cocaine and ecstasy last we can. they took me into an office, rammed my head into the wall, told me, we re going to kill you, they said, you re going to move out of this town right now. that s the furthest thing from the truth that i can unequivocally deny that that ever happened. randy talley and others who spoke to cnn remember it differently. not a fight involving a corrupt police force, but alex jones attacking another student named jared morrow. i saw jared s feet go up in the air and then i saw alex drop down, which, you know, they call it a pile driver wi, and he, yo know, pile derived him. reporter: jones slammed m morrow head first into the floor. morrow told cnn that he suffered a skull fracture. after alex s fighting troubles, the jones family would quietly
rhodes, a frequent infowars guest, who phone contained an encrypted chat that included jones. rhodes pleaded not guilty. and former infowars reporter and proud boys leader, joe biggs, who pushed his way through the police lines into the capitol. he also pleaded not guilty. biggs, what have you got to say? jones has not been charged, but cnn has learned that january 6th select committee investigators want to to know about jones involvement in the funding for trump s rally, the planning for his march to the capitol, and jones ties to extremists now charged with conspiring against the government. i said this, my lawyer told me, almost a hundred times today during the interrogation. on advice of counsel, i am asserting my fifth amendment right to remain silent. jones says he refused to answer the committee s questions
to try to explain why trump may lose. it was the birth of stop the steal. you re having your republic stolen in front of you. then, trump won. right now, an historic moment. we can now project donald trump wins the presidency. infowars would rake in $850,000 in sales in its most lucrative day in three years. a president who pushed lies, conspiracy theories, and disinformation was heading to the white house. the jones help, the infowar against a democracy was put in motion.
genuine peril. why pay attention to jones? there are so many people that said with jones, if you just ignore it, it would go away. in order to grow, he didn t need any of the mainstream culture s attention, as long as he had that bubble that was allowed to grow and ferris uninterrupted. that s what made him a major cultural force. so ignoring him did nothing to us. that bubble started nearly 30 years ago with a show that would become infowars. the government said that they were going to put poisons and toxins and bioweapons in the vaccines. more than a decade before covid-19, jones was spreading dangerous conspiracy theories that now sound eerily recycled. the u.n., the world health organization, the cdc, have all been caught adding sterilizers, cancer viruses, poisons. infowars has joined from a fledgling radio show into a multi-million empire that has reached tens of millions. there is a formula. the formula is, you find a story that people are upset about and
he becames sastronomically rich. court documents show a massive inflow of money, often hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, adding up to more than $165 million in revenue over a three-year period. much of that money from stoking fears. i know like three or four people that have family or themselves have brain tumors suddenly, kids, from fungus. reporter: when jones pushed a new product and hyped concerns about bacteria and fungus, he raked in more than $800,000 in two days. when i went to austin and spoke to alex about how much they actually make, it was on another planet. a staggering amount? totally staggering. how long until you go live? five minutes. kaylin robinson had inside access to the infowars operation. he ll say, buy these products, buy these products, and the first thing he ll say after he goes into a briefing room after a show, what were the sales? not, was it a good show, did we