Alex Murdaugh admits he lied to investigators about his whereabouts the night of his wife and son’s murders

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Alex Murdaugh took the stand to testify in his own double murder trial, admitting he lied to investigators about where he was the night his wife and son were murdered back in 2021. The once-prominent South Carolina attorney denied killing Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, telling the courtroom “no, I did not.” Criminal defense attorney Mark O’Mara tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks Murdaugh’s decision to testify and his admission will hurt the defense.

Plus, CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour joins AC360 from Kyiv, Ukraine where Ukrainian officials are warning about increased attacks from Russian troops as the country and the world mark one year since Putin’s invasion.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.6	Tonight what is next for Ukraine?
0:03.2	Ukrainian people in a war for their survival that has turned into a confrontation between
0:07.1	the world's two largest nuclear powers.
0:09.8	A year ago tonight, early morning local time Russian forces began rolling to Ukraine for
0:14.3	what the Kremlin expected would be a quick and easy takeover of the country.
0:18.3	What they unleashed instead was the largest land conflict in Europe since the Second
0:22.1	World War and some of the widest-spread killing of non-conbatants since World War II as
0:26.9	well.
0:27.9	Kremlin War of China
0:38.2	A matter of 10 force
0:49.2	vigilance
0:53.9	Stay there!
0:55.9	All right.
0:57.9	No, no, no, no, no.
1:03.9	Come on, man!
1:12.9	We're dead!
1:17.9	That video of a Russian mortar attack on fleeing civilians in
1:20.9	European came just two weeks into the invasion.
1:23.9	Since then, we have seen graphic evidence of other
1:25.9	Russian war crimes, including the summary shooting of
1:27.9	civilians in Butchia and elsewhere, upwards of
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