captions by vitac www.vitac.com that s it for us. let s hand it over to laura coates and cnn tonight. laura? anderson, thank you so much. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. look, i ve got to get right to it. i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i ve got to tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously that s not only cruel, it s absurd because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well, you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today because something else he claimed never existed, text messages and communications about sandy hook. well
chewing on a nthumbnail at that moment, i want to know what the conversation was like after not because i m sympathetic in someway to somebody that would have tortured those families for sandy hook for so long. curiosity is one thing but to catch him in the lie they did, unbelievable. amazing to watch. see you tomorrow. have a good one. good night. this is don lemon tonight. we ll have more on the fallout from the scandal over those other text messages they were talking about, missing secret service texts. sources telling cnn the secret service may temporarily disable texting over the firestorm from around january 6th. we ll have more on that in a moment. let us not forget there are more missing texts from key trump pentagon officials. the season of the missing texts, right? you know i always say it, i ve been saying this for awhile. don t fall for the old okie-doke. they want to bamboozle you, or eddie murphy said banana in the tail pipe. don t let them tell you the
Thanks for watching. i ll be back tomorrow night. d don lemon tonight starts right now. we re getting close. it s hump day. call it hump night. two more days into the weekend, which we may have to work on anyways, one never knows when you re in this business. i don t know. i ve already talked my lipstick off so i m going home. that s the end of my contract. i don t have the guaranteed millions of the nfl but when my lipstick is done, so is laura coats. so much to talk about. by the way, i saw the top of your show, that alex jones on the stand today when he found out he s like do you know how we got your text messages and he s like what? man. that was some you know what? that was a moment. if you scripted that i would have been like that s not going to happen but look back to the lawyer who sort of like is