on friday, the sandy hook parent or a lawyer representing one of the sandy hook parents filed a legalx jones had destroyed evidence related to the sandy hook trial. he said in the motion specifically info wars deleted critical evidence. so what happened there is info wars came under pressure from twitter and jackie dorsey, ceo of twitter, had said that info wars had not violated any policies on the platform. cnn investigation found that info wars had violated a number of policies, but that -- including stuff with alex jones and sandy hook, and so alex jones instructed the staff to delete those -- those tweets related to the sandy hook conspiracy theory he had reported so long. after he did that, now they are being accused of destroying evidence related to the sandy hook conspiracy theory. it's kind of confusing. >> alex jones on his program apparently said that his staff deleted the tweets in order to, quote, take the super high road. what does that mean? >> he basically was going to be forced by twitter to delete these tweets. so he go to out in front of it and i think he was trying

in sandy hook, the teachers there are recommend that there is a tip line. beyond that, if you cannot afford a tip line or cannot figure out how to set that up, make sure your students feel comfortable talking to their teachers about any issues. again, students are going to know well before your teachers do what is going on among the peers. host: mark from massachusetts joins the conversation. caller: yes, this is obviously a very difficult problem. it can only go so far as far as the arming of different school administrators. that is part of the solution but that is not going to solve the problem. seconds make a huge difference and that is not enough time. you need to go to the root of the problem, which if you look over the past few decades, the absence of fathers in the home, the introduction of drugs to masses of children. almost all of these kids have been on psychotropic drugs and how that affects the brain should be looked into to see what is going on with the breakdown in social decay of our society. guest: mark touched upon a good point when he ment

conspiracy theory, that the sandy hook shooting was a massachuset massive hoax. >> you see the leaves bloke, they glitch. there's a recycling of a green scene behind them. >> reporter: a theory that this couple says turn their lives upside down. their 6-year-old son noah was killed in the shooting in 2012. they say they've been harassed so badly that they've had to move seven times. de la rosa spoke to cnn about the lawsuit in april. >> if there's a choice made over a relentless period of years to peddle falsehoods and to profit from them, then there has to be a day of reckoning. >> reporter: in the lawsuit, de laro rosea and an said they had suffered mental is >> i'veed thend i looks like a drill. >> reporter: jones says he now believes sandy hook did happen but argues his comments are protected by the first amend. today spotify pulled multiple episodes of his podcast for violating its policies. his lawyers will be back in a related case related to the parkland shooting tomorrow. >>> to california now, where 16 large and out of control wildfires are burning. the fires are already dea

sandy hook shooting was a massive hoax. >> they have one shot leaves blowing. you see the leaves blowing, they glitch. they're recycling a green screen behind them. >> reporter: a theory that they say turned their lives upside down. their 6-year-old son noah was killed during the mass shooting in 2012. ever since, they say they have been harassed. the abuse so bad they've had to move seven times. now they're suing jones for the judge. to dismiss the case. she spoke to cnn about the lawsuit in april. >> if there is a choice that's made over a relentless period of years to peddle falsehoods and to profit from them, then there has to be a day of reckoning. >> reporter: in the lawsuit, de la rosa and poseener say he has disrupted their daily routine and caused a high degree of psychological pain. jones discussed his controversial views with megyn kelly last year. >> what do you do when they've got the kids going in circles in and out of the building with their hands up? i've watched the footage. it looks like a drill. >> reporter: jones says he now believes sandy h

and bereaved sandy hook parents suing that the elementary school massacre was a hoax? the lawyer for the info wars host says this is freedom of speech. is that going to work?" the boston globe" uncovers quiet skies that's been spying on thousands of ordinary american, but is that good post-9/11 police work? several candidates in this week's kansas gubernatorial primary not yet old enough to vote for themselves. i'll ask, too, what they learned while navigating controversial issues and our political process. but first, are tweets making fun of white people necessarily racist and are attacks on police to be taken at face value. those questions arose this week regarding "the new york times" new hire, sarah jeong, a 30-year-old technology writer being hired for their prestigious editorial board. typically i would go to the times for my read in, but there was nothing as to what prompted jeong to write hatred for white people, the police, et cetera, et cetera. that's something i prompted on twitter this prompted someone else to say what else do you need to know. she tweeted

