his class to end the school year. quite the celebration. i love the enthusiasm there. go, carter. well, thank you so much for joining me this evening. i'm pamela brown. i'll see you again next weekend. the cnn "special report, alex jones, megaphone for conspiracy" is up next. >> the sfolg a cnn special report. >> a nation torn apart by lies. i say it's treason! >> one map has been preaching disinformation for decades, alex jones. >> we will never give up. we will never surrender. >> spreading extrooeng -- extremism. >> joe biden burn in hell. >> convincing millions of followers. >> alex!

alex! alex. >> and the lies. >> he could turn his ton black as though he were possessed. >> to making a fortune. >> truth doesn't really matter. it's like a far right qvc. >> threatening american democracy. >> 1776! 1776! >> through exclusive footage. >> i'm donald trump now. >> interviews with former employees. >> we made up the stories. we lied. >> al lex not stop. >> his victims. >> every day i get a death threat. >> and those trying to stop him. >> how would you describe him to people who don't know him? how do you explain to folks who have never seen something this craze? >> if they want to fight, they better believe they have got one. >> "megaphone for conspiracy, alex jones." ♪ >> this is alex jones' info wars studio in austin, texas.

>> you guys ready. >> it looks like a professional news set but the similarities end there. >> i'll drink your blood, you understand that? i will -- i will hang your ass up and cut you into cutlets. the globalists are agents of corruption. >> the official story of sandy hook has more holes in it than swiss cheese. >> a founding father of disinformation, jones is infamous for his most vile high that the sandy hook shooting was a hoax. >> the whole thing was fake. >> jones and his followers launched a years long vendetta against the familiar lifts children who were murdered. >> he was fueling this conspiracy theory that the children didn't die. they were actors. real people were murdered along with my son. >> it made it impossible for these parents to have closure. >> all of my clients have received numerous death threats. they have all been in a situation where their lives have

been in genuine peril. >> why pay attention to jones? >> there were so many people who said with jones if you just ignore it, it will go away. in order to grow, he didn't need any of the mainstream's culture's attention as long as he had that bubble that was allowed to grow and fester uninterrupted. that's what made him a major cultural force so ignoring him did nothing for him. >> that bubble started nearly 30 years ago with a show that would become info wars. >> the government said they would put poisons and toxins and a bioweapons in the advance evens. >> more than a decade before covid-19, jones was spreading dangerous conspiracy theories that now sound eerily recycled. >> the u.n. health organize capital gain, cdc have been caught adding sterilizeders, cancer viruses and poisons. >> info wars have grown from a fledgling radio show to an empire that has reached steps of

millions. >> the formula is you find a story that people are upset about and you play it up as much as you possibly can, as extreme as possible in the most dramatic way. >> cnn spokes in-depth to those who have followed jones erase and those who have worked with him. filmmaker calen robertson appeared repeatedly jones' show and made a documentary with him before realizing it was all a sham. >> i felt like i was doing the right thing, like i felt like i was on the side of truth. >> robert jacobson worked at info wars for 13 years and then finally had enough. >> he will just lie, straight up lie, like nothing is going on, like it's real. and the issue with that is that a lot of people believe him. >> josh owens spent four years editing and producing at info wars. >> people asked jones for things that he said. >> i don't know if he believes the things that he says because the poem who listen to him believe the things that he says. >> the elite are for tours

people, drinking blood. >> the 3%ers, the qanon grurng the anti-vaxxers, they all originate from alec. he's the foundation of all of this stuff. >> hillary clinton is a god damn deemon. excuse me. it's not taking it in vain. she is a demon damned to hell, excuse me. >> his whole schtick is there's a war for your mind. >> run by ruthless individuals hellbent on dehumanizing the entire human community. >> the shadowy figures in the new world order are really controlling things. >> the fruits of the new world order are hell and death and destruction! >> once written off as unhinged, fringe and crazy. >> alex jones! >> alex jones has become an alt right influence, and the his theories have become mainstream delivered to an even whiter audience, often with a violent

message. >> i want to break your jaw off and grab with my hands and rip the mandible off your heal. i want to bash your brains out. >> a lot of his contempt is extremely dangerous. the nature of his delivery and its violence and its words is effective i think in drumming up anger and really playing on people's sense of fear and anxiety. >> if they want to fight, they better believe they have got one. >> some who listen to jones have committed action of violence. one killed police officers and another fired shots at the white house. >> and another opened fire in a d.c. pizza restaurant, and on january 6th, 2021, alex jones and his influence whether on full display at u.s. capitol. >> stop the steal! >> long before they became infamous on january 6th, leaders

