Conspiracist Alex Jones to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies. Thursday October 13, 2022. — Transcript

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1. 0:01coming up on five minute news
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3. 0:09bear assist Alex Jones to pay almost a
4. 0:12billion dollars for Sandy Hook lies Los
5. 0:15Angeles Council leader resigns over
6. 0:18racist remarks
7. 0:21seventy percent of animal population
8. 0:23extinct since 1970.
9. 0:27it's Thursday
10. 0:28October 13.
11. 0:33I'm Anthony Davis
12. 0:35[Music]
13. 0:38a jury yesterday ordered conspiracy
14. 0:41theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly a
15. 0:43billion dollars to Sandy Hook Elementary
16. 0:45School shooting victims relatives and an
17. 0:48FBI agent who said he turned their loss
18. 0:51and Trauma into years of Torment by
19. 0:54promoting the lie that the Rampage was a
20. 0:57hoax the 965 million dollar verdict is
21. 1:01the second big judgment against the
22. 1:03Infowars host for spreading the myth at
23. 1:05the deadliest school shooting in U.S
24. 1:07history never happened and that The
25. 1:09Grieving families seen in news coverage
26. 1:11were actors hired as part of a plot to
27. 1:14take away people's guns the verdict came
28. 1:17in a defamation lawsuit filed by some of
29. 1:19the 26 people who were killed in the
30. 1:222012 shooting plus an FBI agent who was
31. 1:25among the First Responders a Texas jury
32. 1:28in August awarded nearly 50 million
33. 1:30dollars to the parents of another slain
34. 1:32child Robbie Parker who lost his
35. 1:35six-year-old daughter Emily said outside
36. 1:37the Connecticut court that he was proud
37. 1:39that what we were able to accomplish was
38. 1:42just to Simply tell the truth and it
39. 1:44shouldn't be this hard and it shouldn't
40. 1:46be this scary said Parker who became an
41. 1:49early Target of conspiracy theorists
42. 1:51after he spoke at a news conference the
43. 1:53day after the shooting the jury awarded
44. 1:56him the most of any plaintiff 120
45. 1:59million dollars Jones wasn't at the
46. 2:01court but reacted live on his Infowars
47. 2:04show saying the verdict didn't matter
48. 2:06because he's bankrupt and asked his
49. 2:08viewers for more donations the jury
50. 2:11awarded various sums to the victim's
51. 2:13relatives who testified that they were
52. 2:15threatened and harassed for years by
53. 2:17people who believed the lies told on
54. 2:19Jones's show Mark Barton testified that
55. 2:22conspiracy theorists urinated on the
56. 2:25grave of his seven-year-old son Daniel
57. 2:27and threatened to dig up the coffin now
58. 2:30retired FBI agent William Oldenburg
59. 2:32awarded 90 million described the horror
60. 2:35he saw at the school as he responded
61. 2:37alongside other the law enforcement and
62. 2:40his outrage at seeing online claims that
63. 2:43he was an actor
64. 2:48president of the Los Angeles city
65. 2:49council resigned from public office on
66. 2:52Wednesday three days after a recording
67. 2:54surfaced of her making racist remarks in
68. 2:57a meeting that is now the subject of a
69. 2:59state investigation Nuri Martinez the
70. 3:02first Latina to hold the top post on the
71. 3:04council announced her decision in a
72. 3:06press release following a Groundswell of
73. 3:08outrage and calls for the resignations
74. 3:11of her and two other members involved in
75. 3:13the conversation recorded last year
76. 3:16Martinez made the racist remarks about
77. 3:18the black son of a white councilman and
78. 3:21other crude comments her resignation
79. 3:24statement did not address those comments
80. 3:26though in words directed at her daughter
81. 3:28she said I know I have fallen short
82. 3:30recently of the expectations we have for
83. 3:33our family I vow to you that I will
84. 3:35strive to be a better woman to make you
85. 3:37proud the announcement was made several
86. 3:40hours after attorney general Rob bonta
87. 3:42said he would investigate Los Angeles
88. 3:44redistricting process that the three
89. 3:46council members discussed with a labor
90. 3:48leader in which they schemed to protect
91. 3:50Latino political strength in council
92. 3:53districts Nuri Martinez had stepped down
93. 3:55as council president on Monday while
94. 3:58still holding on to her Council seat her
95. 4:00decision to give up her seat came as
96. 4:02President Joe Biden was due to arrive in
97. 4:05Los Angeles a day after he condemned the
98. 4:08remarks and called on all three council
99. 4:10members Martinez Kevin De Leon and Jill
100. 4:14cedillo to resign Bonte a Democrat like
101. 4:17the three council members said his
102. 4:19investigation would lead to civil
103. 4:21liability or criminal charges depending
104. 4:24on what is found
105. 4:29Wildlife populations have plunged by an
106. 4:32average of 69 percent in just under 50
107. 4:35years according to a leading scientific
108. 4:37assessment as humans continue to clear
109. 4:40forests consume beyond the limits of the
110. 4:43planet and pollute on an industrial
111. 4:45scale from the open ocean to tropical
112. 4:48rainforests the abundance of birds fish
113. 4:51amphibians and reptiles is in free fall
114. 4:54declining on average by more than
115. 4:56two-thirds between 1970 and 2018.
116. 5:00according to the WWF and Zoological
117. 5:02Society of London's biennial living
118. 5:04planet report
119. 5:06many scientists believe we are living
120. 5:08through the sixth mass extinction the
121. 5:11largest loss of life on Earth since the
122. 5:13time of the dinosaurs and that it's
123. 5:15being driven by humans
124. 5:17the reports 89 authors are urging world
125. 5:20leaders to reach an ambitious agreement
126. 5:22at the cop-15 biodiversity Summit in
127. 5:25Canada this December and to slash carbon
128. 5:28emissions to limit Global heating to
129. 5:30below 1.5 degrees Centigrade this decade
130. 5:33to Halt the rampant destruction of
131. 5:36nature Latin America and the Caribbean
132. 5:38region including the Amazon has seen the
133. 5:41steepest decline in average Wildlife
134. 5:43population size with a 94 drop in 48
135. 5:48years
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