>> 80 million people bought for the former president. and when they listened to rhetoric like that, it not only enrages them, but it also excites them, even folks in the middle who may say, you know, i don't agree with the former the president. but can you not articulate a better version of your differences from him policy-wise instead of attacking him because that will be viewed by many as an attack against people who support him, who i don't believe or crazy and psychotic. >> yeah, i'd say a couple of things aren't saying the people are crazy, psychotic. i'm saying donald trump is, i think that's self-evident. if you've seen how he's how he's acted seconds i've talked to psychologists don't really have to be a psychologist. if there is smoke coming out of my car and there's oil that's spilling. i don't have to be a mechanic to know that there's a problem with the car that i'm but i'm leaking oil and i'm not saying harris has to make this point i'm not on her campaign. i'm just saying as an observer and someone who has talked to psychologists and psychiatrists he's not

psychologically well, we have to go okay. >> shermichael, thank you very much for weighing in on this. i really appreciate it. all right. thanks to our panel. thanks to all of you for joining us. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now reuniting for their first major event since president biden bowed out, what they will stay together on stage and what we've just learned about kamala harris's first 100 days in office. if she went, donald trump announces a news conference for later today. hey, the last one he held, he invented crowds bigger than martin luther king and a helicopter conversation that never happens. so we'll today's big event showed the same rigid discipline and taylor swift and back on stage for the first time since last week's terror scare, the major security operation on her way as hundreds of thousands of swifties are expected in london, i'm kate bolduan with

sara sidner and john berman. >> this is cnn new central today for the first time since president biden decided to drop out of the presidential race, he and vice president kamala harris, heating up the two sharing stage in maryland to talk about lowering drug prices for americans, it all centers around medicare's new power to negotiate with drug companies. >> the white house says the first round of talks save billions of dollars for seniors and the federal government, reducing drug costs as part of harris his economic message to voters, a plan she is set to lay out in her first major policy speech tomorrow in north carolina, cnn's isaac dovere joining us now, isaac, what can you tell us about this? what's the very latest on this new messaging we're about to hear on friday now look we have the president, the vice president appearing together for the first time really since all the

changes happened in the campaign. but they're using it to make that news that you just laid out about the drug prices and that is something they say will save at least $1,000,000,000.5 for consumers on the ten most popular drugs, things that effect diabetes, heart disease, things like that. so a really direct way of changing the money that is in people's bank accounts and having more of it and having less of it go to drug companies. and that's how they are using this appearance and it's part of the buildup of her own larger economic rollout that we're going to start to see tomorrow. >> all right. isaac dovere. thank you so much. we will be awaiting that. john all right. >> well, donald trump knew this morning. >> he went there again and again and again in a speech that was supposed to be all about the economy, which is what allies have been pleading with him to focus on trump fell back on the seine in messaging about vice president harris that some republicans feel is losing him support what happened to her laugh, i haven't heard that laugh at about a week.

>> that's why they keep her off their sake. that's why she's disappear. that's a laugh of a crazy person. i will tell you if you haven't done too crazy she's crazy her laugh, his career threatening. they said, don't, she has left. she doesn't laugh anymore it's smart, but some days it's going to come and that's a laugh of a person with some big problems. >> so later today, trump holds what his campaign is calling a press conference at his golf club in new jersey. cnn's steve contorno is with us. the last news conference. steve again, he said he had crowds bigger than martin luther king. he didn't he said he took a helicopter trip with former san francisco mayor willie brown. he didn't. so as this news conference going to be along those lines john, if yesterday was any indication than we really have no idea what donald trump is going to say because yesterday was supposed to be about the economy. and i suppose if you listen long enough and hard enough, there wasn't economic message in there, but it was largely some of these same attacks that have

gotten earned him criticism lately, including from some republicans. so he did talk some about what he wants to do on the economy has his plan to not tax tipped wages and also to get rid of taxes on social security. a lot of it though, was spent looking backward at the past four years and trying to tie vice president harris to joe biden since economic agenda and the inflation that we have experienced as a country, take a listen really wachee needs to explain is the president suffering that she's caused along with joe biden. >> and by the way, they're a team, you know, she's trying to throw him overboard. she doesn't want to know who he is anymore. she hasn't wanted to talk about him anymore. she says, let's not bring this guy in. let's not bring him in no, no. they were a team now that team will be appearing together as isaac just laid out for us later today. so she is embracing certain parts of his

