♪ ♪ >> todd: breaking right now, the attorney and now convicted attorney alex murdaugh awaits his fate. we one hour from the sentencing. gunning down his wife and son in cold blood. good morning, you are watching "fox & friends first" on a friday morning. i'm todd piro or. >> ashley: i am as ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. spent less than three hours deliberating before handing down their verdict. watch. >> to talk about six weeks of testimony and being in trial that long and for the jury to come back in three hours, that basically means there wasn't much to debate whatsoever. however, the murder weapons were

not found but the circumstantial evidence was so convincing to the jury and to everybody watching at home that obviously, he killed his wife and his son. >> todd: jackie ibanez joins us live with the very latest, jackie. >> hey, good morning six weeks, 70 witnesses and three hours to deliberate for a panel of south carolina jurist to find alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. >> guilty verdict signed by the four lady 3223. >> you can see murdaugh keeping a straight face and escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs. his only son buster and the gallery shaking his hand in disbelief while wiping his hand down my face his hand. he is to be two counts of murder and a violent crime. he is facing three years to life in prison for each murder conviction. according to

"the washington post," prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case because "the state would have to prove there is aggravating circumstances which would include murdering a child under 11, murdering a witness or potential witness to a crime." over the course of a six week trial, the disgraced attorney shot and killed maggie and paul back in 2021 at their sprawling south south carolina state. to shift the attention off of his financial ruin and fraud charges. the prosecutors say justice has been served. >> it doesn't matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn't matter what you think how prominent you are. if you do wrong and if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. >> in a statement to fox outside of the courtroom, murdaugh's attorney said obviously we are disappointed but we will have no further comment. alex murdaugh sentencing hearing

starts at 9:30 this morning. todd and ashley come of course we will keep you posted. >> todd: thank you, criminal defense attorney brian, great to have you as always. a lot of lawyers are saying three hours is not enough time to go through the exhibits much less deliberate and come to a decision. so obviously, they made their decision will be for than pure art about when, when was a crucial point in this case when they said, alex murdaugh is guilty? >> hey, todd, ashley, great to be back with you. i was not surprised by the verdict at all but the timing was really stunning. this is a resounding message by this jury that they did not like alex murdaugh and to get to your question, they had disdain towards him after he took the stand. i thought his decision to testify was a colossal mistake. he was horrible on the stand. he did not come across as a grieving husband, as a grieving

father. he came off as a narcissist purity came off like the prosecution said like somebody who loved himself too much. and his heart rang hollow when he clasped testified and that was a death sentence for him. >> ashley: brian you talk about him and his words being hollow during the testimony. did you have the same feeling with a guilty verdict coming back when it was being read? we saw images of alex and his son, buster. do you feel the same way about that? >> i do and they are still points i want to make why this verdict came in so quickly. let's talk about the two game changers, the biggest one, obviously the snapchat video is son took. that put him at the scene of the crime within minutes of the shooting. and for him to lie about not being there, he could not overcome that.

it was a credibility issue. and rebuttal closing, the prosecutor did a great job. he called this a cse case common sense case, go with your gut instinct. and one other thing i want to mention a real game changer in this case where the shell casings and remember the prosecutors found shell casings all around the compound, right? and they also found shell casings next to the two bodies. those shell casings match the two gunsmithing by the anthonymurdaughfamily. there is nobody else that could have done this murder because they would have had to show up at the kennel instead of the house at the right time within a 20 minute window to use these two guns to commit the murder. i think that really resonated with the jury at the end of the

case. they decided by process of elimination, there is nobody else that could have committed this murder. >> todd: sentencing a little over four hours but what do you expect the sentencing to be? >> he will get the book handed to him. this judge does not like murdaugh. he does not like the defense team. i wouldn't say he doesn't like them but i've done a lot of jury trials. you can read where a judge is going based on his or her rulings, based on the demeanor. this judge cut off one of the defense lawyers during closing. he is going to give murdaugh life in prison. i think there is no doubt about that. and he will probably never see the light of day it again. in another, and i wanted to make incredible at the end that the prosecutor said that bubba, the dog, bubba, the dog was a witness in this case. had the dog not marked, that alex murdaugh would not have made that comment. >> ashley: that is an

interesting thought on that, but like i said earlier, no matter where you stand, buster is the surviving son and no one has a mother, brother and father. thank you for your time, we appreciated, happy friday. >> you too. >> ashley: it happen in chicago and a report refill zero students proficient in math. so why is the democrat run areas keep filling the kids? we will dive into that next. >> todd: take a listen to this. >> people are going crazy over fentanyl because we start to see more white people die from this drug. >> todd: we only care about fentanyl because white people are dying? one san francisco politician is saying. he got one response from a mother. you absolutely don't want to miss this. >> he is making it about a race issue. should we let my son died because he looks white? scre♪ ♪