the office of education has already partnered with sandy hook promise. if you're not familiar it is a national nonprofit started by some family members of those 20 children and six adults who were shot and killed at the sandy hook elementary school in december of 2012. their mission is to provide programs and practices to pro vent gun lie veviolence. the office of education and representative will present the board of supervisors urging them the adopt this initiative which they are expected to agree to. sandy hook hopes to accomplish the following. they have four guiding principals, if you will. they want to continue to build a national database of parents and teachers interesting in preventing gun violence in school. they want to recruit and train so called promise leaders to prevent gun violence. they can identify and help people who are at risk and keep them away from firearms. finally they want to advocate for gun safety laws. today in the bay. >> trying to make a difference. >> thank you. >>> 5:35 right now. debating the city sponsored youth. back i

. >> is a time out enough for the man who spread the false claim that the sandy hook massacre was a hoax? >>> and the soaring cost of insulin. people rationing their lifesavi lifesaving meds. parents pleading for help. we ask the drug company, what's being done? >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening and welcome to our viewers in the west. it looks a lot like payback tonight for some former senior government officials who have spoken out against president trump in the past. the president yanking the security clearance for former cia boss john brennan today, accusing him of using his access to sow division and chaos in the white house. tonight, several others are on notice their access to classified materials could be coming to an end too. our kristen welker explains what's behind it. >> reporter: unprecedented. president trump tonight revoking the security clearance of one of his harshest critics, former cia director john brennan who is also an nbc news analyst. so white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders reading a statement from the preside

it is also partnered with sandy hook's promise.nal nonprofit started by some of the family members of the 20 children and six adults who were shot and killed at sandy hook in december of 2012. it is one of the worst school shootings in his rhode island it is to provide programs and practices to prevent other school campuses. this morning the office of education and a representative will present to the board of supervisors urging them to adopt this gun safety initiative which they are expected to agree to. sandy hook hopes to accomplish this here locally. they want to build a database. here locally they want to recruit and train so called promise leaders who can deliver to help prevent gun violence. they want to create mental health programs to help people who are at risk and keep them away today in the bay. >> all right. thanks so much. >>> school is actually starting this week for a lot of students across the bay area. you probably remember these images from last year's wild fire heavily damaged. it caused more than destruction fo

sandy hook is a synthetic, com pletely fa ke sandy hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors,n a fake mass shootings here in a fake mass shooting in turkey. 0r pakistan. in the build up to the us presidential election in 2016, he perpetuated a theory that senior democrats were involved in a paeodophile ring involving a pizza restaurant in washington dc, which became known as the pizzagate conspiracy. 0k, ok, so, this video was on the nightly news on thanksgiving, one of our journalists put it nightly news on thanksgiving, one of ourjournalists put it together, five minutes long, and the headline is, pizzagate is real. the only question is exactly what is it cost a lot but something with codes is going on. —— what exactly is it? a follower of this conspiracy was laterjailed for firing shots into the restaurant in question. jones has since apologized for promoting pizzagate. since founding infowars in 1999, jones has built a vast audience. among the theories he has promoted is that the 9/11 attacks were staged. he also claimed that the american government was putting chemicals i

jesse lewis is one of 26 people killed in the sandy hook massacre in 2012. 23450u 1/2 years later, his mother scarlet is be part of th solution against school violence. ery moment of my life i work towards making sure that my personal tragedy doesn't happen travels all country, speaking to educators and parents about her tragedy and how she has been working tirelessly trying to prevent another mass killing. she calls it social emotional learning. > teaching kids how to have healthy and positive relationships, deep and meaningful connections. >> sandy hook shook our country. if it been an anomaly it would have been bad enough but it's not. >> reporter: there have been so much mass school shootings since sandy hook. >> there is no mass murder gene. babies aren't born and you say too bad he's going to grow up to to be a mass murderer. >> reporter: she hopes her voice will become a solution to what has become america's problem. >> finding compassion, if she can find it for the murderer of her child, i can find that in my everyday life. >> reporter: in livermore, charld hurd, nbc bay area n

