captions by vitac www.vitac.com that s it for us. let s hand it over to laura coates and cnn tonight. laura? anderson, thank you so much. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. look, i ve got to get right to it. i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i ve got to tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously that s not only cruel, it s absurd because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well, you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today because something else he claimed never existed, text messages and communications about sandy hook. well
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and alex jones, according to the judgments that he s already lost, fed that market need. and this jury has to decide how much it s worth. i will just add that in the bigger context, like you were talking about, whether it s birtherism, whether it s some of the things we saw on january 6th we have a market now. people have free speech to be a right wing talk show host, and people have a right to do to court and say what you said defamed me. and i think that s where the rubber is meeting the road. and i think many people don t understand the difference between your conspiracy theory uncle on facebook and people who are actually presenting news and information. not your personal uncle. he pointed at you he didn t mean your personal conspiracy uncle. i just wanted to make sure. we all have one. i don t know what goes on at family thanksgivings. however, were you to have an uncle with conspiracy theories, a lot of people don t know the difference between the things and the lies th