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>> todd: a fox weather alert, more than 16 million people across the south better by severe storms with golf ball size hail and wind 76 miles an hour. that is only minor injuries reported so far. >> ashley: the power system

knocking out power to thousands of people and canceling hundreds of texas flights. the senior meteorologist janice dean with a fox weather forecast. good morning, janice. >> happy friday, a severe weather and storm for both coasts. here is that threat today, the tornado reports for parts of texas to louisiana from a large table, damaging winds that you reported with a tornado watch 8:00 a.m. local time from's central louisiana to kentucky and tennessee. so, this is the risk. we could see the tornadoes as well as the heavy rain which is happening right now. flood warnings in effect around little rock area to paducah, kentucky. several inches of rain in a short period of time. severe storm threat with the bull's-eye for parts of mississippi and towards alabama and georgia will up towards louisville, kentucky. a volatile situation today as that line of thunderstorms

eastward, flood of alerts from arkansas to ohio. the rain still to come, several are also seen flooding imminent for parts of the midsouth peer there is a future track. the strong area of low pressure coming up towards the great lakes. behind it, hold enough for snow and accumulating snow for upper midwest, the great lakes and the bull's-eye for upstate new york and new england west and north of new york city, new york city mainly a rain event. i apologize again for the kids that want the snow this weekend. the west though we have seen incredible amounts of rain and snow this weekend being no exception has several systems move in on saturday, sunday, monday. feet of snow, coastal rain. that is going to continue with daytime highs warm across the south and southeast. one of the main ingredients for the lifting mechanism for severe thunderstorms and that will

happen again today. a foxweather.com for your latest details. >> ashley: thank you, janice. >> todd: have a good weekend. columbia university dropping s.a.t.s scores for initial requirement. the school said standardized schools will be optional going forward. it comes after 2021 lawsuit involving the university of california said the test or bias for students of color. releasing a statement, the process is rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multifaceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor. ashley. >> ashley: it turns out public schools proficient in math. minnesota cities now joined chicago, baltimore who also report no math proficiency in dozens of their schools. lacey lee johnson is former minnesota congressional and joins me now. thank you for being with us, lacey. >> thank you for having me.

>> ashley: this is becoming more and more common. who's fault is this? >> well i'm a whenever i'm looking at solving a problem, i don't like to start off with fault, but minnesota is contributing to this and across the nation. there has been studies that show teacher ideology has an impact on where we teach certain student populations. and here in minnesota with the lucrative ideology, and neapolis especially has been impacting the expectations of the students which of course it as it is impacting the results. there is another broader context, and a philosophy taking over the city. things like last week, couple of weeks ago, we had a student knife and killed. this would not have happened if we had moved the police out of the schools. minneapolis cut the school systems with half-million dollar

lawsuit because the students out early so she could participate in anti-police march. so, those are the type of things going on here within minnesota that is negatively impacting the results we get for the education system. >> ashley: they were all this money being pumped into schools, the taxpayers pay for this. but still, our students are falling behind, which ultimately is the future of america. what does this look like for our future? for one, and for two kokomo whites is not working? obviously throwing money at the situation is not working so what is the solution? >> i think the solution is to get to understand the community that is trying to serve is almost like a private business to open up a office in singapore and has no one in singapore to understand the market. a lot of people making the decisions, they don't live in a lot of these communities where the students are coming from.

