verdict reason a jury saying the info wars host must pay $4 million to a victim of the sandy hook shooting after years of this. sandy hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors, in my view, manufactured. reporter: jones didn t face his lies about the shooting. it is 100% real. reporter: for the parents of jesse lewis, who brought the suit, the damages were less than the $150 million they sought. but far more than the $8 jones attorney offered in closing arguments. a dollar for each of the claims. the jury returned a verdict for compensatory damages exceeding $4 million. that s a darn good start. we now have the punishment phase. reporter: jones may face even bigger troubles over the trove of text messages mistakenly sent to the plaintiff s attorney. i d ask the january 6th attorney to i don t know they reporter: the texts include
info wars host should pay $4.1 million for years of unfounded claims like this. sandy hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view but jones did an about-face from his lies about the school shooting. it is 100% real. for the parents of jesse lewis who brought the suit, the damages were less than $150 million they sought but far more than $8 million jones in the argument, a dollar for each of claims. compensatory damages exceeding $4 million a darn good start. we are now the the punishment phase. and he faces bigger troubles over the trove of messages mistakenly sent to the plaintiff s attorney. i have been asked by the plaintiff s attorney to tend them. the texts include what the attorney called intimate messages with trump adviser
0 raid in breonna taylor s apartment. breaking news on capitol hill democrats have a deal on the inflation reduction act, but they still managed to hookup the super rich. the biden administration escalates its response to monkeypox declaring it a public health emergency. what does it mean, and how prepared are we to deal with it, as the 11th hour gets underway on this busy thursday night? good evening. once again, i am stephanie ruhle. far-right conspiracy theorist alex jones is now learning the cost of calling the deadliest school shooting in u.s. history a hoax. jones has lied repeatedly over the last ten years about the very real sandy hook mass massacre, calling it a fake. then today a texas jury ordered him to pay more than four million dollars 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
no, correct? you said that under oath. i was mistaken. you know perjury. i just want to make sure before we go into it. you know what it is? yes i do. i told you, i gave, in my testimony, i gave my phone to the lawyers or whatever. you ve got my phone, but we didn t give it to you. this is as serious as a heart attack. that warning about perjury is real. jones is being sued for defamation and now he has been caught lying on the stand and he hasn t even reached the punishment phase of how much he would have to pay. it could get worse. the cell phone data being discussed here is now all in the hands of the other side. jones is doing his usual deflection. he has tried to say that all of this is a misunderstanding or just entertainment and he has
also to a deterrent. we ve seen ranchers farm land getting trampled, and keeping cattle from escaping, getting cut weekly. and now border patrol is on the ranches. for some they re charged with trespassing and could be jail time. we haven t gotten to the punishment phase of any trial setting yet, but more a class a misdemeanor you could be jailed for up to one year, that s the maximum. i feel a feeling there are a couple that will be going tore a year, especially if they re repeat offenders. to make room for the new trespass cases, the state prison in dilley, texas were cleared out making room. and kinney county can rip