never happened. >> sandy hook, it's got inside job written all over it., even i couldn't believe it. i knew they jumped on it, hyped. it pretty much didn't happen. >> lewd crouse. now the families of children killed in that are suing him. they say they have been harassed for years. according to the times times, one of the families was forced to move seven times, hundreds of miles from where their 6-year-old is buried because of death threats. in court this week jones' lawyers asked the judge to throw out the suit and even tried to get the families to pay his legal fees. they've unbelievably argued that jones is a journalist, comparing him to the "washington post" reporters who uncovered the watergate scandal. they wrote unbelievably in a court filing, quote, bob woodward and karl bernstein relied on allegations from deep throat to link the nixon administration to the watergate break-in. such journalism questioning official narratives would be chilled if reporters were they turned out to be wrong. unbelievable. joining me, msnbc senior national corresponde

families oversome of the 20 children killed at sandy hook elementa school are suing jones over his claims the massacre was faked. nbc's morgan radford has that story. >> i don'twhat happened. ndy hook is inconclusive. >> reporter: for s years, alex jos the most powerful voice behind a disturbing conspiracy theory that the sandy hook shooting s a ssive hoax. >> they got in one shot leaves blowing and flowers that are out and you see the aves blowing and they go -- they glitch. they are recycling a green screen behind them. >> reporter: a theory they say turned their lives upside down. their 6-year-old son noah was killed during the mass shooting in 2012. ever since, they say they have been harassed, the abuse so bad they have had to move seven. now they are suing jones for defamation. his lawyers are asking the judge to dismiss the case. del la rosa spoke to cnn in april. >> if there is a relentless period of years to peddle falsehoods and profit erfrom them, then has to be a day of reckoning. >> reporter: in the lawsuit, they say the comments caused themve degree of mental stress and angu

she lost her young son at the sandy hook school massacre 6 years ago.. and ever since, scarlett lewis has turned her grief into something positive..and found a new purpose in life.. teaching students in all grade levels to spread love and forgiveness in an emotional curriculum..which will now be taught in all livermore schools. kron4's gayle ong is live at the bankhead theater in livermore where a presentation is underway.. gayle what can you tell us about this program? it's an unbelievable story, scarlett lewis lost her 6-year- old son jesse in the tragic school shooting in connecticut.. tonight, she's sharing her story with the livermore community here at the bankhead theater as we speak..also kicking off the choose love social emotional curriculum that will be taught throughout all grade levels in the livermore valley joint unified school district starting this year..the program is part of a solution that creates a safe world for children..it was inspired by three words her son jesse wrote on a chalkboard shortly before he died - nurturing - healing -

jones has a huge online audience and pushes many conspiracy theories including a claim that the sandy hook school massacre in connecticut was a staged event alan fisher has it entails this is their plan people these are. we as a national radio show more than two million a year to prescribe and a website called info wars that made him a wealthy man but alex jones is facing an increasing number of platforms who will no longer publish his content in the last few days he's been removed from facebook i tunes and the also you chip with his video rants wreck up millions of hits first demonize him for wars lie about us build a straw man then sue us to add credibility to that then have a few fake strikes on you tube and facebook with nebulous terms like bullying children and islamophobia jones is a controversial figure he claims the sandy hook school massacre was staged by crisis actors as a way to change gun laws in the us one of the families is now suing him for libel the first hearings in the case have been held in his texas be. he believes the nine eleven attacks were organized and carried out

for many people as you know, alexjones is a disgrace, what he's done to the barisic sandy hook pa rentsts is unforgivable and he also stated as a fact hillary clinton personally raped children. he thinks 9/11 was done by the government but ina way 9/11 was done by the government but in a way there's a much bigger issue, it's about what is hate speech, what is freedom of speech, also whether these platforms are publishers, whether they have an editorial role, or whether they're just the tubes through which this stuff passes. right, ithink just the tubes through which this stuff passes. right, i think twitter has always tried to very carefully to the line between protecting free speech and protecting people's right to be safe on the internet and not feel harassed. in this case, where you have pernicious conspiracy theories existing to serve no political purpose or really to advance a rhetorical debate of any kind, it's just victimising advance a rhetorical debate of any kind, it'sjust victimising people and hurting people, ithink kind, it'sjust victimising people and hurting people, i thi

alex alex jones has a huge online audience and many conspiracy theories including a claim that the sandy hook school massacre in connecticut was a staged event from washington alan fisher has the details this is their plan people these are. we as a national radio show more than two million you tube prescribe this and a website called info wars that's made him a wealthy man but only facing an increasing number of platforms who will no longer publish his content in the last few days he's been removed from facebook i tunes and the also you chip with his video rants wreck up millions of hits first demonize him for wars lie about us build a straw man then sue us to add credibility to that then have a few fake strikes on you tube and facebook with nebulous terms like bullying children and islamophobia jones is a controversial figure he claims the sandy hook school massacre was staged by crisis actors as a way to change gun laws in the us one of the families is now suing him for libel the first hearings in the case have been held in his texas be. he believes the nine eleven attacks were organized an

