Families of Sandy Hook victims sue Infowars' Alex Jones — Transcript

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1. 0:00Sandy Hook families and an FBI agent
2. 0:01have filed a defamation lawsuit against
3. 0:03Alex Jones and other conspiracy
4. 0:05theorists for claiming Sandy Hook was a
5. 0:07hoax News eights George Callie live in
6. 0:10new haven control tonight with the
7. 0:11details on that George well good evening
8. 0:13yes the suit names radio and TV
9. 0:15personality Alex Jones the financial
10. 0:18networks that support him and at least
11. 0:19two other conspiracy theorists now the
12. 0:22suit claims Jones and the other
13. 0:24conspiracy theorist waged a years-long
14. 0:26campaign of abuse of an outrageous false
15. 0:28statements including that the 2012
16. 0:30massacre was staged and the 26 families
17. 0:33that loved that lost loved ones were
18. 0:35paid actors the suit includes specific
19. 0:38quotes from Jones a show where he calls
20. 0:40the student that killed 20 children and
21. 0:41six educators a giant hoax the lawsuits
22. 0:44alleges Jones first started talking
23. 0:46about a conspiracy just five days after
24. 0:48the shooting says the families of loved
25. 0:50ones have been threatened and harassed
26. 0:52in person and online by people believing
27. 0:55Jones's conspiracies the amount of money
28. 0:57is unknown with the lawsuit only stating
29. 0:59that's an excess of $15,000 the lawsuit
30. 1:02was filed in Bridgeport Superior Court
31. 1:04George collie news 8