that believe the false claims of a hoax, spewed by jones in his absolute basis argument that the newtown parents were actors. the number also factored into the emotional and mental anguish that the parents suffered, there i say continue to suffer from the day four years of harassment from jones and his followers. a seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself, including finally acknowledging what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words, after ten years, 100 percent real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom in texas, because his legal battles are actually far from over. the compensatory damages are supposed to make you hole in some way, bring you back this where you are before this all happened, well punitive damages, they are meant to punish. tomorrow, that same jury will begin considering just how much to financially punish alex jones. the judge said no to his claim for a mistrial
,i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly where possible. it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken took them long enough to say something without taking any questions. and he was about an hour late. garland s mission was not a surprise. after all, this is the man who spearheading the most wide ranging investigation into department history with the january six probe. i don t know if you ve noticed this the same merrick garland who used the department of justice and the fbi to target parents as the terrorist, which we know they are for exercising their right to free speech. a school board meetings, which we televise a lot of it and play it back even more of it. and while merrick garland has done nothing to even attempt to reduce skyrocketing violent crime, which is all around us in major cit
Courtroom right now. We do anticipate at some point Michael Cohen will take the stand. We say that each day because we dont have the witness list but we know he is a prime one for them and it could be any moment. Or another day. A former Trump Organization executive is on stand at this moment. And we will bring you all the details as they unfold during our coverage on The Faulkner Focus all hour long. Keep a close watch on that box on your right because it has some realtime notes and things that are coming out of the courtroom for our journalists and producers. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Breaking right now, Columbia University has capitulated to the mob. Theyve caved. Can you imagine paying 588,000 for four years for your kid to go to school there for four years and they cancel commencement . We still dont know what they are doing with the end of the year school tests, the finals. It is still a mystery, all of it. But today those kids will not have a Graduati
Bret im sorry. I couldnt help it. I will tune. In thank you. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, former President Donald Trump says the quarter billion dollars civil Fraud Lawsuit against him is a scam. The former president making the comment as he arrived at the Manhattan Courthouse where the trial began. He is accused of deceiving banks and insurers. No one is above the law. During opening statements, the state argued trump and his family routinely filed inflated financial statements. But trumps team disputes that. Arguing value is subjective. And determined by what someone is willing to pay. Trump argues his brand brings additional value. While Attorney General james claims the former president routinely lies about his net worth. This is disgraceful trial. Put forward by Attorney General who is corrupt. Were going to be here for months with a judge already made up his mind. Its ridiculous ruled trump and others including his adult sons eric and don
everyone, and welcome to sunday morning futures. i m sean duffy in for maria bartiromo. today, hope for more hostages released in israel today, 13 israelis and 4 foreign citizens are back in israel after hamas terrorist es put the deal on hold for over 6 hours. israel has received the third list of hostages to be released, so for now, the deal seems to be back on. national security adviser jake sullivan said this morning he has, quote, reason the believe at least one of those released today will be an american. up to 10 americans are believed to be held by hamas. here s what president biden said friday when asked about the kidnapped and missing americans. we don t know when that ll occur, but we re going to be expecting it to occur. we know the numbers hard going to be released, it s my hope andation it ll be soon expectation it ll be soon. reporter: of the ten american, are they all alive? we don t know all their conditions. saw. sean: plus, china calls the u.s. a