of the proud boys, the oath keepers, the stop the steal movement all were deeply connected to alex jones. >> once you start looking at all the different places he appears in our culture, you understand that he has had an outsized level of influence for somebody like him, and part of that is because he was able to fly under the radar for so long. >> jones grew up in a small suburb of dallas where even as a young man he would act out and spin tall tales. bo durham was a friend from jones' sglabd there were a lot of strange things going on at that time with him. there were a lot of things that i witnessed that were that people didn't do. >> he memorized the bible, talked about satan and at times seemed possessed. >> he would talk in tongues a lot and get into transs. >> jones craved attention. >> i don't bleach in witchcraft

or hocus pocus or anything like that. he could turn his tongue black and mouth black and he would stick his tongue out and shack his head as though he were possessed. >> he could turn his tongue black. i saw him do that on a couple of occasions. >> you're the second person who has told me this. >> mm-hmm. >> i don't get it. >> i don't either. >> you would have to be really spun up and in that -- kind of in that state where he was really upset. he would stick that tongue out and it would literally go black. >> and he was violent. >> once i hit puberty i became somewhat of a hellian, a lot of fighting. >> including one fight that would change his life. for years jones has told juice a story of why he and his family had to leave suburban dallas and why he's obsessed with government corruption. >> they were having an auditorium meetings. they had cops up there that were

drug dealers. i was at a peel party and he was selling exsy and cocaine last week. they took me and said i'm going to kill you. you're going to move out of this town right now. >> that's the furthest thing from the truth. i can unequivocally deny that that ever happened. >> randy tally and others who spoke to cnn remember it differently. not a fight involving a corrupt police force but alex jones attacking another student named jared more row. >> i saw jared's feet go the up in the air and then i saw alex drop down which, you know, they call it a piledriver, and he, you know, pile derived him. >> jones slammed morrow head first into the floor. morrow tells cnn he suffered a concussion and nine skull fractures that will not heal. >> as far as fights go, that was the most brutal i've seen. >> after alex's fighting

troubles the jones family would quietly move to austin. >> hello austin, texas. i'm alex jones. >> in the mid-1990s jones would actually find the attention he craved spreading lies, conspiracy theories on public access cable tv. >> got to get the information out to you folks. >> i had a camera about a foot away from my face, and was controlling the systems myself and i went live, and i talked for an hour. >> so sick of wimps and scum! filthy scum everywhere! weaklings that never got in a fist fighting. >> what this was was basically a local youtube. anybody can have a show. >> alex inspired a lot of shows. there were 20 alexes on the air at that time. a lot of guys were doing very similar things. he stood out. >> yes, black helicopters are being used for surveillance of the public. >> so it's a bit more risky. >> kelly jones, jones' ex-wife

met and worked for him at the public access station. they would later fall out in a bitter divorce. >> if you ever spend any amount of time with him, he's not like you or me. he's be a normal. like he's really strange and weird. >> i'm a weird son of a gun. of course i'm weird. >> that weirdness mixed with his charisma would make jones an austin superstar. he would get a time slot on a local radio station that later went national. >> when he was younger, he was very articulate, very dine maybe. he looks great on camera. >> he would pull stunts, demanding attention on austin's street corners. >> this is how george bush dresses. >> got a radio show, his tv shows. >> we'll continue to keep you posted on what's going on in oklahoma city. >> he would spin major news events no matter how tragic into darker conspiracy theories. >> the government had prior knowledge and was instrumental in engineering the attacks on the alfred p. muroya building in

oklahoma city. >> today's attack at columbine high school could be the worst mass shooting in united states history. >> columbine we know was a false flag. >> he took advantage of a new forum streaming on the internet at a time when half the country didn't yet have access to the web. >> and don't believe me. go to infowars.com. >> by september 2001, jones had built a following willing to believe just about anything. >> police have cleared off all these streets. >> and then on a clear tuesday morning september 11th alex jones, who had spent a lifetime trying to get attention, would see a tragedy as his biggest opportunity yet. >> we have been predicting this nightmarish development for years. who sa only this is good? and this is bad? i'm doing it my way. meet plenity. an fda -cleared clinically proven weight management aid for adults with a bmiof 250 when combined with diet and exercise. plenity is not a drug -

