january 6th in less than 24 hours from what is likely to be their final public hearing. that attack on the capitol was fueled by conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election. and so far, nobody has been held accountable for telling those lies. but this afternoon, in connecticut courtroom, a jury revealed that someone who spreads lies for a living can be held accountable in a big, big way. conspiracy theorists alex jones, who for years has claimed the sandy hook school shooting was a hoax, made up. today he was ordered to pay almost one billion dollars in damages to the families of eight sandy hook victims. two of those parents who are in the courtroom this afternoon will join the late in the hour. alice, jones he was not just telling folks about sandy hook. the january six committee subpoena jones over his efforts to spread misinformation out the 2020 election as well. the committee highlighted this video of jones during a hearing that took place last summer. it sat
and the war effectively goes on is devastating. a decade later. but sometimes they keep turning forward. thank you, chris, as always. thank you to you at home for joining us. we have a lot to get to. today right-wing conspiracy monger alex jones was ordered to pay a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary, vicious lies he spread about the sandy hook massacre. we ll be joined by the lawyer that won the case for the sandy hook families. we ll be talking with the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her race is super close. one of handful of contests that can determine senate control. democrats understand that. they re making a huge last minute investment in her candidacy. sherry beasley will join us later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight. donald trump s mar-a-lago document scandal. in august, when the fbi executed a search warrant at trump s beach club, they found over 100 classified documents and 11,000 other documents stashe
catholic church write an amicus brief to purdue s position in all of this. you talk about real justice versus what you call billionaire justice. what do you mean? i mean that if this plan goes through, what s going to keep another family of millionaires that want to be billionaires from introducing a faulty product and finding a loophole in the bankruptcy system, which was not intended to give billionaires loopholes. there would be no deterrence going forward. beth, thank you for being with us, and for your excellent reporting on this in your books, and joey, your legal analysis as always. we ll follow it closely. and cnn this morning, continues right now. good morning, everyone, here s where we start this morning. israel defense forces say it hit 200 targets inside gaza, and is calling for people in parts of southern gaza to evacuate, leaving civilians scrambling to try to find thinker safe to go. the white house is warning israel to limit civilian casualties, and
house sent him packing. the supreme court hearing arguments in a high-stakes case on perdue pharma and the opioid crisis. could scotus unravel a deal that protected the sackler family from civil lawsuits? hi, everybody. good morning to you. i m yasmin vossoughian. it s 10:00 a.m. in the east, in for ana cabrera. we begin with breaking news out of the israel-hamas war. israel expanding its assault to include the entire gaza strip. the idf dropping leaflets overnight telling civilians to evacuate, warning of a large-scale attack, saying these are the last hours to evacuate. a senior u.s. military official telling nbc news he was taken aback by the ferocity of the refluid campaign. i want to get to raf sanchez on the ground in tel aviv. what have we learned about this new assault? reporter: israel now says it is operating in every part of the gaza strip after launching this new ground offensive into the south. this focus on the south began pretty much minutes after the cea
two drones in the sea. as israel defends itself it matters how. brutality and callousness across the gaza strip, nowhere is safe. donald trump tries to flip the script. joe biden is the destroyer of democracy. dictatorship in the united states. it s about who protecting your freedoms. six weeks from the iowa caucuses. nikki haley is the most underestimated politician. good morning, everyone. brand-few overnight the israeli military ramping up air strikes after announcing it would expand its ground operations to the entire gaza strip, that of course includes the south where many civilians have fled. we re tracking a growing threat of this war spreading into a wider regional conflict. in the red sea, the pentagon said an american destroyer came to the rescue of three commercial ships that were attacked by ballistic missiles. the destroyer shot down many drones. we re keeping a close eye on israel s northern border, with lebanon, where israeli forces have bee