agenda and trump though as well, spent a lot of time going from right from that into attacking her again. in fact, he said at one point he sort of joked, there's supposed to talk about the economy but let's get back to the fund stuff because i know that's what you're here for. and he did get some defense yesterday of this approach from his vice presidential nominee, j.d. vance, who on the campaign trail said quotes to the people who say donald trump should do something different. they had an opportunity to make donald trump do something different by challenging him over three separate primaries. every single one of which you won. so i think that donald trump has earned the right to run the campaign that he wants to run. of course, john, it's not just former rivals like nikki haley who are criticizing this approach as we reported, and you and i talked about yesterday, kellyanne conway, former speaker kevin mccarthy. they are also urging died donald trump to get back on message and attack. harris is policies and not her personality as far as this news conference later today, steve, do you have a sense of what the campaign hopes? to get out of

it. this was announced yesterday and it does seem they're trying to get out ahead of what vice president harris is going to announce tomorrow. but are their concerns? from insiders that trump's just going to go to wander away again there are certainly some shadow boxing going on here. >> you know, donald trump announces his economic message yesterday. harris does hers on friday next week, he's going to be holding events across the country. justice she's having her democratic national convention pension. so there is a bit of that going on as well, you know, donald trump has been watching as the spotlight has been seized for the past three weeks by vice president harris and they have been straining and trying to get him back into get some momentum back for his campaign. and one of the ways that, that has worked for him in the past is by getting in front of cameras, get being unscripted. the problem that they have had lately is that the unscripted donald trump is reminding a lot of people why they didn't vote for him four

years ago instead of encouraging some new people to get into the mix steve contorno, great to see you this morning. thanks so much for sharing your reporting. sara. >> all right. breaking overnight, columbia university president minouche shafik is stepping down months after protests over the israel hamas war. grip that campus in a letter she said, quote, it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community. she faced criticism over her handling of the protests this spring after talks broke down between the university and demonstrators over an encampment that had grown quite large on campus, protesters barricaded themselves inside an academic building. eventually prompting shafik to call in the nypd to remove them at least 100 people were arrested. the head of columbia university medical center, katrina armstrong, will serve now as interim president. there there's new reporting today about president biden, how unhappy he still is with certain democrats who he believed he was forced him to

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outside wembley stadium. that's going to be a disappointment if you know about tailgating, that's a very popular thing for swifties to do. those who do have tickets will be moved on into the stadium and everyone does not have a ticket has been asked not to go there. sara at all. so that means is away from the stadium. we might see some of the swifties gathering in preparing. you mentioned that foiled terror plot that was in austria. what i saw there last week is the response to this very hateful potential attack on swifties was loved, was community, was exchanging friendship bracelets in the streets of vienna. so expect to see a lot more of that in london as well today. and you have to remember, london has its own tragedy. england has its own tragedy with concerts. in 2017, the ariana grande day concert was attacked fact by it by a terror plot. 22 people were killed. so authorities are absolutely already prepared for the possibility of any

potential a toxin. those security measures our very much in place, but again, the calls are do not congregate outside the stadium for those swifties, no. tailgating today. >> alright. salma abdelaziz. thank you so much for your reporting. kate so sources say president biden will not soon forget the democrats who were the most active in what he views as pushing him aside. then you're reporting on that and the new focus for the president now could there be a role for rfk jr. and a kamala harris administration, didn't rfk junior just proposed the same to donald trump. what is going on here? >> the details? that's next cnn is live from chicago as democrats unite to offer their support to a new nominee and her running mate fellow cnn for complete coverage, the democratic national convention monday at seven on cnn. >> and streaming on max. >> here's why you should switch from google to duckduckgo on all your devices.

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headspace at this time sources stopped short of using that word grudge, but they did say that biden would not soon forget those who had pushed publicly and privately for him to exit the race. now, a biden, as you mentioned, has been alternating between been embittered and relieved about the decision to bow out of the 2024 race with some saying that he is still processing this entire situation. now another source said that while biden was unhappy in the moment, he hasn't spent time ruminating about the decision, but still this reporting does highlight some apparent tension between biden and pelosi to democratic leaders who became friends early on in their political careers and rose in their own ways to lead the democratic party. now pelosi was actually asked about her current relationship with biden in a recent an interview with the new yorker, take a listen to that moment you think you'll have your relationship will be