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he's been spreading to his more than 5 million listeners. >> they staged sandy hook.vidence is overwhelming. >> reporter: for years on his radio show, alex jones said the sandy hook shooting which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adult was fake. >> sandy hook is a sin thetsic, completely fake, with actors in my view, manufactured. ths cotroom on wednesday where his attorneys tried to dismiss the first of at least three defamation lawsuits against the radio host. >> they are alleging in these lawsuits a conspiracy. >> reporter: instead, jones was at at his austin-based infowars. the parents of 6-year-old noah pozner who was killed say jones' followers have tormented them with death threats, forcing them to move seven times. they're seeking more than $1 million in damages. bill ogden represents noah's parents. >> they've continuously been harassed by a number of different people believing that sandy ho y hook was all preplan and there to shock the public into supporting restrictions to the second amendment. >> reporter: the court battle coincides with spotify's

hoax. >> they staged sandy hook. the evidence is just overwhelming. >> marx tookmark zuckerberg took heat for not banning jones but now they say it is not about misinformation, but about violations of facebook's hate speech policies. one tech industry analyst says this raises tricky questions about freedom of expression. >> alex jones may be an extremist and they will say, he's not even conservative. but the largest questions about the slippery slope, where is the line? >> jones is not backing down. into wars yesterday posted new videos under new handles on facebook and youtube. twitter says it will not ban into wars because they say its content does not violate twitter policies. >>> president trump restored sanctions on iran despite opposition from european allies. they were lifted as part of the 2015 iran nuclear deal. the u.s. pulled out of that deal in may. the sanctions target iran's gold and metal industries, the auto sector, and restricts iran from using u.s. dollars in financial transactions. >> we want to pu

ten: a mother lost her young son at the sandy hook school massacre 6 -years ago.. now she is in the bay area combating gun violence... she says .. her grief is forcing her to take on a new, positive purpose. good evening im pam moore. (ken) and im ken wayne. students in livermore schools of all grade levels will now be taught scarlett lewis's emotional curriculum. kron4g is bank where a presentation was held.. gayle what can you tell us about this program? it's an unbelievable story, scarlett lewis lost her 6-year- old son jesse in the tragic school shooting in connecticut..tonight she shares her story of survival and journey in spreading more love out of tragedy scarlett lewis knows the heartache of a mass shooting.. she lost her 6-year-old son jesse at the sandy hook school massacre 6 years agosottoday, scarlett is combating gun violence across the country with the choose love enrichment program - a social emotional curriculum she's bringing to all livermore schools.sotit was inspired by three words her son jesse wrote on a chalkboard shortly before he died - nur

. >> brennan: you were secretary of education, the tragedy in sandy hook happened. we've seen yet another tragedy president trump's watch, marjorie stoneman, but little change at the federal level all at the local. is that what the expectation should be communities how to figure out how to fix it themselves >> i think we all have to do this and i'll say this is our, i think our greatest failing would value of lives of our children, children in other nations don't die like they do here. sandy hook massacre was the worst day president obama's presidency, it was our worst day there, he went out the next day to visit families, no one expected 20 babies five teachers got slaughtered. and fact we got nothing done in terms of legislation, is heartbreaking, i've been pessimistic but students from park land3w florida have given a sense of hope, the young people i'm working with here in dc, we have raised a generation of teens on mass shootings, gun violence, we've failed as adults and parents to protect them and they're saying they're not going to tolerate it and i'm hopeful

