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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i'm laila harrak. the disgraced south carolina attorney convicted of murdering his wife and son will now spend the rest of his life in prison. the latest on the sentencing of alex murdaugh. plus, u.s. president joe biden welcomes german chancellor olaf scholz to the white house, publicly solidifying their partnership to support ukraine against russia's war. and severe weather worries across the united states, leaving several people dead and more than a million without power. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with laila harrak. disgraced former south carolina attorney alex murdaugh learned friday that he will spend the rest of his life

behind bars. less than a day after he was found guilty of killing his wife and son, he was given two consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole. the lead prosecutor said the jury saw through murdaugh's testimony. >> nobody who knew this man knew who he really was. he lies effortlessly. he lies convincingly, and he looked into their eyes and lied to them about perhaps the most important fact of this whole case, you know, about when is the last time he saw his wife and his son alive. and only when he was backed into yet another corner did he come up with this latest version, and obviously the jury saw through that. >> cnn correspondent randi kaye has more on the story. >> i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. >> reporter: alex murdaugh today given two life sentences for the murder of his wife and son.

>> i know you have to see paul and maggie during the nighttimes when you're attempting to go to sleep. i'm sure they come and visit you. >> all day and every night. >> reporter: after more than a month in the courtroom, jurors took about three hours thursday to convict murdaugh of murder for his wife, maggie, and 22-year-old son, paul, who were found fatally shot on the family's property in june 2021. a juror told abc -- >> i didn't see any true remorse. >> how did you know he wasn't crying? >> because i saw his eyes. i was this close to him. >> so it took basically 45 minutes for you guys to come to a decision. >> probably about 45, maybe an hour. >> reporter: murdaugh, once a prominent lawyer in the area, took the stand last week in his own emotional defense. maintaining he found the bodies after returning from a brief visit to his mother that night despite cell phone video placing him at the scene. >> remind me of the expression

you gave on the witness stand. was it, oh what a tangled web we weave? what did you mean by that? >> i meant when i lied, i continued to lie. >> reporter: the defense relied heavily on murdaugh's opioid addiction to account for his deception and lies about his whereabouts, something the judge and jury didn't buy. >> they've concluded that you continued to lie and lied throughout your testimony. not credible. not believable. >> reporter: despite all the circumstantial evidence against him, murdaugh maintained he was not guilty. >> 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. >> 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.

>> reporter: still, murdaugh's defense team says they wouldn't have done anything differently. >> he's a liar, and he's a thief, and he admitted that. he's not a murderer. we saw a relationship between paul and alex that just -- it's inexplicable that he would execute his son and his wife in that fashion. >> no one who thought they were close to this man knew who he really was. your honor, that's chilling. >> reporter: when i interviewed alex murdaugh's defense lawyers, they said that they do plan to appeal. they told me they have about ten days or so to do that, and they're going to appeal on the grounds of all these alleged financial crimes being included. they said they expected some of the financial crimes to go into the trial but not as much. they said this was not a trial of bernie madoff. this was a trial of alex murdaugh. of course alex murdaugh will still go to trial for the 99 charges that he's facing in those financial crimes. randi kaye, cnn, walterboro, south carolina. attorney and legal affairs

commentator areva martin joins me from los angeles. she's also a civil rights attorney. areva, so good to have you with us. can we start with the sentence? what did you make of the judge addressing murdaugh in a very personal way before sentencing him to life in prison? >> well, i wasn't surprised particularly given the history of alex murdaugh's family in this county. his father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather all very prominent prosecutors in this particular town. the judge actually knew his relatives. in fact, he had to take down a photograph of one of alex murdaugh's relatives before the trial began. so this is a family that had great roots and a really oversized reputation in the legal community. so for the judge, he says, look, when a crime is committed, although there are individual victims, a crime is a crime against our society, against our state, against our county, and against this town. so it was very personal for this

judge. >> very personal indeed. where does it go from here? i mean what legal options does murdaugh have? >> not unusual in a case of this nature when someone is convicted of double murder for there to be an immediate appeal. what we're hearing from the defense team is that they believe they have appealable grounds on the fact that the judge allowed the breadth and extent of alex murdaugh's financial crimes, that the judge allowed that evidence, that kind of testimony to be admitted into this trial. so they're going to say that, yes, it was fair game for the prosecutor to have some, and they're going to argue the most recent financial crimes admitted in the murder case, but that the judge allowed in too much, and he crossed that line, and that that evidence became prejudicial to alex murdaugh. we'll see where it goes. most appeals in cases like this aren't successful, but i cannot imagine that there was anything planned other than an appeal. >> now, the fascination around this case, i want to talk to you

