jonathan serrie.t's the status about when this case could or would proceed, and in which form and against which defendants in the rico matter? >> yeah, hi there, bill. there is an october 23rd start date for two of the co-defendants. the judge has yet to decide for the remaining 17. district attorney willis had asked that all 19 co-defendants be tried at the same time. but the judge raised the question that because about half a dozen of them are asking that their cases be moved to federal court, what happens if this trial gets underway in fulton county, you start hearing witness testimony against some of these defendants, and then suddenly they are moved to federal court? then it is a case of double jeopardy. but as far as the october 23rd start date, right now the only two co-defendants approved for that are trump attorneys -- former trump attorneys. they had asked for a speedy trial. it appears they will get it starting on october 23rd. as far as the other 17 co-defendants, we're still awaiting the

jonathan serrie been on the case from the beginning. than, good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. in addition to calling for a new trial, alex murdaugh's lawyers are also asking for a federal investigation into whether their client's civil rights were violated in paperwork they released to the media moments ago, they are alleging the clerk of court, who obviously had access to jurors during the trial, alleging that she gave them inappropriate instructions telling them not to be misled or fooled by statements that alex murdaugh gave during his testimony in court. murdaugh's attorneys have called for a news conference at 2:30 local time near the south carolina court of appeals where they will release further details. a spokesperson says this is new information that they discovered after murdaugh's double murder conviction back in march. the disbarred attorney is serving two consecutive life sentences in connection with the 2021 fatal shootings of his wife, maggie and their youngest son, paul. in a fox nation interview with martha macc

correspondent jonathan serrie has details. good evening, jonathan. >> good evening, bret. the breaking news. fox news has confirmed that a u.s. district judge has rejected a request by former white house chief of staff mark meadows to have his case removed from fulton county and to try it in federal court. the judge has rejected that, although mark meadows is expected to appeal. but, for now, his case is expected to be tried in fulton county court. also, the public has gotten its full -- its first look at the full report from the fulton county special grand jury issuing its report back in december. the special grand jury recommended the district attorney pursue indictments against 39 individuals. now, obviously, that's more than twice the 19 co-defendants actually charged last month. legal experts say factors ranging from immunity deals to insufficient evidence likely influenced fani willis' strategy. >> if she had gone forward with the full list, the courts would have made short work of it, and she knew that. she can't criminalize political speech. to include some of thes

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jonathan serrie is live for us in atlanta. jonathan, how is the trump campaign responding to this? >> hi there, sandra. the trump campaign responded shortly after this document was released, special grand jury report that was released this morning. the campaign saying in part in clearly biased un-american act, a majority of the special grand jurors voted to indict dozens of individuals, former and sitting state senators raising concerns of election integrity and enter excising the first amendment rights under the constitution. the first time they have seen it after it was completed in september, indictments against 39 individuals, more than twice the 19 who actually ended up being indicted by a regular grand jury in august. individuals recommended but not indicted, kelly lefler and david pursue, and lindsey graham, georgia attorney lynwood, michael flynn, and former trum adviser boris epstein, and an election lawyer. none of the individuals i named were actually indicted, but this special grand jury was certainly recommending it and it shows the wide scope of this initial investiga

jonathan serrie is live with more. hey, jonathan. >> griff, this week, michigan auto workers received visits not only from president biden, but also former president trump. grabbing a bull horn at a picket line near detroit, president biden said they deserved a substantial pay raise. >> and mr. trump visiting a nonunion factory criticized biden speeding to electric vehicles predicting it would lead to layoffs. >> and one of the things the uaw is to assert we need to preserve some of the jobs that might be lost because electric vehicles don't require as many people to build them. >> nevertheless, ev revolution is creating tens of thousands of new jobs in the south, including georgia where tax incentives and mostly nonunion labor pool have lured foreign automakers kia, hyundai and rivian to expand in the state and earlier i asked governor kemp about ev on auto workers. >> i'm not worried about people displaced from their jobs. there's other opportunities in states like georgia and in the south where gdp is now outpacing t

jonathan serrie has the details for us from south carolina. >> very confusing to put it all together.ow alex murdaugh is serving two life sentences for the murders of his wife and son. what is happening today is a status hearing for a separate trial on his alleged financial crimes. the disgraced low country lawyer is accused of stealing millions of dollars from friends, colleagues and clients. most notably the family of his long time housekeeper who died from injuries in a fall on the murdaugh family property. former attorney fleming who pleaded guilty to 23 state charges in connection with his role in murdaugh's alleged financial schemes will be sentenced today. >> it's very risky what corey is doing. do not underestimate that. you are leaving the sentence to the total discretion of judge newman, who has already said that what has been done has been a stain on our state and a stain on our profession. >> murdaugh is challenging his march 2nd double murder convictions with allegations the clerk of court tried to influence the jury's decision. even as he awaits a state trial on financia