they don't understand the culture and nuances and things like that and the education in the classroom. and once again, this shows the ideology makes a difference. a lot of times they come with this ideology is not conducive to teaching the kids. those are the type of things. the other thing is the issue we have to be honest about, the expectation issues. those are the types of things going on. because you have this institution which have all these infrastructure come in effective nonproducing infrastructure. they don't want to change it. based on my experience, the students are the fourth priority of this district and a lot of things like union dues and things like that, kitchen plans and things like that come into play. the money comes into play for the students. so i tell everyone associated with the schools, look at every child as their own child.

i don't think we have ever sold the expectations of the students. quit looking as the students as victims because they are poor, black, and can't learn. we have the same standards, in fact, we led off with schools in need of testing. i don't believe in getting rid of testing or lowering the bar's. >> ashley: you make a good point with that we have to protect our students and put them at the forefront. i have to leave it here, lacey lee johnson, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> ashley: of course. the attorney general in washington blue state is picking up where biden left off and looking to form an information board. >> todd: what the heck is going on? ♪ ♪

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are dying from fentanyl overdoses every year, but one san francisco supervisor appears to have an issue with the attention of the crisis is getting lately. watch this. >> people are getting crazy over fentanyl because we see more white people dying over these drugs. but where was our people when my mothers and grandmothers were on crack? there has been a drug issue in this country for a very long time. but there is no way we can stand by and allow people to say one race or immigrants are responsible for the fentanyl crisis. you are talking about people being -- who are dealing with abuses themselves. >> ashley: last hour we spoke to a san francisco mother whose son is actively battling an addiction to the deadly drug. addiction does not discriminate. >> so what, we are not supposed

to do anything about it because no one is there to save our black brothers and sisters, but yet we should let white people die from it and not do anything about this? he is making it so much about a race issue when it is a human issue. so should we let my son died because he looks white? i don't think that this is really fair of what he is sa saying. >> ashley: in 2021, san francisco saw 640 accidental drug overdoses, 477 attributed to fentanyl. >> todd: washington state attorney general to fight domestic extremism by creating this information board. jason rantz joins us now, great to see you as always. this measure to crack down on various forms of extremist political violence like threats, coercion and intimidation on

this information and extremist recruitment and government information recruitment and extreme white said premises and antigovernment ideology. so, jason, if you don't like the government per that last line, that could be a crime in your state, right? >> it could appear they say this is about violence, but it's not about violence. it is about speech. we have laws on the books that clearly address violence. what they are trying to do with this commission is great what they call the public health approach to some of these ideologies and specifically they mention apparently tied to white supremacy as anti-crt, antimask mandate. some of those positions we have seen over the last couple of years including pushing back against gender extremism is supposed to be an example of domestic violence and extremism. of course what they are not talking about is going after antifa violence or unrelated violence but single he focused

on the right. what this commission will end up doing is recommending a whole bunch of different laws of the legislation that can ultimately lead to imprisoning people for having certain kinds of political positions, but also forcing them into counseling. that is really this goes so far over the line. >> todd: for scary irony of all of this they could criminally charge constituents who protest the legislature adopting these very laws. that is absolutely insanity. i want to get your thoughts on the spear of the united states postal service to buy thousands of low electric vehicles from ford this just weeks after they automate signs to deal with a chinese battering firm. in case you didn't know by now, the batteries we need for the green new deal come from china. jason, another example of this white house and al ford funneling the money to the biggest adversary and basically- >> we are becoming more

vulnerable as a result of this. i don't think it is a bad idea when talking about these kinds of cars. over all, regardless whether you like evs they do save us money in the long term. but constantly pushing us to electric vehicles when we are not writing this country to be able to manufacture and distribute these specific pieces of technology, the batteries means again we are relying on china. we have given up so manage to make much manufacturing with china which makes our economy more vulnerable. and the main environmentalism which i consider myself a environmentalism but not to the detriment of national security and own economic interest. >> todd: as a taxpayer, you don't want $3 billion of taxpayer dollars going to the hands and the pockets of the enemy. jason rantz, always a pleasure to have you on the program. good to have your back and have a good weekend. >> no problem. >> todd: secretary of state

and the nba told chinese counterpart the u.s. is willing to support ukraine for as long as it takes. but there is a lot he didn't say. china expert gordon chang here to react to that next.