about that. it goes really, really far. the trial was televised. the family is the subject of a netflix series. there are a number of podcasts. do these interfere with a trial when it's under way? >> well, jurors are people, right? and despite being admonished by the judge that they are not to listen to or take in any information other than the facts that are presented in the courtroom, you know, sometimes something might seep into their psyches. they may hear something. they may see something, and it may impact how they ultimately decide a case. but when you are a juror, and when you take that oath, you swear that you're going to only be influenced by the evidence that is presented at trial. so as a lawyer, i'd like to believe that the jury system still works and that jurors are capable of following those instructions and not being swayed by any kind of news media or, in this case, the extensive media that was happening at the same time. >> but is there a danger, do you

feel, that it could desensitize audiences to the fact that, you know, we're dealing here with two people who have been murdered, and now it's kind of entertainment? >> well, that is the reality that we live in. when you think about social media, when you think about how it has changed how we consume information like these kinds of trials, cameras in the courtroom. the public has a really keen interest in cases like this as we saw. millions of people around the world were watching. so you have to balance the individual's right to a fair trial with the public's interest and their rights to have access to this kind of public information. but there is a certain, i think, ugliness about this because we heard that people are going to the estate where these murders happened and taking selfies and treating the property as if it was some kind of tourist attraction like an amusement park. that is morbid in so many ways, but we've seen that happen. we think about o.j. simpson.

i live here in los angeles, and i remember with that trial, people went to the house where nicole brown simpson was murdered and treated it like it was a tourist attraction. so we've seen this happen before. >> why do you think there's such huge interest in this case? why did it grip people? >> i think you had a combination of things that people find interesting. first of all, there's just a huge, you know, swath of people in this country and across the world, i guess, who are true crime fans. they love crime genre. they love that crime genre. but you have this very wealthy white man, a man that for some people was albove the law, a ma who had achieved the ultimate in terms of the american dream. and yet you also have allegations of drug dealing and money laundering and, you know, theft of millions of dollars. and just the fact that someone could be accused of killing not one family member, but two family members, i think just made this case very intriguing for people across the globe.

>> areva martin, also good talking to you. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. u.s. president joe biden hosted the german chancellor at the white house on friday to reaffirm continued allied support for ukraine. it's the first time olaf scholz has been back at the white house since before the russian invasion. we get more now from cnn's phil mattingly. >> reporter: it was notable on friday when german chancellor olaf scholz showed up at the white house, there was no traveling press corps on the german side. there was no pomp and circumstance related to the arrival, no joint press conference by the two leaders. certainly no state dinner either. the reason why, when you talk to white house officials, is they made clear this was a quick visit, but it was a business visit. it was one that was supposed to delve into the substance, continued coordination, an alliance that has been behind ukraine in its war with russia throughout and has certainly transformed how germany has operated in the defense space over the course of the last 13

months led almost entirely by chancellor scholz. and it was that effort by chancellor scholz and what germany has been willing to do in support of the coalition led by the u.s., led by president biden, that was something the president wanted to underscore and make very clear how much he appreciated. take a listen. >> you stepped up to provide critical military support, and you know, i would argue that beyond military support, the moral support you gave to ukraine is profound, has been profound. and you've given historic changes at home, increasing defense spending and diversifying away from russian energy sources. i know that's not been easy, very difficult for you. >> at this time, i think it is very important that we give the message that we will continue to do so as long as it takes and as long as it is necessary. >> reporter: that statement by chancellor scholz is critical for two reasons. one, it is consistent. there is no question about that. it's

anytime soon, whether it's related to what the europeans are dealing with on the economic side, their own domestic political issues, that the u.s. is staying in this, and so is germany. and that critical going forward. an alliance that cannot show cracks. when you talk to u.s. officials, they make clear their biggest concern right now is there will be fractures, the types of fractures they believe russian president vladimir putin has been playing for as this continues to grind on. the president, the chancellor making very clear those fractures don't exist, at least on a bilateral basis, certainly haven't broken out over the wide scale of the coalition, and their coordination as this war grinds on, as more weapons are needed, as more ammunition is needed, is not going anywhere anytime soon. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. on the front lines, the

