A Sandy Hook Mother Speaks On Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:01the mother of a sandy hook school victim
3. 0:03is speaking out with compassion for alex
4. 0:05jones a week after a jury awarded her
5. 0:07and her son's father more than 49
6. 0:09million dollars in their lawsuit against
7. 0:11the conspiracy theorist cbs4 elaine
8. 0:13quijano reports
9. 0:15i really felt i could only feel
10. 0:17compassion for him scarlett lewis tells
11. 0:19cbs news what it was like for her to
12. 0:21come face to face with alex jones inside
13. 0:24a texas courtroom last week what i saw
14. 0:27was just a man
15. 0:29a human being
16. 0:31in pain
17. 0:32lonely
18. 0:34with no one there to testify for him he
19. 0:37had not a person there in an interview
20. 0:39on cbs mornings lewis says she was
21. 0:41nervous when she directly confronted the
22. 0:43talk radio host and conspiracy theorist
23. 0:45who'd claimed for years that the 2012
24. 0:48sandy hook massacre was staged to
25. 0:50tighten gun laws lewis's six-year-old
26. 0:52son jesse was one of the victims my son
27. 0:55existed a jury awarded lewis and jesse's
28. 0:58dad more than 49 million dollars in
29. 1:00damages after they described how they
30. 1:02were harassed by jones followers who
31. 1:04believed his false claim lewis says she
32. 1:07spoke directly to jones because she felt
33. 1:09she had to stand up to a bully just like
34. 1:11her son did when he told his classmates
35. 1:13to run so i'm sitting on the stand and
36. 1:16i'm thinking you know in comparison to
37. 1:18what jesse did
38. 1:19this is the easier job for sure
39. 1:23safeguarding truth in our country lewis
40. 1:26says she's able to speak out about the
41. 1:28tragedy because of an inspirational
42. 1:30message her son left on the kitchen
43. 1:32chalkboard he wrote three words
44. 1:34nurturing healing love
45. 1:37and it's six years old at six years old
46. 1:39phonetically spelled because he was in
47. 1:41first grade just learning to write she
48. 1:43also says she believes jones who
49. 1:45admitted on the stand that the shooting
50. 1:47was real made bad choices but she thinks
51. 1:50he wants to make different choices going
52. 1:52forward elaine quijano cbs news new york