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>> gillian: very busy, if the first hour is anything to go by. thanks for sticking with us. gillian turner in for sandra. we'll take you live to the trial in the low country as soon as it resumes, but until then, a lot of news we want to get in for you. start with a fox news alert. >> oxycodone, morphine, testosterone, hgh, you name it, i got it, homey, 40% off on any medication. >> john: tell me what you need, i'll tell you what you want. supposed to be a sales pitch to americans in mexico but turns out it could be a death sentence instead. the drug peddler one of many hawking on behalf of mexican pharmacies to entice tourists just as spring breakers are about to flock south of the border. >> gillian: the cdc says do not fall for that. warn a high chance the pill that those guys are buying may kill you.

talking about legal pharmacies, not shady street dealers like that guy. >> john: a study reveals nearly half the pills bought in pharmacies were laced with fentanyl and other deadly drugs. and experts say mexico's infamous cartels are to blame. >> gillian: hot topic during the senate judiciary hearing, called out the drug cartels, take a listen. >> horrible epidemic unleashed on purpose by the sinaloa and cartels. >> john: our next guest wants to take the cartels out with new legislation. texas republican congressman dan crenshaw will explain his plan coming up. but first, william will start us. the peddler hawking the mexican pharmacy, guys like him are easy to find when you go south of the border. >> and you know, right, they are all over. come on in, come on in. millions of americans, john, buy their meds in mexico when they are on vacation, cancun or cabo,

they are cheaper and often don't need a prescription. now the cartels have infiltrated the supply chain and fentanyl-laced drugs are showing up in legitimate pharmacies. ucla sent researchers in to buy xanax, and oxycodone. 44% of the drugs were counterfeit, 30% of the oxy pills contained fentanyl, 11% contained heroin, 82% of the ateral -- >> aterral with methamphetamine and learned to press the pills, the problem is going to get a lot worse than it gets a lot better. >> it's timely with the families and teens on spring break. l.a. times follow-up found similar results at 71% of the pills tested positive for fentanyl and meth.

and experts say there's no way to tell the cartel-manufactured fake pills from the real thing. partnership for safe medicines also found packaging for other drugs looked real but these blood thinners, for instance, contain 0 active ingredients, and the only give away was the bar code, somebody got lady and numbered it 0-9. >> they have found counterfeit arthritis labels, cancer medications, same thing and of course, found plenty of fake pills with fentanyl. >> bottom line, john, experts say avoid the risk, buy your meds from a u.s. pharmacy, not mail order or mexico. >> john: william, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: the u.s. side of the southern border, four people died now in yet another high speed chase involved a human smuggling operation, officials are warning incidents like these

are far too common and say the biden administration is at least partially to blame for turning border towns into virtual war zones. matt finn has more details from mission, texas. what's the reaction there from local officials that you've been talking to? >> well, gillian, we traveled to the small border town of rio bravo where the crash happened and talked to the fire chief there, and tells us that border patrol attempted to pull over a suspected human smuggler but the driver crashed into a utility pole sending bodies flying to a nearby car and in someone's yard. the driver and three people died. the fire chief of that town, juan gonzalez, tells us the car crashed in the middle of a neighborhood so more people could have died or been hurt, and the chief tells us immigration-related crime has become the norm in his community since 2020. the chief estimates about 85% of

his hispanic majority town supports a border wall. >> we need the wall. i'm sorry, but we need it. >> what would you hope the wall would do? >> prevent this. this is one of the hardest -- when you have loss of life. because people say, well, it's racist, oh, let me ask them. your house has walls. is it racist? no. >> to combat the historic illegal immigration surge, the biden administration has proposed turning away asylum seekers here at the border who did not apply for asylum in any of the other countries they passed through on the way here. administration launched a new app that allows up to 30,000 migrants per month to legally apply for asylum. here at the border over the past couple of months, a slowdown in the larger groups, a couple hundred or 1,000 plus. instead, smaller staggered numbers.