ukrainian army will face intense fighting in and around bakhmut. russian forces continued to attempt to surround the city, and officials believe more than 4,000 civilians are trapped by the fighting. cnn's alex marquardt has more from eastern ukraine. >> reporter: a lifeline for ukraine's forces severed. this destroyed bridge near bakhmut on the last main supply route to the front, bombed, a ukrainian soldier told cnn, by a russian missile, meaning reinforcing troops or getting people out immediately becoming harder. we were on that road near bakhmut. military vehicles bombing towards the fight and coming back. the "v" sign for victory. russian forces have made progress at encircling the city, leaving only the west open to ukrainian troops. the ferocious fighting has left thousands dead on both sides. wagner forces, which have led the russian charge, have paid a

particularly high price. [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: today, wagner's leader on the outskirts of bakhmut released a video, quote, claiming the pincers are tightening. he called on zelenskyy to withdraw their troops. progozhin regularly exaggerates wagner's gains. ukraine blasted today's video as part of a disinformation campaign. but ukrainian commanders admit they are facing withering russian attacks. the eastern commander posted photos today of a visit to bakhmut, where he was briefed on the problems with ukrainian defenses. despite no announcement of a withdrawal, some possible signs have appeared. this bakhmut rail bridge strategically bombed by ukrainian soldiers to make it impassable. the head of a ukrainian reconnaissance unit saying they received an order to immediately leave bakhmut without given a

reason. soldiers from an artillery unit told us they have no plans to stop fighting here, fearing what could then happen. "the problem is not just russia taking bakhmut," this man says. they will not stop and will keep destroying the next cities. we need to wait for reinforcements to come and then kick them out. alex marquardt, cnn, in eastern ukraine. well, for more on the fighting, cnn's salma abdelaziz is in london. put this into perspective for us. what is the importance of the battle of bakhmut? is it of strategic importance? what would it mean for the russians if they took it? how important is it for ukrainians to hold on to bakhmut? >> reporter: very good questions. we've been speaking about bakhmut on air for months now because it's very much been a flash point city in this conflict, one where we've seen fighting intensify in the last few weeks and that looks all but

about to fall to russian forces. to really get an understanding of why it matters, i just want to pull up a map to show you where it is first of all. it's along, of course, in eastern ukraine, in that all-important donbas region, a region that president putin desperately wants to control, wedged between two cities, luhansk and donetsk, that are controlled by russian-backed separatists. for president putin, this would be a victory in the sense that it allows him to expand these regions that he claims are russian territory. of course illegally. but to be frank here, laila, beyond that, it has very little strategic importance. again, this is in a city that necessarily connects to any larger part of the country or provides any foothold really for ukrainian forces to fight further. really bakhmut is important because russia has made it important because for the last several months, ukrainian forces say moscow's troops have lobbed absolutely everything at it because the wagner mercenary

group, which you heard about there in that piece, has thrown its most expert fighters on the ground to try to make that win for president putin. in fact, western supporters, the partners of president zelenskyy, the united states, nato, and others say actually ukrainian focus towards the south of the country, where a spring offensive is expected in the coming weeks and months. but of course for president zelenskyy, backing down from any ukrainian land is a red line. he has repeated over and over again that no blood will be spilled in vain, that every inch of his country will be won back. but even president zelenskyy has admitted, his men have admitted they could have to strategically withdraw from the city. again, looking on what's happening on the ground there, that could very likely happen

soon. the one and only supply bridge that connects bakhmut largely besieged of course to areas outside where ukrainian forces could be provided with supplies, where that small group of civilians, just around 4,500 civilians inside bakhmut, that road could give them humanitarian assistance. that blown up in the last day by russian forces. that leaves the city ever more isolated and ever more vulnerable to this ferocious assault from moscow, laila. >> briefly, salma, the u.s. attorney general, merrick garland, made an unannounced trip to ukraine on friday? >> reporter: yes. this is important sort of in a larger context. the u.s. attorney general had made a similar visit last year. the context of

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