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attack on new york amidst billow smoke the search for loved ones and a nation seeking is the way forward, alex jones would spread the lie that his own government was to blame. >> i'm telling you right now, 90% chance it came from the u.s. government or from the eu. >> the critical moment over the arc of alex jones' life is when he seizes on what's called the nevin truther movement which really should be called the 9/11 hoax movement, that 9/11 was an inside job. >> america today is on bended knee. >> the outrageous lie, that the government of george w. bush had plotted, planned and aid the attack. believers would come to be known as truthers. >> my friend, the government just didn't have prior knowledge of september 11 al qaeda attacks. they actually funded, trained, protected, coddled, shepherded al qaeda into this country. >> even for alex jones, this time he went too far. a majority of the stations

carrying his radio show cancelled it. >> everything that was supposed to destroy him did have a negative impact but also catapulted him to a higher level. >> as jones would explain in an interview years later obtained by cnn, his neon lies made him a conspiracy superstar. >> launched this whole cult deal to the whole world. i didn't realize how big it was. i was the leader of the truth movement. >> 9/11 smoking guns. >> he starts putting out these video that are adjuncts to his radio and internet shows spreading these conspiracy thiers and starts to build a cult-like following around these lies. >> stop making excuses for what they are doing to us! >> what alex goes on camera and he gets himself ride up and starts shouting and starts getting hysterical, what's what his audience feel like inside and he played the character that they wanted to hear for them. the angry, furious person that wanted to take back america.

>> 2008 brought barack obama, a new slew of conspiracy theories, and more success for info wars. >> ladies and gentlemen, barack obama is not my king. he is not my master. he is not my lord. he is nothing but a mask of the globalists. >> joe biggs here with infowars.com. we're standing in front of the islamic center of america. >> he would stir up fears of muslim taking over the united states for years and sent joe biggs works would later become a leader of the proud boys, on so-called reporting trips across the country. former info wars employee josh owens was part of the production team. >> they wanted us to go to these majority muslim communities and report on why these people in these communities, what's going on, it seemed suspicious. there was nothing to it. >> no sharia law overruling the united states government. >> no, no, but that's what jones wanted. >> we made up the stories because there was nothing to report on. >> in essence we lied.

>> and with the growing popularity of social media, jones finally had the outlet that would be a perfect amplifier for his outrage. >> a lot of his clips would go viral. alex jones used platforms like facebook, like twitter and youtube to draw people in. >> they would promote and amplifier the kind of content that get people most engaged. >> he knew if he made video more extreme, more outrageous, more shouty. >> clean them out! >> ucould you be would get to people who weren't looking to him and around 80% of their views were for youtube recommendations for people who weren't looking for contempt. a huge amount of info wars' success was the algorithms. >> his audience doubled in nearly four years. >> he wanted to give people what they came there to get. >> true or not. >> true or not. >> when there was a mass shooting there was a definite get everything you can to try to

prove that it was a false event. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> connecticut state police have responded to reports of a shooting at sandy hook elementary school. >> the bodies of those children are still in the school. >> 20 children, 6 adults and the shooter. 27 total. >> don't ever think the globalists that have hijacked this country wouldn't stage something like this. they kill little kids all day every day. >> the day of the sandy hook shooting proved nothing was off limits, even the slaughter of children. >> i said they are launching attacks. they are going to come after our guns. look for mass shootings, and then magically it happens. >> jones claimed it was a government plot, a false flag. the grieving parents crisis actors. >> you've got parents laughing and they walk over to the camera and go -- >> what alex and the crew are doing was accusing parents of an unspeakable tragedy of being liars as well.