we are told it could be the typical seasonal decline. newest numbers from border patrol show in december, record high 300,000 migrant encounters at the border. that dropped to 200,000 in january, and then to 154,000 in february, last month. however, february 2020, 3 years ago, the migrant numbers for that month was 50,000. this past month it jumped to 150,000, so the numbers are still very, very high in comparison to just a few years ago. gillian. >> gillian: matt, thanks for providing some context for us there. matt, appreciate it. thank you. john. >> we have a tsunami, a public health emergency crisis and every parent and every child needs to understand what's going on in our country. >> john: heartbreaking plea in our last hour from a mother who lost her 19-year-old son to fentanyl poisoning. critics say biden's border policies are fueling cartels and the deadly drug crisis that goes with them. our next guest wants to use

military force to rein the cartels in. texas republican congressman dan crenshaw, a member of the house intelligence committee. good to have you with us. thank you for being with us. yesterday in the homeland security committee hearing rebecca keesler, a mother who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning issued a call to arms. listen to what she said. >> this is a war! act like it. do something! >> john: congressman, is it a war, and if it is, what do we need to do about it? >> absolutely is. the cartels certainly act that way. the cartels has been a threat at least in mexico for years and years and years. and there was always a question, when does it really start to affect the american people and i think we have answered that question, it's now and because of the fentanyl crisis. they are poisoning street drugs with fentanyl. they do it in mexico to tourists, as this mother has shown, they do it to the kids here. mothers have to have narcan on hand, right, talking about

legalizing test strips in texas because everybody is so scared of this problem. the cartels, through the chinese who provide the precursors to fentanyl, are waging war on us. whether you have almost 80,000 americans dying each year from these overdoses, yes, that's a war. and so you mention my authorized use of military force, and that recognizes that fact, that we are indeed at war. it does more than people just imagine dropping bombs on mexico, that's not exactly what we are talking about here. what we are talking about is giving our president the diplomatic leverage he would need as well to get the mexicans to act on this. and another thing, too. our military can't even have the authority to collect intelligence on these cartels, right. you have to fix that as well. you have to have a whole of government approach to this problem. we have to recognize it as a threat that it is to our national security, to the american people, and deal with it. and this is just one of many steps that we need to do. we also need to have better

enforcement for cartel affiliated people here, the mexican officials who support them, i have a bill that does that as well at the state level. i think you need to increase penalties on fentanyl dealers. there's a bill here in congress that makes it a death penalty. i think that's perfectly viable considering you are poisoning people. >> john: so there are many people who say look, the best way to deal with this, declare the cartels to be foreign terrorist organizations and then you can use the u.s. military to go after them, whether overtly or covertly. your bill does not declare them to be foreign terrorist organizations but in order to do this, you have to get buy-in from the mexican president, amlo, and biden does not have the best relationship against him. >> no, address the foreign terrorist organization. anyone who says it gives the military the authority to deal with them is wrong, that's not what a foreign terrorist designation does. it increases penalties here and

there. my bill does that without calling them terrorists. even though they clearly are, you don't want to designate them as that. why? you have made millions of people in mexico valid asylum seekers so you massively increased our immigration problem at the border if you call them terrorists and basically say mexico is a terrorist-run state. yes, they are terrorists, of course, but if you designate them as such you are creating a far worse immigration crisis, think of the legal consequences doing that, the only reason i don't officially designate them that in the bill. what i do in the bill is provide all the extra authorities, what it's prosecution, sanction mexican officials who aid and abet them, it gives you all the same things you would get for a foreign terrorist designation without labelling them as such. and that's the reason why. >> john: back in the 1980s the united states famously declared the war on drugs and started using military assistance to the

colombian government to go after drug traffickers and the people who were growing the processing cocaine, it did not stop the flow of drugs. until you curb demand in the united states, can you really make a dent? >> i think that's a logical fallacy a lot of people talk about. the war on drugs has never succeeded, it's a waste of time, legalize everything and see what happens. that's nonsense. you will never stop the human desire for what is self-destruction and getting high. of course you are not going to stop that. we say dealing with demand, it's more farfetched than dealing with supply. and be clear about fentanyl and opioids in particular, the supply creates the demand. that dealer gets into a high school and gets kids addicted and they overdose 20 years later, they are addicted for life when they get it young so the supply absolutely needs to be dealt with and also a concrete thing we can deal with.

