alex! >> hisconvinced jones and infowars are sham. >> i think i was facing a personal reckoning. it took me a lot longer to get the courage to leave. >> almost sounds like you're breaking away from a cult. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i think there are many aspects of being in jones' world, being a listener, subscribing to those ideas that are cult-like. >> it took kalen robinson six months to break away. what do you say to the people who are wrapped up in this world of infowars and believe these conspiracies? >> i would tell them directly that alex doesn't care about them, and they're just being used for money. >> and his business model? making money from supplements, not ads means jones' infowars empire is virtually untouchable. >> alex jones operates a media organization unlike any other. you can't put pressure on him by going after his advertisers. as long as he has that core of people buying those products, he'll do whatever he wants. the only things that can hold him accountable is a lawsuit. >>

at least 20 of those arrested either worked under alex jones, appeared on his show, or followed his content believes everything that alex jones has to say. another rioter who allegedly tased a police officer told fbi agents alex jones inspired his journey. >> how did you start going to these rallies? >> infowars. >> two men linked to jones face the most serious charges filed in the january 6th riot, seditious conspiracy. oathkeeper founder stewart rhodes, a frequent infowars guest, who phone contained an encrypted chat that included jones. rhodes pleaded not guilty. and former infowars reporter and proud boys leader, joe biggs, who pushed his way through the police lines into the capitol. he also pleaded not guilty. >> biggs, what have you got to say? >> jones has not been charged, but cnn has learned that january 6th select committee investigators want to to know about jones' involvement in the funding for trump's rally, the planning for his march to the capitol, and jones' ties to extremists now charged with conspiring against the government. >> i said this, my lawyer told me, almost a hu

hello alex hi. this is nastya. wait a minute., please, i've got a lot of work here , so i didn't answer. i understand work, but tonight what, can we see each other tonight? listen, it probably won't work. listen, i'll call you back later, someone came. no, girl, yours called. you don't know, i mean , i don't know, i mean, i don't know where to go. you show, go there, let's go. hello , what is this? this is an evening dress. this is hello and this is introduce me to your girlfriend. dad, why is this all for tonight. i have a birthday today. you forgot oh you're birthday today. i congratulate you. thanks a lot. well, since it happened, i invite you too. i think that nastya will be more pleasant with her friend than spending time with us old people. you are a very pleasant pheasant , you are a man. thank you there, in my opinion, agreed with you. yes, i remember, i remember a pleasant surprise awaits you tonight, at 7:00 a.m. the machine. bye-bye. well, you still could not come to work? you need to be careful, the guys are ready, cl

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for years, alex jones and his show infowars said that was a hoax and some of that show was played in t for the jury so they could hear exactly what alex jones had been saying about these murdered children. >> it took me about a year with sandy hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake. i did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen. >> the official story of sandy hook has more holes in it than swiss cheese. >> and this isn't the only trial. he has got two more of these cases in which he's been found liable by default that are going to take place in connecticut where parents are asking for damages as well, but again, a mixed bag here. they were seeking $150 million in this trial against alex jones and this jury today awarding $4.1 million. wolf? >> drew, i want you to stand by. i also want to bring in cnn senior analyst ellie honig. this is nowhere near nor close to the $150 million in damages the parent his been seeking. what's your reaction to this verdict? >> yeah, wolf. $4 million is certainly a lot less than $150 million that the parents

she's wonderful was there ever any russian link to alex jones what percentage of his shares were bots and to what degree is russia behind this explosion of conspiracy theories in america? great question. yes, so alex jones. we love this part out of our narrative was a regular on our tea so he would get up. this is russia today. yeah, russia today kremlin funded state tv. he would get up in the middle of the night, you know, his ex-wife told me clamber out of bed, you know ready to go on our tea at all hours. he was eager to expand his platform by whatever means necessary. he's been a putin fan and apologist from the start. he admires that and i actually think and you know, paul and i have talked about this. when i was a reporter in eastern europe, it was you know, even then not terribly long ago. it would have taken a pretty sophisticated foreign adversary like russia to sew the kind of disinformation that we are doing ourselves and if we're worried about russia interfering in our next election, don't worry about it because we've already done it and we'll do it again, right? so it's o

the capture of alex drueke, an american held by pro-russian forces in ukraine. hisness about prisoners of war. alex and his colleague andy tie knock quinn have been missing for 67 days, and the event comes on the heels of a phone call between alex drueke, his mother, bunny, and the state department. it is a cause that hits home for drueke. he has his own dog diesel. his mother says alex asked about the dog whenever she has been able to talk to him. she hears the excitement about seeing him when he comes home. thanks so much for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening, there are multiple new developments and overlapping threads tonight in the nchkss, court cases, court rulings and subpoenas connected with and surrounding the former president. there's significant news on the attempt to overturn the election, the search of mar-a-lago and the climate of violence that he and his supporters have fomented in the wake of it. now on the search tonight, the justice department late today filed objections to unsealing the affidavit that was used to obtain a warrant wh

