appointee, investigating the missing text messages. plus, new details about trump lawyers, talk into the justice department about january 6th. blas 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 sh
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
disgusting sandy hook lies. then, ben called has been closely following the trial in texas. he s a senior reporter for nbc news covering disinformation, extremism, and the internet and all things we associate alex jones. ben, thanks for joining me. what s your mean take away from today s decision and what comes next for alex jones? well, the main takeaway is that this is going to go on forever. but this is a first, sort, of punch against infowars. it s the first time he bag up in any real way, for the years of lies that he has sick to upon, not just these parents and families, but also, the country, this court, now, you know, he didn t provide any discovery or things over the years. he just talked about kangaroo courts. he tried as hard as he could to make this kangaroo court. so, the takeaway today is that, he is going to pay, at least a little bit, $4 million, which we ve learned from this trial is probably not that much to
heard that. that doesn t make a person or a company bankrupt. and to be clear, this is not the end of financial consequences for jones, the damages seen today would compensate the families he defamed. damages, payments he has to make us punishment for his conduct. remember, the sandy hook parents originally wanted $150 million. and also, jones faces a separate defamation damage in connecticut, again, for his disgusting sandy hook lies. ben collins has been closely following the trial in texas. he s a senior reporter for nbc news covering disinformation, extremism, and the internet, all things we associate alex jones. ben, thanks for joining me. what s your main take away from today s decision and what comes next for alex jones? well, the main takeaway is that this is going to go on forever. but this is a first, sort of, punch against infowars.
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