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some say they heard the sound of explosions within the building as it crumbled. fire officials say the crews worked for nine hours to put out the flames. the cause of the fire is still under investigation and two people in the hospital this morning. >> todd: the u.s. to reveal military aid package for ukraine that were report and estimate of $400 million taxpayer dollars to include rockets, multiple launches. and the taxpayer support for arming and aiding ukraine is softening. 48% of americans said they were scriptable of giving ukraine massive aid packages. 12% from may 2020. secretary of state antony blinken with shoulders foreign minister sir jay left off yesterday marking the pair's first meeting since russell launched an invasion of ukraine. >> reverse its irresponsible

decision and new -- and as i have on many previous occasions. the united states with a serious proposal. moscow should accept it. >> ashley: but lincoln is not meeting with china's top diplomats of the g20 despite last month's chinese spy flight in the country's growing partnership with russia. here to react institute senior fellow gordo gordon chang. russia is a threat but considering what has happened the last few weeks with spy craft and not only that but how close china and russia are getting. >> yes, this is disturbing. the point is every once in a while antony blinken will say something about china. but what we don't see as the policies necessary for the urgency of the situation. for instance the administration will talk about fentanyl. the state department talked about fentanyl last week but did

not mention china. how can you talk about this deadly drug disease the communist party is behind? they have this totally surveillance, ashley and the fentanyl gangs could not operate without the backing, full backing of the communist party. the administration still has a china problem. it is not willing to confront in the way it should. >> todd: meeting with china at the g20 and how much does that worry you that we are not having open lines of communication? we have heard multiple times they are not returning their calls, but how much does that where you? >> actually don't want to talk to the chinese right now because we have visited all that we should not backing them up at the point is we look desperate when we try to establish these lines of communication with beijing. the cycle is well known. beijing does something which is completely unacceptable. we look desperate to talk to china. what we should do instead is

impose cost on those unacceptable behaviors because what we have done over the course of decades is to embolden the worst aspects of the chinese political system by showing that belligerence works. >> ashley: but are the cost imposed on china? is that enough to signal to them that we are standing our ground? >> clearly not enough, especially considering what the chinese have been doing over the course of decades and during the biden and administration. it's not like the biden administration has done nothing, but what it has done is half-hearted. it's down the minimum necessary. we start to see the american people looking at biden china policy and saying it is not sufficient to defend the united states so across-the-board, we see a weakness and beijing sees that and continues those behaviors because they know no cause for doing so. >> todd: g20 world meeting of leaders and china and russia

together, has the biden administration done enough to basically take these two country pariahs on the world stage, which is something specifically china is trying to avoid because they don't necessarily want to be or have diplomatic problems with a lot of countries when focused on us. >> the biden administration doesn't want to acknowledge what the rest of the world can see and that is china and russia are working closely together across-the-board. the biden administration will warn china about supplying lethal assistance to russia. but beijing has been doing that from the very beginning of this war. recently we have seen these reports about china selling drones to the wegner group for use of ukraine. we hear there's reports from the website almost every day a very, very large actually largest cargo plane in the world leave central china with ammunition and other consumption rate items. the biden administration owes an

explanation to the american people. are these reports falls? i believe they are true but biden has to say, are these false? and if not false, why has he been lying to the american people about this lethal assistance that has been going on now for about a year? >> todd: i won't hold my breath for that report, gordon chang, thank you. >> ashley: thank you. >> todd: hershey's chocolate taking a heat for making trance woman the face of international women's day celebration. >> my name is fay sharon stone said director of wisdom to action. we can either world where everyone is able to live in public space as honest and authentic selves. >> ashley: cheryl casone is here but the store that has everyone talking this morning. ♪ ♪ gol ♪ ♪ t planning for a third kid. you can still play golf... sometimes.

