Alex Jones Evasive On Stand In Trial To Determine Damages For Sandy Hook Families — Transcript

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1. 0:00controversial Infowars host Alex Jones
2. 0:02is being forced to answer once again for
3. 0:05the false claims about the Sandy Hook
4. 0:06shooting the Connecticut jury in this
5. 0:08trial to determine damages is listening
6. 0:10to his defense today they will decide
7. 0:12how much money he'll have to pay family
8. 0:14members of some of the 26 victims NBC
9. 0:17News correspondent rahema Ellis has been
10. 0:19following it all for us all of this Alex
11. 0:21Jones legal battle over the course of
12. 0:23months now she joins us we're in the
13. 0:25seventh day of this trial right rahima
14. 0:28and this is to determine damages it's
15. 0:30the second of three trials that will do
16. 0:32this walk us through what he has
17. 0:34testified to so far yeah it's his first
18. 0:36time on the witness stand and he's being
19. 0:38questioned by the attorney for the
20. 0:41families and he's being asked whether or
21. 0:43not he was attempting to monetize this
22. 0:46lie about what happened on his radio
23. 0:49show and he today he was asked was he
24. 0:52not trying to monetize what's happening
25. 0:54in the courtroom in Connecticut on his
26. 0:57radio show listen to the exchange of
27. 0:59what he says uh in questioning about the
28. 1:02court and about the judge whom the
29. 1:05attorney suggests he's trying to make a
30. 1:07mockery of take a listen
31. 1:10and you actually use that word a lot
32. 1:11with your audience you call people
33. 1:13tyrants not you
34. 1:16only when they act like it okay
35. 1:20and one way that you've been conveying
36. 1:22to your audience that
37. 1:24judge Bellis has been acting like a
38. 1:27tyrant is by showing her with lasers
39. 1:31coming out of her eyes right
40. 1:33you know you did that
41. 1:35I didn't direct that first time I saw I
42. 1:37was in court and so he's saying
43. 1:39something he saw in court he tried to be
44. 1:41evasive to saying this isn't something
45. 1:43that he's doing people are doing for him
46. 1:45but the attorney said but you pay them
47. 1:47don't you and he admit it yes he does so
48. 1:50the he's already been found liable in
49. 1:52this case this is a damages trial just
50. 1:53to figure out uh the money element of
51. 1:55this Jones has already been told to pay
52. 1:57for what 50 million dollars in a
53. 1:59different case do we have an
54. 2:01understanding of how or whether these
55. 2:03two things will will impact each other
56. 2:05the judge in this case is trying to make
57. 2:07certain that they don't that she's been
58. 2:09very clear that they are not to bring up
59. 2:11what happened in that Texas case she
60. 2:13says she wants to stay focused on this
61. 2:15this is a civil case he has already been
62. 2:18found libel this is a question of
63. 2:20Damages they haven't put any number on
64. 2:22what they want the damages to be in
65. 2:24terms of the plaintiffs of families but
66. 2:26that will come at some point
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