it was the grossest level of insult i could imagine. >> the whole thing is a giant hoax. >> people tend to think that maybe alex jones got on his show a couple of times and said sandy hook was fake. the reality is it was an obsession he could not let go of. >> jones' audience ate it up. one info wars article said no one killed at sandy hook was viewed more than 3 million times? there's been sandy hook fanatics who show up at family houses and start banging on the door and continually harass these parents. >> i don't think you can find a lower person than alex jones. >> neil lost his 6-year-old son jessy in that shooting. >> alex jones has put a lot of lives in danger, a lot of families' lives in danger and at risk? he and others is there sued jones over his lies. this is the attorney representing some of the

families. >> at info wars this,'s nearly a bottomless well of hatred and cruelty. they do not care about what you would expect a reasonable, rational person to think about. >> jones would air a pro wrestler to cover sandy hook for info wars. >> for sandy hook, the truth is come out and you're going to go to jail. >> make a spectacle of yourself. >> it's not ma conspiracy, guys. >> it's complete conspiracy they'ries. >> no, it's the most important public wag thinking the same thing. how do the -- >> most of the american public i guarantee you was not saying it was fact? >> crisis actors. >> i didn't say that. i know they are not crisis actors. i went to the grave sites. the memorial and everything was said. >> you were all part of it, dan. >> i was asked to do my job. >> you were part of that whole conspiracy theory and part of

that pain. >> it's still the first amendment. >> alex jones never responded to malt poll requests to be interview for this program but talked about sandy hook in a deposition. >> you do not believe you've done a outrage outs wrong? >> i have not done a outrage outwrong to my parent. >> back in the past when i thought everything was staged, now a lot of times things aren't staged so i think as a pundit and somebody giving opinion that, you know, my vance about been wrong. >> to say jesse never exited, he never died. you're defaming this little boy. that's a 6-year-old boy. just awful. there's no words for it. >> donald, thank you for joining us. >> it was this alex jones that in 2015 was singled out and sought after by a presidential

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himself as the king of conspiracy theories. >> they put cancer viruses on record in the vaccine! >> and learned early on his lies could make him cash. >> by the books, the film, the pro gun, t-shirts. you also need to plant a garden. >> i was in my late 20s. i was making as much money as an nfl quarterback. >> one of the best videos i produced. >> at first jones was selling dvds and survival gear. >> the globalists are filling our water with radioactive isotopes. >> if you go and look at the infowars star, it's a mall of things to buy if you think the world is ending. >> silver bullet from infowars.com. >> in 2013, jones would discover he could make a fortune selling health products, like vitamins and supplements under the infowars brand. >> i take products that block the evidence jen mimickers in a basically feminize men.

>> the vitamins came in right around the time of the wars and then he just became astronomically rich. >> how rich? >> jones has guarded details of his business but court documents show a massive inflow of money, often hundreds of millions a day adding up to more than $165 million in revenue over a three-year period. much of that money from stoking fears. >> i know three or four people whose family have brain tumors suddenly, kids, from fungus. >> when jones pushed a new product and hyped concerns about xwrakt and fungus he raked in more than 200,000 in a couple of of days. >> when i spoke to alex about how much they actually make, it's staggering. >> kalin robinson had access to the "info wars" operation. >> he will say buy the products, buy the products and then the

first thing he'll say is what were the sales during the show? not was it a good show? did we expose the truth? basically a three hour a day infomercial to sell bills. >> the first product he put out was an iodine supplement called survival sheet. >> the iodine drops were marketed as protection from nuclear fallout. sense sent a team to find radiation from japan's fukushima' actor. >> we weren't fining elevated levels. >> how was that received? >> they had never seen him so angry because we were posting what we were finding. i started to get the okay, leak, okay, maybe job isn't to report

theout is but rather what hies that the truth is >> of the another infowars contributor said in a 2014 court document obtained by cnn he would write about the topic to promote the brand and sell products. one thing is ebola. >> they said ebola outbreaks were unthreat. >> i think it's important for people to understand that they are paying money, to and aligning themselves with an outfit that's -- >> sound like had a gift really. >> it is -- he would joke about people who bought the bag deaths

and he's kwlik? the people who kind of buy his sufficient are stilly. >> we're closer to world war through than his van has ever been. >> as been pours back in. >> thank you. >> everyone is rushing around him with scripts and show plans, and it's like had a military operation fog mike it keckically and totally her neck yes he's going on an it it was a very strange contest. >> what dede decide what's going on on the show? >> it comes from his brain. a lot of it is off the cup. a lot of it is coming from an emotional place, reactionary mace. >> yeah, there was advice chuns.

jones used to may had a puck game. i mean, there was blood on hib-of-his. his stick on that was alpha male. >> for real people who have the ability to stabbed up and play against this filth. >> and that would play right into the hands of a presidential candidate sharing the same information. >> thank you for joining us. >> great to be here. >> alex zones is how it would be -- he put forth the strategy of putting donald trump side by side with info wars. >> he contacted me and said i'm going to meet the biggest enemies of trump and i believe question take them out without revealing how corrupt they are.