you tell me how to change human nature and fix human nature where they don't want to self-destruct and take drugs, i'm all ears. that's a fantasy. >> john: so congressman, if supply to you is the key, why isn't this administration going to xi jinping and saying stop sending fentanyl precursor to mexico? >> great question, they should. trump took the first steps to do that. that's part of the solution. you have to deal with china, calling them out for doing this. they are an authoritarian state, and they'll say it's criminal o organizations, we don't control them. they are part of this. >> john: we'll be watching this bill as it makes its way through congress. appreciate you spending time with us today. it's the age-old problem, how do you deal with it? hit the supply, demand, combination of the two. >> gillian: certainly no easy answers but we have had a lot of

time to figure it out, we meaning the united states. i have not heard anyone say that specific point, if you designate them terrorist, you create more problems for yourself for americans than if you left it as is. >> john: no question, though, that the american president has to get together with the mexican president because mexico to many people is in danger of becoming a failed narco state. the cartels have their tentackles so deep and so wide. >> gillian: one thing we have made progress with to some extent, defanging the cartels a bit, thanks to the actions of the border state governors who have sent national guard troops in, beefed up law enforcement. there. there is progress amid a terrible situation, all is not lost.

progress needs to be faster. >> john: and intradicting a lot of fentanyl, but border officials tell us they are only catching a fraction. kids are still dying. >> gillian: and terrorist watch list apprehended at the border, makes you wonder who is not apprehended. >> john: high time to do something about it. that's just me. >> gillian: if we ran the country, thing would be a lot better. >> john: maybe. >> gillian: that's not a promise. also this, it's not just the drugs flooding across the southern border. officials say encounters with chinese nationals, interestingly, are up 700% over the last year as chinese citizens are trying to flee beijing's brutal communist regime. >> john: fbi director chris wray tells bret baier the bureau believes covid started at a lab leak in wuhan. so will the biden administration have to take action to hold the ccp accountable for the accident

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>> the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. >> gillian: that's the fbi director, chris wray, telling fox news exclusively last night the bureau believes covid-19 likely originated in and leaked out of a wuhan lab. the highest ranking government official to make that on the record. pressure is now mounting on the

biden team to hold china accountable for the alleged cover-up, millions of lives lost. bret baier, anchor and executive editor of "special report," and chief political anchor. wray interestingly told you last night in addition to that bombshell that the chinese government tried to, in his words, thwart the u.s. investigation in the aftermath, a liability here if he's making the claim not only was covid leaked from the lab, intentionally or unintentionally, but the chinese government allowed it to leak across chinese borders and the rest of the world and then cover up foreign attempts to get to the bottom of what actually happened. >> he has gone the furthest of any official in this administration, publicly, but saying things that a lot of people were getting their head around. i mean, the proximity of the wuhan lab, number one. number two, all the things the

chinese did after that to prevent the investigation. the scrubbing of the market, the no access to the lab itself, the data that is being scrubbed. up on capitol hill there was testimony about all of this yesterday and these investigations i think on the hill are going to open up some doors that had not been opened before. >> john: and begs the question, if the chinese government is actively trying to thwart the fbi investigation or the global investigation into this, what is the biden administration doing about it. i thought that was an interesting aspect of your terrific interview with wray last night. but i also thought this was interesting, too. when he was asked about it, anthony fauci seemed to be pretty dismissive about the idea that we really need to get to the bottom of this, saying look, we may never know. listen here. >> do you think we'll ever know how the pandemic originated? >> might not.

it very well might not. we may not ever well know. >> john: might not. a virus that has killed almost as many people as have died in all the wars the united states has ever fought and you have the person who was the top virologist in the nation if not the world saying might not. >> you know, it's fascinating. if you look back and looked into emails of the very first days of covid and what the experts were talking about, including dr. fauci and dr. collins, and there was an effort to stop talk of a lab incident from the beginning. >> john: that's an under statement. >> and it's interesting i think the hearings on capitol hill are going to go into that a lot more than we have before. >> john: you use the word squelch, it was vilify, ridicule, cancel, censor, all of that. >> they had emergency phone

calls in the early days with virologists and experts trying to get them on the same page. let's say this, even though there are some saying there is nothing that adds up to a natural movement of this virus. >> gillian: at some point the world's attention you have to think is going to turn to culpability and liability, and i don't know how you -- john and i were talking earlier, i don't know how you go after something like this. i don't know if there's a war crimes tribunal, i don't know how you prosecute this. what about the culpability of these international organizations? we covered the last three years, like the world health organization, which allowed china to manage the outbreak as they saw fit when they wanted chinese travelers who had covid to be able to travel internationally, allowed it to happen. >> and also taking millions from the chinese at the same time. a lot of skepticism about the with.

