Truth About Alex Jones, Immigration Crisis, and COVID Fear, with Rep. Mayra Flores and Dr. Joseph Ladapo | Ep. 369

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly begins the show today breaking down the truth about Alex Jones, Megyn's connection to the Sandy Hook families, the media's coverage of her NBC interview with Jones, the harmful lies Alex Jones told, highlights from the trial, how Megyn almost had to testify at the trial, and more. Then Rep. Mayra Flores, newly-elected GOP Congresswoman, joins to discuss the "humanitarian crisis" at the southern border, the immigration hypocrisy in America, the response Flores has received from the left and the media, her electoral chances in November, the conservative nature of Latinos in America, and more. Finally, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida's Surgeon General and author of "Transcend Fear," joins to talk about the push to vaccinate toddlers before school with the COVID vaccine, the rise in Monkeypox panic, fear-based COVID policies, transgender treatments for children, overcoming his own fear, methods he used to release his trauma, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.7	We begin today with Alex Jones.
0:18.9	A jury in Texas has handed down a nearly $50 million judgment against him, 4.1 million
0:25.0	in compensatory damages, meaning what it would take to cover the plaintiffs' actual damages
0:29.7	in the form of therapy, bills, and so on, and 45.2 million in punitive damages.
0:35.8	The damages awarded to punish a defendant and defer deter future misconduct.
0:42.2	The Punitive Damages Award may be reduced as Texas has a punitive damages cap of $750,000
0:48.5	per plaintiff.
0:49.5	There are two plaintiffs in this case, so that would be 1.5 million.
0:52.3	Though the plaintiffs' attorney, Mark Banksden, has said he will challenge the constitutionality
0:57.3	of that damages cap, if necessary, here.
1:01.4	A jury awarded the sums after sitting for a trial that was all about damages.
1:05.7	Alex Jones' liability to the plaintiffs was settled last year.
1:09.8	After Jones so continuously refused to comply with discovery mandates, court orders, and
1:14.6	basic rules of litigation in the liability phase, that this judge and two others, by the
1:19.7	way, issued a default judgment against him, finding Jones' in contempt of court, stating
1:26.4	that nothing had worked thus far to force Alex Jones to comply with the court's many
1:30.8	orders and concluding that he had forfeited his right to a trial on liability.
1:37.1	This particular case in Austin, Texas, where Jones' info wars is based, was filed by
1:42.3	Neil Hesslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of 60-year-old Jesse Lewis, who was murdered
1:49.5	in his first grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary, along with 19 other first graders
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