>> i just want to finish by saying your reputation is amazing. >> that movement encapsulates the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and hate that we've seen in u.s. politics. >> after that it became increasely trump in alex's office. this place is extremely polarized to one candidate and it's never been that way before. >> hillary is like in creepy weird tough. >> went in all in as only he could. tluch's opponent would be tlapd stannic. >> i've gaukd to theme who are scared. they say listen. she's a friggin' demon and she sticks and what is that? sulfur. they smell like hell. >> during the 2016 campaign, jones began starting democrats with one of his most unhinged

conspiracy theories. >> pizza gate is real. >> pizza gate is a conspiracy theory that hillary clinton and leading democrats were engaged in a satanic pedfelix cabal that was meeting in the basement. >> one of jones' followers did just that. >> kicked in the kitchen door and proceeded to shoot at a locked door. the bullets pierced through here. >> behind the locked door, just a closet. >> the james who owns the restaurant says there's no doubt who is to game this gunman had been directly motivated by a video from alex jones. every day i get a death threat. it's been five and a half, six years since this has happened, and it really fundamentally changed my life. >> on the verge of the 2016 election, polls showed hillary clinton leading.

alex jones and roger stone pushed a new conspiracy to try explain why trump may lose. it was the birth of stop the steal. >> you're having your republic stolen in front of you. >> then trump won. >> right now an historic movement we can now protect donald trump wins the presidency. >> info wars would rake in $850,000 in sales in its most lucrative day in three years. a president who pushed lies, conspiracy theories and disinformation was heading to the white house with jones' help. the info war against a democracy was put in motion. p

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. with trump in office jones and infowars were riding high. >> i talk to the president and people who talk to the president every day. >> jones took credit for trump's win and told followers and those around him he had trump's ear. >> jones said it all the time. just got off the phone with trumpet trump just called. had an interesting conversation with trump. >> believe it? >> i don't know. >> he showed me text messages he shared with trump while trump was in the whoumps i thought as soon as trump took office they would not speak to any of those people but they had like a relationship going on. >> it was conversation? >> more so from alex's side but there was a two-way conversation. trying to convince him to come

on infowars which alex really wanted. >> trump never came back on info wars but it didn't matter. money was rolling n.jones appeared invincible. >> the truth is my average video was getting like 3 or 4 million views. >> behind the scenes, something had changed. >> i'm just going to say it i wish i never would have been on that front. >> social media companies had begun taking tougher stances on hate speech. >> they decided to de-platform my billions of vows and millions of followers off of everything from youtube to itunes and spotify. >> jones would blame the scrutiny of infowars on his alignment with trump. >> these candid moments were captured while making a dock amountry with jones and shared them with cnn. >> i'm so sick of donald trump, man. i'm so sick of him, and i'm not doing this like i'm kissing his ass. >> jones struggled with his

words. asked for a retake. >> this is the real quote because what i said earlier sin accurate so please use this quote. >> i'm really glad that i backed donald trump three years ago, three and a half years ago for president, and that said being sucked into thatch whole vortex as instruction, i'm sorry, i'm going to get it right. this is really important what i'm going to say and i'm just trying to get this exactly right. >> he tried again. >> so trump came to get my populous audience and then that made trump stronger and helped him win the election. they understand that donald trump is infowars and i'm donald trump now and it's like a ridge of doom. we've been merged together into this -- into this thing, and

they are obsessed with it, and it's some bizarre form of alchemy that i don't understand. >> despite his feelings when trump announced he would run for re-election alex jones was right back on board. >> what the democrats and globalists are doing is insurrection against the country? he would attack bidens and lie about a rigged election. >> dark forces trying to steal the election. >> voters are in the final hours of making a monumental decision. >> as ballots were being count asked across america, it was becoming clear trump was about to lose. >> they are trying to steal an election. they are trying to rig an election, and we can't let that happen. >> there is no doubt it is donald trump who is most responsible for millions of people believing the lie that he won and the election was stolen, but it is undeniable, it is alex jones who spent months telling his following to revolt.