hi, alexandria. alex: plenty of steps to come. the director of national intelligence has informed lawmakers on house intelligence and oversight committees that her office is conducting an assessment of how classified documents were handled by former president trump. of course, this does come after friday released of redacted affidavit used to obtain search warrant on the former president's home. 15 boxes of documents were turned over by trump's team. according to the justice department, highly classified records were found mixed in with unrelated notes, magazines and newspapers. some of it the department argued could have compromised foreign relations and human intelligence sources. >> the department of justice had probable cause vetted by a judge that donald trump was obstructing justice and in violation with the espionage clause. this is about our national security. alex: but if this was known or suspected earlier this year. republican senator roy blunt wants to know why he and others weren't notified. >> i head the intelligence

one of his employees tells me it doesn'ton really matter if alex jones believes what he says. it matters that his listeners do. and there were millions of them and they were willing to defend the false beliefs. he was operating on the fringe. because they had been zeroed out of other media so here they found a very fertile ground. but talk radio was another. alternative media is what they were looking for in some fashion to get the word out and kind of undercover because nobody really paid attention. >> i listened between clients becauseig it represented the otr side of information, but that was before alex jones got his -- >> what did you like about it, the silliness or -- >> yoto him it was an intellectl exercise. what if we looked at what the government said about the moon landing. what is the basis for that outcome of these photographs, these footsteps. he thought it was fun to look at these things and he didn't think it was toxic in any way because at that time, alex jones for the associations he definitely was a different person. he was a lot less toxic and dark van he wa

alex hogan is life in the training capitol of kyiv. hi alex. >> hi eric.pecial after shelling at the town near the power plant and then again repeatedly hitting the nuclear power plant which just one day earlier have been the site ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy could have resulted in a natural radiation disaster. what took place as shelling sparked on asha pyles created fires at damaging the transmission line and disconnected two of the units from the power grid. each of these units contain a reactor and a cooling system which protect the sites. the facility had since been reconnected. as the fighting continues new developments, president of belarus announcing yesterday its military warplanes have been updated to curate nuclear weapons. russia station troops and will reportedly help train many of these new pilots. russian missiles hitting the center of ukraine's second largest city killing at least three people there in the last two days. and blowing up a college as well as a clinic. >> i have no words. everyone was shocked by it. the doctors and

alex: hi, mike, just about 20 minutes ago there was a new attack hitting the western part of the countryay there was also continued shelling outside of europe's largest nuclear power plant causing residents in the area to take some pretty serious precautions. people in zaporizhzhia lined up today to receive iodine pills in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. international experts have warned that the current situation is out of control. among the military aid packages that ukraine has received as we move past the 6-month mark in the war, ukraine will be receiving six mind-hunting underwater dr drones from the u. and uk. the british royal navy is training especially where it is needed most in odesa. exports of ukrainian agricultural products surpass 1 million tons on saturday. the un really calling this a remarkable achievement. this week millions of kids will also head back to class and we visited a school in irpin, outside of capital, currently repairing the roof and walls and every single window from russian shelling damage. now on top of the normal back to school prep, representatives

hello, alex. hi janna. alex good to see both of you yet. dr erica pan is california's state epidemiologist. she's the leading expert on this issue of monkeypox. and she says the vaccine supply is very limited. take a listen yeah, the vaccines apply is extremely limited. still um, so you know, to give you an example. so far here in california we received just over 109,000 doses, and we do anticipate a little bit more in mid august, but our understanding is that there is at least for the next few weeks or so only about a little over a million doses for the whole country, right? where state of 40 million people. we did send a letter to our federal partners recently, saying actually what we think we need in california to get to our highest risk population is probably more like 800,000 doses and again. we've gotten like 1/8 of that, so it's extremely limited right now. so i asked her. when are we going to getting more? she hopes some more for the fall, but it could be the winter before you get to the numbers that they need to get to the mentione

attorney said this afternoon when the ruling was completed, and it's certainly ending what's alex jones and his lawyers are expecting. they've already objected to the filing of the judgment. so at this point, it's anybody's guess how much alex jones and in for wars, and info wars parent company, free speech systems, is actually gonna pay. there's another complicated factor here, to which in the middle of this trial, free speech systems also filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. so there's a real financial mess going on right now as far as how much is being owed. >> and there are two financial misses, there's whatever is the oh as a result of these judgments, and the other one is, as you, said his personal wealth and his company's, and the bankruptcy, and the judge admonished him for talking about that because filing for bankruptcy is not the same as actually having bankruptcy protection. do you have some sense of the picture of alex jones's wealth and his companies and what it looks like? >> we got a very good picture today in testimony from a forensic economist, who testified before the