-- the w.h.o., the people who say it's all about a giant china-u.s. game and a warning shot for china if they get too close to russia and ukraine, i think it's too good by half. i don't know if it's all connected. but it is a challenge for this administration to come up with one coherent china policy if you look at it, you know, from the spy balloon and how that was handled to how everything is handled with china in this administration. there's a lot of criticism up on capitol hill. >> john: and that was a big topic of the inaugural meeting of the china select committee, chairman mike gallagher saying he believes china is a threat, and there was an interesting interview dana perino had with steven hadley. >> the china of george w. bush faced was very different from

the china we see today. that china in 2001 to 2009 was looking for a benign international environment so it could focus on its own economic development. it wanted to be part of the international system rather than disrupt it. and it wanted a constructive and cooperative relationship with the united states. >> john: of course that is when china was a toddler, now that it's a teenager it wants to get into every fight that it finds. >> yeah. i do think there is vulnerability for china. they have a lot of people moving from the rural section of the country to the urban section. a lot of issues internally to deal with. so there is vulnerability on supply chains and other things but they are aggressive around the world and we as a country have to come up with a policy to deal with it. >> gillian: john talks about this, aside from chips, we still buy everything else from there. how do you -- >> john: an and the chips from

taiwan, if xi jinping gets his wish will be part of china soon. >> the chips thing, they are moving full speed ahead but will take us a couple years to build these facilities. but $52 billion is heading out the door as of this week to do just that. but we do get a ton and it is upside down, our trade issues with china. >> john: good to talk to you about all this. great interview with chris wray last night. >> thank you very much. >> john: back to the courtroom, continuation of closing arguments in the alec murdaugh trial. >> used to commit this crime. and this is forensic evidence that was presented to you. first of all, we'll talk about the blackout and you've heard testimony there were two blackouts purchased in december of 16. and that one went missing around halloween of 17, years prior to

these murders, and that a replacement without a thermal scope was bought in april of 2018. three blackouts that the defendant purchased can only account for one of them. and it's this third blackout which is the one that's at issue. you heard from paul's friend will loving, and first of all, let me say this. you heard the defendant in his various statements and he's very concerned about saying that there's no -- they didn't have a blackout, no blackout along, even though he slipped up and said yeah, we were owl looking for hogs, and yeah, you can look for hogs in the daytime. very, very concerned early on in the statements and saying they didn't have the blackout, just had a .22 pistol. and he also said eventually he's

like well, i think i replaced it, well, i guess i replaced it, i'm certain i replaced it, if you listen to his various statements. very vague and fuzzy about this third blackout. and told friends, paul's friends who, one of whom, both of whom testified but will loving in particular and what did will loving say. the defendant said the guy went missing around christmas time of 2020. loving said no, i was with paul, i was with paul in turkey season which is in the spring. i was with paul in turkey season and we sat out at the steps right outside the house that y'all went to today, right on that side entrance that goes into the gun room, and if you look down you can see how they were digging a pond and how you can fire down in that area, and they set up some targets to sight it in and we were shooting that other gun.

we were shooting that other gun, that replacement gun, and it had a red dot sight on it. not a thermal scope but a red dot, a red dot, not as good at shooting at night but they were shooting it in and sighting it in with the red dot, the tan gun. he was with paul while they were shooting that gun right there and what did jeff croft, who testified before you, find right there? weathered cases, or casings. weather cases right where will said he and paul were shooting that gun just a couple months prior to the murders. s and b, 147 grain blackout rounds, and those rounds and empty boxes and the pictures are in evidence and the rounds are in evidence were found all over that property. s and b, 147 grain blackout.