>> they will be hiding. they will pay. they will be destroyed because america is -- if they want to fight they better believe they have got one. >> immediately after the election jones would appear at rails across the country with his bullhorn. >> joe biden, burn in hell. >> and an armored vehicle. >> 1776. >> resurrecting the slogan that roger stone had coined in 2016, stop the steal. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> raising money, firing up crowds, running sales on infowars and calling his followers to action. >> everybody needs to be around that white house supporting it. they need to see patriots in the streets of d.c. >> alex! alex! alex! >> the fight has just begun! the fight has just begun. >> each speech aggressive and

forebodying. >> we will never give up. we will never surrender. we will never back down to the satanic pedofile globalist new world order. >> even other organizers planning stop the steal rallies like dustin stockton say jones was going too far. >> we could sense that like this was a really volatile situation. we also were trying to deep from crossing that line into violence. they are firebrands and when you are doing that, it's kind of an exponential growth is like how outrageous you have to be. >> on december 19th, 2020, donald trump tells his followers big protest in d.c. on january 6th. be there. will be wild. >> alex jones never looked back. >> we just -- we need people to start going to d.c. now. don't wait. go to d.c. go to d.c. go the to the white house. just go to the white house, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! >> january 6th, fight for trump.

>> his show became a commercial for trump's real, and on new year's eve infowars guest host matt backen said this. >> we're only going to be saved by millions of americans moving to washington, occupying the entire area, if necessary storming right into the capitol. >> jones told his audience he was intimately involved in the planning of the january 6th real. >> i put the money down because this is all private, folks, it was hundred drefz thousands and then a big donor came forward. >> and hundreds gathered the night before the big rally. jones would warn of an upcoming battle. this will be their waterloo. this will be their destruction. >> the next day jones was front and center for trump's speech. >> we're going to walk down to

the capitol. >> with megaphone in hand jones then lend a crowd to the capitol. >> let's start marching to the capitol! >> when he arrived, it was chaos. trump supporters were in hand-to-hand combat with police. >> go around to the other side. hits not fight the police. give the system what they want. >> the west side what is anything but becauseful as jones was leading a crowd to the other side. they called for peace and also revolution. >> jones sees it all and takes off. >> fight for trump!

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>> as federal agents zeroed in on january 6. >> alex jones' influence was on display. >> if you want a fight, you better believe you've got one! >> his own employees face criminal charges from an infowars editor who streamed the riot. >> feels good to be in the capitol, baby. >> to infowars host owen shroyer who was right by jones' side. >> 1776! 1776! >> at least 20 of those arrested either worked under alex jones, appeared on his show or followed his content. the mother of one rioter told a judge her son believes everything alex jones has to say. >> another rioter who tased had a police officer told fbi agents that is exjones inspired their journey. >> how did you start to go into the rally, actual menning

synched to charges, oath keepers stuart rhodes, whose phone included an ent crypted chat. rhodes blooded not guilty. and former infowars report and proud boys leader joe biggs who pushed his way through the police lines into the capitol. he also pleaded not guilty. jones has not been charged. but cnn has learned that january 6th collect committee investigators won't to know about jones' funding for the trump ally, the planning for the march to the capital and trump's ties with conspiring with the government? i've said this and i've said this almost 100 times today during interrogation. on advice of counsel i'm

asserting my five-day amendment right to remain silent. >> jones refuses to answer questions about january 6th but told his audience he knew nothing about a plot. >> i wasn't planning any violence. i was even talk everybody should be peaceful? he was talking about a peaceful type of fight and that's now it's translated to the people who follow alex jones. >> his former employees are now convinced, jones and infowas a wash. it took me of a lot longer to have the courage to rp. >> it took calen robertson six months to break away. >> what do you say to the people who are wrapped up n this world of info wars and believe those

conspiracy? >> i would just tell them that alex doesn't care about them. >> and making money from supplements, not add, moans jones' operation is untouchable. >> you can't put pressure on him by going after his advertisers. as long as he has to people buying the products he'll do whatever he wants. the only thick that hold jones accountable is had a lawsuit. >> he's feeling pressure but the lawsuits filled by the families. it could cost him million, a new law soolt accuses of jones moving tens of millions which he predicts his fortune. he now had had fits chirp were murder but skill old on to his

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the story of watergate when you boil it to its essence is about the abuse of power by somebody in a position that exercised that power. >> nixon wanted to win so he engaged in activities that were criminal to secure his victory. >> the wiretapping of his political opponent. >> conspiracy, extortion,