elementary school was a hoax. >> let's take sandy hook, the evidence is just overwhelming. >> facebook ceo mark zuckerberg recently took criticism for not banning info wars. now they said it's not about misinformation but rather about violations of their hate speech policies. youtube put out a similar explanation. a tech analyst said all of this raises tricky questions about freedom of expression. >> alex jones may be an extremist that they may say he's not even conservative which a couple of them already said. but what is the slippery slope, where is the line? >> jones meanwhile is not backing down. throughout the day info wars posted videos under new handles on youtube and facebook. the companies probably took those videos down. twitter meanwhile says it has no intention of banning info wars because the content does not violate its policies. >> president trump has signed an executive order restoring sanctions on iran despite opposition from european allies. those sanctions were lifted as part of the 2015 iran nuclear deal. the u.s. pulled out of that deal back in may. the sanctions w

that's a case being litigated in which the parents of a child killed in the sandy hook school are suinges for his defamation claiming the massacre is a hoax. here's sample. the family minds i finds actionable. >> the official story of sandy hook has more holes in it than swiss cheese. my gut tells me people controlling the government were involved in this. don't think they wouldn't stage something like this. they kill little kids every day all day. it's the globalists. they're doing it, doing it, stanling it. >> in court, jones' lawyer admitted quote maybe it's fringe speech. measure it's dangerous speech. it's historical he phyperbole a its core to silence them through costly litigation. does he have a case? joerng me is a reporter covering the trial for the statesman. i remember speaking to you two years ago when alex jones was in the midst of a child custody battle. hits own lawyer at that time said this is all schtick. don't take it so seriously. that would be like holding jack nicklaus accountable for the joker in the "batman" movie. same thing is going on here, right? >> yeah, pre

jones famously claimed the sandy hook school shooting was a hoax.ed by the parents of some of the victims, some of whom say they've had to move seven times because internet trolls were harassing them. alex jones has denied the allegations and is seeking to have the case dismissed. >> breaking news, a horrific scene in charlottesville, virginia -- >> reporter: and there's brennan gilmore who's also suing jones for whipping up an online fury against him. gilmore is the guy who captured the video in charlottesville one year ago this weekend of the moment heather heyer was killed, run over by a while supremacist. >> i immediately shared it with police. i thought it was important to share it with the world. >> reporter: soon after, things got out of hand. >> people on the internet had started looking into my background and constructed this completely false narrative that i had somehow organized the attack. >> reporter: in his defense, jones claims his diatribes about gilmore were opinions, not statements of fact. >> you think it's right that these social

do you have regrets about how you acted in terms of some of the sandy hook allegations ho that it was ? >> i do feel terrible gt what the rents had through and, you know, i think we have felt behind and we have lt that we moved too slow in a lot of our actions. orsey says the aim is consistency in how they enforce the rules. >> do you make exceptions for high-profile individuals in terms of of your rule service? >> no. we hold every account to the same standard t same rules. >> the president of the united states yesterday called a woman omarosa that dog. would that violate your terms of service? >> so we do have a terms of service around public interest we believe it's ss. important for the world to hear directly from global leaders how they think and how they treat the people around them. >> you don't make a distinctioover policy, talking abtat s or tariffs versus calling a person a dog? >> we make an understanding of who is actually saying that and whether they ea are a globalr, whether they are a public figure and whether this is something that should be reported onnd ould be talke

there's this sandy hook legal action that's going on. legal action going on. jones in the center of this controversy. he is obviously an incredibly polarizing figure. i think we should look at it as sort of a one-out situation now rather than a larger crackdown on all fringe or far right wing groups. but i will say that facebook and youtube and all these companies have terms of services. they have user agreements, and in order to post, you have to be willing to accept those. and they are, by law, allowed to enforce that. >> charlie, we're lucky to have you on the show. thank you. as a subscriber to info war -- i appreciate you coming on. >>> this time, looking at commerce secretary wilbur ross. a stunning new report says he stole millions from one-time coworkers. talking 0 through that after the break life from by the way the secretary's home state of new jersey, he grew up just about 40 miles northeast of here. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, preva