full clips found, there were empty boxes found, and there were also cases found, s and b147 grain, blackout rounds found across the street at their shooting house. two separate locations on the property, but what's really important again goes bag to what will said. i was with paul and we shot that replacement gun right there. right there. and you heard forensic scientist paul greer testify that the six cases, items 2-7, the six cases found around maggie that killed her were loaded into, extracted and ejected through the same firearm that fired those weather cases right outside the door where y'all went to today and at

the shooting range across the street. a family blackout killed maggie. it was present just a couple months prior to the murders and it's gone now. it's gone now. a family weapon the defendant cannot account for killed maggie. but what about the shotgun? the .12 gauge shotgun, doubled with one double and number drylock number 2 steel shot. well, first of all, you heard

that the two weapons that paul often favored and often carried were this shotgun right here and the blackout. those were his two guns, his favorite guns, aside from his deer rifle. the defendant had that gun with him when daniel green, the first deputy on the scene, showed up and shotguns as you heard are a little bit different than rifles. and the conclusion there was, was that the two fired shells inside the feed room that killed paul had class characteristics similar with that benelli, super

black eagle 3, but insufficient individual identifying marks to either match or exclude it. that shotgun right there. but, what did you -- what else did you hear about the shotguns? paul had this benelli super black eagle 3, that was his gun, will loving, rogan, all identified that as paul's gun, the one that alec had, it's got maggie's dna and blood on the receiver, you heard from the dna expert. and it was loaded with .12 gauge and a .16 gauge misloaded round. what else did you hear? you also heard about the super black eagle 2.

and you heard from nolan and nathan this was buster's gun, the super black eagle 2, had the mojo sticker on it. and that was recovered during sled's search of the residence the next day. what else did you hear? you heard from nathan and nolan that the defendant's favorite gun was a super black eagle 1. remember nathan going through each one of these guns and how knowledgeable he was as to the differences between them? sled search moselle for every .12 gauge, no super black eagle 1.

family weapons. family weapons killed these victims. and on top of that, just like the s and b 147, not as much but in evidence, federal double buck, steel 2 shot, rounds were found at different locations on the property. what does that mean? started, we talked about motive, it means the defendant had the means to commit these crimes.

at the beginning of the case i talked to you about some of the evidence that you would hear and i held up my cell phone. and there's been a lot of that evidence but the last witness you heard in the state's case in chief was peter redolfski and he went through that timeline, and what does it show? motive means opportunity. opportunity to commit the crime, and what does this timeline show? these are all the information, the very sources of information that were in this timeline. and let's look at what it shows.

first thing right here is that the defendant arrived at moselle at 6:42. now i'll say one thing, you have heard a lot of testimony about what he said about times. what time he got home, what time he went to the office, how long he was at almeda, certainly people can have some variability in assessing that. he almost never was right. almost never was right. 6:42 he arrives in moselle. paul, according to his extraction, gets there about 7:04. and about 7:03 we see the defendant stops registering on his phone. and then over the next 30

minutes or so we see a symmetry, general symmetry between the steps between paul's phone and alex's phone as he described walking the property. at 7:39 we have creation of a snapchat video that had the clothes on him. when that ultimately was recovered, and you saw the interview, it was shown to the defendant who had provided his clothes that night. and the first time then he started talking about changing his clothes, we'll talk more about that later. again 7:55 to 8:05, we have some symmetry with the steps. we have paul murdaugh's battery

life and you heard from the experts that have reviewed paul's usage, like many kids his age, he's constantly flirting with it being low, but that does not stop him from using it and you see that from the evidence in this case as well. 7:56, again, that's when paul sends the snapchat to his friends. and then at 8:08 we see paul leave the kennel area at 8:06, and 8:08, make his way down to the residence. 8:05 to 8:09, around that time that paul is getting there at 8:08, that's the last step activity on alec's phone and the last step activity until 9:02,

which we'll talk about in a minute. alec's phone pretty much goes with no activity for that time period. and also he has no cell activity from 6:52 to 9:04, which is right in that time period we'll talk about in a little bit. so, eating dinner, you heard the defendant talk about eating dinner. paul is at that residence, if you look here 8:14 down to 8:35, and again, that timeline exhibit there's a big one and then there's a condensed one and all of this is in there in evidence for y'all to look at. he's at that residence from 8:14 to 8:35. now, the defendant again despite having a photographic memory, a new photographic memory about things that he told y'all that people were hearing for the

