family, maybe a country, maybe a democracy. the toll, the human misery. but the question for a texas jury today is what it should cost conspiracy theorist alex jones. we now have our answer. nearly $50,. now, recall jones was already ordered to pay more than $4 million this what s called compensatory damages just yesterday. that to the parents of a beautiful 6-year-old child, a little boy killed in the 2012 attack. but today, they added $45.2 million on top of that, awarded him punitive or the punishment side of damages. why? for spewing lies that have caused unthinkable arm to one family of many families, destroyed by the sandy hook massacre. $50 million. and that s just one case. he has two more defamation trials awaiting him, so this is really far from over for the far-right conspiratorial host of infowars. this has really been a case that centered on lies, and throughout this trial, it felt like so many additional lies kept dpgetting exposed, like those texts that jones s
summit in madrid, we will be there live. the supreme court issuing its final opinions of the term today and judge ketanji brown jackson prepares to be sworn in. also, we re learning new details about the horrific discovery of migrants inside that truck in texas. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is thursday, june 30th. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. the white house lawyer who by all accounts did everything in his power to keep president trump in check has been subpoenaed by the january 6th committee. the panel clearly believes that pat cipollone is a central figure in their investigation. witnesses say he pushed back on the fake electors scheme and cassidy hutchinson told the committee it was cipollone who warned that if trump went to the capitol, quote, we re going to be charged with every crime imaginable. cipollone did meet with the panel informally back in april but has been reluctant to do more. now a source is t
conservative super majority. today two more big rules. one tieing the biden administration s hands in the climate change fight. the other clearing the way for the biden white house to end a controversial pandemic era trump administration border policy. those decisions closed a turn d make block buster changes to american law and to american life, including new limits on how states can regulate guns and, of course, the end of the roe v. wade decision that guaranteed federal abortion rights. president biden ending a big overseas trip earlier today called the role reversal destabilizing and, quote, outrageous. he said democrats should make an exception to the filibuster and pass a new federal law. let s get to the supreme court as we wait. i may have to interrupt you for the swearing in justice ketanji brown jackson, but what do we expect as we watch this ceremony play out and we get justice breyer leaving and justice brown coming in in a new job she must be thinking wow, intere
so alex, did the u.s. have any help on the ground from sources who were not americans? reporter: well, alisyn and victor, that is a terrific question. it s one of the many that we still have about how this intelligence was gathered and of course how this culminated in the killing of ayman al zawahiri. it s certainly possible that there were afghans acting as intelligence assets or agents on the ground, but for now, the administration is not detailing what they call the sources and methods that helped them gather this intelligence. it s very safe to assume that much of this intelligence was gathered from the sky through visual methods, drones and satellites as well as through what s known as signals intelligence, basically intercepting communications. but this was a months-long process. the white house saying today that this took most of the year, and president biden was first briefed in april when there were indications that zawahiri had moved not just to afghanistan but to
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