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thing is that is there's libel court this court case of these involved with the families of the sandy hook. because here's we're liable it's really interesting in the supreme court case in new york times versus old when the court basically gave status to public officials and figures they gave them special status because they are said the defamation against them has to include actual malice behind it and giving knowingly false statements and reckless disregard for the truth they did that to set the bar really high so you know politician so people could have three speech they could criticize politicians they could criticize public figures and not have to worry about getting sued for it if they're giving their opinion right you know so that's why they set the bar so high what's interesting though about the with the jones case and this is the you know not only is there basically this will decide if in the internet era because something happens to you and then let's say you like with the families and let's say they're speaking out on gun rights online or something like that are they now public

thing is that is there's libel court this court case of these involved with the families of the sandy hook yeah because here's we're liable it's really interesting in the supreme court case new york times versus old when the court basically gave status to public officials and figures they give them special status because they're said that the. the nation against them has to include actual malice behind it and giving knowingly false statements and reckless disregard for the truth they did that to set the bar really high so you know politician so people could have three speech they could criticize politicians they could criticize public figures and not have to worry about getting sued for it if they're giving their opinion right you know so that's why they set the bar so high what's interesting though about the with the jones case and this is the you know not only is there basically this will decide if in the internet era because something happens to you and then let's say you like with the families then let's say they're speaking out on gun rights online or something like that are they now

at the age of 6, his life was taken when a gun man walked into sandy hook elementary and murdered 20 turned her pain into a mission. >> i'm doing very well. this is healing for me to be able to go out and prevent similar occurrences from happening. >> reporter: she founded the jesse lewis to slope movement, an idea she says has sprung from these words jesse wrote on a chalkboard in the family home prior to his death. it reads, nurturing, health, and love. >> teaching kids how to get along, how to have healthy relationships, deep and meaningful connections, skills and tools for resilience, how to manage their emotions, and how to manage conflict. >> reporter: along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, students are taught social and emotional lessons. lewis says the program is based on decades of scientific research. >> the interesting thing about school safety is that when we think about it, we all think about external safety measures. door locks, active shooter protocol. but in reality, and of course, those external safety measures are very important, but, they do not address the c

president obama dealt with partisan issues like his first day of my worst day was the day the sandy hook massacre where they had principles killed in newtown, connecticut. he went on the next day pick the vice president and i went down after that. the fact that we got nothing done in terms of keeping our children and our nation safe in terms of control is heartbreaking to me. we continue every single day to pay that price around the country in our society. we value our guns more than we value our children. >> to note that the trend to it all? >> what you think of her? >> i never hear anyone in the current administration talking about greater access to pre-k. again, we're proud to take high school graduation rates to 84%. that is good progress. nowhere near where it needs to be. they should be talking about how we get to high school graduations rates 90%. never heard that set ever. it is sad for me it's not a bigger picture of how we make a stronger nation, stronger family, a more vibrant economy and middle-class. that's what it has to be about giving a pathway out of poverty to something

but it's the same post and same stuff up for years saying sandy hook is a hoax. like the sandy hook parents, they can't visit their kids' graves. think about that. it's not normal stuff here that these people have to go through because this guy is applying a harassment campaign under the idea of this free speech guise. >> bud collins, mary mccord, thank you very much. sad. >>> coming up, how a bitter partisan fight in minnesota is keeping state officials from using millions of dollars already set aside for election security. this is a real story. keep in mind, this is a state that was targeted by russian hackers in 2016. minnesota's secretary of state, who says he raised the alarm on this issue early, joins me next. you're watching msnbc. ♪i believe, i really do believe that♪ ♪something's got a hold on me, yeah♪ ♪oh, it must be love ♪oh, something's got a hold on me right now, child♪ ♪oh, it must be love ♪let me tell you now, oh it must be love♪ about the colonial penn program. here to tell you if you're age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed b

by the government. >> sandy hook is synthetic, completely fake, with actors, in my view manufactured. >> reporter: victim's families have sued jones for defamation. he's long supported president trump, who appeared on his radio program in december of 2015. >> your reputation is amazing. i will not let you down. you'll be very, very impressed,e i and i think we'll be speaking a lot. >> reporter: jones' median operat funded in part through sales at his infowars store. >> i'm doing free shipping on everything, whether it's a hillary for prison shirt or a bill clinton rape shirt. >> reporter: he combines his sales pitch for nutritional supplements with political ideology. t >> are on recobe some of the best shots we've got at countering and blocking the globalist operations. am i a beach body, no, am i tarzan, no. am i some olympic swimmer, no. the point is i'm a b guy. >> reporter: this morning, jones broadcasted a periscope message in response to his being kicked off of the socdia platforms. >> they dissapeared me, like i've been airbrushed out of those old soviet photos with in, and a

