I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.

No conspiracy theory is here, just the hard truth.

Alex Jones has to pay up.

Now these families of course can never ever be made whole for what they've lost, but

with compensatory damages, the jury endeavors to try.

Jones now has to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook School shooting victim more than $4 million

for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a 10-year

period.

Now of course this does fall way shorter than 150 million they did ask for in compensatory

damages sought by little Jesse Lewis's parents.

A number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims

of a hoax spewed by Jones and is absolutely baseless argument that the new town's grieving

parents were actors.

The number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and

their I say let they continue to suffer to this day from years of harassment by Jones

and his followers.

Now his seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself included finally acknowledging

what everyone else hopefully knew to be true.

But the massacre was quote using his words after what 10 years 100% real.

But the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom out of

Texas because Jones legal battles are actually far from over.

You see if compensatory damages are supposed to make you whole in some way, bring it back

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