>> bret: jonathan serrie in atlanta.et: also breaking tonight, the search intensifies for an escaped murderer who broke out of prison last week in pennsylvania. state police say calf ceant has obtained clothing did duffle bad other supplies. nate foy has update from new york. >> the search expanding tonight. joining the manhunt as police said the escaped murderer slipped through troopers who previously had him surrounded. they learned that through these surveillance images at a botanical garden about five thils south of chester county prison. cavalcante seen twice about an hour apart new sweatshirt, backpack and duffle bag. >> they found that he could squeeze through that perimeter and he traveled south. we'll now expand that perimeter and move it so that we can try to incapsulate him again. he will slip up. we are making him move and that's a good thing. >> brett, just days before his escape he received a life sentence for murdering his former girlfriend back in 2021. prosecutors say he stabbed her 38 times in front of

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jonathan serrie is joining us. what do we know about what exactly happened? >> recovery crews located the debris field in rural williamsburg county, south carolina. that's about 60 miles north of where the aircraft was initially reported missing. on sunday afternoon, the pilot ejected after what military officials will only describe as a mishap. the pilot parachuted to the ground near charleston, was taken to the hospital in stable condition. pilot expected to be ok, but the high-tech aircraft which continued on auto pilot left no immediate signs of where it wound up. the military even put out a phone number asking for tips from the general public. more than 24 hours later, search teams found the debris field. shortly after the discovery, joint base charleston posted an update on social media saying members of the community should avoid the area as the recovery team secures the debris field. we are transferring the incident command to the u.s. marine corps this evening as they begin the recovery process. but in addition to this investigation into what caused

first to jonathan serrie. an. >> martha, alec murdaugh is not only asking for a new trial but an investigation into allegations of jury tampering. his attorneys want it conducted by the federal government, not sled. take a listen. >> we requested sled to stand down on any investigation of these allegations since they're heavily invested in maintaining alex's conviction. >> martha: murdaugh's lawyers submitted several affidavits from jurors saying that the clerk of court, rebecca hill, instructed them not to be fooled by evidence presented by the defense and push them for a speedy verdict. the defense team sense jurors were reluctant to speak about it until they learned that hill was writing about the trial. hill has yet to comment. her co-author said there was no advance book deal and the two of them self-published. >> we self-published behind the doors of justice. we spent $30,000 of our own money. so, you know, there's no big check coming in for an advance to see one outcome or the other. >> gordon says becky

jonathan serrie has the follow-up. jonathan, so far two of the defendants have requested that, and now the former president may be doing the same. what do you have? >> yeah, that's right. the trump legal team filed the paperwork moments ago with fulton county superior court, take a look at it. it indicates president trump notifies the court he may seek removal of the prosecution to federal court, in other words, that he has not officially said that's indeed what he wants to do, that he wants to move to federal court, merely that he reserves the right some time in the future to ask that his case be handled by federal court. there are five co-defendants who have indicated they are interested in moving their cases to federal court and as you pointed out, bill, one of them is already waiting for a decision from a federal judge, that being mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff waiting for a decision from a federal judge. the problem is, that creates some difficulties for d.a. fani willis of fulton county who ha

senior correspondent jonathan serrie is on it at the courthouse in atlanta. jonathan. >> hi there, harris. this morning the judge released the full report of the special grand jury that assisted district attorney willis she presented to the actual grand jury that indicted former president trump and 18 co-defendants. what i found most interesting about this document was the scope of this special grand jury's investigation. much widen than the actual grand jury handing down the indictments. we know there were 19 actual indictments but the special grand jury had recommended indictments against 39 individuals, among those who were not indicted the names of 19 prominent individuals, including former georgia senator and gubernatorial candidate david perdue. former senator kelly leffler. south carolina senator lindsey graham. georgia attorney lynn wood. michael flynn a former national security advisor and boris epstein a trump advisor. all the names i just read to you were not indicted. but the special grand jury that didn't have indictment power but was recommending