there i hope so. i pray so a cry. so you know, you worry about lose sleep on it he's angry at you you think he's angry at yeah. >> i don't know. >> we had to know. he didn't have conversation now, a white house spokesperson pushed back on the idea that biden is still unhappy with pelosi saying that that's not accurate and not the president's attention right now is on the future and the past but it is clear that there have been times when the president has been frustrated about those efforts from within his own party to push him out of the 2024 race embittered, but frustrated not unhappy, are holding a grudge. >> their interesting distinction as to say the least, arlette, look, what does the president see as his goal in the next, 80 some days as part of the presidential campaign well, right now for president biden won focus will be on burnishing his own legacy. >> he won't be bogged down by having to campaign day in and

day out himself against former president donald trump. you've already seen him start to focus on some of those legacy pieces this week traveling down to new orleans to talk about cancer. but another key focus for biden will be trying to help vice president kamala harris be elected president in november. the too will be appearing for the first time together on a stage today. out in the country, traveling to maryland to talk about lowering prescription drug prices. the expectation is biden will hit the road in the coming days, weeks, and months. in order to support harris and also do everything he can for appear in the white house to ensure she's elected in november got it. >> well, in the spirit of the white house messaging and how the president sees things. thank you and no, thank you for this reporting this morning or let's size at the white house. appreciate your time sara all right. >> joining me now, cnn political commentator maria cardona and former white house spokesperson for george w bush, pete seat. thank you both for being here this morning. let's talk about this new poll that's come out by pew

research, finding that harris does this campaign is energizing the democratic party in a brand-new way, 62% of democratic voters strongly support harris at the top of the ticket compared to last month which was really no number, just 43% of democrat strongly supported biden in that very same poll. so p trump there's the poll, there has another news conference today hoping to grab the spotlight from harris as you see these numbers if his presser is anything like the last one where he spewed a bunch of lies and he went after her personally is the old adage still the same that all publicity is good publicity for him well that's what i tell my clients. so let's stick with that, sara. all press is good press, but i think what he has going for him is most americans are living their lives and not watching his press conferences every minute of his press conferences and hanging on every word that he says. but i

joined the chorus that says he needs to scrap the personal attacks and insults and focus on the issues that the american people care about. we see this in poll after poll, they want to boost the economy. they want to secure the border, they want to cool inflation. >> it's not that hard. the road map is there. he just needs to stay on the road and not drive right off the cliff. >> but it's interesting, the vice president, jd j.d. vance is saying no, it stick with it. you've won this way before you can do it again so divergent opinions there maria, i do want to ask you about another poll and there have been many time and time again americans have said that look, they're unhappy with their own personal economies right now, trump has the advantage generally in polling on that trump is tying harris to biden. how can harris separate herself from biden when the two of them are appearing together today? >> look, i think what vice

president harris is going to do and what she has already started to do is to focus on the economy in a way that is very relevant and very personal to all of those people that you just mentioned, sara that aren't feeling the massive economic gains because on paper they are massive economic gains, but they're not feeling it perhaps in their own personal economies. she's going to be talking about lowering costs, which is the number one thing that people feel when they go to the grocery store, right? and i think if she continues to focus on that, if she continues to focus on the issues that voters feel on a day-to-day basis. i think that she will be able to bring home the fact that she and tim walz are going to be the ones that are going to be fighting for them every single day. she is going to be the one that's going to be fighting to expand the middle-class to help working class voters to be the one that is going to support them in their families versus donald trump, who is supporting

project 2025. and many economists have said that if his policies are implemented, inflation is going to skyrocket. and families those same working class, middle class families, there these are going to be in the toilet. so that is a contrast. i think that she can work in her favor, especially as someone who is different on the ticket than joe biden wasn't. she can do it without essentially trying to distance herself too much from president biden all right. >> peter and this is to both of you rally, but i'll start with pete. cnn have some reporting that rfk junior reached out to the harris campaign about a possible role in her administration. if caveat, he drops out and endorses her and he made the similar pitch to trump as well are you surprised there are no takers so far the only reason we're talking

about rfk junior is because his last name is kennedy. >> if he was robert f. smith junior, we wouldn't even be having this conversation, so just of luck to him, but i have to jump on something. you know, what maria was talking about there. kamala harris cannot distance herself from joe biden. it is biden-harris. biden-harris. biden paris. it's like saying beetlejuice three times. it just conjures up bad things when you say that so whatever economic policy policies harris walz puts out, that is an implicit admission of the failures of the bidens terrorists administration plain and simple. so she will try a new font. she'll try a new color scheme to pretend like it's something fancy. a new bot it's not, it's the same failed policies that the american people feel are not working for them maria, well, let me let, let me jump in here