this is about taking that stress, that emotional stress off his back and making sure that alex jones and all his followers realized that the sandy hook massacre was not a hoax, was not a false flag, it was a horrific terrible event. >> i've watched the parents speak in that courtroom, and it is beyond imagination what they have been through. drew, do stay with us, i want to bring in cnn legal analyst paul callan and the new york times elizabeth williams, who's in the courtroom today. she is the author of, sandy hook, an american tragedy and the battle for truth. paul, first legal answers to this. ten out of 12 jurors came to this decision. it was not unanimous, interestingly. what do you think of the verdict and dollar figure, given it was so far below what the parents had sought? >> i thought the verdict was a little bit on the low side, but i am not stunned by it in any way, shape or form. i think, first of all, but people are forgetting is that there were 20 children and six adults, who were murdered on the horrible day in sandy hook. all of them have to be compensated by different

conservative media, and donald trump the monday after he was elected president in 2016 called up alex jones to thank him for hissupport. this was years after alex jones had weaponized and monetized the lies, the hatred that is on trial right now. unfortunately what happened was, and ben has written about this very extensively, alex jones mainstreamed much of this paranoid conspiracy theory garbage out there and became part of right-wing media. became very much part of trump 's mental world and the reality is right now is that a lot of conservative media are looking at alex jones and thinking, look, we promoted him, we praised him, we circulated his material and he has created unfortunately even if he goes down here, he's created dozens if not hundreds of fellow bottom feeders, imitators and followers who engage in the same kind of sick, paranoid falsehoods. this is in many ways we are now living in the world alex jones created. so he is not just a fringe, footnote figure in what as happened to american politics, particularly right-wing politics. >> on that negative note, we are going to leave it there. alex jon

. >> alex jones had his roots in the early 90s. so he was always distrustful of government. he sort of identified with this white christian nationalist movement out west . after the branch today and sees near waco , he revealed the dividends church. he raised $93,000 for the effort at a group of volunteers so he had strong ties to the world which almost by definition was distrustful of government and out of our business and he appealed to them and he was a celebrity among the crowd and they were kind of his core audience. why did he get away fromyour perspective ? >> it's hard to know. i struggled with trying to wsdefine who is alex jones ? everybody knows who alex jones is, correct western art okay. which wasn't the case actually. seven years ago. this entire room would be like, i don't know, i'mcoming up empty . it's hard to know exactly. he is conspiratorial bynature . one of his employees told me it doesn't really matter if oalex jones believes what he says. it matters that hislisteners do . and there were millions of them and they were willing to asdefend those false be

hi alex. >> hi to you. yeah i'm cranking up about what you are just saying, because i was watching you with the amenable and wonderful role in martin and charles -- coming up. going like, she's never gonna end on time. roland is never gonna letter and on time. and if he is the listening there, he knows exactly what i'm talking about. but we love him, and his energy. and it was awesome. so hey, props to you for anchoring that. where you got him off on. time >> thank you, thank you very much. have a great show. >> thank you, see it next week. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the very latest in the investigation into donald trump as we look now at the front page of today's new york times, highlighting the new york newly released search warrant on the criminal inquiry that prompted the search of trump's mar-a-lago resort. trump sports perks in taylor budowich yesterday accused the administration of leaking lies, sa

alex: hi, arthel. it is a quite a symbolic week ahead.an independence day is on wednesday, the day before that tuesday is flag day and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenksyy acknowledged the very real likelihood of new possible attacks. >> we must be aware that russia may do something distressing or something cruel. alex: there will be no military parade and ukrainians are told to stay home and avoid large gatherings but leading up to independence day the capital's main street is live with destroyed russian tanks. >> we see that this equipment which is standing here which can kill us, wanting to capture us is -- we see equipment that is disfigured that is broken and did not achieve the goals. alex: as the crowds walk-through the city center, there's a deep sense of pride and gratitude for the troops that are protecting the border. russian forces in recent weeks have made consistent territorial advancements but there have have been no concrete gains in recent days but the attacks have not stopped. in the last day russian shelling hit ever