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straight year with police force to small since 1970s and president biden with republican-led measure to block d.c. from changing sentencing laws. in the tweet the president supports statehood but i don't support some of the changes d.c. council put forward over the objection such as lowering penalties for carjackings votes to overturn d.c. council did come i will sign it. aoc with a housing probe outrage over the president's decision tweeting this ain't it, d.c. has a right to govern itself like any other state or municipality. the president supports bc it should govern like it and penny plastic was that the president may disagree with and he should expect the governing of d.c. like he does elsewhere. this is what the d.c. city city council proposed reducing maximum sentencing getting rid of every mandatory sentence allowing the jury trials and all

misdemeanor cases reducing penalties burglaries, carjackings, robberies for a felony with a gun dropped to four years from 15. white house press secretary explained the president's thinking. speak with the president not support the d.c. council changes that they put forward over the mayor's objections. those changes are penalties for carjackings. he thought was unacceptable. >> statehood could pass this. >> that would be great and that would be fine. >> some things are great and some things are fine. a rollover at the white house. >> todd: lucas tomlinson, thank you, let up and tricking things ou out of the spirit east palestine residents unleashing anger on norfolk southern officials after the ceo skips their town hall meeting again. >> ashley: but now president biden says he will

eventually visit after the toxic train disaster. sheriff, fox business is here with the details, good morning, cheryl. they have to get ready for testimony on capitol hill with prepping somewhere for that, we don't know, but i will say the president was asked about what is going to be happen east palestine isn't going to go but confronted by a reporter. listen. >> [indistinct] >> i spoke with every official in ohio, the democrat or republican and continue to face this in pennsylvania. >> okay, we will see when the president makes that on the schedule. a lot of tense moments and angry residents will go to the state one after the other and yelling at nor folk officials, watch. >> i am begging you, please get

our people out of here. >> are you proud of that, sir? are you proud of that? >> do the right thing! lettuce out. >> >> angry and scared is the two best words to describe what is happening with the resident spirit and look at the chemicals that they may be facing here, chemicals leaked from the derailment and liver damage and causing reasoning results, and ether, that can lead to kidney damage, lethal, xo -- leads to headache and a coma and a high dose.

these are very, very real worries. these people feel worried. >> ashley: it is used in plastics. we all know how dangerous plastics are with this huge push for it. so but is bad to have plastic, warm your food with a plastic container and imagine how bad it is. but the whole thing, there is a letter to the white house with the cleanup workers and they are now getting sick and basically, they are saying, look, they inquired about appropriateness of protective equipment and they say there's been a lot of concern for their safety. now they are getting ill. so, the story is an over. >> todd: it is time for leaders to lead but also asheville, north carolina, what is happening down there? >> angry about the fact that a police problem, staffing issue but the biggest thing they want leaders to address surge in crime rates and homelessness in

the area. listen to -- wonderful by the way but listen to the sound bite that says says enough is enough for them. >> we don't feel heard. we have been trying for over a year to get the attention of local leaders and city officials. and while the support is increasing on that front, we are not getting a plan in place at all as to how they will medicate public safety in the city. >> and nobody seems to care so the word is out in the street if you want to be a bum, come to asheville. >> life will be good if you want to be a bomb. over the last five years, 100 officers left the department since may 2020. and i heard you talk earlier, this sounds like something in los angeles or new york or chicago. this is happening in blue cities, san francisco. by asheville, north carolina. big on tourism.

>> ashley: let's talk about her she's pure they were facing backlash. >> for international women's day, they release this ad. watch this, folks. >> my name is fae johnstone, the executive director of wisdom to action. we can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as they are honest and thin it takes self, a woman changing how we save the future at hershey's canada. >> so a pro change in gender female, cast supposed to be pro-female but many say is this female? a lot of critics on twitter say basically hershey's is erasing women. that is one twitter response. this was hershey's canada to be clear here. so, that person that we featured there, they identify and i've never seen this before two sl -- i don't even know what that means.

but again, hershey's canada. maybe have an iranian woman under persecution. i don't know. there could be other options. >> todd: cheryl, thank you we have to move on the big story of the date alex murdaugh with a sentencing hearing after a jury finds him guilty of murdering his wife and son. could face life in prison and everyone weighing in on the verdict and i mean everyone. >> i watched him take the stand and thought it would probably be a mistake because of god. he's an admitted admitted liar. >> joe concha on deck to react to that. >> ashley: but coming up on "fox & friends." >> good morning, ashley and todd appeared re-company this morning as the disgraced south carolina lawyer alex murdaugh found guilty for the murder of his wife and son. south carolina attorney general ellen wilson worked on the double murder case and reacts. and nancy grace was inside the

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south carolina estate to shift attention off his financial ruin and fraud charges. and it took the jury less than three hours of deliberations to convict him. murdaugh will learn his fate at 9:30 a.m. eastern time. >> todd: of course, everyone has been watching this case play out, including this guy. >> i watched him take the stand and i thought it was probably a mistake because the guy is an admitted liar and it's hard for me to think he could be on the stand five, six, seven, eight days without lying. the question is what did he lie about? but lying and stealing money is a little different that be murder. >> todd: oh boy, joe concha joins us now. i don't know, juice, maybe sit one this one out. >> what he also said i don't know why anyone would think i'm an expert in these situations. it's amazing he had enough time. is he still looking for the real killers.