jonathan serrie gets to dig into this one today. cool story from atlanta. very cool story. the culmination of a seven year mission that took the spacecraft on a journey that went for 4 billion miles to an asteroid. the mother ship a small capsule contained one cup of gravel after a fiery reentry the recovery team collected the capsule and delivered it by helicopter to a temporary clean room. scientists say it is a relic of the early solar system and clues who ow life got water and other things. a small risk of striking the earth during the next century researchers say it will be good to get a better idea of where the asteroid is going and what it is made of. now that it has dropped off its sample from the asteroid, rex. it heads to another asteroid. the spacecraft will reach it in the year 2029. >> bill: awesome stuff. how do they figure that out? before we go just a reminder here big debate on wednesday. see you later this week, right? >> martha: wednesday i'll be here. >> bill: dana is crashing for the big test. best fastballs they can find. we'll see you

jonathan serrie is in south carolina now. jonathan, this is pretty remarkable.yeah, a lot happening here in south carolina. as we speak, some of the co-defendants are having hearings right now in state court here in beaufort, south carolina. already serving two life sentences, alex murdaugh appeared this morning for a status hearing in a case -- in multiple cases involving his alleged financial crimes. attorneys for the disgraced low country lawyer argued for a change of venue because of all the publicity surrounding his murder conviction earlier this year but were denied. murdaugh is now scheduled to face trial here in beaufort on november 27th in the case of gloria satterfield. she is the long-time housekeeper for the murdaugh family who died after a fall on their property. murdaugh is accused of pocketing millions of dollars in settlement money intended for the satterfield family with the help of his college roommate and fellow attorney corey fleming, who has already pleaded guilty and is expected to be sentenced today. >> it's all the alex show. he couldn't

jonathan serrie with us. ing, jonathan or the report well one place it is happen something silver spring, maryland where a public elementary school imposed a 10-day mask mandate in one classroom where at least three individuals tested positive for covid. here in atlanta, morris brown college recently came out of a two week mask mandate. administrators there imposed the mandate after reports of positive cases among students at neighboring institutions. while an uptick in covid related hospitalizations prompted some individual schools and colleges to reimpose mask requirements some state governments are pushing back including florida whose top health official who reiterated his opposition to mandates. >> these people who want to control your behavior, they want to control all of our behavior to what ends again, nothing pretty at the end of that road. that's their, that's one of the avenues that they take. >> reporter: all they straighted covid hospitalizations nationwide a fraction of what they were during previ

jonathan serrie is at the courthouse and bring us details about what is in the unredacted

jonathan serrie reporting live on the breaking developments just a short time ago today from atlanta. hi, jonathan. >> hi, martha. alec murdaugh serving two consecutive life sentences is not only asking for a new south carolina trial, but also a federal investigation in to whether any state officials tampered with the jury that convicted him in march. take a listen. >> immediately in the aftermath of the verdict, we had received information that we needed to look into what happened in the jury room. >> murdaugh's team cites sworn affidavits from jury members. before murdaugh testified that the jury should be fooled by the evidence presented by mr. murdaugh's attorneys, which would mean that he would lie that he testified. and she also urged them to have a speedy verdict. martha, we have reached out to the clerk's office for comment. we're still waiting to hear back. back to you. >> martha: now we bring in mercedes colwin. one thing to point out during the beginning of this, this request for a new trial based on new evidence is based what happened with the jurors. it's not based on the

. >> dana: jonathan serrie has more from atlanta.he people of south carolina thought it was behind them but it clearly isn't. >> they did indeed. now there is the threat of an appeal. alex murdaugh is not only asking for a new trial but also a federal investigation into those allegations of jury tampering. his lawyer submitted sworn affidavits from jurors alleging that the clerk of court, rebecca hill, instructed them not to be fooled by evidence presented by the defense and pushed them for a speedy verdict. murdaugh's defense team says jurors were reluctant to speak about it until they learned hill was writing about the trial. >> when the clerk of court wrote her book, published her book, that zone of silence collapsed. >> hill's co-author said there was no lucrative book deal in advance and the two self-published. >> we spent $30,000 of our own money so, you know, there is no big check coming in for an advance, you know, for -- to see one outcome or the other. >> dana and bill, gordon says becky hill is a woman of faith who prays r