domestic agenda, the affordable care act, obamacare, if you will. bringing health care to tens of millions of americans. the next item on their agenda was another historic piece of legislation. a desperately needed climate bill to address the growing threat posed by global warming. democrats had already coalesced around the bill that was written by two democratic house members, then congressman henry waxman, and ed markey. in washington and around the country, that bill became known as the cap and trade bill. after a central provision in the legislation to put a cap or a limit on carbon emissions and businesses chain themselves their emissions capacity to each other. it wasn t the most far-reaching proposal that democrats were pushing for at the time, but it wasn t a half measure either. had it passed, the cap in trade bill would have been the single biggest legislative attempt under dressing climate change in u.s. history. and democrats appeared to be on track to get it done
of the great recession by early 2010, they had passed a major part of the president s domestic agenda, the affordable care act, obamacare, if you will. bringing health care to tens of millions of americans. the next item on their agenda was another historic piece of legislation. a desperately needed climate bill to address the growing threat posed by global warming. democrats had already coalesced around the bill that was written by two democratic house members, then congressman henry waxman, and ed markey. in washington and around the country, that bill became known as the cap and trade bill. after a central provision in the legislation to put a cap or a limit on carbon emissions and businesses trade or sell their emissions excesses to each other. it wasn t the most far-reaching proposal that democrats were pushing for at the time, but it wasn t a half measure either. had it passed, the cap in trade bill would have been the single biggest legislative attempt under dressing c
bankruptcy is not the same as actually having bankruptcy protection. do you have some sense of the picture of alex jones s wealth and his companies and what it looks like? we got a very good picture today in testimony from a forensic economist, who testified before the jury went into deliberations. this was only complicated by the fact that jones and infowars did not provide basic financial information in these lawsuits that he is facing in texas and connecticut which is part of what caused him and the company to lose this case by default. this is why the wheels were damages trials and not actual trials to determine culpability. so that was part of the issue. but this forensic economist testifying today said that, what we think is the company probably has enough worth of $400 million on the low, and $270 million in the high-end. there have been points in the company s history where jones was putting himself a salary of
to begin in texas in september that is posner and they larosa. and the other plaintiffs were supposed to be beginning their trial in connecticut, also in september. but with the bankruptcy filing by free speech symptoms it s very unclear what s going to happen in those cases, when they might happen, when the jury selection was supposed to begin. and then the candidate case it was recently and it obviously did not. so, i would think that if these cases actually do end up in court room, that will be big focus on part of these attorneys, trying to create some transparency about where alex jones s money is and to really examine these claims that he has made repeatedly during the trial in the courtroom and here on infowars that he is broke, that he is personally insolvent, that the company is going to have to start laying people off and canceling shows. he has made very specific claims that i think will be
cumulative. so all in, all that means about $49 million total. now, as much as it would be nice to book and this and say the ruling is definitely gonna teach mr. johnson s lesson and there is no way jones and his company could pay the 49 million bucks, it s more complicated than that. first of all, there is one thing we ve learned watching this trial. it is that alex jones lies a lot. so while his tv network infowars has essentially become a fund raising marathon, asking viewers to send them cryptocurrency or sign up for monthly payments or by their fluoride free toothpaste, we actually don t have a transparent picture of jones or his business finances other than taking their word for it. we have no way of knowing if that companies actually broke. the other complicated factor is that there is a texas law that caps punitive judgment. so it isn t exactly clear that big 49 million dollar judgment will actually be the amount taken out of jones s bank