in sandy hook, elizabeth williamson reports on the years following the sandy hook school shooting as parents of the victims defended themselves against conspiracy theorists. and the university of irvine professor offers his advice on combating disinformation in cheap speech. also being published, monica guzman provides her thoughts on how to bridge the partisan divide and productive -- and provide political conversations. jeffrey frank looks at harry truman in his book. watch for the authors to appear in the near future on book tv. here is a look at publishing industry news. william barr's memoir about his time in the trump administration will be released next week. several sources have cited passages from the book. mr. barr asserts that the republican party should support another candidate in the 2024 presidential election saying that donald trump has shown he has neither the temperament or persuasive powers to provide the positive leadership that is needed. in regards to the contested election, he writes that the election was not stolen, trump lost it. the los angeles time has anno

on the year's following the 2012 sandy hook school shooting. she looks at the parents of the victims who had to defend themselves against conspiracy theories. and university of california irvine professor richard hasson offers his thoughts on how to combat disinformation while preserving the first amendment his new book cheap. speech. and also being published this week monica guzman's book. i never thought of it that way she provides her thoughts on how to bridge the partisan divide and promote productive political conversations. and jeffrey frank looks at the full tenure of america's 33rd president in the trials of harry s truman. finally. here's a look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books. according to powell's bookstore in portland, oregon. topping the list is tracy kidder's 2003 mountains beyond mountains. it's a profile of the late physician and anthropologist dr. paul farmer who treated the world's poor. dr. farmer died last month at the age of 62 after that is braiding sweetgrass robin wall kimmer's thoughts on how we should work

adding the sandy hook shootings are almost a decade behind us.behind us, too jones was found liable for damages in the defamation suit in november and this trial will determine the amount he will ultimately have to pay he's been found liable in three other defamation cases in texas where he is based. in one of those he was ordered to pay $100,000 in damages to a single plaintiff, a parent whose 6-year-old first grade son died in the shootings the parents in this latest case were also calling on the judge to arrest jones if he failed to comply the judge hasn't ruled yet on whether or not the new proposed date for the deposition will be accepted shep. >> valerie castro, thanks very much >>> you know, it's no secret that ivy league colleges of selective. but now some of them want a different reputation, seemingly, so they're making a change and college sports, the guy athletes might get a lot more attention, but when it comes to getting paid, well, that's bemi aifre srycong dfentto we believe there's an innovator in all of us. that's why we build te

sandy hook school shooting. looks at the parents of the victims who had to defend themselves against conspiracy theories. university of california irvine's professor offers his thought on how to combat disinformation and preserving the first amendment. his new book, cheap speech. also being published, monica guzman's book i never thought of it that way. how to bridge the partisan divide and promote political conversations. jeffrey frank looks at the full tenure of the 33rd president in the trials of harry s truman. here are the best selling nonfiction books according to portland, oregon. mountains beyond mountains, a profile of the late physician and anthropologist dr. paul farmer who treated the world's poor. he died last month at the age of 62. is -- next is braiding sweetgrass. then is all about love, this was first published in 1999. that is followed by the sirens of mars, looking at the search for life on mars. wrapping up our look at best-selling author should books is -- nonfiction books is maus. this boo

families of the sandy hook school shooting which left 20 first graders dead say no to a settlement offer from conspiracy theorist alex jones who tried to claim the shooting never happened. and that slap at the oscars. the time line for a decision on whether he'll be punished. >>> scam alert. the new warning about spam text messages invading phones across america. >>> travel chaos. why one major airport is running low on jet fuel and the massive >>> and ultimate cliffhanger. hear from the b.a.s.e. jumper whose parachute failed forcing him to cling to the side of a cliff. >>> good wednesday morning, everyone. we begin with new hope in the peace talks between russia and ukraine. >> russia now says it will drastically scale back its military operations around ukraine's capital kyiv. >> but the biden administration is skeptical, and overnight we saw why. >> abc's em nguyen is here now with the very latest. em, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, andrew. while russia has agreed to reduce some military operations, it's clear right now there is no cease-fire. overnight, new explosions rocki

