the personality that donald trump brings, because it's time to broaden the base and not just really solidify the base. >> all right. well, we will see how that turns out. especially tomorrow trump's speech and notably desantis is not there. trump as you pointed out is not even invited to the club for growth, you know, conference over the weekend, which says quite a lot about what's happening in the party. alice stewart, thank you very much for all of that.

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howard is here to help us understand what's going on here. tell us about this case. >> abby, i can tell you health officials in florida suspect that this person died after having an infection from the brain eating amoeba that was possibly caused by using tap water that was not sterilized in their sinus rinse solution. you know when you do sinus rinsing a lot of people use a neti pot to do that through the nose and that's what health officials suspect may have caused the infection. the death is under investigation, they are looking at the circumstances around the infection but what we know about the brain eating amoeba if you do have infection symptoms typically start with headache, nausea, feeling a fever and vomiting and that can progress to stiff neck, seizures and halluc hallucinations. these infections are rare, let me start by saying that. we see only about a few each

look at these numbers. from 1962 to 2021, only four out of 154 people with known infections survived. that's why officials are on alert around this. they're letting residents know in florida, if you do know tap water for signus rinsing, maybe sure it's boiled. what we know is the brain eating amoeba causes infections by entering the nose. if you're swimming in a lake and get water up your nose, that's another way of this infection getting in. it's a rare case, rare but concerning. >> definitely concern.

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it's being driven by the high cost of meals and inflation, plus all the different options we now have to tip. this is based on new data that shows that tip is down at sitdown meals, pickup orders and delivery. down across the board clearly a trend here. not every state tips the same. indiana and delaware are known for giving the highest tips while california and washington where the cost of living is higher, they're the least generous. >> it does seem like some of this has to do with just the fact that so many people are using credit cards or maybe it's apple pay. they're using their phones to pay. is that the reason that tipping has seemed to become so ubiquitous at every kind of, you know, retail operation that you end up at? >> that's exactly right. so more people are paying with their phones and with credit cards. so that means companies can remove those cash tip jars that we're used to in the past.

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