because i think what pete is not understanding republicans do not understand is that the economic policies that the biden-harris administration have put forward are massively popular. >> they pull off the charts asked voters what they think about $35 insulin asked voters what they think about capping prescription drug costs at $2,000 per seniors for seniors every year. ask voters how they feel about expanding the affordable care act asked voters what they, how they feel so about being able to send their kids to college and not having that burden because a lot of their kids have are having their student loans forgiven as voters how they feel about an administration who has focused on these policies that are massively popular. the infrastructure bill, the pact act you ask voters about those things. and in polls and in focus groups,

they pull off the charts. and that was what was frustrating frankly from biden's perspective, because they were not connecting the two well, guess what? kamala harris and tim waltz can absolutely connected to and take credit for it, that contrast is going to win them the election in november. >> maria cardona pizzi, we're going to leave it there. thank you both appreciate it. >> thanks. >> this morning, virginia authorities have identified the suspect accused of breaking into one of donald trump's campaign offices, though. he's not yet caught cnn's zach cohen has very latest. he's joining us now. zach, what more are you learning about this yeah. >> gabe police are still searching for 39-year-old tobi shane kessler, who they believe is the one who broke into donald trump's virginia campaign headquarters on sunday night, spent a quote, brief amount of time there before leaving, and we are learning some new details about who kessler is. like i said, he's 39-year-old man. he has a california driver's license, despite appearing to have been in the dc areas since 2018.

we've also found that he does have a criminal history and has kremlin history spans several states, including a 2019 charged in maryland for disorderly conduct and second-degree assault and resisting arrest, as well. was another 2019 charged in florida for trespassing and getting a fake name to police. so obviously as law enforcement continues to search for kessler physically, bring their suspect into custody. they're also trying to figure out why kessler or why anyone would have wanted to break into donald trump's virginia campaign headquarters is important to note that there is no evidence at this point the suggest that this break-in was politically motivated at the same time law enforcement has not found any sort of evidence that kessler kessler left behind at the campaign headquarters. they're also not sure in this early stage in the investigation if kessler took anything from the campaign headquarters are still a lot of questions in determining both motive and finding kessler himself yeah. >> sure. sounds like it, zach, thank you so much for the latest reporting. john, overnight in new york, yankee did something so naturally it is getting a huge amount of attention, certainly more than

it would had it been a player on any other team? so aaron judge, who is very, very good and deserving of accolades despite my attitude, hit his 300th home run in fewer games and any major league player in history he did it in just 955 games. ralph kiner, he beat ralph kiner by 132 games. he did it in 400 fewer a bank that's the babe ruth, although you will remember ruth was a pitcher in his early glorious years with the boston red sox. this was judges take after the game no i was helping it came in, a way in and we were kind of down early in the game. not really getting much going early on, accept that soto homer, but i always great throughout the whole game, guys, you're having great at-bats, having great rallies there to kind of pass the baton to the next guy. so when that opportunity he will

have to get himself a new uniform. it might be hard for this $50 a year salary. one important note, judge, is not the youngest player to hit 300 home runs, not by a longshot. alex rodriguez did it when he was 27. judge, is 32 sara, how about them? >> red sox anyway i like your face, john. that was it. that was a good face just knocked it out appreciate it. alright coming up the high-stakes ceasefire talks that various areas, ladies and gentlemen, sooner or later high-stakes ceasefire talks are going to get underway. does the u.s. see any progress happening between israel and hamas as the war continues, there how the white house is calculating the risk from an iranian retaliation on israel. also, we could see one of the biggest murder trials of the last year. retried. why a

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>> and of course, this grin and hope refik milestone sara, as we've heard from the palestinian health ministry in gaza, saying that today the death toll of ten months of war has surpassed 42,000 people killed. and they expect that that death toll is even higher. they believed that there are thousands, possibly up to 10,000 people who are unaccounted for, who remain under the rubble. and when we're talking about the 40,000, they say that the majority of them are women and children nearly 17,000 in children they say have been killed in ten months of war that the u.n. has described as a war on children because of the sheer number of children who have lost their lives children who have been maimed children whose lives have been shattered by this war. we're talking about nearly 20,000 children who've lost one or both of their parents in this war. sara, just a few months ago we were here in doha and we met with evacuees from gaza children who have lost parents

cohen's children who've lost limbs, mothers who've lost their babies. and it gets really harder and harder by the day to try and describe what the people of gaza, the city billions are continuing to go through. i speak to people there and they say that they have gone to a point now where they just wish they would die. so they do not have to live through this, so they don't have to live to mourn their loved ones and you speak to people right now and they feel that they have been abandoned by the world and they have lost hope. as you have these talks right now with so much riding on these talks the lives of civilians in gaza the fates of the israeli hostages, but people are now at a point where they are too afraid to even hope because they have seen these hopes crushed over the past a few months, sara the talk so important to see if a ceasefire can be worked out. >> jomana. thank you so much. there live for us from st.