>> todd: almost 30 years. >> 30 years at this point. so, o.j. should be doing videos like this from a prison cell as we know, right? but, there is not really much more to adhere as far as him weighing in on a murder trial when 99.9% of the american public believes that he may have murdered two people. >> ashley: joe, don't you think some people don't need to open their mouths in situations like this, maybe o.j. being one? >> that is the top person that should be weighing in on this, exactly. but, look, you watched that trial. we aired it here extensively on the network. hard to come to any other conclusion that this monster did this to his wife and to his adult son. and it's just a horrible, horrible thing and hope he will be in jail for the rest of his life unlike o.j. >> todd: like harry and meghan giving advice on how to plan a family reunion. >> well said. >> todd: jim jordan says anti-conservative bias in the media is always worse than it

actually seems. take a listen. >> left tells the lie as i said before. big media reports and big tech amplifies it. they want to tell the truth call you names. again in the end the truth will come out. the only thing we get wrong is it's always worse than we thought. >> todd: joe, that's pretty spot on. >> jim jordan also said, quote: the most important liberty you have in my judgment is the right to speak because if you can't speak, you can't practice your faith, you can't share your faith, you can't petition your government you don't really have freedom of the press. that's the most important one and that's the one they go after. and, look, it is true. everything we're learning now after the fact is worse than we thought, right? russia collusion actually did not happen. votes were not changed in the 2016 election. we also saw that with the hunter biden laptop, right? which was russian disinformation. now we see all the emails it. may be worse than we think. obviously, the covid lab leak is

the most important part of all of this where, if you said that, you were a crazy conspiracy theorist even one year ago now we realize as jon stewart said if there is a chocolate outbreak in her which i pennsylvania it's probably the chocolate factories if there is a virus without break in wuhan. >> ashley: not just conspiracy theorist, racist conspiracy theorist those were thrown in too. thought anything or even asked questions. but, don't forget anybody who is pro-life. anything like that. is it ever going to change? we are seeing a pattern here. is it ever going to stop? >> until there is accountability, right? i have kids. todd, your kids are getting to the point where you probably punish them for doing something, i would imagine, right? until you reprimand manned the child, they are going to keep doing what he they're doing. they will still steal the cookies and stay up past curfew.

until there is accountability, nothing will change. >> todd: fox news exclusively obtaining testimony from the doj whistleblower the department specifically focused on threats from pro-life individuals after roe v. wade was overturned. when this threat came out why are you focusing on pro-life people, it's pro-choice people the ones protesting or otherwise threatening violence in front of supreme court justice's houses. we thought this was happening now even more proof, joe. >> so many people now had so little trust in our institutions, right? whether it's the fbi, the department of justice. obviously even the supreme court is at their lowest level in terms of polling numbers. that's the thing. the people of east palestine, which we have talked about on the show many, many times. they keep being told by their government that everything is okay, right? e.p.a. it's fine to drink the water. you are not really feeling all the symptoms that you do. and they say, you know what? we don't believe you. so that is a microcosm of a problem here. we don't trust anything anymore. and that's a big problem in this

country because we used to actually, not too long ago. >> ashley: used to think when you heard from officials like the e.p.a. and doj, and fbi now there is more questions. >> the president should go there. >> todd: one thing can i confirm today is friday, you are joe concha. have a great weekend, sir. the rest of you out there enjoy. >> ashley: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> guilty verdict, signed by the forelady. >> justice was done today it doesn't matter who your family is. it doesn't matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn't matter what you think how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, the justice will be done in south carolina. >> ainsley: disbarred attorney, now convicted killer alex murdaugh awaits hi