first time, still can't remember specific things about maggie's activities as to when maggie arrived, as to what they talked about. he can remember dropping his phone down on the console but cannot remember things like that. he wants to remember things that help him try to explain to you why he never told the truth about maybe the most important thing he could tell law enforcement but he can remember very specific details, he still gets this wrong. but she arrives at 8:17 at moselle, they are already there, how do we know that? because her cell phone disconnects from her mercedes at 8:17 and that's when she starts showing steps. and paul, what's he doing? he's still using his phone like always. we see the battery life but he's still sending snaps, receiving snaps, bless you, he's sending to his friends, all these

friends right here, he's receiving these snaps, all during that time from 8:17 to 8:30, continuing to communicate with his friends, using his phone like always. and then what happens? about 8:30 maggie's phone registers some steps, and consistent with that, consistent with her and paul going down to the kennels, riding down to the kennels, we see paul's phone start showing steps, and then down here at 8:38 he's in that kennel area where those dots are. and if you look at that particular slide, from 8:38 to 8:44, that's going to be the last gps reading on paul's

phone, 8:44. you heard from rogan and you've heard from rogan as it references this timeline. and rogan tells you and told you from that witness stand that he was having a conversation with paul about cash and the dog's tail. they were having an active conversation about that. paul calls rogan at 8:40 and they are talking about it. and rogan says send me a facetime, but if it doesn't work, send me a video. then 8:44, 4 minutes and 14 seconds, we have right here the facetime but it only lasts 11 seconds, and then at 8:44:55, that's when the kennel video was recorded, the last 50 seconds.

at the beginning of this investigation as you'll recall the testimony, they didn't have paul's password and could not get in. and you heard in the defendant's august 11th statement that when he was asked about rogan saying he may have heard alec on the phone during this time, he said well i would be surprised if that were the case. law enforcement didn't have this kennel video. they didn't have this kennel video until april of 2022. when paul's phone was finally unlocked. and that changed everything. why did it change everything? opportunity. being at the scene of the crime when the murders occurred.

opportunity. and more importantly, exposing the defendant's lies about the most important thing he could have told law enforcement, when was the last time i saw my wife and child alive. why in the world would an innocent, reasonable father and husband lie about that? and lie about it so early? he didn't know that was there. and he could always say rogan must be mistaken. i'm surprised, not if my times were right, is what he said. rogan told you i was expecting that video right there. that was supposed to be the next

thing that happened. send me the video because we were worried about cash, the dog's tail. he talked about how his girlfriend was going to call a veterinarian, or she had some association with one. there was an active conversation going on right then and right there. and what's going on still? paul is still also texting his friends. you might recall that in opening statement the defense counsel said oh, he was texting after that video for ten minutes. it's not for ten minutes, it's for barely a minute. down here, 8:48:58, to 8:49:01, that's the last time that paul's phone was unlocked.

and what do we know? we know that the defendant was there just minutes earlier at the scene of the crime with the victims. 8:49:01, paul's phone locks. he never sends that video to rogan. you heard rogan say that when he watched that video. you heard him say it, that's the video i was supposed to receive. that is the video that my friend was supposed to send to me, and he never did. in fact, rogan responds at 8:49:35 and he says see if you can get a good picture of it. marianne, his girlfriend wants to sends it to a girl that's a vet, tell him to sit and stay and he shouldn't move around too

much. even though this is an active conversation with paul who you heard from multiple friends was one to respond and use his cell phone, paul never reads it. paul never reads it. what happens at 8:49:31, or 8:49:01 for paul, 8:49:31. maggie reads lynn's response to the group thread about mr. randolph and then her phone locks forever. it was never unlocked again until it was recovered the next day. down here.

