Good evening everyone. I'm Allison Kamerata. Welcome to CNN tonight and thanks

to Farid for that illuminating town hall and the look at where we are one year

into Russia's invasion of Ukraine. So we'll have more on that later in the show.

We have a lot of stories to catch you up on tonight starting with a

disgraced attorney, Alek Murdoch, making the risky move to take the stand in his

own defense. He denied that he killed his own wife and son, but he admitted

lying to investigators about where he was minutes before they were shot. So did

he help or hurt his own case? And how do defense attorneys decide when to put

a suspect on the stand? Plus we have one of our signature voter panels for you

tonight. I sit down with six parents from across the country to talk about the

culture wars that are raging in our schools and why teaching black history has

become so controversial. The reason why they don't want to have this

taught is because it makes people feel uncomfortable. The kids can handle it. I

promise you they're going to be all right it's uncomfortable but we need to be

having these hard conversations. Look you have one semester you have one

semester to learn about this huge history one semester so you have to

prioritize what's most important. And then later in the program what would you

pay to be all alone in total darkness for several days and nights? We'll tell

you about the darkness retreat the Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers

just emerged from. Okay but first to that dramatic day in the Murdoch trial let's

bring in our panel. We have Dan Harris host of the 10% happier podcast at

author of 10% happier. Great to have you Dan. We have seen an illegal analyst

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