john, those talks getting underway in qatar today, joining us now from the white house to spokesperson to the white house national security council, john kirby. thank you so much for being with us. i want to read you a the quote from the new york times this morning. it says quote, israel has achieved all that it can militarily and gaza, according to senior american officials, i think we can put this up on the screen who say continued bombings are only increasing risks to civilians well, the possibility of further weakening hamas has diminished. so how accurate is that, that u.s. officials believe that israel has achieved all that it can militarily in gaza well, we certainly believe john that they have achieved most of their military objectives without question. i mean, they have decimated hamas is leadership at various levels, top levels all the way down to a more tactical leaders. they have certainly taken away an awful lot of capability by hamas from military perspective, dam destroying

tunnels, getting after their resources and weapons caches. but it will come on still exist as a military fighting unit. there's no question about that. they still face legitimate threats from hamas and they are still going after them militarily. we're going to continue to make sure they've got the tools to do that as well. but as you just saw in the previous report, there have been way too many civilian casualties too many innocent people caught up in the crossfire because of the violence, because of the combat in gaza is still a combat zone. and what we're trying to do here at the white house is working feverishly to get this ceasefire deal in place so we can get at the very least six weeks of calm and a chance to get the most at-risk hostages out. and i'm not that they're not not all risks they are, but i'm talking about the women and the elderly, the sick and the injured, get them home to their families where they belong. and that's why we're in doha right now. and that's why we're working so hard on this. >> what would more fighting, more bombing now, by israel accomplish? >> well, let israel speak to their military objectives in the military operations, they

would probably tell you there are still active hamas military units, active hamas leaders that they, that they want to go after. and again, they have a right to defend themselves against what is still a very viable threat to the israeli people. what we're urging is that all sides come so the table negotiate the implementing details of this deal. let's get it in place so we can get that ceasefire in place and maybe work towards an end to this conflict in general, because that's really the best outcome for the people of gaza, where it's not a combat zone so there are reports that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was sort of move the goalposts in terms of these negotiate patients over the last several months how consistent do you feel his position has been i'll just tell you. i don't want to negotiate in public, john, i'll just tell you that both sides need to show compromise. both sides need to sow some leadership here we are now talking about the implementing details of the deal itself. the smaller gaps that we absolutely

believe can be narrowed in terms of how the deal was executed. it's not about a debate in doha today about the deal itself, that the structure of it, it's now about implementing. and sometimes when you get to the end of the negotiation and you're talking about those kinds of details. that's when it gets the hardest and the most gritty so hopefully we'll make some progress here in the coming hours and days. i just don't know where it's going to go. but both sides, it's really important that both sides be willing to compromise and show some leadership and get to this ceasefire. >> what is your current assessment this morning of when and perhaps how strong an iranian attack on israel could be i don't know the answer to that question. we're watching it real, real close as you might expect, and we've got certainly additional military capabilities in the region to defend ourselves, our troops, our facilities, and israel itself, if it comes to that, hopefully it won't come to that. >> we have to assume information that we have tells us that iran has not moved off its threat to, to a launch some

kind of an attack on israel, perhaps even using their proxies as well like hezbollah or the houthis our assumption is that they're thinking is still in that vein, that they're going to do something. >> and it could happen in coming days. it can it could come nearly at any time now so we're watching it will closely. we're going to make sure we're ready and we are but again, hopefully it doesn't come to that john what have you seen in terms of a russian response to the ukrainian incursion into russian territory. >> what evidence have you seen that it has changed they're fighting posture, particularly in eastern ukraine difficult to say with great certainty here in these early days it is apparent to us that mr. putin and the russian military are diverting some resources, some units towards the kursk ohblast to extensively counter what the ukrainians are doing doing i won't speak to ukrainian