and his lawyer after this, after the latest try this 1st trial and said that alex jones would still be back at his desk. he will still be on air today, tomorrow. and next week he will still continue running his shows, running his website info was. and it says this multi 1000000 damages award has not silenced him. norco and a shorter. there are d w reporter and i thank you very much bit of a change of pace. now, one of the world's biggest, heavy metal festivals is back vatican is once again hosting 85000 metal fans for 3 days in the field in northern germany. the event was cancelled for the last 2 years because of the pandemic. vulcan is the name of the small town near by both for die hard metal heads. it's also very holy ground. the hot weather didn't keep the crowds away. heavy metal fans from around the world had been waiting over 2 years to return to what they called the holy ground. the revellers at this year's voc in the open air hail from as far away as mexico south africa and indonesia by greece put covering the hold. and ah, it's not just the legendary line up that draws the cr

alex jones at the trial yesterday bringing up supplements was talk at how high quality his japanese supplements are. he says he gets them from the japanese and that's why he can provide them at 100% markup sometimes. so, the parts of this american public right now are from alex jones' mind. it's his dream reality. if you think about it, we have a whole portion of this country who are obsessed with the idea that the apocalypse is happening or the country is under siege, and the only way to fix it is supplements, self-determination, and prepperism. that's what's happened over the last ten years. since he's become more famous because of things like sandy hook, because of more tragedies. more tragedies allow him to make more money. >> right. >> and that -- you know, in the space he's created a bunch of other outlets that mirror info wars because they realize it's a successful business model. >> right, and that's why even the people doing damaging or corrosive politics is only one layer of it. you have these other people making money off it, and that's why they're selling products to the fear they'v

let's also keep in mind, alex, his base is pretty small. it's about 33% of the overall electorate. the popular vote. he lost by more than 7 million votes in 2020. the majority of the country is very far away from donald trump. he does have a strong grip on that gop base, and i don't know how that's going to change. >> midterms, though, kurtz. political reports trump's senate field is floundering in pennsylvania, in georgia, arizona, wisconsin, and he's a ways off yet, but will republican voters project trump in these states? >> i think what we're seeing is a repudiation of this ultra extreme agenda that tries to say that big government should tell women what they should or shouldn't do with their bodies, that they have to carry pregnancy to terms, even if their children or if they were raped. i think they're seeing this rejection of the idea that republicans need to be against everything, for. nothing while democrats are actually getting stuff done. they are passing things to keep a lid on -- inflation, to lower gas prices, to adjust climate change, to get infrastructure going in t

alex? >> hi, neil. the sirens in ukraine's capitol just started to go off minutes ago., there's increased records of explosions at another air base in crimea. russia and ukraine are accusing each other of planning provocations for tomorrow outside of europe's largest nuclear power plant. ukrainian intelligence says that russian occupiers have been told to stay home and not go to the facility tomorrow. now, there's been global concern, growing brought on not only by disregarded safety measures inside the plant but more specificallyhe feiging outside of it. shelling outside has not subsided. today president zelensky met with the president of turkey and the u.n. secretary general that continued to urge for the creation of a demilitarized zone. zelensky calling the occupation of the plant blackmail. >> russia must withdraw its troops from the power plants's territory and stop all provocations and certainly all shelling. we cannot allow russia to deliberately put all of us on the edge of a radiation catastrophe. >> the u.n.'s refugee agency hi commissioner says that the u.n.

alex? >> hi, neil. the group arrived earlier today and real work begins tomorrow. early this morning i met with them here in kyiv before they departed for the capitol. the director general underscored the importance and how historical trip this is. this is the first time that the nuclear watch dogs are going into an active war zone and underscoring how dangerous this trip is given the fighting that we've seen there in recent week and continued fighting that we've seen even taking place today. the agency expects to stay on the site for several days and even announced that representatives will stay on site to monitor the nuclear threat in the days and months ahead, which has prompted worldwide concern over a nuclear disaster. >> we have to get the russians to pull back and make it into a demilitarized zone. >> yesterday i joined rob portman and amy klobuchar on their bipartisan visit to ukraine. we spent some time in the capitol as well as visiting destruction in some of the northern towns and discussing the threat of the invasion. the pair met with president zelensk

hi boys. alex still bring our suitcases here.ve them there, leave today , but you never know what you can expect from viktor stepanovich, better bring it in. mom why is there no security? come on, come on. stand calmly, that i was almost lucky again and she will live. you have no chance, i must always let go of today. and motherfucking this is swat weapons on the floor. we go back. ra has lessons for the head everything, i didn’t want to spend money on the underground passage . it took me how it happened. can you give me explain, now we get to a quiet place and find out everything . let's go everything will be fine. alex can go. hold on, we'll go with him only one place. gone. like it fell through the ground. to you too to the doctor to address itself will pass or take place. your face is all broken. this is makeup, about the starlet of this, who will report to the general? it is necessary to check, and you checked the container one thing, a government interest, another personal one, everything is there as agreed, look obliquely.