, new york times features writer elizabeth williamson reports on the years following the 2012 sandy hook school shooting as parents of the victims defended themselves against conspiracy theorists. and university of california irvine professor richard hassan offers his thoughts on how to combat disinformation while preserving the first amendment in cheap speech also being published this week in i never thought of it that way monica guzman provides her thoughts on how to bridge the partisan divide and promote productive political conversations and jeffrey frank looks at the full tenure of america's 33rd president in the trials of harry s truman. find these titles is coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the aut

. >>> the families of the victims of the sandy hook elementary school shooting have rejected a settlement jones. court filings show that jones offered to pay $120,000 to each plaintiff who filed a lawsuit claiming jones defamed them by saying that the massacre never happened and was a hoax. 20 children and 6 adults were killed in the 2012 shooting in newtown, connecticut. >>> overtime rules are changing in the nfl playoffs, and a historic bill was signed. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "the washington post" reports president biden signed a bill making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in u.s. history. mr. biden signed the legislation yesterday during a ceremony at the white house. it is named after emmett till who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in 1955. his murder became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. >> i know many of the civil rights leaders here know, you heard me say it 100 times, hate never goes away. a few, all have to, not .rl200 other tiynbills e itir 120 ago. >>> the "associated press" says queen elizabeth shrugged off h

deceitful profit-driven campaign against the plaintiffs and the memory of their loved ones lost at sandy hooks for jones say, hallie, that they've been trying to settle for over a year and that they remain interested in having those talks. but as you said, the judge was firm today. they said this trial's moving forward, it starts in august. hallie? >> kate, real quick just so i understand, you mentioned the fines that jones is now facing. is there a chance he ends up arrested? >> well, so she did not choose to arrest him -- or to actually move on that today even though the plaintiffs had asked for that possibility. it's unclear to me whether -- i guess that could still be a possibility if he continues to oppose sitting for a deposition. but again, his attorneys are saying he's willing, it's just a matter of timing. >> kate snow, thank you so much for staying on top of this one. appreciate it. next up, who facebook is paying to trash tiktok as the real threat to society. the reporter with those receipts is here after the break. wayfair has everything i need to make my home totally me. sometime

and claims the 2012 sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. the judge found jones ignored orders to be deposed last week in a lawsuit filed by relatives of the victims, the judge says jones will be fine. $25,000 a day until he shows up. coming up next honoring cesar chavez students in the north bay taking to the streets how they replicated a mark chavez made a marine county years ago more than 50 years ago, and warmer weather is on the way. our chief meteorologist bill centuries ago, native californians thrived on this land. now, we share a destiny with all californians. when voters granted our sovereign nations exclusive gaming rights, it advanced self-sufficiency and created thousands of good jobs. but now, out of state corporations are coming to california. their online sports betting initiative would break the promise between us. it's bad for tribes and all californians. join us. protect the promise. in s to children. in oakland, they announced plans for 150 little town libraries all around the city. it is a partnership with the curries fo

we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here.at to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation

. >>> relatives of those killed in a sandy hook massacre have rejected a settlement offer from info war doug jones. 20 young children and six educators were shot to death in 2012 families then sued for defamation after jones claimed the mass shooting was staged jones has apologized and retracted his statements but a trial now looks likely >>> the power of the tornados that bore down on texas last week is in full display in new surveillance footage security cameras at jacksborough elementary school and high school capture the winds tearing through the james, hallways and football field nine people were zwrered i town of about 4,000 people all students have returned te severe weather to tell you about. nbc meteorologist bill karins has been tracking it overnight >> swnt surprise me we had maybe a million 2 million people without power. located right over the top of the dallas area, and we have a tornado watch out until 7:00 a.m. central daylight in areas from dallas all the way towards louisiana. now, as far as the setup goes warm, humid air is coming out ahead of the storm system. we hav