6/8, 1:ten. 8:49 for both of them. the defendant, after hearing multiple individuals of his family and friends and law partners get on the stand and listen to that video and say that's him on that video, got on the stand for the first time and said ok, i was there. he was forced into doing what he does all the time and that's coming up with a new lie when he's confronted with evidence he can no longer deny. and the only reason he did that, the only reason he did that is because all those witnesses at that witness stand said yeah,

that's him. he's there. why would he lie about that, ladies and gentlemen? why would he even think to lie about that if he were an innocent man? why would he even think about that? but he got on the stand and he's told you a story, and we will talk more in a minute, the story was he didn't want to go down there and then he went down there, and went down there quick and got the chicken and can't remember anything about what he talked about with maggie, can't remember the conversation at dinner but he's dad gum sure about the fact he went down there and straight back, but even if you give him the benefit of the doubts, his story does not make sense because that kennel video is 50 seconds, it's over at 8:45:45, even if you give him the benefit of the doubt that he could take care of the chicken and maybe the

fastest dog and chicken chase ever, and put that chicken up and not say a word to maggie and paul and get on that golf cart and drive all the way back to the house, where does that put you? it puts you right at 8:49, at which point he claims he went inside and managed to dose for a second, then he's up at 9:02, perhaps the quickest nap ever. it doesn't make sense, ladies and gentlemen. it's a new story to fit facts he can no longer deny, from a person who not a single person who was close to him knew who he really was, not a single person close to him hadn't been lied to by this man. and i would submit to you that this one is the most blatant one yet. we'll talk more about that in a second. what happened at 8:49?

y'all been to the scene. that feed room door is probably a bit tighter than this, but you saw the evidence from kenney kenzie and them and said clearly paul was in the middle of that feed room, it's a kill zone. nobody in there with him, he's in that room, no defensive wounds at all, his hands are down, and he takes that shot, buck shot to the chest and any person who did that would probably think that took care of business because this buck shot, but for some reason he was this way and it went through, it was a million to 1 shot that it didn't kill him. alec thought it did.

the alec, the lawyer, alec the prosecutor, alec who is thinking through that will see he's manufacturing an alibi and also manufacturing the fact there's two guns used but we know unlike the expert they called from connecticut, they can't even get ars, don't even know about people riding around on the property and the two guns he likes to use, and the family and how common those guns are together, says well, his only conclusion is it would be practical for somebody to fire out the clip. this is him, this is alec, the prosecutor, the lawyer and he's thinking through that. he's thought through that. he's going to use two guns because it's going to confuse people that perhaps there were two shooters. it doesn't make sense. two family weapons? but he thinks paul is shot and you heard the testimony that paul appears in the feed room doorway as alec is putting down

that shotgun to pick up the blackout and a startled by paul and that's why the angle is like that, and catches paul like that, and goes up into the ceiling as you've heard the testimony from kenzie and blows -- blows his brains out. and what happens with maggie right here? we see activity on maggie's phone. you heard about sandal prints. you heard from kenney kenzie about the mark on her leg from the polaris over there by the overhang next to the feed room. you've seen the diagrams and the crime scene photos with all those cases are in the area between the doorway to the feed room and where maggie was found.

you heard that maggie had no defensive wounds. you also heard paul, close range, no indication he detected a threat from the person that fired the weapon, why, because it was him. same with maggie, she comes running over there, running to her baby. probably the last thing on her mind thinking that it was him who had done this. she's running to her baby while he's gotten picked up the blackout and opens fire at close range, again with no defensive wounds and she takes those two shots you heard dr. rebar say were parallel and it crumples her over and the cases, you can see them move around. and takes that shot that goes through here and she goes down flat and then there's the shot in the back of the head.

malice, is that malice, ladies and gentlemen? is that malice to do that? is that intentional harm to another with a bad intent, with an evil intent, to do those things? clearly i submit to you. clearly it's malicious. clearly it's malicious. she was running to her baby. heard that shot, was running to

her baby when she got mowed down by the only person that we have conclusive proof at the scene, just minutes before. who lied about that very fact till he could no longer do it, till you last week. alec told you he went down there in the golf cart. we'll talk about this in a little bit. they had their expect come up here. he's sitting in the golf cart. he comes up in the golf cart. what we don't see, as i said

before, any activity from -- on his phone until 9:02. the crime occurred around 8:49 to 8:53. down there at the feed room. state's exhibit 516. just a diagram. remember that roger dale davis did about the kennels and the hose there and how it wasn't put up the way he would put it up. if you're going to wash off real quick, what better place to do it? the water in state's exhibit 190, it wouldn't take long to strip down and wash yourself off. get in that cart, head back to the