his brother. >> i remember that picture. we -- we were laying on the coffee table. >> reporter: the firefighters are also supporting a gofundme campaign for alexis primary caregiver. she asked alex what he would like to tell the firefighters who helped him. >> thank you for giving me co cookie. >> reporter: lucy kafanov, cnn, denver. >> thank you for giving me cookie. more important, you know, they gave him love. i mean, they showed him just extraordinary love when he needed it the most. >> small steps and, you know, shout out to jessica, the volunteer firefighter who was talking about that and the help that they did and we will be sure to tweet out the gofundme as well for people who watched and want to help out. >> he's going to need that love going forward. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ "shake your thang" by salt n pepa it's time for the biggest sale of the year, on the sleep number 360® smart bed. it's temperature balancing, so you both say cool. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. don'td special. save 50% on the sleep number 360® limited etion smart bed. ends labor day.

le . al a big way for alex jones. what is his legaljeopardy _ a big way for alex jones. perjury? he any texts or e-mails. is he guilty of perjury?— any texts or e-mails. is he guilty of perjury? of per'ury? he certainly looks like it to of perjury? he certainly looks like it to me but the _ of perjury? he certainly looks like it to me but the question - of perjury? he certainly looks like it to me but the question is i of perjury? he certainly looks like i it to me but the question is whether or not it was going to prosecute them. throughout this case, alex jones and his legal team heavily flouted the rules of the courtroom procedure to the that it does seem to reach a criminal level. he has to be constantly reminded to tell the truth in trial but there's a reason, it's a very unusual trial because avery ruled that he has lost because he essentially broke the legal rules so often. so now, thejury is only deciding how much she has to pay. notably in the clip though, the lewises, do you know what perjury is, are you aware of that? because he said he had not sent any text me

you are sergey and alex his friend, and they wanted to talk to you, you know them.es class, he didn't kill anyone. if you promise that vanya is not. listen, take some water. well, you've been on my tail for a long time. are you by chance? score i'll throw the theme at the cemetery myself. well, like i name with whom maykop worked time and offend. well, another attention, or something, you want to drive away, and i will talk, only with your dad, understand? i see. let's go set off. all i would like to meet with him stubborn. he said that he would only talk to you , he said he would wag his tail. we should think now baba are doing. close it while san is in the basement of her in the same place farmer and that fat place hurts, or something, is not enough? let's go let's go he wants call me and say that i'm waiting for him today in a black meadow at 6:00 evenings. and fuck we also do what i say and max find me come on in. all right, let's go. and i'm being let out for what? i did help. so go and tell your dad that i want to meet him. go scaffolding, close or your head o

just to recap that moment, for a second, we will ignore the attorney for alex jones chewing on his fingernails. the judges on the wall who were smiling. you know, for their portraits. yet, looking down on this moment. i can't help imagine was anything other than really? well, alex jones attorneys also sent all of their clients texts messages to the opposing council, by accident, it seems? they didn't claim they were somehow privileged. i'm not sure -- his own communications people who are not lawyers, of course. then the lawyer for the sandy hook parents used that information -- to catch alex jones in ally, even the mention of perry mason wasn't going to get you scored and points. i think we call that all receipts. that is the legal term for what we have now. his attempt to spin it like he wanted them to see those all along. it's pitiful. cruel. or what was the question he asked at the end? perjury. right? we will see what comes of that. after all, they asked him if he knew what it meant. even offered the chance to no his fifth amendment rights. but you want to know what you can buy these days

we know alex jones was there. he led his own march there.h his show and also just guests over the time have been arrested. so it's easy to see why the january 6th kmiet tell would be so interested in what is actually a defamation lawsuit in austin, texas. >> yeah, absolutely. it will be interesting to see, too, in those texts, if we ever get to see them, right, how much of that is true. we know there's a lot of bluts ter when it comes to alex jones. he's been fact checked throughout the trial and admonished by the judge, reminded he needs to tell the truth. >> 100%. go with the fact that everything that comes out of alex jones' mouth is going to be a law. that's the way he's been for the last 30 years. he's been caught lying by the jury and by the attorney in court. >> i mean the twists and turns in this one. drew griffin, thank you. appreciate it. also with us this hour, former federal prosecutor and host of the on topic podcast. looking at all of this, the plaintiff's attorney said, look, i have this request and i'm going to turn them over