operations one way or another, but but it's it's not it doesn't mean that mr. putin has given up military operations in the northeast part of ukraine or even down towards the south, towards places like zaporizhzhia. >> there's still active fighting along that front. they still have a lot of manpower and a lot of reasons sources devoted to trying to take back territory that the ukrainians have reclaimed in recent months and last year or two. but it's, it's an active active dynamic situation and we're still watching it. but he has, he has diverted some resources this is to kursk. it's not exactly clear with what intent or what effect it's actually going to have on what the ukrainians are doing. >> all right. john kirby, always great to see you. thanks so much for being with us this morning. >> on our radar this morning, a manhunt is underway in north carolina for a convicted murderer of a one-year-old girl, remote alston escaped from a police van and when he was being taken to a medical appointment on tuesday, there's a $25,000 reward for

information leading to his capture, capture, and people in the area are being hold. keep their doors, windows, and cars locked new jersey governor phil murphy plans to appoint his former chief of staff, george helmy, to replace democratic senator bob menendez, who is stepping down next week, last month, a jury found an nda is guilty a federal corruption charges, including bribery, extortion, and obstruction of justice. he is set to be sentenced in october. and a russian court just sentenced a russian american ballerina to 12 years in prison, all because of a $51 donation she made to a ukrainian charity because anya karelina pleaded guilty to treason after she was arrested in february, her boyfriend tell cnn he had bought her a ticket to visit russia as a birthday gift. her lawyer says he will appeal take the south carolina supreme court has now agreed to take up an appeal from

convicted murderer alec murdoch an appeal that could lead to a new trial. the disgraced attorney was convicted last year of shooting and killing him his wife and youngest son in june of 2021, he's currently three years into a life sentence because of those murders murdoch's legal team says, he deserves a new trial, claiming the now-former clerk of court tampered with the jury by talking to them about the trial during the trial and implying murdoch was guilty. here's how one juror described those comments to me. >> it felt like she. >> made it seem like he was already guilty that affect your finding of guilty in this case yes. >> ma'am after that hearing, though, a judge ruled that the clerk was out of line, but that her comments did not influence the verdict but is that about

to change joining us right now, is eric bland? >> he's an attorney who represented the estate of murdoch's longtime housekeeper after she died of so she's circumstances in the murdoch family home in 2018, he also referred has represented six of the jurors on the murdoch murder trial, even just giving your kind of connection to all of it, eric just shows how what what a mess this, all has been surrounding alec murdoch and his family and now a mess, a mess of a verdict, if you will, that they're facing. what do you think of the state states supreme court agreeing to take this up? does it suggest he's likely to get a new trial? >> morning, kate, thanks for having me alex murdaugh thinks that he's the organ grinder and the justice system is the monkey the reality is that this is a normal appeal than anybody who's convicted and doesn't plead guilty and is convicted by a jury of murder always gets an appeal. the difference is that it didn't go through the

intermediate court of appeals first and the state supreme court. grabbed the case. this case is going to be appealed based on evidentiary rulings that judge newman made based on the trial was in walterboro and they felt there should have been a change of venue. >> but most fortunetly as you said, that there was alleged juror interference, i represented six jurors who testified that not only did they not hear former clerk of court, becky hill say anything that was any more than just ministerial of like, what do you want for lunch? >> how do you want to get to and from the courthouse? but nothing that was said or done influenced their verdicts. the issue before the supreme court's going to be the former chief justice who denied the motion for a retrial, applied. >> the south carolina standard for juror interference the defense argued they should have applied the federal standard pronounced by the united states supreme court. >> the difference is the south

carolina's standard says that you must show in addition to the inappropriate statements by becky hill that influenced the jurors outcome, the federal standard says, all you have to do is show that there was inappropriate statements made by the clerk of court and you get a new trial. it's a very serious issue for our system to work it has to work for the worst of this, not just the best of us. so i believe that even though alex murdaugh was guilty, even though there was significant evidence these are important issues for any defendant to get a fair and impartial trial. so we're going to have to see if our supreme court agrees with justice toll and applies the south carolina standard. >> regardless if he loses, alex is going to take this up to the united states supreme court. >> he has 30 years not just the convention for the double murder. yeah here he is.

financial crimes. he has more and out and kind of getting all of it because do you think there is a chance that alec murdoch will see a day of freedom in his life never, never he's also appealing the 40 year federal sentence that he got because he pled guilty to the financial crimes. but the financial crimes were always a backstop. that convictions and the sentences to this double murder conviction, i don't believe he's ever going to get out and if he does, he'll be deep into his 70s early 80s and would be considered older at that time. but i think there's a good chance that this case may get a retrial if the supreme court or some federal court says that looks south carolina, you should have applied the federal standard. >> wow, i mean remember watching this trial so closely

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