very real sandy hook mass massacre, calling it a fake. they today a texas jury ordered him to pay more than $4 million in damages to parents of six-year-old jesse lewis, one of the 20 young children and six teachers murdered in that shooting. jessie s parents wanted at least 150 million for defamation. this afternoon their lawyer said the next step in this case is the real name of the game. the jury just returned a verdict for damages exceeding $4 million. that s a darn good start. we now have the punishment phase. it s perfectly expect-able that we are going to see an over nine figure judgment against mr. jones. that punishment phase of the trial begins tomorrow. jurors have already heard about the damage done by alex jones s lies. i can t even describe last night i have nightmares of the living hell that i and others have had to endure because of the negligence and the recklessness of alex jones. jones may soon face even more legal jeopardy. yesterday the lawyer for
plus i know everyone is talking about political pawn, and politics, but that is far from this courtroom. the truly unacceptable sentencing of britney griner. nearly a decade in a russian prison. plus, a verdict reached in the alex jones defamation trial. you are saying that everything is true, but it isn t. your beliefs do not make it true. that is what we are doing here. the millions of dollars he owes for his sandy hook lies. when all in starts, right now. good evening, from washington d. c., i m mehdi hasan, in for chris hayes. cast your mind back to two years ago. the summer of 2020, donald trump, still an office. federal agents, being sent into american cities like portland, and seattle, and using war tactics against protesters for racial justice. i was in this seat, filling in for chris hayes, for the first time. we should stop talking about the f-word, fascism. i have worked around the globe. i ve interviewed prime ministers, and government officials. dic
desperately needs, and it is what democrats will deliver on in the coming days. so up next, the bill still needs to survive a rare weekend session, a parliamentary review and a senate vote-arama. more on that coming up. assuming it passes, it would send democratic members home on top of another win on top of the kansas abortion vote that fired up the base and great jobs numbers today as well. it also adds fuel to the already frenzied pace of midterm campaigns escalating to levels we rarely see today. nbc news now predicts election denier and trump acolyte kari lake is the winner of the republican primary for governor of arizona. she repeatedly claimed election irregularities but now says her supporters, quote, outvoted the fraud. among those endorsing lake, the conservative group cpac, which is now meeting in texas and where the keynote speaker was hungarian prime minister victor orban who was welcomed with a standing ovation. the washington post described it as, quote, a
the clash of civilization. a politician cannot be racist. viktor orban was accused of pure nazi rhetoric with one of his own aides but that did not stop him from receiving the red carpet treatment by republicans at cpac. the russian trial ended just as everyone knew it would, with a barbaric sentence for brittney griner. how soochb before a deal gets done to bring her home. breaking news in the alex jones defamation trial. the jury has rushed a verdict on compensatory damages. we begin with a future the republicans want. it kicked off in dallas with a keynote speech if you didn t know any better could have easily just been delivered by ron desantis or donald trump. just take a listen. i am an old-fashioned freedom fighter. politics, my friend, are not enough. this war is a war. we were the first ones in europe who said no to illegal migration and stopped the invasion of illegal migrants. we have to build not just a physical wall on our borders but a legal wall aroun
and taiwan in high alert with four american. china set to respond with live fire military drills surrounding taiwan new video showing chinese tanks rolling on its coastline. beijing piling on with the threats and sing america will pay. we will respond and a response will be strong and forceful. nancy pelosi not backing away from this face-off with tran about the white house is refusing to take a firm stance of the trip. nothing has changed about our one china policy. the speaker has a right to travel. she is the speaker of the house. she is a member of the congress. members of congress of both parties have traveled to taiwan even just this year. it s an independent branch of government. we gave her advice and counsel in context and information obviously as is typical we are helping with their transformation. but this is a decision that only she can make and we support and respect that decision. republicans are calling out that the white house are showing weakness and