alex hogan live in the capital of kyiv with the very latest on tense situation. hi reporter: hi, eric. new shelling once again at the power plant, but attacks also hitting the residents who live nearby mt. area. 60% of the region is currently occupied by russian forces, and today residents walked through the rubble of 20 homes that have been destroyed, nearly 900 buildings in this town damaged or demolished in the last six months of fighting. >> translator: this is my house. the roof got torn off. the walls deformed inside the house. >> reporter: international concern at the plant itself which has now been put back online, but week fires damaged the transmission lines after shelling and basically disconnected two of the units from the power grid, both russia and ukraine are giving very different stories. >> translator: ukrainian artillery units targeted the plant times over the past day. any rep its of yesterday's events -- repetition, any disconnection of the station from the grid or any actions by russia that could trigger shutdown of reactors will once again put

alex wood has been struggling. in colorado he gave up seven earned runs in his las. you could maybe chalk that up to to pitching at coors field, but tonight he's rocked again. in minneapolis wood was shaky with the start. 1st inning, and correa sends it out of the park in a hurry. 2-0 twins early, and and minnesota never looks back.e giants down 6-0 in the 3rd. wood wood against gary sanchez, and sanchez wins it with an oppositd homer. 15 earned runs in his last seven and two-thirds pitched, as the twins win 9-0. san francisco is now six and a f back of that wild card spot. > >> big aaron judge fan sighting at the coliseum with the yankees yankees in town. judge looking comfortable back in california. in the 5th, judge sends one over one over the center field wall.s 49th of the year. best in the majors. could he be wearing orange and black next season there? this solo shot of gerrits only run. peralta gets mckinnon to strike out and the yankees win. > >> the raider rested the starters in their final preseasn game against the patriots. 1st quarter, here's back up quar

you brought him on the bu a see me, a figure in alex among his brigades. israel had tried to catch him before going away. this time they succeeded, trapping him in this building in the old city. these bullet hose, a testament to a 5 fight that continued through the early morning. this man says he found the boot so long. when i arrived, we saw smoke and far one month we used our t shirts to cover our noses and entered the house. we found a body right here. the guy recognized him and said it was abraham. israeli forces also killed 2 of the members of the group, and dozens of people were injured in the fighting in the crowded old town. thousands accompanied the funeral procession from the st. you can see how popular abraham unable say was in the town of nablus, but these people in the resistance fighter for his railey authorities. he was a terrorist who shot at soldiers and civilians. a threat that they had through we asked need a subtle one, a teacher also on the march, what she thought as a sub, but that our love at the high. now when a young man opens his eyes to live and seize killing

aquay. >> reporter: heslan and jesse's mom scarlett lewis are suing conspiracy theorist alex jones. jones on hisrs" program told his audience of millions that the massacre was a hoax, calling the victims and their families crisis actors. >> they staged sandy hook. the evidence is overwhelm ing. >> reporter: the parents are asking for $150 million, saying they've endured years of harassment and threat by jones' followers. >> alex started this fight and i'll finish this fight. >> reporter: calling jones a coward for not being present for his testimony, but jones was in court this afternoon as scarlett lewis, the boy's mother took the stand and addressed him directly. >> my son existed. you're still on your show today trying to say that i'm implying that i'm an actress. >> raise your right hand. >> reporter: late today jones took the stand in his own defense. >> i never intentionally tried to hurt you. the internet had a loft questions. i had questions. >> reporter: jones put his company into bankruptcy last week, which may delay two other damage trials scheduled for september. janet shamlian, cbs

after israeli forces killed a senior commander of alex amounts, his brigades, palestinian armed group resisting israeli occupation. thousands of mourners filled the streets of nablus, where abraham l levels he was killed. alex, a martyrs brigades says its response will fit the crime. john john holeman reports now from novice. these railey military adorned rate in the occupied west bank. they arrived in force in the city of nablus, looking for this man, he brought him on the boost, a senior figure in alex and mouth his brigade's israel had tried to catch him before and got away. this time they succeeded trapping him in this building in the old city. these bullet holds a testament to a fire fight that continued through the early morning. this man says he found the booth se salon glenfield looked out. when i arrived we saw smoke and far 0 one of us we used our teachers to cover our noses and entered the house. we found a body right here. a guy recognized him and said it was abraham. israeli forces also kill 2 of the members of the group, and dozens of people were injured in the fighting

years old when he was killed alongside 19 of his classmates and six educators in the sandy hook mass shooting. they are seeking up to $150 million from alexonspiracy theorist who has spent the last step years profiting off his horrific lie that the massacre never happened. now just be cheer. sandy hook was not a up-time thing for this particular grifter. alex jones built the model for making money off of conspiracies, long before joe rogen started podcasting are horse meds and vitamin supplements as treatments for covid. he's been the screaming over-the-the top voice of the believe nothing anti-government far right. along with sandy hook, he's also claimed that 9/11, the pair thon and it tiki torch nazi rally in charlottesville were all false flag events and even though he admitted begrudgingly that the sandy hook massacre was 100% real, he's been far from on his best behavior during the trial mocking lewis' father on infowars and accusing the parents of being fed fake videos. in an unme ofable video today the lawyer says jones' lawyers accidentally sent him the entire contents of jones' phone. you can not make this stuff up? did you know

