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Laura Coates Live

Alex Jones and the cost of conspiracy

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

While giving testimony in a $150 million defamation lawsuit brought against him by the family of a Sandy Hook victim, Alex Jones is confronted in court about damning texts his own attorneys accidentally leaked that the family’s lawyer says proves the right-wing conspiracy theorist committed perjury.Plus, Stephen R. McAllister is the former Solicitor General of Kansas. He joins to discuss the record voter turnout that’s protected abortion rights in the State in the first vote on the issue since the SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe. And, CNN Contributor Bob Costas joins to discuss the NFL pushing for a full season suspension for Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson following sexual misconduct allegations.Hosted by Laura Coates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Laura Kose and this is CNN Tonight, and look, I gotta get right to it.

0:06.0

I know we're supposed to think about politics and other notions today, but I had to tell

0:09.9

you about Alex Jones, because I haven't been thinking about it all day since I heard

0:14.5

and watched that testimony.

0:16.7

Alex Jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories,

0:23.2

to pretend that Sandy Hook, the tragedy never even happened at the precious lives that were

0:28.8

lost that they somehow never even existed.

0:31.2

He even said at one point that the parents were actors.

0:35.1

I mean, obviously that's not only cruel, it's absurd because it did happen, and they

0:40.6

obviously existed.

0:42.2

Well, you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today then,

0:47.0

because something else he claimed never existed, text messages and communications about Sandy

0:53.2

Hook, well, it turns out they also exist.

0:57.2

And the attorney for the parents of one victim suing Alex Jones for damages over his defamatory

1:03.1

statements made sure that we all knew who was lying.

1:09.9

So you did get my text messages.

1:11.9

I said you didn't.

1:12.9

Nice trick.

1:13.9

Yes, Mr. Jones.

1:14.9

Indeed.

1:15.9

You didn't give this text message to him.

1:16.9

You don't know where this came from.

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