extra and has a huge online audience and pushes many conspiracy theories including a claim that the sandy hook school massacre in connecticut was a staged event alan fisher has the details this is their plan people these are. we as a national radio show more than two million you tube prescribe and a website called in florida that's made him a wealthy man but alex jones is facing an increasing number of platforms who will no longer publish his content in the last few days he's been removed from i tunes and the also you chip with his video rants wreck up millions of hits first demonize him for wars lie about a spilled straw man then sue us to add credibility to that then have a few fake strikes on you tube and facebook with nebulous terms like bullying children and islamophobia jones is a controversial figure he claims the sandy hook school massacre was staged by crisis actors as a way to change gun laws in the u.s. one of the families is no suing him for libel the first hearings in the case have been held in his texas be. he believes the nine eleven attacks were organized in cali don't buy the.

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it claimed the sandy hook massacre was a hoax and called 9/11 an orchestrated job created by the government. >>> and three people killed by a blast in italy. the man caught this on his video during his commute. the gas tanker hit another truck. three people were killed and 60 to 70 people injured with serious burns. the cause of the accident is under investigation. >>> the pentagon is banning deployed military personnel from using electronic devices with geo locations. they include apps that could disclose the users location. a possible security breach. the new policy comes after it was revealed in january that a fitness tracking app that maps exercise routines may have revealed the locations of security forces around the world. defense officials say the devices will not be banned. service members will be responsible for ensuring the geo locations features are disabled. >>> a day at the zoo turned dangerous. more on the sudden destructive weather coming up. >>> plus, remember when tv host told lebron james to shut up and dribble? we will tell you how the nba superstar has turned those words

i despise him, i'm originally from sandy hook. my daughter and grandson was in lockdown on that horrible day. all schools on newtown where unlocked on that day. i had to center a text message will she was in lockdown and she was able to text me back. host: thank you. guest: i'm obviously not deaf or living on a different planet, so i will double down. that i see nothing that points to donald trump as being a racist or misogynist. guest: as far as your future columns, where you looking at reporting? be staying with the artificial intelligence, it's one of the most underreported issues in the main media. you have to go to special tech outlets and journals to get news on that, as important going forward. i will be watching the manna for trial like everyone -- the manafort trial like everyone, and the supreme court. host: cheryl chumley, and opinion editor from the washington post -- washington >> tonight at 8:00 on c-span, maggie talks about covering the front white house. >> the relationship between this white house -- that is what

alex jones, he said 9/11 was a cover up, the sandy hook sandy d now banned from facebook, youtube, spotify for hate speech and other violations of their standards. facebook where jones pages had 2.5 million followers says his professional content was removed in part for glorifying violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people transgender, muslim, immigrants. jones spoke out on monday on his show info wars. >> mainstream corporate media fake news for people like the president said and now they are coming after everybody. >> reporter: for years jones courted controversy. >> it took me about a year with sandy hook to come to grips with the fact the whole thing was fake. >> reporter: in 2017, megyn kelly pressed his claims that sandy hook was a hoax. >> alex, the parents one after the other devastated. the dead bodies that the coroner autopsied. >> they have locked all that, haven't released all that. >> all the parents decided to come out and lie about their dead children? what happened to the children. >> reporter: jones since acknowledged that sandy hook is real, but that hasn

they will debate the local roll outcall out calls the sandy hook promise. millions have already signed it to protect children from gun violence. the safety plan includes programs meant to encourage students to be more inclusive. >>> school starts this week far lot of students across the bay area. it is also true for students at santa rosa's and these images. last year's wild fires heavily damaged classes there that cause more than just destruction. a t campus reopened after several months. classes start tomorrow. >>> it's 4:50 right now. google says the new san jose campus will generate 20,000 jobs, however, protesters worried about lack of housing. google and other local asis. some want them to say they won't displace anyone and bring good paying jobs. >> our hope and our desire is to make sure it takes some action and ensures that the city of san jose actually says what they will do to address the issues. >> the group is expected to make recommendations. >>> coming up here nbc bay area responds. >> hits your car in a parking lot. if an employee causes the