we now know that alex jones lied about what was in his text messages and the like. that evidence was turned over by alex jones's own lawyer. i guess a big whoop see. that kind of lawyer seems like someone who donald trump will probably higher in the next few days. it seems like he meets his qualifications. but something is very wrong, stephanie, when it's a lot easier to get a hold of alex jones's text messages than taxed, for example, federal agencies like secret service and others that are legally required to preserve them. it's an interesting study in contrasts. >> neil, you say that kind of tongue-in-cheek, but in all seriousness, what does that say about the state of our country, the state of our government, that is where we are? you can get a true conspiracy theorist text message, but not the secret service, or the department of justice. >> exactly. you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think that there is something incredibly ominous about the fact that all of these text messages on the january six investigation have gone missing, not just from one age

saying that his lawyer can't put up with the fed, saying blah blah blah. saying everything that alext was interesting is he didn't say anything important today. he did not show up. i thought that was very interesting. >> did his lawyers ask for a mistrial, because they accidentally sent these phone records to the other side? let me play that moment. >> 12 days ago, your attorneys messed up an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you've sent for the past two years as of two days ago, it fell free and clear in my possession, and that is how i know you lied to me when you said you did not get text messages. did you know that? >> i told you the truth. this is your parent mason moment. >> why did the judge say about that? >> well, the alex jones attorney asked for a mistrial, you are correct, because they felt that those records should not have been alone because of their mistake, because of inadvertently sending it to the plaintiffs attorney. i don't know if you could follow all that, but it was just a mess. the judge actually asked, are you serious about

we have the latest on alex jones, now forced to pay a price for his disgusting lies about sandy hook and the 20 children and 6 adults murdered there. but his legal trouble far from over. now the january 6th committee wants to look at those texts his lawyers accidentally revealed to the prosecution. we're going to tell you why. >>> let's get to our exclusive reporting. harry litman is here, former deputy assistant attorney general and nick ackerman, former assistant special watergate prosecutor. happy to have you on. let's start with the reporting. kara, you're part of the team who broke the exclusive. what are you learning about the conversations between trump's legal team and the department of justice. >> sources tell our team these conversations are taking place now between the justice department's top prosecutor who is leading the investigation into january 6th and into the efforts to interfere with the election. they are having those conversations with lawyers for the former president. these talks are revolving around the issue of executive privilege and whether former president

$49 million award is coming, after sandy hook parents confronted alex jones on what his lies did to them. >> i can't describe the last night, or even the last nine and a half years that i and others have had to endure. because of the endangerment and the recklessness of alex jones. what was said about me, and sandy hook itself. it resonates from around the world. my life has been threatened. i fear for my life. i feel for my safety. >> joining me now, former fellow prosecutor, united states attorney, paul, from the database, who has been all over the story from the beginning. what is your response to this new, punitive damaging verdict that just came in? >> reporter: this is a smart award for the punitive damages. combined with transitory damages. they are designed to compensate victims, and make them well. the damages that were awarded today, that was purely to punish the defendant. typically, what they do after large awards like this, is that they will take an appeal and try to get a court to reduce the amount, or say that the awarded punitive damages weren't awarded based on the facts

it is tempting now to say this is probably the end of alex jones and his career.has gone too far. but people have been saying this for a long time and you still have lots of people, lots of companies basically enabling and making money off this stuff. alex jones has a book coming out . it is near the top of the amazon bestseller list. there is a documentary, a sympathetic documentary that has come out. you have lots of media types still eating off the conspiracy theories. it is depressing, because the cruelty, as we saw during the trial, of these conspiracy theories towards the parents was disturbing. emily: yes. you can read more about it in max's story. thanks for bringing that issue to light. we will follow the verdict from the upcoming trial. new analysis from bloomberg finds google maps repeatedly misleads people looking for abortion clinics. we will have more on that later in the show. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> we have been covering the changing pivotal -- digital privacy escape. and the power that tech companies have to safeguard that information. even google

