Welcome to the beat. We have a lot of news to cover tonight, including this new evidence and testimony coming in the January 6th committee hearing tomorrow, which is planned to be the final one.

And, you know, we get into law school every so often on this program.

We're going to get into Barack Obama's unearthed law school manuscript and what he says about safeguarding American democracy, which is pretty relevant.

But we begin with huge breaking news.

A billion dollar verdict. That is the total damages for the liar, proven in court, to be a

liar and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

He was just held accountable late today in court.

You may recall, we have been covering these cases in this story from the start because the

lies matter, because the sanctions for them matter, because what is happening right now

tonight in America is, according to so many victims' family, a modicum of justice long overdue

for these families who live through the unthinkable, the murder of their children at Sandy Hook.

And the man you see on your screen tried to lie about and harass and defame and profit off all

of that. Well, that ends. That ends today. That was put to an end in court

with, and I want you to hear this number because it is way larger than any number I've ever read

in any newscast to you as news. 965 million million in damages against Mr. Jones awarded to the many victims,

the parents, the families, who as you know if you followed the case, have detailed what they

were put through, really just beyond words by this liar this charlatan these grieving

parents have recounted what was done to them and their families and how this escalated and how

the profits that mr jones was seeking came at the cost of violent threats harassment all

because mr jones was pushing something that is completely false.

I will mention it once. He claimed the murder of their children with some kind of political

hoax. This powerful verdict, throwing the book at Mr. Jones, took about 15 minutes in its

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