, new york times features writer elizabeth williamson reports on the years following the 2012 sandy hook school shooting as parents of the victims defended themselves against conspiracy theorists. and university of california irvine professor richard hasson offers his thoughts on how to combat disinformation while preserving the first amendment in cheap speech also being published this week in i never thought of it that way monica guzman provides her thoughts on how to bridge the partisan divide and promote productive political conversations and jeffrey frank looks at the full tenure of america's 33rd president in the trials of harry s truman. find these titles is coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors to appear in the near future on book tv. a geography based

another in sandy hook, new york times features writer elizabeth williamson reports on the years following the 2012 sandy hook school shooting as parents of the victims defended themselves against conspiracy theorists. and university of california irvine professor richard hassan offers his thoughts on how to combat disinformation while preserving the first amendment in cheap speech also being published this week in i never thought of it that way monica guzman provides her thoughts on how to bridge the partisan divide and promote productive political conversations and jeffrey frank looks at the full tenure of america's 33rd president in the trials of harry s truman. find these titles is coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors to appear in the near future on book tv. tonight we're honored to welcome. it's on thomas and conversation with dave ziren and his new book police brutality and white supremacy the fight against american traditions aton thomas and 11 year nba veteran weaves together his personal experiences with police violence and white supremacy with mul

you know, gun violence, school shootings like what happened in connecticut to the kindergarten, sandy hook as being, you know, those were all crisis actors. so somehow people are being, you know, brain washed with this information about what the actual state is. as you mentioned before, putting, has prepared the russian people to think that the is a war, a glorious war of, you know, freeing the ukrainians from nazi's rights. so he's try to hearken back to a time of russian patriotism, namely world war 2. ok before we move, move on, because it is very interesting. let's just listen to how vladimir putin himself a explains why he began this awful war. and he gave this speech in an address to ukrainian soldiers. that's important to mention with dear comrade c yearly, but your grandfather's and great grandfathers did not fight the nazis defend our common fatherland. so that neo nazis could seize power and ukraine with the only piece yet when you made an offer to serve the ukrainian people. and you and i don't know who they are. a fascist hunter, wip sees power, can tell them that they are plun

the 2012 sandy hook school shooting was a hoax . failed in its first state senate committee vote, only two of the seven committee panel members voted to pass the bill. the author of the legislation says this bill could help prevent school shootings, the senate education committee's democratic chairwoman, opposed the bill, saying a better way to stop school shootings is to address student mental health. two sexual assault survivors in the south bay have been awarded more than $100 million in a court case the two women were sexually abused by their middle school music teacher. ktvu crime reporter henry lee has the latest in this case. she was only 13 years old. two women were just teenagers when they were sexually abused by this man , former san jose music teacher samuel night from 2010 to 2014. now a jury has awarded the women $102 million in their civil lawsuit against the union school district in san jose. knife was a teacher at dartmouth middle school, where many of the tax happen, including in his office and the band room. he's n

on twitter it said that there had been gunshots at the school right in the town next over called sandy hook elementary school. and at first i sort of thought well, that's that does that certainly doesn't sound good and but there's nothing on the news. so maybe it's just a little mishap something terrible and but it'll be okay. and then within an hour or so, we all know. what happened? it was at that moment. i think that i sort of became. radicalized maybe against gun violence and spent a lot of my time and energy. railing against this problem that we have in this country, which is gun violence. fast forward to my son senior year of high school. my daughter is now a sophomore. and there is another high school shooting high school marjory stoneman douglas. in parkland, florida um and yet again i find myself. yelling into the wind about this problem. i get on twitter as i do too often. and i tweet just my aggravation at this situation, but then in my twitter thread i ask a question. i'm just venting, but i ask a question sort of out loud to the twitterverse, which i haven't really considered b

we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here.s really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also re

and that the sandy hook shooting was a false flag operation, perpetrated by the u.s. government.that same exchange, thomas went on to reference of right wing conspiracy that echoes rhetoric of the qanon conspiracy theory. quote, biden crime family and valid crime coconspirators, elected officials, bureaucrats , social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc, are being arrested and detained for ballot fraud right now and over coming days, and will be living in barges off gitmo to face military tribunals for sedition. yeah, that's just the tip of the iceberg. today nbc news is reporting the thomas also reached out directly to members of congress about the coup attempt. quote, shortly after the 2020 election, thomas sent an email to an aide to a prominent house conservative saying she would have nothing to do with his group until his members go, out in the streets, now, all of this will be puzzling on its own. a prominent conservative, trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election. but it's made worse by the fact that, again, thomas is the life partne