south asian accent: hi, this is alex _ from the customer service aid. how are you today? ce aid. how are you today? great to hear. what do you make of that? earlier, i spoke with winifred poster, a sociologist from the university of washington in st louis, who has done extensive research on call centre workers. this is what she had to make of it. i think there are many, many problems with this kind of technology that range from lesser to greater harm. one of the problems is that it doesn't solve the main problems of customer service, which is that when a customer calls a company, they have a problem. so, regardless of what accent is being communicated to them, they may still be angry that their computer doesn't work, or that they were unable to get a refund for a purchase, etc. another problem is that it's unfair to the worker, especially in the global south, when they have to engage in these kinds of deceptive practices as a regular part of the job. it follows a range of practices that i have documented in my research called — about national identity management, in which

this trial is about the conspiracy theories and misinformation that alex jared spread in his broad courses web costs that actually resulted in real world abuse and harassment for the people who were at the center of these false claims. and so 2012, there was a tragic shooting in a school in a school in the u. s. sandy hook elementary school in the, in the wake of the school shooting alex jones. and he said that this was a plot falsely claiming it was a plot by the us government and said that the grieving parents were actually paid actors in this shooting never happen. and to parents, neil has linen scarlett lewis. they lost a child in the shooting. and they said because of these conspiracy theories and assets misinformation spread, they suffered death threats, harassment, their personal details being shared online. and they, the, their lawyers said that james had created a massive campaign of law, is that targeted these families and also made money in the process. okay. and it's, i guess we're going to have to really see whether this is going to actually stop him. the fact he's being force

. >>> alex jones at his defamation trial admitting the sandy hook massacre was 100% real, after previously suggesting it was a hoax and the stunning moment on the stand when jones was told his legal team accidentally sent his text messages to the other side's lawyers >>> the alert tonight on surging credit card debt what experts say you should do about it right now. >>> and remembering one of the most famous voices in baseball >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone abortion rights advocates are savoring a significant and rare post-roe v. wade victory tonight. not in a statehouse but at the ballot box in kansas where voters upended assumptions, defeating by a wide margin a constitutional amendment that would have opened the door to a ban on abortions in kansas. the mechanics of the victory mustering an unexpectedly large voter turnout in the mostly red state, quickly becoming a case study for democrats and republicans as they weigh the potential impact of abortion as an animating issue in the november midterm elections. elsewhere last night, imp

i mean, for someone like alex jones, as we know, there's really no bottom. he was on hisly loves him now and that their lawyers are using them as pawns. if anyone has used these families as pawns, it's been alex jones, who for ten years has fomented this lie that the shooting was a pretext for gun control planned by the government and that these families were complicit in the plot. he has -- he has been responsible for a lot of damage here and, you know, he's more symbolic, he's really emblematic of the spread of disinformation and false narratives over the past decade since sandy hook. he has been part of every one of the most pernicious myths that have caused confrontation and violence in this country, from pizza-gate to charlottesville to coronavirus myths and the stop the steal lie that started the 2021 january 6th insurrection of the capitol. >> that is why your book is so essential. i think if people are looking at your book it's not just about sandy hook, it's about the origin story of all of these conspiracy theories that are just polluting the discussion and real

>> reporter: lester, this is a big win for the victim's parents a texas jury today ordering alex jones and his company to pay more than $45 million in punitive damages. to the parents of jessie lewis who died in the sandy hook school massacre on top of yesterday's decision, which means jones and his company must pay jessie's parents a total of $49.3 million. that's a lot of money but a fraction of the 135 to $270 million a forensic economist says jones and his business are worth jones faces two similar lawsuits from other victims' families he did not show up in court for today's verdict. lester >> anne thompson thanks >>> tonight some of the busiest airports in the country from d.c. to new york are on ground delays as severe storms move in. thousands of flights delayed or canceled nationwide meanwhile tens of millions of americans are under heat alerts in the northeast and the plains temperatures surging today into the 90s and triple digits. increasingly, severe weather is being tied to climate change. here's sam brock >> reporter: the grueling heat that's gripped the country is showing little

closing statement. >> that man will sit here and spew his lies and misinformation as long as he keeps getting a check. because that is what alexes does. he cares about his money and getting his money and he pays people to ensure that he could continue that in perpetuity. >> fist pumps ab hugs on the plaintiffs side but on the alex jones side, an empty chair. did he not hear that verdict live. >> he'll have to shell out nearly $50 million between yesterday and today's verdicts. trial also included information that potentially could be of huge interest to the january 6 house select committee. now that the trial is over, where does that stand? >> well, there was a bombshell that was dropped after the jury left and the judge was kind of just asked about that and she said, so this involves the phone text of alex jones that he claimed he didn't have. but were inadvertently sent to the plaintiff's attorney by accident and that plaintiffs' attorney said there was intimate messages with roger stone on them. judge said i'm not standing between you and congress on this. basically giving the green light for this information to go to congr