Jury decides Alex Jones should pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A Connecticut jury has awarded $965 million in compensatory damages to eight Sandy Hook families and one first responder who sued far-right talk show host Alex Jones for defamation. Erica Lafferty lost her mom, Dawn Hochsprung, who was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary school and ran toward the gunman before she was shot and killed. Lafferty said this moment was “years in the making” and that she wishes she “could just call my mom and tell her about it.” Lafferty, along with three family members of other victims that died that day, join AC360 to talk about what this jury decision means for them and the memories of their loved ones. Plus, a source tells CNN a Trump employee told the FBI about being directed by the former President to move boxes out of a basement storage room to his residence at Mar-a-Lago. This came after Trump’s legal team received a subpoena for any classified documents at the Florida resort. Devlin Barrett, a National Security Reporter for the Washington Post, tells Anderson Cooper more details about the employee’s identity. 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	Good evening.
0:01.0	I'm going to start tonight by taking a moment to share with you a picture of Emily Parker.
0:06.1	She was six years old when a gunman murdered her and 25 other children and staffers at Sandy
0:10.7	Hook Elementary School nearly 10 years ago.
0:13.7	Conspiracy Peddler and profiteer Alex Jones slandered this little girl's memory with his
0:18.7	online rantings and tormented her father, Robbie, whom you'll hear from tonight.
0:23.9	Take a look at Dylan Hawkeley.
0:25.3	He was also sick, also murdered in the worst elementary school mass shooting this country
0:29.2	as ever endured.
0:30.6	And Conspiracy Peddler and profiteer Alex Jones slandered his memory for money and tormented
0:35.8	his parents as well.
0:37.6	You'll hear from Dylan's mom Nicole tonight.
0:40.6	Conspiracy Peddler and profiteer Alex Jones also slandered the memory of school psychologist
0:44.5	Mary Sherlock, her husband Bill joins us.
0:47.3	So does Erica Lafferty, daughter and school principal Don Hawksbrum.
0:51.6	Her mom did what we hope we would all do.
0:54.0	When she first heard shot, she left her office, ran toward the gunman, doing her best to
0:58.7	warn others and save lives before the killer murdered her.
1:02.7	No one can possibly imagine what her family, Mary Sherlock's family, Dylan Hawkeley's
1:07.1	family and family, Parker's family and all the Sandy Hook families have been through
1:11.2	since that day.
1:13.3	And it would be bad enough.
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