. >>> a federal bankruptcy judge approving a $73 million settlement between the families of the sandy hooke gunmaker remington remington made the rifle that a gunman used to kill 20 first graders and six teachers in the 2012 shooting at the school. the families of nine victims reached the settlement last month. it calls on four of remington's insurers to make the payout. according to the ruling, other people looking to file lawsuits against remington will still be able to do so, just not in bankruptcy court the 200-year-old company declared bankruptcy for a second time nearly two years ago. a connecticut superior court judge still has to approve the ruling before the settlement can be finalized >>> a public memorial for the late prince philip, bringing the queen out for the first time in a long time. and she wasn't the only royal family member people were surprised to see >>> officials in china continuing to investigate what caused that 737 jet to plummet from the sky, killing everyone on board today they granted special visas to bring some extra help in from the united states. ♪ ♪ we beli

this is cookie stuff, it's spread in the united states after the sandy hook massacre and we're seeingo-russian accounts have been posting on social media. >> there is one sneaky fake that's been going around social media that tries to make it look like the media broadcast a video of ukrainian crisis actor, as you say, ukrainians pretending to be dead. i want people to take a quick look at this. >> 49 people wounded, those numbers are going to go up, there's no question about that. >> the thing s brian, this footage is not from ukraine it has not actually been broadcast by the media as if it was from ukraine. what happened here? someone copied the audio and the on-screen text from an nbc report about ukraine on the first day of the russian invasion and attached that text and audio to completely unrelated news footage from vienna austria three weeks prior, this was a news report in german on a climate change protest where protesters laid down in body bags. here is some of the nbc report and some of the real austrian news footage. >> look, you know, we're going to use the at least, at le

we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here.really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also repr

. >>> families of victims from the sandy hook school shooting have reject ad settlement offer from infoones offered each of the 13 plaintiffs a settlement of 120,000 dollars. he's accused of defaming them by asserting that the massacre never happen in november, connecticut judge found jones liable for damages a trial is planned for later this year to determine how much he shoul >>> major controversy from the soccer world egypt failing to qualify for this year's world cup after th morning is was egypt's mohammed salah distracted by laser points from the stands in the closing moments of the game. you can see all the green lights on hiss face there moments later, his kick sails over the crossbar. senegal would go on to win it. feoff fifa prohibits fans from using the lasers it is not likely the results of. >> they deserve a re.do metz move game will change >> they deserve a redo metz move onto the on going fall out from the drama at the oscars with will smith facing possible consequences for slapping chris rock on stage. >> the academy's board of governors set to meet. we could learn what

>>> the families of victims of the sandy hook elementary school shooting in connecticut rejected an offerve been subjected to harassment and death threats from jones' followers because of the hoax conspiracy promoted on his show. according to court filings posted online, jones, quote, extends his heartfelt apology for any distress his remarks caused. too little, too late for that, mika. >> yeah. >>> after more than 200 failed attempts over the course of a century, lynching is officially a federal hate crime. president biden signed the new emmett till anti-lynching act after more than 120 years of unsuccessful efforts to pass similar legislation. the historic bill is named for emmett till, who was abducted, tortured, and shot in the head in 1955 when he was 14 years old, after a white woman said he whistled at her in a mississippi store. >> the same racial hatred that drove the mob to hang a noose, brought that mob carrying torching out of the fields of charlottesville a few years ago. racial hate isn't an old problem. it is a persistent problem. a persistent problem. >> today, we are gath